Sune Woods, “Landings”, 2015 (mixed media collage)

Background

In 2001, the Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer was a gleam in the eye of its founders, Glenn and April Bucksbaum. The hope from the start was to have the award provide support to an emerging photographer at a critical point in their career when resources may be non-existent and visibility is crucial to success. The Baum Award is rooted in the belief that contributions artists make to our lives are essential to a healthy and vital society. Artists build connections among peoples across space and time, stimulate our imagination and illuminate the human experience. This was how The Baum Award was established, with the help and contributions of many people.

The Baum Award provides a $10,000 cash grant to the recipient as well as a fully executed exhibition. It aims to bring awareness to photography as an art form by celebrating the work of a talented and innovative photographer with each recipient. The award recognizes that emerging photographers require assistance and financial support as they launch their careers.  The goal of The Baum Award is to give artists the time and materials necessary for their ongoing creative work with the hope that by bringing the artists’ work to the public, their creativity can be sustained by the recognition they receive.

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The Baum Award has evolved over the years from the careful and diligent efforts of our partners, colleagues, curators, curatorial assistants and many volunteers. New nominators and jurors are selected each year. All have provided strong professional advice and implemented good ideas that have helped the award to evolve. In celebration of the 10th Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, special recognition goes to curators Nora Kabat Dolan, Heidi Zuckerman, Sharon Tanenbaum, Chuck Mobley and Heather Snider, who helped shape the award into a meaningful and affirmative experience for the recipients.

Baum Award Winners

2001 – 2016

Baum Award Winner 2016 – Suné Woods.	Baum Award Winner 2014 – Jaimie Warren.	Baum Award Winner 2012 – Eric William Carroll.
Baum Award Winner 2010 – Christopher Sims.	Baum Award Winner 2009 – Sean McFarland.	Baum Award Winner 2008 – Mike Brodie.
Baum Award Winner 2005 – Lisa Kereszi.	Baum Award Winner 2004 – Katy Grannan.	Baum Award Winner 2003 – Luis Gispert.
Baum Award Winner 2001 – Deborah Luster.

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Marta at the Carl Schuster Archive in Basel, Switzerland.

Marta Salas-Porras is a visual artist and designer who has been designing ways to tell the story of how a collective analysis of symbols and patterns of ancient and tribal art connects us as a species on this planet. She has been looking at ways to engage the public in an art piece that poses the question, “Why are there so many ancient symbols throughout the world carrying the same characteristics…what does this signify?” Marta is using the highly-developed art and multi-media skills she has honed over the last thirty years to present these explorations with large scale projections and an exhibition that shares the impact one comes to discover through countless photographs, drawings, and letters. “This world of visual language is rich with our legacy and our own questions on how we are connected to each other”, shares Salas-Porras, “there is no better time in the 21st Century to tell this story than right now.”

Salas-Porras has been studying at the Carl Schuster Archive in Basel, Switzerland. She is interested in telling this fascinating story and has been focused on the relationship that Schuster had with a complex network of people worldwide who shared his passion and enthusiasm.

“The over 30,000 pages of personal correspondence connect many clues and brings to life the power of these connected patterns and the great implications of the commonalities between cultures worldwide.” Writes Marta, “In these times, when we are challenged by the issues regarding race, culture and identity, it is increasingly relevant to examine these ancient patterns that connects all peoples.”

This visual language is a way of seeing how humanity is connected to each other. The richness of the archive and its scholarship is found in the sheer volume of entries it houses at the museum. Ted Carpenter, executor of the Carl’s literary estate, renown archeologist, and the creator of twelve volumes on Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition and Continuity based on Schuster’s work, concluded “I understand more of the hidden stories through the exploration of this extraordinary archive and I find myself looking deeper into a way of seeing.”

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Baum Award Winner 2014 – Jaimie Warren.

Baum Award Background
The Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer (Baum Award) is a project established out of the conviction that photography is a powerfully influential medium with the capacity to emotionally connect with audiences in ways that words cannot. This ability to reach people on a visceral level can transform awareness to understanding and lead interest into action – fundamental aspects of a healthy and vital society.

The Baum Award provides emerging photographers with resources and the means to pursue their art at a critical point in their career. The award consists of a $10,000 cash grant, a 2-month exhibition and reception at San Francisco Camerawork which celebrates the artist and brings the San Francisco Bay Area art community together to view their work. The Baum Award also exposes the awarded artists to broad media coverage, with past winners featured in multiple news media outlets, including the New York Times, Huffington Post, and the Bay Area’s KQED.

