Rina Swentzell
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Dr. Rina Swentzell (b. 1939) (Santa Clara Pueblo) Swentzell earned her B.A. in Education from New Mexico Highlands University, as well as her M.A. in Architecture in 1976 and her Ph.D. in American Studies in 1982 at the University of New Mexico. She writes and lectures on the philosophical and cultural basis of the Pueblo world and its educational, artistic, and architectural expressions. Her writing appears in magazines, scholarly journals, and edited collections and she appears in video presentation for television and museums commenting upon Pueblo cultural values. She acts as a consultant to a number of museums including Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian Arts and the Smithsonian, and was a visiting lecturer at both Yale and Oxford in 1996.
Rina is the daughter of Rose Naranjo, sister of Dr. Tessie Naranjo, Professor Tito Naranjo, sculptors Michael Naranjo and Nora Naranjo-Morse and potters Jody Folwell, Dolly Naranjo and Edna Romero. She is the mother of sculptor Roxanne Swentzell and aunt of potters Jody Naranjo, Susan Folwell, Polly Rose Folwell, Dusty Naranjo and Forrest Naranjo.
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[edit] Online Essays
[edit] Honors
Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar, 1995-96, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Western States Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowhip for Visual Artists
[edit] Books
Essay, "Pueblo Cosmos," in Pueblo Artists: Portraits, Toba Pato Tucker, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1998.
To touch the past : the painted pottery of the Mimbres people, (with J. J.. Brody), Hudson Hills Press, 1996.
Children of Clay: A Family of Pueblo Potters, Lerner Pub., 1993.
Parallaxis : fifty-five points to view : a conversation with Lucy R. Lippard and Rina Swentzell, Western States Arts Federation, 1996.
Pottery in Santa Clara: a photographic history of pottery in our community, Fine Graphics, 1993.
Ancient land, ancestral places : Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest, with Paul Logsdon, Stephen H. Lekson and Catherine M. Cameron, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1993.
An architectural history of Santa Clara Pueblo, University of New Mexico, 1976. (Thesis)
[edit] See Also
- Rina's commentary on Pueblo pottery in the book, All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture.
- Painted Earth: The Art of the Mimbres Indians a film for the Program for Art on Film, a joint venture of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The J. Paul Getty Trust. Swentzell was both writer and commentator.
- Review of Children of Clay on the American Indians in Children's Literature blog.
- Another review of Children of Clay, by Paula Giese
