The Center of Southwest Studies is pleased to hold a special talk with Venancio Aragón, featured textile artist and the guest curator of the latest exhibition, From the Fringes: Diné Textiles that Disrupt. Aragón, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is an experimental textile weaver whose work combines ancient techniques with vibrant polychromatic designs that has come to be known as an “Expanded Rainbow Aesthetic.” Aragón learned to weave from his mother, Irveta, at the age of ten and has developed a creative practice focused on reviving rare and lesser-known techniques including twills, two-faced, shaped weavings, tufting, and hybrids.

Free and Open to public