Center of Southwest Studies Exhibition Gallery
Free and open to the public (early arrival is suggested to secure a seat).
The Department of Native American & Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at Fort Lewis College will hold its inaugural fashion showcase in the Center of Southwest Studies Exhibition Gallery, highlighting wearable creations made by students in the semester-long course Native American Art & Culture, co-taught by Esther Belin (Diné) and Dr. Majel Boxer (Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota, Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Reservation).
As a hands-on cultural arts class, students practiced design techniques from several art traditions of Native peoples and generated a cultural arts portfolio that includes ledger art, loom beadwork, doll making, moccasin making, and apparel design. Students explored a variety of Native cultures and art forms, including the many different forms of expression that constitute ‘art’ and the complicated history of interpreting and defining Native ‘art.’ Through research and field trips to galleries and museums, they examined the historic and contemporary societal changes that impacted and influenced these cultural art forms.
For more information, please contact:
Esther Belin (belin_e@fortlewis.edu) or Dr. Majel Boxer (boxer_m@fortlewis.edu).
Poster design by Jeremy Alexander (‘25, Studio Art)