MIAC Sunday Lecture Series "Looking into the Bowl: An Anthropologist’s View of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pottery"

"Looking into the Bowl: An Anthropologist's View of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pottery" 

Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA

Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos

Bruce Bernstein is currently the Executive Director of SWAIA. From 1997 to 2005, Bernstein served as the Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Previously he was the Director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; his directorship oversaw the building and installation of the Bloch Wing and the permanent exhibition, "Here, Now and Always." He has also held positions at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and the University of New Mexico's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. He has published and curated exhibitions widely on American Indian art.