“THIRD THURSDAYS” FREE PRESENTATION: AUGUST 21, 2008, 7:30 TO 9 P.M.
“The Art History of Arizona: Cultural Encounters with the Southwest” with
Arizona State University Professor of Art History Betsy Fahlman, Ph.D.,
at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern
Tucson metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m. Free.
Arizona has a rich art history, and many of the visiting and resident
artists who recorded the landscape and native peoples helped create a
national image of the state. This presentation explores Arizona’s
identity against the backdrop of the larger history of the art of the
American West, and illustrates what "The West" was for those who had
never visited. Material relating to archaeology, tourism, movies, pulp
magazines, mining, industry, and the iconography of the state seal will
also be discussed.
Our guest speaker Betsy Fahlman received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Delaware. She is a Professor of Art History at Arizona
State University, where she has taught since 1988. A specialist in
American art of the 19th and 20th centuries, she is writing a book on New
Deal photography and culture in Arizona. Dr. Fahlman is the author of
“The Cowboy's Dream: The Mythic Life” and “Art of Lon Megargee” (2002).
This month’s program is being made possible with the support of the
Arizona Humanities Council, a nonprofit organization that brings federal
funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in to Arizona. The
Arizona Humanities Council also receives funding from the Arizona
Department of Education to support programs like this one. In other
words, this program is an example of your tax dollars returning to
benefit Arizona communities at the local level. If you feel that this is
a worthwhile program and you are an Arizona resident, please let your
state senator and state representatives know your feelings. These
programs can only be continued if our legislators continue to authorize
funds for the Arizona Humanities Council through the state Department of
Education.
Please join us for this fascinating perspective on Arizona’s art history!
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s monthly “Third Thursdays” lecture
programs are held on the third Thursday of each month, free, no advance
reservations required. Contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or
[log in to unmask] for more information.
OTHER UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Thursday August 28, 2008
“Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona” free presentation at Pima County
Public Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., Tucson. Cosponsored by the Arizona
Humanities Council.
Noon to 1 p.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart,
illustrates and discusses Arizona’s earliest Paleoindians and Archaic
period hunters and foragers, the development of archaeological villages,
the Puebloan, Mogollon, Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, and Patayan
archaeological cultures, and the connections between those ancient
peoples and Arizona’s historical cultures. Funding for program provided
by the Arizona Humanities Council.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Librarian Coni
Weatherford at 520-791-4391 or [log in to unmask] in Tucson; for
information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at
Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday September 18, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursdays” free presentation:
“Archaeological Excavations at Las Capas” with archaeologist Stephanie
Whittlesey, Ph.D., at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road
Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
****[Description to be provided later.]
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Saturday September 20, 2008
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation at Deer Valley Rock Art Center, 3711 W. Deer Valley Road in
Phoenix. Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council.
1 to 2 p.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart,
illustrates pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved
or pecked on rocks), and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may
be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native
American perspectives.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Ms. Kim Arth,
Executive Director at 623-582-8007 or [log in to unmask] in Phoenix;
for information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart
at Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday September 21, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop at Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. Class is designed to help modern people
understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used artifacts, and
is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Class
limited to 8 registrants age 16 and older.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sundays October 5 through November 16, 2008
Traditional Pottery Making Level 1 Workshop with John Guerin at Old
Pueblo Archaeology Center, at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina
Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
2 to 5 p.m. each Sunday. Fee $79; $63.20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members; includes all materials
except clay, which participants will collect during class field trip.
A series of 7 pottery-making class sessions will be offered by artist
John Guerin each Sunday afternoon beginning October 5 and ending November
16, 2008, including a clay-gathering field trip on October 12. The class
is designed to help modern people understand how prehistoric Native
Americans made and used pottery, and is not intended to train students
how to make artwork for sale. The Level 1 class demonstrates pottery
making techniques the instructor has learned from modern Native American
potters, using gourd scrapers, mineral paints, and yucca brushes instead
of modern potters’ wheels and paint. The course introduces some history
of southwestern Ancestral and Modern Puebloan, Mogollon, and Hohokam
pottery-making, includes a field trip in which participants dig their own
clay, and demonstrates initial steps in forming, shaping and smoothing,
and completion of bowls, jars, canteens, ladles, and rattles of both
smooth and corrugated pottery, by scraping, sanding, polishing, slipping
and painting. The paddle-and-anvil handbuilding method is also
demonstrated. Arizona Archaeological Society certification may be offered
to persons who complete Traditional Pottery Making workshop Levels 1, 2,
& 3 (Levels 2 and 3 offered when there is enough demand); certification
requirements include 60 hours of instruction and hands-on work.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday October 12, 2008
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation at Pinal County Historical Society Museum, 715 S. Main St.,
Florence, Arizona
2 to 3:30 p.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart,
illustrates pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved
or pecked on rocks), and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may
be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native
American perspectives.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Museum Director Chris
Reid at 520-868-4382 or [log in to unmask] in Florence; for information
about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at Tucson
telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday October 16, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursdays” free presentation: “The
‘Deep Structure’ of Early Archaic Rock Art: Human Universals” with
Professor Ekkehart Malotki, at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina
Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
On a global scale, all earliest art-making traditions consist of
abstract-geometric motifs and nonfigurative patterns, regardless of
whether they occur on portable objects or on rock surfaces. This is also
true for the rock art of the American West, which houses a wealth of
nonrepresentational images, both painted and engraved. To shed light on
this most enigmatic yet fascinating imagery, which to many rock art
researchers is of little interest since it seems to offer no insights
into the minds of its creators, Professor Malotki resorts to human
universals and cutting-edge ideas gleaned from neuroscience and
evolutionary psychology. In addition to presenting novel ideas, he hopes
to heighten awe and respect for the area's rock art legacy through
striking photographs.
