Publications
Ann Lane Hedlund, PhD
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Books
2025 Mac Schweitzer: A Maverick and Her Art. Tucson, AZ: Sentinel Peak Books, University of Arizona Press. (328 pp., 235 color and 62 b/w illustrations.)
2018 Navajo Weavers of the American Southwest. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Postcard History Series. Co-authors Peter Hiller and Ramona Sakiestewa.
2010 Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, in association with Arizona State Museum. (367 pp., 416 color and 16 b/w illustrations.)
2004 Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century: Kin, Community, and Collectors. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2004 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, El Paso, TX.
1997 Navajo Weavings from the Andy Williams Collection. Saint Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum.
1997 Navajo Weaving from the Santa Fe Collection, 1971-1996. Oklahoma City: National CowboyHall of Fame.
1994 Contemporary Navajo Weaving: Thoughts that Count. Special issue of Plateau 65(l). Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona.
1992 Reflections of the Weaver’s World: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving. Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum; distributed by the University of Washington Press.
1990 Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early Southwestern Weaving. Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, for the University of Colorado.
Volumes edited
2003 Blanket Weaving in the Southwest, by Joe Ben Wheat, edited by Ann Lane Hedlund. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (444 pp.). Southwest Books of the Year 2003 Award, Tucson-Pima Public Library, Arizona.
1989a Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest, edited by Ann Lane Hedlund. ASU Anthropological Research Papers 40. Tempe, AZ.
Articles & book chapters
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2025 “Mac Schweitzer: Mid-Century Expressions of the Sonoran Desert.” Tucson Modernism Week 2025, pp. 16-25.
in press “Braided, Twined, and Woven Textiles of the Southwest,” Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 16, Technology and Visual Arts, vol. ed. Christian Feest, gen. ed. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC.
2017 “Introduction—Consultations, Collaborations, and Curation by Navajo Weavers: A Celebration and History.” In Weavers, Collectors, and Changing Markets: The Crane Collection of Navajo Textiles, by Laurie Webster, Louise Stiver, Lynda Teller Pete and D.Y. Begay. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, in association with Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver.
2017 “Ibolya Hegyi.” In Woven Times: Ibolya Hegyi (1953-2016), festschrift edited by Ildikó Alapítvány Dobrányi. Budapest, Hungary.
2015 “Beyond Beauty: Exploring the Ethnoaesthetics of Navajo Weaving.” American Indian Art 40(3):44-59.
2015 “Recycled Reds: Raveled Insect-Dyed Yarns in Blankets of the American Southwest.” In A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World, ed. by Carmella Padilla and Barbara Anderson. Pp. 146-157, 300-301. Skira Rizzoli, New York, for the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2011 Adventures in Modern Tapestry: Gloria Ross, Kenneth Noland and Native American Weavers. American Indian Art 37(1): 54-63, 78.
2011 “A Turning Point: Viewing Navajo Weaving as Art.” American Indian Art 36(2): 68-76.
2011 “From Collage to Tapestry: Louise Nevelson, Gloria Ross & The Dovecot Studios of Edinburgh. IN The 14th Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, pp. 24-29. The Art Fair, Chicago, IL.
2011 “Searching for Tapestry’s Identity: Gloria F. Ross as Tapestry Editor.” Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot 42(1) #165:30-34. Handweavers Guild of America.
2010 “Three Southwestern Textile Traditions.” IN Converging Streams: Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Native American and Hispanic Art of the Greater Southwest, ed. by Will Wroth & Robin Gavin. Pp. 97-113. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2010 “The Landscape Tapestries of Louise Nevelson, 1972-1997.” Textile Society of American Symposium Proceedings, 12th Biennial Symposium, October 6-9, 2010. Pp. 1-5. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
2009 “Hot Trends in Native Southwestern Weaving.” Sculpture Objects & Functional Art, pp. 36-41. The Art Fair, Chicago, IL.
2007 “Understanding Chronology in Historic Period Navajo Textiles: Red Dye Analysis. SAS Bulletin, Newsletter of the Society for Archaeological Sciences 30(1):20-23. (Co-authored with Kathryn M. Duffy)
2004 “Arizona State Museum’s Textiles and the ‘Southwest—Northwest’ Continuum.” American Indian Art 30(1):60-67. (Co-authored with Diane Dittemore).
