Newland details curatorial project in HALI

ASU Museum of Anthropology exhibit developer Judy Newland was recently chosen to guest curate a yearlong exhibit of notable Navajo textiles at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Selecting 90 representative pieces from the assemblage of over 800 culturally and historically significant pieces known as the Joe Ben Wheat Collection, Newland designed a rotating exhibit that presents a variety of 20th- and 21st-century pieces in three themed iterations.

Newland’s experience designing the exhibit was a complicated and labor-intensive effort, which she has chronicled in the article, “The Story Within the Threads.” Her account of her preparations for, and ongoing involvement in, the exhibit “Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes” appears in the latest edition of HALI, known as the “leading publication in the world for carpets, textiles and Islamic art.”

Read “The Story Within the Threads.”

Read more about Judy Newland.

Newland’s article appears in HALI 160, Summer 2009, pp. 1001-1001.  Visit the HALI Web site: http://www.hali.com.