Canon: A Mini-Symposium | Navajo Classic Blankets: A Study in Chronology and Creativity

Canon: A Mini Symposium was held at the de Young Museum on February 7, 2013. Ann Lane Hedlund, PhD, Curator of Ethnology and Director of the Gloria F. Ross Tapestry Program, Arizona State Museum; Professor of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, Tucson. As a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Hedlund has conducted fieldwork among Native American weavers and other artists since the mid-1970s and has interest in worldwide textile producers. She has written many publications and curated museum exhibitions throughout the country. Hedlund edited Joe Ben Wheat's award-winning book Blanket Weaving in the Southwest, and her own book Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century: Kin, Community, and Collectors received the Arizona Highways/Arizona Library Association award for nonfiction. Her most recent book, Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry, documents the 20th-century tapestry-making career of Ross and raises questions about the nature of transnational collaboration and cross-cultural art ventures. Hedlund received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Colorado--Boulder and her MA in museum studies from Texas Tech University.