Wednesday, November 15
$25 for active ACI Members | $35 for guests*
The lecture is open to the public and included with general Museum admission.
11:30 am /// Lunch in Singer Hall
12:30 pm /// Lecture in Whiteman Hall
Join Scottsdale historian Joan Fudala, for an engaging presentation featuring the art and fashions of Cherokee fashion designer Lloyd Henri “Kiva” New, highlighting his broad Southwestern influence. New was an innovator of Indigenous Modernism and charter member of the Arizona Craftsmen cooperative, which aided the development of Scottsdale into a center for hand-crafted arts and fashions.
*ACI Members may bring one guest
Please RSVP by Thursday, November 9.
About the speaker:
Joan Fudala is a community historian, consultant and history columnist for local publications. She is the author of eight books, including The People’s Preserve; Historic Scottsdale: A Life from the Land; Images of America – Scottsdale; Golf in Scottsdale; 50 Years of the Scottsdale Charros & Spring Training; and Desert Highlands.
Joan serves on Scottsdale’s Museum of the West Board of Trustees, the Scottsdale Historical Society Advisory Board. She has been recognized as Scottsdale’s Woman of the Year, with Scottsdale Leadership’s Frank Hodges Alumni Achievement Award, the Scottsdale Library’s Spirit of Literacy and Visionary Awards, the Arizona Governor’s Heritage Preservation Award, DAR’s Women in History Award and as a Scottsdale History Hall of Fame inductee.
She began researching Lloyd Kiva New in 2000, heard him deliver the eulogy at Phil Curtis’ memorial service at the Phoenix Art Museum in November 2000, and visited his home and widow, Aysen, in Santa Fe in 2005. She has written extensively about Kiva and his fellow Arizona Craftsmen and fashion artists of the 1950s, produced a video segment for Kiva’s 2005 induction into the Scottsdale History Hall of Fame, co-curated an exhibit of Kiva items at the Museum of the West in 2017, and wrote the historic narrative for the successful nomination that listed the Kiva Craft Center on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. She also appears in the 2022 documentary about the life of Lloyd Kiva, “New: Art is Culture, Culture is Art.”