All photographs were taken by Ann Lane Hedlund, unless otherwise noted.

1.         “Basket Dance/11,” Ramona Sakiestewa, 1991, 50” x 70”.  Photo courtesy of Ramona Sakiestewa.

2.         “Recollection Pond,” a GFR Tapestry designed by Romare Bearden, 1974, 61” x 79”.  Photo by Al Mozell; courtesy of the GFR Archives.

3.         “Princess Di Meets a Medieval Maiden,” Archie Brennan, 1987, 38” x 42”.  Photo courtesy of Archie Brennan. 

4.         Weaving students, Anna Lawrence Intermediate School Partnership, Tucson, April 2000.

5.         Southwest Indian Art Fair, “Learn About Weaving!” tent sponsored by the GFR Center, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2003.

6.         “Blue Vista—Rose Peak” (detail), Jane Hoffman, 1999, 45” x 31”.

7.         Jacobo (Jake) Trujillo, 1985, Centinela Ranch, New Mexico.

8.         Edinburgh Tapestry Company, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1979.  Photo by Gloria F. Ross.

9.         Artist Ann Keuper with her fourth grade weaving students, Anna Lawrence Intermediate School Partnership, Tucson, 1999.

10.       Southwest Indian Art Fair, volunteers Cathy Notarnicola (l) Cathy Jacobus (r) with two tapestry pupils in the  “Learn About Weaving!” tent sponsored by the GFR Center, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2000.

11.       Mary Lee Begay, Navajo weaver, Ganado, Arizona, 1985. 

What is Tapestry?

1.         Tapestry weave with interlocked join.  Illustration by Kathleen Koopman, from Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat, courtesy of the University of Arizona Press. 

2.         Tapestry weave with dovetailed join.  Same as #1. 

3.         Tapestry weave with slit junctures.  Same as #1.  

4.         Tapestry weave with diagonal juncture.  Same as #1. 

5.         Jacobo (Jake) Trujillo weaving on a floor loom, 1985, Centinela Ranch, Chimayo, New Mexico.

6.         Vertical tapestry loom, studio of Dr. Jean Smelker-Hugi, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2002. 

7.         Irene Clark weaving on a vertical Navajo loom, Crystal, New Mexico, 1988.

8.         “Out to Sea,” Darden Bradshaw, 1998, 23” x 29”.

9.         “There is Still Joy,” Beverly Hunt, 1998, 23.5” x 37”.

10.       “Hyperactive” (detail), Lisa Trujillo, 1985, tapestry weave with some ikat-dyed wefts.

About Us

1.         Arizona Sate Museum, home of The GFR Center for Tapestry Studies University of Arizona, Tucson, 2001.

2.         Fourth graders visiting Professor Gayle Wimmer at her tapestry and fiber arts studio, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2000.

3.         Members and trustees--Olga Neuts, Lotus Stack, Mary Lane, and Alice Zrebiec--examining the Jack Lenor Larsen Archives, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2002.

History of the GFR Center

1.         Gloria Ross, Navajo weaver Rose Owens, and Ann Hedlund, Cross Canyon, Arizona, 1990.  Photo by Gladys Mazerbo.

2.         Denver Art Museum exhibition, “Contemporary Navajo Weaving: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of Ethnographic Navajo Textiles,” 1992.  Tapestry woven rug in foreground by Ason Yellowhair; rugs in background by Grace Henderson Nez, Mary Lee Begay, Gloria Begay and Sadie Curtis (l to r).  Museum photographer.

3.         Founding trustee Dr. Ann Bookman (m) with daughter Emily Buehrens (l) and Textile Museum director Ursula McCracken, First Annual GFR Lecture, Yale University Club, New York, NY, 1998.  Photo by Carey Ellen Hedlund.

Gloria F. Ross

1.         Gloria F. Ross, 1979.  Photo courtesy of the GFR Archives. 

Career

1.         Gloria F. Ross at work, calculating a tapestry’s proportions, Ganado, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 1984.

2.         Mary Lee Begay, Navajo weaver, weaving a Gloria F. Ross Tapestry designed by Kenneth Noland, Ganado, Arizona, 1985.

In memoriam

1.         “Elegy to the Spanish republic No. 116,” a Gloria F. Ross Tapestry designed by Robert Motherwell, 1970, 84” x 108”.  Photo courtesy of the GFR Archives. 

