Crafting Lives in the Americas

MUSEUM EXHIBIT OPENING; Crafting Lives in the Americas

Anthropologists studying the Americas have traditionally assumed that there is a strong division between households and public spaces. According to this perspective, domestic areas and the activities occurring within them are relatively private. Given that the activities done in domestic spaces are often assumed to be “women’s work,” the labors of women have been seen as spatially and socially segregated to this secondary, “hidden” context.

In this exhibition, we explore material products of women’s crafting from the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. As you learn about women’s work in these regions, consider how their labor contributes to economies. What roles has crafting played in diverse social and spatial contexts? Have our own ideas about gender and the domestic versus public spheres of social life led us to misrepresent the past?

Curated by Dr. Guy David Hepp (lead curator), Ana Yesenia Mendoza Sanchez, Dr. Russell Barber, and Dr. Frannie Berdan

Arianna Huhn | Museum Director & Assistant Professor of Anthropology | ahuhn@csusb.edu | 909.537.5505

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