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Since 2008, Baum partner SF Camerawork has administered the Baum Award nomination and jury process and has hosted the two month long exhibition. Twenty-five contemporary art curators are asked to nominate two emerging artists for the award. A jury of professional artists and curators select the finalist from the 50 nominees. The Baum Award is the only award in the U.S. to single out ‘Emerging’ American photographers for support, and is the largest national award among the grants and fellowships available in photography.

Baum Award Winners

Baum Award Winner 2014 – Jaimie Warren.

2014 – Jaimie Warren

Jaimie Warren is a photographer and performance artist living in Kansas City, MO and Brooklyn, NY. Her recent works are elaborate forms of self-portraiture, employing makeup, props, costumes, prosthetics, and often a community of collaborators.  Many of her photographs are re-creations of photo-shopped images she culls from the web, refashioned without digital enhancements in a determinedly DIY (Do It Yourself) aesthetic. Her work explores the parameters of performance and identity in the context of art history, pop culture, and the Internet. Warren notes “I have taken complete control of these staged scenes, and I am bringing contemporary culture and humor into the installations, costumes and characters I am creating.” In addition to her work as a photographer, she is Co-Creator/Co-Director of the variety show “Whoop Dee Doo”. Whoop Dee Doo hosts live, free shows and workshops with the community and under-served youth groups, both locally and nationally.

Baum Award Winner 2012 – Eric William Carroll.

2012 – Eric William Carroll
Born and raised in the Midwest, Eric William Carroll currently resides in San Francisco. His body of work is metaphorically rich and triggers discussions about the contemporary use of the medium such as – what do we expect from photography and why is its use so widespread? It has been exhibited in numerous cities including: Fotohof in Salzburg, Austria; the Camera Club of New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Carroll has participated in residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Rayko Photo Center, and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary. Learn more about Eric and his photography on his website and blog.

Baum Award Winner 2010 – Christopher Sims.

2010 – Christopher Sims
Christopher Sims photographs in “Theater of War: The Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan” depict the people and places that play a role in the fictitious “villages” that serve as the U.S. military training ground for soldiers. The villages serve as a strange and poignant way station for people heading off to war and for those who have fled it. Soldiers interact with pretend villagers, often recent immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have now found work in America playing a version of the lives they left behind.Hosting the 2010 Baum Award exhibition, Sharon Tanenbaum, Executive Director of SF Camerawork noted, “Introducing a reality and places that are largely unknown to most Americans, Sims creates beautifully formal photographs, but with the extraordinary twist of this surreal element of modern-day war.” Sims, was unanimously selected by a panel of jurors that consisted of: Bruce Hainley, contributing editor, Artforum, Los Angeles; Erin O’Toole, assistant curator, department of photography, SFMOMA; Tina Takemoto, artist and professor, California College of the Arts; Jack von Euw, curator of The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, UC Berkeley; and Chuck Mobley, curator, San Francisco Camerawork.

Baum Award Winner 2009 – Sean McFarland.

2009 – Sean McFarland
Sean McFarland combines his own documentary style photographs with found images to create mysterious and surreal landscapes in his series entitled “Pictures of the Earth.” Working by both hand and computer, McFarland makes collages, which he then re-photographs with a Polaroid MP4 land camera. The resulting pictures blend the spontaneity and perceived truthfulness of a Polaroid with the artifice of the new digital language. McFarland notes, “By focusing on making images of the natural world I’m interested in making pictures of us, how we change the earth and how the earth changes us in return. I’m using Polaroid photographs as a witness to the landscape, showing us its history, our trace in it, and admiring its beauty.” McFarland’s fantastical landscapes upend our perception of reality and challenge the authority of the photograph. His latest project, “Dark Pictures,” are photographs of dense foliage that look as if they were taken in a national park, but in fact were taken within ten miles of McFarland’s San Francisco home.

Baum Award Winner 2008 – Mike Brodie.

2008 – Mike Brodie
Mike Brodie documents youth living on the edges of society, in images that are raw but not hopeless. As 20-year old photographer, living in Philadelphia, Brodie called himself “the Polaroid Kid,” because up to that point he had only shot in Polaroid film on cameras found in thrift shops. Brodie is now shooting on 35mm film, and his most recent series of photographs is entitled “That Rockaway Summer: Boys and Girls of Modern Days Railways.” The series documents the lives of young people who hop trains and who are, Brodie says, “one of the most important, overlooked, and temporary underground cultures of modern times.” When asked about his plans, Mr. Brodie says, “I just want to migrate for the next few years, following warm weather and photographing the train hopping youth of America.”

