The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will host a free presentation from Drs. Laurie Webster and Shelby Tisdale titled, “Traditional Technologies Tour in Oaxaca, Mexico” on Wednesday, March 4th at 5:30 pm in the Center’s Lyceum Room #120.

Drs. Webster and Tisdale will share their observations based on their travels to Oaxaca, Mexico in March 2019 with Native American weavers, a wildlife biologist, a graduate student and documentary filmmaker as they visited indigenous weaving communities to study and exchange traditional technologies. Their travels included visits to markets, archaeological sites, several rural communities representing different indigenous cultures and languages, and textile designs. Webster and Tisdale will discuss how the Native American weavers from the Southwest exchanged their weaving techniques with the Zapotec, Trique, Amuzgo and Mixtec weavers they met in Oaxaca.