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Kawsay Ukhunchay Visits the Historic Costume & Textiles Collection at OSU
Gayle Strenge (pictured above on the left) invited us to explore Latin American textiles in the Ohio State Historic Costume and Textiles Collection, including rare Nazca textiles (pictured…
Let’s Just Talk with Hallie Fried
Last year, the Kawsay Ukhunchay had the opportunity to talk with the artist who made a tapestry that we recently purchased for our collection. The tapestry, made by master weaver Mama…
2022 SPPO Departmental Awards Recipients
On behalf of the SPPO Awards Committee, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the Rymer, Crane, Iglesias, Munthe, and Kubayanda Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year. We would like to…
Victor Vimos interviews poet Arthur Sze
Last March, I visited Chinese-American poet Arthur Sze, who has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for more than forty years. Sze is the owner of an extensive body of work that brings together more…
Kawsay Ukhunchay Collaborates with S.T.E.A.M. Factory for “Stitching our Community Back Together” and “Doodles” Member Engagement Projects
This month the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection partnered with STEAM Factory to bring two creative member engagement activities to…
Undergrad Micah Unzueta Receives Fulbright Award
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate undergraduate Michah Unzueta for his recent accomplishment of being awarded the 2022-2023 Fulbright Award to Peru as an English…
Congratulations to our Spring 2022 Whitten Scholarship Awardees
Each semester, the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean & Amazonian Indigenous Art & Cultural Artifacts Research Collection is supported by the hard work and scholarship of an interdisciplinary…
SPPO Undergrad Kathleen Fink Defends Honors Thesis
SPPO wants to congratulate Kathleen Fink who defended her interdisciplinary Honors Thesis “Immigration in Modern Spain: An Analysis of Economics, Gender and Cultural…
Documenting Our Masks
Tamryn McDermott, a Graduate Research Associate for the Andean and Amazonian collection, was documenting some of the masks in the collection earlier this year! Check out the set-up and dramatic…