2004 “Tapestry Translations in the Twentieth Century: The Entwined Roles of Arts, Weavers, and Editeurs. Textile Society of American Proceedings. Pp. 306-315. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
2003 “Blanket Basics: Navajo Weaving of the Classic, Late Classic and Early Transitional Periods.” Hali (London) 43:55-60.
2003 “Wool Yarns in Late Classic Navajo Blankets.” American Indian Art 28(4):78-85, 92-93.
2003 “Commercial Materials in Modern Navajo Rugs.” American Indian Art 28(3): 44-55.
2000 “Early Navajo Artistry in Tapestry.” International Tapestry Journal 3(2):2-7.
1999 “Give-and-Take: Navajo Grandmothers and the Role of Craftswomen.” In American Indian Grandmothers: Traditions and Transitions, edited by Marjorie Schweitzer. Pp. 53-77.Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
1997 “The Barbers of Burnham: A New Breed of Navajo Weaver.” Persimmon Hill 25(4):17-24.
1996 “‘More of Survival than an Art’: Comparing Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Lifeways and Weaving.” In Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian, edited by Eulalie Bonar. Pp. 47-67. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1994 “Speaking For or About Others? Evolving Ethnological Perspectives.” Museum Anthropology 18(3):32-43.
1993 “Contemporary Navajo Weavers: Selections from the GFR Collection.” Southwest Art June 1993. Pp. 47-53.
1993 “Joe Ben Wheat.” In Why Museums Collect: Papers in Honor of Joe Ben Wheat, M. S. and D. T. Kirkpatrick, eds. The Archaeological Society of New Mexico 19, pp. 1-11. Albuquerque, NM.
1991a “Current Trends in Navajo Weaving.” Focus/Santa Fe June/July 1988. Pp. 10-15. (Reprinted from Hedlund 1988a, courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; with revised illustrations.)
1991b “Wedge Weave Textiles of the Navajo.” American Indian Art 16(3):54-65. (Co-author Louise I. Stiver).
1989b “Material Anthropology: Connecting Academic Research and Museum Collections.” In Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest, edited by Ann Lane Hedlund. ASU Anthropological Research Papers 40. Pp. 3-9. Tempe, AZ.
1989c “The Study of 19th Century Southwestern Weaving.” In Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest, edited by Ann Lane Hedlund. ASU Anthropological Research Papers 40. Pp. 121-138. Tempe, AZ.
1989d “In Pursuit of Style: Kate Kent and Navajo Aesthetics.” Museum Anthropology 13(2-3):32-40.
1988a “Current Trends in Navajo Weaving.” Terra 26(5):15-20. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA.
1988b “Designing Among the Navajo: Ethnoaesthetics in Weaving.” In Textiles as Primary Sources: Proceedings of the First Symposium of the Textile Society of America, edited by John Vollmer. Pp. 86-93. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
1988c “Navajo Rug Designs Today.” Oriental Rug Review Oct./Nov. 9(1):46-47.
1987a “Commercial Materials in Modern Navajo Rugs.” Textile Museum Journal 25:83-94. Washington, DC.
1987b Well May They Be Made; Navajo Textiles from the Coleman Cooper Collection. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum Art. (Co-authored with Ellen H. Elsas).
1978 Caucasian Textiles, 16th‑20th Century. Boulder: University of Colorado. (Co-authored with H. Medill Sarkisian and Peter Robinson).
PhD Dissertation
1983 Contemporary Navajo Weaving: An Ethnography of a Native Craft. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Reviews by ALH
1998 Contemporary Tie and Dye Textiles of Indonesia, by Kim Jane Saunders. American Anthropologist 100(3):766-767.
1997 Weavers of Tradition and Beauty: Basketmakers of the Great Basin, by Mary Lee Fulkerson. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
1996 Treading in the Past: Sandals of the Anasazi, edited by Kathy Kankainen. American Antiquity 61(3):629.
1989f Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection, by Nancy J. Blomberg. Halí 44:52-53. London, England.
