The University of Arizona

Credits

Navajo Weaving at Arizona State Museum is co-sponsored by The Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies.

The original exhibition was open to the public from October 2004 through May 2005 in the museum’s galleries. The exhibition now exists only in a virtual form on this website.

The original exhibition and related programs were made possible through support from—

Arizona Commission on the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsArizona Commission on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
University of Arizona Foundation
The Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association
The Arizona Blind and Deaf Children’s Foundation
The Richard C. & Susan B. Ernst Foundation
The Stocker Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. E. Daniel Albrecht
Jane Amari
Arch and Laura Brown
Mr. & Mrs. James D. Collett, Jr.
Fred Lau
Marilyn Lawson
Dennis Lyon
Susan Brown McGreevy
Ralph Silberschlag
Edgar O. Smith
Bill and Mary Anne Springer
Dr. J. Mark Sublette, Medicine Man Gallery
Mr. &. Mrs. H. A. Thompson
Barbara Wheat
... and other generous, anonymous friends.

Many thanks to the following for their valuable contributions—

Access Tucson
Alphagraphics
Mark Bahti, Bahti Indian Arts
Bill and Sande Bobb
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Becker, Elk Creek Trading Post
H. Jackson Clark, Toh Atin Trading Company
Jed Foutz, Shiprock Trading Company
Dan Garland, Garland’s Navajo Rugs
Michael D. Higgins & Sons Antique Indian Art
Kathleen Koopman, Graphic Illustrator
Cathy Notarnicola
William Ridenour
Martha Hopkins Struever
Justin Thomas, Video Co-creator
Buzz Trevathan & Pam Nicosin, Cristof’s Indian Art
Dr. David A. Wenger, Jefferson Medical College
David West, Gallery West
Bud and Marni Whiteford

Publication permissions for the original exhibition were graciously provided by

Cincinnati Museum Center
Joslyn Art Museum
Museum of Northern Arizona
The Textile Museum
The University of Arizona Press

The large illustrated text panels in the 19th Century gallery were developed by curator Ann Lane Hedlund and designed by Michele Hermanson Chaves of Chaves Design, for the 2003 exhibition, Navajo Blankets of the 19th Century, at the Textile Museum, Washington, DC, and used with permission.  Arizona State Museum produced all other gallery materials.

Statements by the Ornelas family were written by Barbara, Sierra and Michael Ornelas or taken from taped conversations with Ann Lane Hedlund and from M.A. thesis interviews with Cathy Notarnicola, and used with permission. 

Exhibition Staff & Consultants (original exhibition)—

Hartman Lomawaima, Director, ASM
Ann Lane Hedlund, Exhibition Co-Curator
Barbara Teller Ornelas, Master Weaver and Exhibition Co-Curator
Sierra Ornelas, Exhibition Co-Curator
Michael Ornelas, Exhibition Co-Curator
Bobbie Gibel, Administrative Assistant

Michael Riley, Head of Public Programs
Rhod Lauffer, Senior Exhibits Specialist
Davison Koenig, Senior Exhibits Specialist
Susan Alfrey, Graphic Designer
Lisa Falk, Director of Education
Heather Ingram, Education Program Specialist
Beth Dewitt, School Program Coordinator
Shawn Bourgeois, Consultant, Arizona School for the Blind
Volunteers, Interns and Students: Marly Helm, Nancy Chilton, Lisa Edd, Glenn Feuerbacher, Beth Grindell, Ann Hall, Adrian Hendricks, Rick Karl, Nick Smith, Lauren Watkins

Nancy Odegaard, Head of Preservation
Teresa Moreno, Assistant Conservator
Melissa Huber, Conservation Assistant
Consultants, Volunteers, Interns and Students: Judith Billings, Madelyn Cook, Laraine Daly Jones, Erica Greenberg, Maggie Kipling, Amy Margaris, Silvana Miller, Patricia Moreno, Reta Neff, Olga Neuts, Stephanie Ratcliffe, Kathleen Vestecka, Diana Ziegler

Alyce Sadongei, Assistant Curator for Native American Relations

Suzanne Griset, Collections Division Head
Diane Dittemore, Ethnographic Collections Curator
Mark Cattanach, Registrar
Jannelle Weakly, Photographer
Susan Emley Luebbermann, Photographic Collections Curator
Jeannette Garcia, Photographic Collections Assistant Curator

Miriam Nickerson, Director of Museum Advancement
Darlene Lizarraga, Marketing Coordinator
Julee Nagel, Senior Business Manager
Vicki Nattrass, Accountant Associate
Tara Mysak, Accountant Associate

Karen Lominac, Head of Information Systems
Laura LePere, Webmaster
Volunteers: Frank Finkenberg, Chunjing Yang, and Xinyu Zhang

Rosemary DeCook, Head of Operations
John Monteleone, Security Officer Supervisor
Julie Borden, Administrative Secretary

Website Design and Development

Project Management: Ann Lane Hedlund, Laura LePere

Project Assistant: Bobbie Gibel

Website Design & Development: Frank Finkenberg, George Harding, Joy Johnson, Laura LePere, Chris Meredith

Still Photography:

Photo Scanning: Jeannette Garcia, Tara Hornung, Emily Klienkauf, Sierra Ornelas, Nick Smith, Jannelle Weakly

Photo Editing: Frank Finkenberg, Virginia Johns, Chunjing Yang, Xinyu Zhang

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