Baum Award Winner 2005 – Lisa Kereszi.

2005 – Lisa Kereszi
Ms. Kereszi’s gritty images of empty and abandoned spaces in and around New York create dramas from the remnants of people’s lives and reveal her interest in fantasy, escape, glamour, and our failed attempts to achieve them. Ms. Kereszi majored in photography at Bard College and in 2000 received a Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Bronx Museum of Art. Ms. Kereszi also works successfully as a freelance photographer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Nest, Details, Wallpaper, and other publications. In 2005, The Baum Award was hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum, curator Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson and the Jury included Catherine Wagner, Artist.

Baum Award Winner 2004 – Katy Grannan.

2004 – Katy Grannan
Katy Grannan received the 2004 Baum Award. Her striking portraits examine the desire of her subjects to offer themselves up to the camera lens. Ms. Grannan received her Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1999. Her photographs were included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Ms. Grannan’s solo exhibitions include: the Arles Photography Festival in France; 51 Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium; Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery and Salon 94 in New York. Ms. Grannan’s work is collected by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum. Model American: Katy Grannan, the artist’s first monograph, was released in 2005. In 2004, The Baum Award was hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum, curator Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson.

Baum Award Winner 2003 – Luis Gispert.

2003 – Luis Gispert 
The 2003 Baum Award, presented by Heidi Jacobson Zuckerman at the Berkeley Art Museum, was awarded to Luis Gispert. A member of a Cuban family who fled Cuba on a raft in the 1960’s and settled in Miami, Mr. Gispert grew up as a street kid with a tricked-out car. He discovered photography and eventually won a scholarship to the Masters of Fine Arts program at Yale University. His big break came when he was selected to take part in the Whitney Biennial in 2002. Since winning The Baum Award, Mr. Gispert has exhibited in a show at the Whitney Museum and had a solo exhibition at the Art Pace San Antonio gallery and was featured with a five-year survey of his work at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. Gispert’s work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Miami Art Museum, among others.  In 2003, The Baum Award was hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum, curator Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson.

Baum Award Winner 2001 – Deborah Luster.

2001 – Deborah Luster  
The first Baum Award was presented in 2001 to Deborah Luster in conjunction with the Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Gallery in San Francisco, with curatorial oversight by Nora Cabot. Luster’s photographs peered into the hidden worlds of family, crime and incarceration capturing intimate portraits of prisoners in Louisiana. After winning The Baum Award, Luster received the 2002 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation, and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award; her Baum Award photography was also acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Baum Award allowed Luster the time to make prints for her book, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, released in 2003 by Twin Palms Publishing.

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SPILL – An aerial view, Daniel Beltra.

Showing globally at galleries, museums and aquaria, SPILL – Images from the Gulf features photography, from artist and conservationist Daniel Beltrá, of the devastating 2010 Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Daniel Beltrá brings us up close and personal to the center of the Gulf Oil story and provides insight into the health of the world’s ocean.

SPILL – The ocean on fire, Daniel Beltra.

SPILL illustrates challenges faced by marine life as well as opportunities to heal and conserve our marine environment now and for generations to come.  The SPILL Exhibition first launched at the 212 Gallery in Aspen Colorado in July 2010, and then went to the Seattle Aquarium in Seattle, Washington; the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California; the Roca Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; and Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.

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2008 Winner Gloria Ip Tung.

About the Competition
The International Children’s Painting Competition, a United Nations Environment Program activity, encourages children from all parts of the world to focus on environmental issues and how they affect their communities, and then to express their concerns about the environment through art. The Competition’s goal is to increase environmental awareness and action among youth from over 90 countries. The International Painting Competition is organized by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment. The Competition is held every year for children between the ages of 6 and 15. Over 300 paintings are selected for prizes, with 7 global winners. The International Children’s Painting competition was sponsored by Bayer AG, and Nikon Corporation, and is supported by The Baum Foundation and the Me1ridian Health Foundation.

