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Weaving a Partnership: The Cedar Mesa Perishables Project Tuesday, September 29, 2026 6:00-7:30 p.m. CSWS Lyceum (Room 120) Free + Open to All! Hosted by the Center of Southwest Studies Contact: Cristie Scott, cmscott@fortlewis.edu, 970-247-7333 Website: https://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/exhibits-events/upcoming-events/weaving-a-partnership-the-cedar-mesa-perishables-project Join us at the Center of Southwest Studies for an insightful presentation and documentary film screening about the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project. Since 2011, the project has engaged the expertise of Pueblo fiber artists in its documentation of some 4,000 ancient textiles, baskets, wooden implements, and other organic cultural items excavated from dry caves in the greater Cedar Mesa of southeastern Utah. In this presentation, anthropologist, textile consultant, and project director Dr. Laurie Webster, together with Zuni fiber artist and team member Christopher Lewis (member of the Badger Clan and a child of the Corn Clan), will trace the project’s collaborative path and discuss how this approach has enriched archaeological understanding of ancestral Pueblo perishable technologies while also advocating for the preservation and revitalization of the Pueblo fiber arts. The presentation will also include a screening of Languages of the Landscape: The Cedar Mesa Perishables Project, a 30-minute documentary produced by Cloudy Ridge Productions. This is a featured event of the 2026 Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable History Live!

LPEA At the Durango Farmers Market Saturday, October 10 8:00 AM to Noon Main Street Durango Stop by the LPEA booth at the Durango Farmer's Market and find out what's possible for your home. Energy Management Specialists can help with: * Electric vehicles * Solar * Heat pumps and cooling upgrades * Heat pump water heaters * Battery storage * Weatherization * Induction cooking * LPEA rates and programs that reward shifting when you use energy Whether you're just starting to explore or ready to take the next step, we've got you! https://lpea.coop/events/talk-energy-lpea-durango-farmers-market-1

CommunityPowerX Tuesday, October 13 5:00 OM to 7:30 PM Durango Arts Center, 802 E 2nd Ave, Durango, CO
Suggested $5 Donation to the Round Up Foundation Hear an update on the cooperative’s first six months of local power supply independence, learn about home battery storage and wildfire resilience, and connect with the Board of Directors and leadership team during an interactive evening built around the topics members asked to learn more about. lpea.coop/cpx

Imagined Futures: An Artist Talk with Tyrrell Tapaha Wednesday, October 21 , 2026 6:00-7:30 p.m. CSWS Lyceum (Room 120) Free + Open to All! Contact: Cristie Scott, cmscott@fortlewis.edu, 970-247-7333 Website: https://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/exhibits-events/upcoming-events/imagined-futures160an-artist-talk-with160tyrrell-tapaha The Center of Southwest Studies will host an artist talk with Diné weaver, fiber artist, and sixth-generation sheepherder, Tyrrell Tapaha (he/they), who is featured in the Center’s current exhibition Constellations of Place. Raised in the Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona, Tyrrell’s work encapsulates the intergenerational agro-pastoral living handed down to them through their grandfather, great-grandmother, and other relatives willing to teach. Working as a sheepherder, Tyrrell’s practice begins with the raising of sheep and finishes on the loom. Their textiles, installations, and mixed-media work are intimately interwoven with their feelings and memories, illuminating the complexity of their lived experience, the rich history of their Diné community, and imagined futures. “...being on the land, working with the land, ecology, hydrology, migrating, grazing the animals, and thinking about and breeding for better fleece. I spend a lot of time looking at the minuscule and larger details of this lifestyle, and my weavings are a glimpse of that.” Tyrrell has exhibited widely, including at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), Coconino Center for the Arts (Flagstaff, AZ), Museum of Contemporary Art Flagstaff (Flagstaff, AZ), Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Santa Fe, NM), and they were featured in the film “Weaving the Future” by Shaun Price. They have lectured and engaged in archival and curatorial work at the Fowler Museum (Los Angeles, CA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), and served as cultural advisor to major weaving exhibitions, including Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest at Bard Graduate Center (New York, NY) and Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Santa Fe, NM). In 2022, they were the recipient of the Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art by the Textile Society of America. Tyrrell continues to live and work in the Four Corners region of Diné Bikeyah. Tyrrell Tapaha is a featured artist in Constellations of Place, an exhibition made possible with generous support from the Belonging Colorado initiative of The Denver Foundation and the Greater Good Science Center and is in partnership with the America 250-Colorado 150 Southwest regional “Power of Place”project.

Artist Talk: Herstory Printmaking Collective Thursday, October 29, 2026 4:30-6:00 p.m. CSWS Lyceum (Room 120) Free + Open to All! Contact: Cristie Scott, cmscott@fortlewis.edu, 970-247-7333 https://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/exhibits-events/upcoming-events herstory/noun/ -- history viewed from a female or specifically feminist perspective with a special attention to the experience of women. Join us for a special presentation by members of the Herstory Printmaking Collective, a collaborative artist group based in Albuquerque, NM that creates portrait murals of influential women who have impacted how we see and understand the world. Using an accessible relief printmaking technique to make bold and compelling images printed onto newsprint for wheat pasting, Herstory has lead workshops, live printmaking demos, and installed murals in venues across the Southwest, including the Santa Fe Railyard, the Beehive Building in Mancos, University of New Mexico’s Masley Art Gallery, at the Southwest Printmaking Fiesta in Silver City, and on the mobile Axle Contemporary Gallery among other sites. This fall, the Center of Southwest Studies will partner with Herstory Printmaking Collective to facilitate a printmaking workshop with Fort Lewis College Art & Design students, inspired by important women figures sourced from the Center’s archival and museum collections. The resulting portraits of “Women of the Southwest” will be installed in the Center for an ongoing exhibition.