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday October 19, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop at Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. Class is designed to help modern people
understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used artifacts, and
is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Class
limited to 8 registrants age 16 and older.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Tuesday October 28, 2008
“Tucson-Marana Rock Art and Archaeology” (ST149) Pima Community College
study tour with archaeologist Allen Dart via passenger van departing from
Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave., Tucson
8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. $69
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart, leads
van tour to Hohokam petroglyph, agricultural, and village sites (one with
a “ballcourt” and bedrock mortars, another with a housing compound).
Bring a lunch and water.
Advance reservations required: 520-206-6468 (Pima Community College, Tucson)
Saturday November 15, 2008
“White Tank Mountains Petroglyphs of Waterfall Canyon & Mesquite Canyon”
guided fundraising “flex-tour” with Allen Dart and Shelley Rasmussen,
featuring choice of van transport departing from Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 7 (northwestern Tucson metro area), OR
provide your own transportation and meet van tour group at White Tank
Mountain Regional Park Visitor Center, 13025 N. White Tank Mountain Road
in Waddell.
7 a.m. departure from Tucson or 9 a.m. departure from Regional Park
Visitor Center, van transport group returns to Tucson 6:30 p.m. Fee
including van transport $89 ($71.20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members); fee without van transport $25
($20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary
members) plus $6 per vehicle White Tank Mountain Regional Park entrance
fee payable separately at park
Archaeologist Allen Dart and Maricopa County Parks Interpretive Ranger
(and archaeological Site Steward) Shelly Rasmussen guide this “flex-tour”
– featuring choice of Old Pueblo Archaeology Center-provided van
transport or provide-your-own transportation – to see hundreds of ancient
petroglyphs in the 30,000-acre White Tank Mountain Regional Park west of
Phoenix. Tour includes a 3-hour walk along the 2.5-mile-roundtrip, fairly
flat Black Rock Loop Trail to see and photograph dozens of Archaic and
Hohokam petroglyphs; lunch at ramadas with picnic facilities; then
afternoon visits to three petroglyph sites with Archaic and Hohokam rock
art in a 3-hour, 2.5-mile-roundtrip hike along the Mesquite Canyon trail,
which includes some bush-whacking and boulder-hopping. Bring your own
picnic lunch and water, wear comfortable hiking shoes.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday November 16, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop at Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. Class is designed to help modern people
understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used artifacts, and
is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Class
limited to 8 registrants age 16 and older.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Tuesday November 18, 2008
“Ventana Cave and Tohono O’odham Nation Archaeology and Culture” (ST146)
Pima Community College study tour with archaeologist Allen Dart via
passenger van departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave.,
Tucson.
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. $79
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart, leads
this van tour, which focuses on the Ventana Cave National Historic
Landmark archaeological site and rock art, includes visits to nearby
villages and the Tohono O'odham Nation government complex in Sells, and
opportunity to purchase arts and crafts at the Wiwpul Du `ag Arts Trading
Post. Bring your own picnic lunch and water, wear comfortable hiking
shoes.
Advance reservations required: 520-206-6468 (Pima Community College, Tucson)
Thursday November 20, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursdays” free presentation:
“Voices from Inside a Black Snake: Religious Monuments along Arizona and
Sonora Highways” with anthropologist Dr. James S. “Big Jim” Griffith,
Ph.D. at Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8
(northwestern Tucson metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m Free.
****[Description to be provided later.]
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Tuesday December 2, 2008
“Casa Grande Ruins and Middle Gila Valley Archaeology and History”
(ST147) Pima Community College study tour with archaeologist Allen Dart
via passenger van departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita
Ave., Tucson
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. $79
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart, leads
van tour to Coolidge-Florence area. Tour includes an extended visit to
archaeological features in the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in
Coolidge plus visits to the Grewe site (early Hohokam village),
Adamsville Ruin (late Hohokam village with platform mound and ballcourt),
historic Adamsville Cemetery and settlements along the Gila River, and
Pinal County Historical Society Museum in Florence. Bring your own picnic
lunch and water.