1986 “Contemporary Navajo Weaving.” The Weaver’s Journal 11(l):30-34.
1985 Prehistoric Textiles of the Southwest, by Kate Peck Kent. Archaeology March/April 1985:75.
1982 The Junius B. Bird Precolumbian Textile Conference, edited by A.P. Rowe and E.P. Benson. American Antiquity 47(l):236-237.
Reviews of ALH
Reviews of Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick and Her Art
2025 ‘A Southwest Maverick’: New book sheds light on artist Mac Schweitzer,’ by David Steinberg. Albuquerque Journal November 23, 2025, D5.
“What an exhilarating book! Mac Schweitzer’s artwork is powerfully energetic and infused with the singular beauty of the Southwest. The horses alone will knock you out. Importantly, Ann Hedlund’s eloquent rediscovery of this fiercely dedicated and original artist is pertinent to today, a story that can inspire us still.”—Sharman Apt Russell, author of What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
“A well-researched and lively narrative romp through the life of an indominable, resourceful, and overlooked woman artist who knew what she wanted and created her way West. Hedlund paints for us a vivid diary of a woman whose trajectory reflected a midcentury Anglo-Tucson artistic tradition in the Southwest. ‘Mac’s’ life unfolds in the past, but her spirit still speaks to contemporary readers through the author’s thoughtful framing of her story through the economic, regional, and gender-limiting environments through which she galloped.”—Catherine Whitney, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Honolulu Museum of Art
“Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick and Her Art is a superb book that finally brings this remarkable artist to her rightful place in the world of Southwest art. Scholar Ann Hedlund provides us with an engaging story of fascinating personality and life, and presents abundant examples of Schweitzer’s art, ignored for decades in part because of her gender. Readers will undoubtedly agree that Schweitzer deserves the acclaim she was denied after her death in 1962.”—Aldona Jonaitis, Director Emerita, University of Alaska Museum of the North
“From the accomplished rodeo posters of her teenaged years, to the wildlife imagery of the Sonoran desert, and the Hopi and Navajo subjects of the 1950s, painter Mac Schweitzer vividly captured Arizona’s landscape and its diverse inhabitants. Anthropologist Ann Lane Hedlund (the daughter-in-law Mac did not live to meet) expertly chronicles the Tucson painter’s life and examines her place in the twentieth century artistic landscape of the American Southwest.”—Janet Catherine Berlo, Professor of Art History Emerita, University of Rochester
“No one has ever delved deeper into the life, unique artistic contributions and cultural milieu of a Southwestern painter than Ann Hedlund has done for Mac Schweitzer. This amazing woman comes off the page and into our hearts in Ann’s writing, surpassing David Robert’s biography of Everett Reuss and Roxanna Robinson’s of Georgia O’Keefe. Mac Schweitzer will finally and deservedly join the pantheon of the most memorable and culturally-significant artists in the history of American Deserta.”—Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Against the American Grain and The Desert Smells Like Rain
“A rigorously researched yet intimate and readable biography of a brilliant Southwestern artist who has been overlooked for too long. Thanks to Ann Lane Hedlund, Mac Schweitzer’s work and tragically short life will now be remembered. The book is both a feast for the eyes and a riveting read.”—Wynne Brown, author of The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
Reviews of Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry
Obar, Barbara 2011 “It is certainly one of the best researched titles on the topic of modern tapestry. . . . It is an important addition to any academic library with programs in design. Public libraries with strong art collections and collectors interested in learning more about modern tapestry will find this title solid and well worth the $65.00 price tag.”— ARLIS/NA Reviews
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Reviews of Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century:
Bahti, Mark 2005 Southwest Book Views, Winter 2005.
Berman, Tressa 2006 New Mexico Historical Review 81(3):355-356.
Gulliford, Andrew 2006 Material Culture: The Journal of the Pioneer America Society. 3 pp.
Lévi-Strauss, Monique 2006 L’Homme, “Amériques,” p. 179.
