Some Serious Business and Pueblo de Abiquiu Library
Host a talk by SSB Away Artist in Residence
SUSAN MORGAN
Sunday, June 13, 2021 / 4 PM / Free
In the Library Garden
Morgan’s talk centers on writer Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant’s unpublished, illustrated manuscript—One Hundred Wildflowers of the Pueblo Country with Tewa Indian Names and Uses—produced in New Mexico (1935–36) with her secretary and interpreter Edward Dozier, an 18-year-old recent high-school graduate from the Santa Clara Pueblo who later became one of the first Native American anthropologists, and Cypriano Herrera, a 19-year-old artist from Tesuque Pueblo. The project is a cross-cultural, intergenerational collaboration intended to document and preserve the material culture, indigenous language, and ceremonial uses of native plants. For more than 30 years, Susan Morgan has written about art, design, and cultural biography. She is the first of five SSB Away artists in residence coming to Abiquiu this summer. PLEASE JOIN US!
Covid-19 protocols will be observed. Refreshments will be served.
About El Pueblo de Abiquiu Library and Cultural Center
Photo: Red Cactus/ Cereus fendleri, watercolor by Cypriano Herrera, Edward Dozier papers, Arizona State Museum Library & Archives, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.