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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.

Artist Talk & Film Screenings: Charine Pilar Gonzales Thursday, November 12, 2026 6:00-7:30 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/artist-talk-film-screening160charine160pilar-gonzales Join us for an evening of storytelling and film with Charine Pilar Gonzales, Fort Lewis College alum and featured artist in the Center of Southwest Studies’ current exhibition, Constellations of Place. Charine’s presentation will share her creative journey and approach to community-based filmmaking that intertwines memories, dreams, and truths through vivid story. During her presentation, Charine will screen two of her acclaimed short films: River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh), which is the first narrative fiction film approved by San Ildefonso Pueblo to be filmed on Tribal lands since the 1980’s, and is told using an Indigenous story structure, inspired by traditional Tewa stories. Her second film, This Land Carries Us, is a reflection of Tewa people and land that was produced for the recent exhibition ‘Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country’ at the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. Charine Pilar Gonzales is a Tewa filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her Tewa name is “Ku’yan Povi” which means Turquoise Flower. She is a 2024 Sundance Institute Native Lab Fellow for her episodic project, NDN Time. Her esteemed short doc Our Quiyo: Maria Martinez (2022) premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was acquired by AT&T, Comcast Xfinity, Millicent Rogers Museum, and The Heard Museum. Charine’s debut narrative fiction short film, River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh), received the Achievement in Short Filmmaking Award at the 2023 LA SKINS FEST. She is a Producer for the Native Lens project, a crowdsourced collaboration by KSUT Tribal Radio and Rocky Mountain PBS. She owns the multimedia production company, Povi Studios, and is represented by Rain Management Group. Charine is a proud alum of Fort Lewis College, earning a BA in English-Communication, and currently attends the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Creative Writing program with a focus in Screenwriting. Charine’s short film Mesa Memory that is featured in Constellations of Place is 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” initiative. This is a featured event for the Four Corners Water Center’s annual Water Week series of lectures and presentations. Learn more about Water Week events.