This project is an online companion resource for Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest exhibition, part of the ongoing series of faculty-student collaborations that is the Bard Graduate Center Focus Project. The show is on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from February 17 to July 9, 2023.
Online Exhibition
Curator
Hadley Welch Jensen
Curator’s Acknowledgments
Director of Focus Project Exhibitions
Nina Stritzler-Levine
Digital Humanities and Exhibitions
Jesse Merandy
Julie Fuller
Publications and Interpretation
Katherine Atkins
Alexis Mucha
Helen Polson
Ellie Hughes
This site was designed and developed by CHIPS.
Bard Graduate Center Student Contributors
Marion Cox, Natalie De Quarto, Juliana Fagua Arias, Emily Hayflick, Tova Kadish, Rachael Schwabe, Danielle Weindling, Caleb Weintraub-Weissman, Ashley E. Williams (Columbia University), Alice Winkler, Jessica Young.
We would like to recognize and thank Kevin Aspaas, Rapheal Begay, Melissa Cody, Barbara Teller Ornelas, Lynda Teller Pete, and Darby Raymond-Overstreet.
Special thanks also go to Aaron Glass, H. Jackson Clark II, John McCulloch, Howard and Judy Rowe, Sue Bury, Laurie D. Webster, Alexandra Barlow, as well as the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
In memory of Ira Jacknis (1952-2021)
Support for Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest is generously provided by Art Bridges.
Additional support provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and other donors to Bard Graduate Center.
Support for the online exhibition has been provided by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Special thanks to the American Museum of Natural History.
360 Experience
Curator and Project Director
Hadley Welch Jensen
Director of Digital Humanities and Exhibitions
Jesse Merandy
Photographer
Byron Flesher
Photographer and Cultural Consultant
Rapheal Begay
Digital Artist
Darby Raymond-Overstreet
Assistant Professor of Art and Society
Eugenia Kisin (Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University)
Funding provided by NYU Gallatin Wetlab.
Film and photography permit approved by Navajo Nation TV & Film, Window Rock, Arizona.
Special thanks also go to Aaron Glass, H. Jackson Clark II, John McCulloch, Howard and Judy Rowe, Sue Bury, Laurie D. Webster, Alexandra Barlow, as well as the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Commissioned by Bard Graduate Center for Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest
Gallery Exhibition
Director and Founder
Susan Weber
Director of Focus Project Exhibitions
Nina Stritzler-Levine
Curator
Hadley Welch Jensen
Exhibition Designer
Ian Sullivan
Graphic Design
Laura Grey
Curatorial Consultant and Conservator
Jeanne Brako
Conservation Preparator and Mountmaker
Jack Townes
Curatorial Advisors and Cultural Consultants
Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas
Exhibition Preparation and Installation
Eric Edler
Alexander Gruen
Digital Humanities and Exhibitions
Jesse Merandy
Julie Fuller
Public Humanities and Research
Andrew Kircher
Laura Minsky
Nadia Rivers
Mary Adeogun
Publications and Interpretation
Daniel Lee
Katherine Atkins
Alexis Mucha
Helen Polson
Marketing and Communications
Amy Estes
Maggie Walter
Ema Furusho
Development
Benjamin Krevolin
Minna Lee
Ruth Epstein
Daniel Zimmer
We would like to recognize and thank Kevin Aspaas, Marie Begay and her family, Rapheal Begay, Connor Chee, Louie Garcia, Isabel Gonzales, Geanita John, Belvin Pete, Darby Raymond-Overstreet, and Tyrrell Tapaha.
Special thanks also go to Aaron Glass, H. Jackson Clark II, John McCulloch, Howard and Judy Rowe, Sue Bury, Laurie D. Webster, Alexandra Barlow, as well as the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.