2.         Gloria Ross (l) and Navajo weaver Audrey Wilson (r), Indian Wells, Arizona, 1981.

3.         “Mille Fleurs,” a Gloria F. Ross Tapestry designed by Romare Bearden, 1976, 60” x 67”.  Photo by Al Mozell; courtesy of the Gloria F. Ross Archives. 

Board of Trustees

1.         “A Full Meeting of the Members of the Board,” Archie Brennan, 65” x 40”.  Photo courtesy of Archie Brennan.

2.         Trustee Darienne Dennis (r) with Scandinavian tapestry expert Lila Nelson (l) and colleague Robbie LaFleur (m), The Textile Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2002.

3.         Trustees Mary Lane, Alice Zrebiec, and Lotus Stack, The Textile Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2002. 

The Director

1.         Director Ann Lane Hedlund, The Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2003.  Photo by Marcel Neuts.

2.         Ann Hedlund with Navajo weavers--Gloria Begay, Lenah Begay, Mary Lee Begay, and Grace Henderson Nez--curating an exhibition at Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, 1994.  Photo by Davina Two Bears.

Staff, Students, & Volunteers

1.         Staff, students and volunteers--Madelyn Cook, Ann Hedlund, Ramana Krishna Bhagavatula, Miriam Neuts, Olga Neuts, Jessy Aceituno, Bobbie Gibel, and Karen Pennesi, Southwest Indian Art Fair, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2003.  Photo by Marcel Neuts.

2.         Bobbie Gibel, administrative assistant and fiber artist, Southwest Indian Art Fair, “Learn About Weaving!” tent sponsored by the GFR Center, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2002.  Photo by Cathy Notarnicola.

3.         Ann Keuper, weaving instructor, with fourth graders, tapestry weaving workshops, Lawrence School Partnership, Tucson, 2001.

4.         Madelyn Cook, data entry specialist, JBW Book Project, the GFR Center at the Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2001.

5.         Judith Billings, volunteer and spinner extraordinaire, Southwest Indian Art Fair, “Learn About Weaving!” tent sponsored by the GFR Center, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2001.

6.         Olga Neuts, volunteer and tapestry weaver, Southwest Indian Art Fair, “Learn About Weaving!” tent sponsored by the GFR Center, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2000

Programs

1.         Weavers Mary Lane and Susan Martin Maffei, examining historic tapestry, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2002.  Tapestry: "The Ship of Virtues," unidentified designer, cartoonist and weavers, Tournai, about 1528-1540 (MIA 42.15).

Annual Lectures

1.         Speaker Archie Brennan, Yale University Club, New York, NY, 1998.  Photo by Carey Ellen Hedlund.

2.         Reception following the Second Annual GFR Lecture, Fowler Museum of Anthropology, University of California--Los Angeles, 2001.

3.         Speaker Ramona Sakiestewa, McGraw-Hill Auditorium, New York, NY, 2001.

Conferences

1.         Tapestries from the Southwest, Tucson Pima Arts Council Community Gallery, Tucson, 1999.  Organized in conjunction with the ATA Symposium. 

2.         American Tapestry Biennial 4, Vancouver, BC, 2002 (also installed at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, spring 2003, in conjunction with the ATA-GFR Center symposium). 

The GFR Archives

1.         Cartoon for a Gloria F. Ross Tapestry, “Recollection Pond,” designed by Romare Bearden, held by Messieurs Pinton and Lepetit, Pinton Manufacture, Felletin, France, circa 1981.  Photo by Gloria F. Ross.

2.         Navajo weaver Susie Dale and Gloria Ross, Griswold’s Trading Post, Tse Bonito, New Mexico, 1991.

3.         Gloria F. Ross Tapestries, designed by Adolph Gottlieb, Louise Nevelson (2), and Robert Motherwell, woven at the Dovecot directed by Archie Brennan, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980.  Photo by Gloria F. Ross.

Southwestern Textile Research

1.         Joe Ben Wheat and D.Y. Begay, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, 1990.

2.         D.Y. Begay with a 19th century Navajo blanket, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, 1990.

Arizona State Museum (ASM) Programs

1.         Southwest Indian Art Fair, “Learn About Weaving!” tent sponsored by the GFR Center, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, 2003.

2.         Artist Ann Keuper with her fourth grade weaving students, Anna Lawrence Intermediate School, Tucson, 1999.