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University of Arizona, Tucson
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Congratulations to Dr. Ed Jolie, ASM Clara Lee Tanner associate curator of ethnology, and his many co-authors on a newly published article in “Science Advances.”
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
ASM’s latest pop-up exhibit, "FORGE+FUTURE: Contemporary Native Jewelry Artists," is opening at Tucson Meet Yourself this weekend! See you there!
Join us this Saturday at @UAZMuseumOfArt to celebrate Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead! Free event.
If you happen to be in the NYC area, check out this new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum:
Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World
October 2, 2026–June 27, 2027
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Several ASM objects are on loan for this exhibit!
brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitio…
Congrats to Ruben Moreno, ASM’s exhibit preparator and artist! Ruben's latest mural will be unveiled and feted at the U of A on Nov 6, at the Albert B. Weaver Science-Engineering Library, 744 N Highland Ave. The mural honors Mexican American students.
events.trellis.arizona.edu/.…
Great fun to visit MIAC in Santa Fe this week, as part of our New Mexico Pueblos Learning Expedition. In addition to an enjoyable guided tour, we were blessed with a rain storm.
Curator of Ethnohistory Dr. Michael Brescia’s latest publication gig is Review Editor for the "Journal of the Southwest." His inaugural foray was the Spring 2026 issue, now available at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57446
Mark your calendar for our next FREE, in-person talk at Whiskey Del Bac, featuring archaeologist & art historian Dr. Mont Allen from the University of Arizona's School of Art. Oct 13!
statemuseum.arizona.edu/even…
In a new chapter co-authored by Dr. Martin Welker, ASM associate curator of zooarchaeology, we can read of genetic evidence indicating that most pre-contact dogs descended from Siberian ancestors rather than North American wolves:
link.springer.com/chapter/10…
The Amerind in Dragoon is hosting a Comcaac show/sale Sep 26-27.
While there, check out the exhibit, “Invisible No More,” which tells the story of the Hia-Ced O’odham. It's on loan from ASM and it closes at the end of the month after a one-year run.
amerind.org/events/comcaac-s…
ASM’s Head of Collections and Curator Dr. Suzanne Eckert's latest peer-reviewed, co-authored publication is in the July/August 2026 issue of "Geoarchaeology:" "Production Sequence of Rio Grande Glaze Ware as Revealed Through Petrographic Analysis."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Mark your calendar to join us next month at the University of Arizona Museum of Art for Dia de Los Muertos Storytelling with the wonderful Zarco Guerrero!
statemuseum.arizona.edu/even…
ASM's Associate Director James Watson and Elisa Villalpando (INAH Sonora) have a new article out in Kiva, the Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Just a reminder to join us at Tucson Comic-Con this weekend, Sep. 4-6.
Booth F18 -- our special guests will be Indigenous creatives Tom Farris, Bobby Stills, and Pachynne Ignacio.
See you there!
Dr. Martin Welker's latest co-authored article is “Swimming Upriver? Exploring the Sources of Freshwater and Marine Fish in Military Diet in Sixteenth to Nineteenth-Century Northeastern North America.”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