Riley, Barbara 2004 “Navajo weaving, weavers get minute examination.” The New Mexican (Santa Fe), December 12, 2004, p. F-7.
Reviews of Blanket Weaving in the Southwest, by Joe Ben Wheat, edited by Ann Hedlund
American Craft 2004 Book Reviews. American Craft Feburary/March 2004.
Becker, Jerry 2004 “The New Testament.” Hali (London) No. 135, pp. 63-65.
Brewer, Linda 2004 “Unraveling the Threads of Creationg.” Desert Leaf (Tucson) 18(3):40-43.
Gadberry, Vicki 2004 Books. Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot Winter 2003/2004.
Greenwood, Phaedra 2004 “Book ties Southwest weaving traditions together.” The New Mexican (Santa Fe), April 25, 2004.
McGreevy, Susan Brown 2004 “Worth the Wait.” El Palacio (Santa Fe) 109(1).
Naparsteck, Martin 2003 “Southwest picture book comforts like a blanket . . . The West under cover.” Salt Lake City Tribune Dec. 21, 2003.
Neale, Gay Book Review. Library Journal Nov. 15, 2003.
Nobles, Mike 2005 “Textile art form explored.” Tulsa World, January 30, 2005.
Reference & Research Book Notes “Blanket Weavers of the Southwest.” November 2004.
Regan, Margaret 2003 “Mapping Weaving.” Tucson Weekly Dec. 18-24, 2003, p. 36.
Webster, Laurie 2004 “Blanket Weaving in the Southwest.” SMRC Revista Spring 2004.
Vecchiola, Rina 2004 “Cream of Wheat.” Art Documentation 23(2):55.
Other Reviews
Weston, Wendy 2004 “The Diné Way in Navajo Weavings: Arizona State Museum,” review of Navajo Weaving at Arizona State Museum: 19th Century Blankets/20th Century Rugs/21st Century Views. Native Peoples November 2004:64.
Webster, Laurie 1998 Review of Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian, edited by Eulalie Bonar. American Anthropologist 100(4):999-1005.
Schevill, Margot Blum 1998 Review of Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian, edited by Eulalie Bonar. Museum Anthropology 22(1).
Jarvis, Cheryl 1997 “Weaving Between the Lines: How Navajos Spin History in Textile Art at The Saint Louis Art Museum. Ambassador [The Magazine of Trans World Airlines and Trans World Express] 10/1997: 24-28.
Smith, Roberta 1996 Review of “Contemporary Navajo Weaving: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum” at the National Museum of the American Indian. New York Times 12/27/96.
Dominguez, Virginia R., and Jane C. Desmond 1995 Crafting Exhibitions: Review of Contemporary Navajo Weaving: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum. American Anthropologist 97(4):779-782.
Two Bears, Davina R. 1995 Review of Hanoolchaadi: Historic Textiles Selected by Four Navajo Weavers. Native Peoples 8(3):62-68.
Poole, William 1995 Spider Woman’s Children: Navajos Weave Tradition and Innovation. Pacific Discovery (California Academy of Sciences) 48(l):18-25.
McGreevy, Susan Brown 1993 Review of Reflections of the Weaver’s World.
Feagins, Jim D. 1990 Review of Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early Southwestern Weaving. The Kansas Anthropologist 11(l):33-34.
Fogelman, Gary L. 1990 Review of Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early Southwestern Weaving. Indian Artifact Magazine Summer 1990:22.
Klinect, Ann W. 1990 Review of Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early Southwestern Weaving. Loose Threads 7(l)):6.
Bradley, Louise 1991 Review of Beyond the Loom: Keys to Understanding Early Southwestern Weaving. Handwoven January/February 1991:13-14.
Beelitz, Paul F. 1990 Review of Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest. Curator 33(3):239-240.
Grant, Laurance 1990 Review of Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest. Muse (The journal of the Canadian Museums Association) 8(l):94-95.
Saitta, Dean J. 1990 Review of Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest. American Antiquity 55(4):873.
Ramsay, Lucinda S. 1987 Review of The Textile Museum Journal 1986 [including “Commercial Materials in Navajo Rugs”]. Pp. 30-31.
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