Ann Lane Hedlund

Office: ASM 305 Phone: 520-626-8364
 
Email:
 ahedlund@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
 Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder, 1982
Affiliation:

Director, The Gloria F.Ross Center for Tapestry Studies; Curator of Ethnology, Arizona State Museum
Interests:
 Small-scale craft organization and production, southwestern Native American and Hispanic textile design, production and marketing, ethnographic research methods, museum studies, particularly issues of representation and interpretation.

Current Research:

 Longitudinal study of historic and contemporary Navajo weaving as an
evolving cultural tradition; development of 20th century tapestry
translations from paintings and other sources; the entwined roles of
artists, weavers, editeurs, and galleries in Europe, Australia, and America.

 

Recent Major Publications:

2004 Navajo Weaving in the Late 20th Century: Kin, Community, and Collectors.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2003 (editor) Blanket Weaving in the Southwest, by Joe Ben Wheat. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2003 Blanket Basics: Navajo Weaving of the Classic, Late Classic and Early Transitional Periods.  Hali 43 (Autumn 2003), London.
2003 Wool Yarns in Late Classic Navajo Blankets.  American Indian Art 28(4).
2003 Commercial Materials in Modern Navajo Rugs.  American Indian Art 28(3): 44-55.
2000

Early Navajo Artistry in Tapestry. International Tapestry Journal 3(2):2-7.
1996 More of Survival than an Art: Comparing Late Ninteenth and Late Twentieth-Century Liveways and Weaving. In Woven by the Grandmothers: Ninteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian, edited by E. Bonar, pp. 47-67. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

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