In Pursuit of the Extraordinary: The Millicent Rogers Jewelry Collection

Описание: A presentation by Dr. Shelby Tisdale, based on her book, "Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection." The program includes a showing of jewelry from ASM’s collections.

Dr. Shelby Tisdale, retired Director of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, has over forty years of combined experience in museum administration; anthropological, tribal museum and cultural resource management consulting; and university teaching. She is the former Director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos. She also served as the Vice President of Curatorial and Exhibitions at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. Dr. Tisdale received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1997. Her B.A. is from the University of Colorado-Boulder where she studied anthropology and southwestern archaeology, and her M.A. is from the University of Washington where she majored in social anthropology and museum studies.

Tisdale’s book, "Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection" (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2006), received the Ralph Emerson Twitchell Book Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico and the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association.