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July 12, 2015
2pm

Classic Film Series: 1965

 

Cat Ballou

 

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects. 

 

July 19, 2015
2pm

Classic Film Series: 1965

 

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

 

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

 

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July 9, 2015
Eye Dazzler

The Western Heritage Museum is proud to present a new item on loan from the permanent collection of New Mexico Arts in association with the Art in Public Places Program.

 

Eye Dazzler draws on customary indigenous design and the use of new materials and technologies to create a trans-customary work that challenges the rigid division between the traditional and the modern. By using existing technologies, such as the Mirrix loom (a commercially available stand up loom whose design is based on the Navajo loom), the square glass bead-our pixel, QR Codes, and web-based digital video designers created an innovative "trans-customary" Din� textile.  The production of the textile also utilized a software designed by Will Wilson and Josh Sarantitis and written by Greg Barton called TilePile, which is an open source software that enabled Will and Josh to create a million pixel glass mural in Tucson, AZ.

Will Wilson

William (Will) Wilson is a Din� photographer who spent his formative years living in the Navajo Nation. Born in San Francisco in 1969, Wilson's complex and nuanced oeuvre fully-developed while studying photography at The University of New Mexico (MFA, writing a dissertation on the photography of Milton S. Snow), as well as during his undergraduate studies at Oberlin College. In 2007, Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum and in 2010 was awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Wilson is also an educator and has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, and the University of Arizona. Recently, Wilson managed The National Vision Project, a Ford Foundation funded initiative at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Wilson has been an important advisor in the development and implementation of the NMA/Navajo Nation TIME 2012 collaboration. 

 

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