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Director Ann Lane Hedlund, 2003 |
Ann Lane Hedlund is the founding Director of the GFR Center for Tapestry
Studies. A cultural
anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among Navajo
weavers since the mid-1970s. She
received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Colorado at
Boulder in 1982. The author of
many publications, she has also served as curator of museum exhibitions
throughout the country.
Her books include Thoughts that Count: Contemporary Navajo Weaving
(Museum of Northern Arizona, 1994), Reflections of the Weaver's World:
The Gloria F. Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving (Denver Art
Museum, 1992), and Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early
Southwestern Weaving (Johnson Press, 1989). See complete
bibliographies.
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Prior to joining the GFR Center, Dr. Hedlund directed the Museum Studies
Program in the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University,
Tempe, where she also served as Assistant Professor (1986-1992) and
Associate Professor (1992 to present). She worked previously at the
Millicent Rogers Museum (Taos, New Mexico), the Navajo Nation Museum (Window
Rock, Arizona), and the University of Colorado Museum (Boulder).
During her graduate training she undertook internships with the
Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., the National Service's conservation
center at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, and worked in textile conservation at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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Ann Hedlund with Navajo weavers at Museum of Northern
Arizona, 1994 |
Dr.
Hedlund's theoretical interests involve the social organization of craft
production; technology and society; ethnoaesthetics; and museums’
representation of ethnic peoples and their arts.
In addition to the GFR Center's administrative and program
activities, her current projects include the preparation for publication of
Joe Ben Wheat's long-awaited book, Blanket Weaving in the Southwest
(University of Arizona Press, fall 2003), an exhibition and symposium on
historic southwestern textiles at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC,
during fall 2003, and a book on contemporary Navajo weavers (University of
Arizona Press, spring 2004).
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