Advance reservations required: 520-206-6468 (Pima Community College, Tucson)
Saturday December 6, 2008
“Deer Valley & Spur Cross Ranch Petroglyphs” guided fundraising
“flex-tour” with Allen Dart and Shelley Rasmussen, featuring choice of
van transport departing from Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina
Road Bldg. 7 (northwestern Tucson metro area), OR provide your own
transportation and meet van tour group at Deer Valley Rock Art Center,
3711 W. Deer Valley Road, Phoenix.
8 a.m. departure from Tucson or 10 a.m. departure from Deer Valley Rock
Art Center, van transport group returns to Tucson 5:30 p.m. Fee including
van transport $89 ($71.20 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members); fee without van transport $25 ($20 for
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members)
plus $6.50 per person Deer Valley Rock Art Center entrance fee payable in
advance to Old Pueblo + $6 per vehicle Spur Cross Ranch Regional Park
entrance fee payable separately at park
Archaeologist Allen Dart and Maricopa County Parks Interpretive Ranger
Shelly Rasmussen (an archaeological Site Steward) guide this tour to see
hundreds of ancient petroglyphs and the rock art museum at Deer Valley
Rock Art Center north of Phoenix, and more petroglyphs in Spur Cross
Ranch Regional Park near Carefree, Arizona. Deer Valley Rock Art Center
features a museum with video, artifacts, interpretive signs, and a gift
shop. Along its outdoor, quarter-mile-long rock art trail we’ll view
some of the 47-acre preserve’s 1,571 known petroglyphs, which range from
700 to 10,000 years old and represent the Archaic, Hohokam, and Patayan
cultures. The Spur Cross Conservation Area intermediate-level hike is
about 3 miles roundtrip and takes about 3 hours of hillclimbing to a
Hohokam pueblo and two petroglyph sites. Bring your own picnic lunch and
water, wear comfortable hiking shoes.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Thursday December 11, 2008
“Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art” free
presentation at Pima County Public Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., Tucson.
Cosponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council.
Noon to 1 p.m. Free.
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart,
illustrates pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved
or pecked on rocks), and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may
be interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native
American perspectives.
No reservations needed. For meeting details contact Librarian Coni
Weatherford at 520-791-4391 or [log in to unmask] in Tucson; for
information about the presentation subject matter contact Allen Dart at
Tucson telephone 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Sunday December 14, 2008
Arrowhead-making and flintknapping workshop at Old Pueblo Archaeology
Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern Tucson metro area).
Noon to 3 p.m. $35; $28 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo
Grande Museum Auxiliary members
Flintknapper Sam Greenleaf teaches hands-on workshop on making arrowheads
and spearpoints out of stone to better understand how ancient people made
and used stone artifacts. Class is designed to help modern people
understand how prehistoric Native Americans made and used artifacts, and
is not intended to train students how to make artwork for sale. Class
limited to 8 registrants age 16 and older.
Advance reservations required: 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
Tuesday December 16, 2008
“Ventana Cave and Tohono O’odham Nation Archaeology and Culture” (ST146)
Pima Community College study tour with archaeologist Allen Dart via
passenger van departing from Pima Community College, 401 N. Bonita Ave.,
Tucson.
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. $79
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s director, archaeologist Allen Dart, leads
this van tour, which focuses on the Ventana Cave National Historic
Landmark archaeological site and rock art, includes visits to nearby
villages and the Tohono O'odham Nation government complex in Sells, and
opportunity to purchase arts and crafts at the Wiwpul Du `ag Arts Trading
Post. Bring your own picnic lunch and water, wear comfortable hiking
shoes.
Advance reservations required: 520-206-6468 (Pima Community College, Tucson)
Thursday December 18, 2008
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's “Third Thursdays” free presentation at
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, 5100 W. Ina Road Bldg. 8 (northwestern
Tucson metro area).
7:30 to 9 p.m. Free.
****[Description to be provided later.]
No reservations needed. 520-798-1201 or [log in to unmask]
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Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s mission is to educate children and adults
to understand and appreciate archaeology and other cultures, to foster
the preservation of archaeological and historical sites, and to develop a
lifelong concern for the importance of nonrenewable resources and
traditional cultures. Old Pueblo is recognized as a 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization under the U.S. tax code so donations and Old
Pueblo membership fees are tax-deductible up to amounts allowed by the
Internal Revenue Service.
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SUPPORT! If you are not an Old Pueblo member we would be grateful if you
would become one so you can provide more support for our education and
research programs and receive membership benefits. You can become a
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Please help Old Pueblo Archaeology Center if you can!
Regards,
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
(520) 798-1201 office, (520) 798-1966 fax
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