Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College has been awarded the 2022 International Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Outstanding Project Award by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums.
The Center's curator, Elizabeth Quinn MacMillan, accepted the award Oct. 26 at the ATALM annual conference in Temecula, California.
This award was given in recognition of “PIVOT: Skateboard Deck Art,” an exhibition featuring 114 works of art on skateboard decks by Indigenous artists that was guest curated by Duane Koyawena (Hopi) and Landis Bahe (Diné), with exhibition manager Sam Honanie (Hopi/Diné). The other Outstanding Project Award was given to the Library of Congress for “Living Nations, Living Words: A Map of First Peoples Poetry,” a signature project of the first Native U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
