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50 Years/ 7 Families: The Legacy of Rick Dillingham and Pueblo Pottery

When: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024 -
11:00am to 12:30pm
Where: 
New Mexico Museum of Art, Plaza Building
Cost: 
Free - Museum admission not included
Presenter/s: 
Various, see panelists below

*This event is in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Art, in Santa Fe. Registration on our Eventbrite page is not required but appreciated*

Join us for a lively conversation about the lasting impact of Rick Dillingham’s 1974 publication 7 Families in Pueblo Pottery, featuring a panel of experts in contemporary ceramics, pueblo pottery, and anthropology. This program will explore the legacy of 7 Families, the artwork of Dillingham, and the socio-cultural tensions between Dillingham’s aesthetics and indigenous pottery practices. The panel will be moderated by Katie Doyle, Assistant Curator, New Mexico Museum of Art, and will feature the following panelists:

  • Bruce Bernstein, PhD, Senior Scholar School for Advanced Research and Director Emeritus Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and Laboratory of Anthropology
  • Garth Clark, Historian, Author, Art Critic, Art Dealer
  • Clarence Cruz, Associate Professor Art & Art History, MFA Studio Arts/Pueblo Pottery, University of New Mexico
  • Lea S. McChesney, PhD, Curator of Ethnology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

FREE- Museum Admission not included