International Children’s Painting Competition Winners

2007 Winner Charlie Sullivan.

2007 – Oslo, Norway
Melting Ice, It’s A Hot Topic
In 2007, The Baum Foundation was a jury member and co-organizer for the International Children’s Painting Competition in Norway that focused on the effects that climate change is having on polar ecosystems and communities, and the ensuing consequences for the rest of the world. The winning artwork from the global competition was created by 12 year-old Charlie Sullivan of the United Kingdom. “Seeing the world and our environment through the eyes of children puts into sharp focus the responsibility we have towards them and towards the future,” said UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer. The painting depicted the world as an umbrella, gripped by a dark figure, which has been turned inside out by a powerful storm of gases (The Nobel gases). This image echoed the 2007 theme of climate change under the slogan “Melting Ice/A Hot Topic?”

2006 Winner Lau Tsun Ming.

2006 – Algiers, Algeria
Deserts and Desertification
Dry lands, covering more than forty percent of the planet’s land area and home to one-third of the world’s people, inspired the theme for the 2006 International Children’s Painting Competition, Deserts and Desertification sponsored by Bayer AG and Nikon and supported by The Baum Foundation and Meridian Foundation. Sophisticated images of water, life, desert biodiversity and of deforestation and environmental degradation dominated the images submitted. The 2006 Global Winner of the Competition was 9-year-old Lau Tsun Ming from China, who said: “My picture shows two contrasting scenes of Earth. One is desertified (devoid of life) and the other can keep its natural beauty. If people continue to ruin the environment, our surroundings will become dull and nasty.”

2005 Winner Ryotaro Sato.

2005 – San Francisco, USA
Green Cities
In 2005 The Baum and Meridian Foundation hosted the global winner for 2005, US based Ryotaro Sato’s. His painting depicted a green arc carrying life and hope sails on a grey sea under a polluted sky in watercolor. Two arrows point along diverging paths toward the future – one bright and green with nations working in harmony, the other towards environmental degradations and death. These are some of the images that were chosen as the winners of the 2006 United Nations Environment Program’s 14^th International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment. Children from around the world were tasked with expressing their visions of “Green Cities” through their paintings. A special ceremony honoring the winners was held at the World Environment Day conference, a historic gathering of mayors from the world’s largest and environmentally strategic cities, held in San Francisco.

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Language of the Birds.

In 2010, an important corner of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood was transformed by the creation of a new central plaza featuring a public art installation called Language of the Birds, commissioned by the city of San Francisco. The installation, by artist Brian Goggin and co-creator Dorka Keehn, captured the magic of the neighborhood with a “flock of twenty-three translucent birds”, in the form of hand-sculpted books with bindings opened and positioned to embody the wings of birds. These books, suspended above the plaza, appear to be taking off to fly away, leaving the imprint of their ideas below on the sidewalk in embossed brass lettering. Language of the Birds is an exciting new landmark at the confluence of two historic San Francisco neighborhoods, which will illuminate the incomparable diversity of the city of San Francisco for generations to come. The Baum Foundation provided the first grants to support and launch the project.

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Art for the Environment - Expanding Pressure.

About the Initiatives
2005-2008 Natural World Museum in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program
From 2005-2008, the Art for the Environment initiatives were a collaborative plan between the Natural World Museum and the United Nations environment Program designed to utilize the universal language of art as a catalyst to unite people in action and thought, and to empower individuals, communities and leaders to focus on environmental values across social, economic and political realms. A new exhibit was launched each year on World Environment Day with the intention sharing the innovative creations of diverse artists with hundreds of thousands of people in four international cities each year. The locations changed annually, allowing the Art for the Environment initiative to reach the widest array of communities possible. The intention is that those individuals, from international leaders to grassroots individuals, will be inspired by the art in each locale, act on those feelings, and thus contribute to the betterment of the earth.

THE INITIATIVES

Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the Carbon Habit
Lowering Carbon Emissions

Moving Towards a Balanced Earth - Antonio Briceno.

2008 World Environment Day, New Zealand
The Natural World Museum (NWM) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) created a traveling exhibit entitled Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the Carbon Habit. Debuting at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington to commemorate the celebration of UN World Environment Day, the contemporary art pieces all focused on climate change, with an emphasis on lowering carbon emissions. The thought-provoking exhibit, featuring the work of 27 artists representing 20 countries, included photographs, paintings, sculpture, video, multimedia and conceptual installations. NWM and UNEP used this exhibit to stimulate awareness of the environment and enhance opportunities that lead to action. “Our hope with this exhibit was to contribute to a shift in visitor’s attitudes toward the environment, and in the consumer choices they make, helping to turn the tide of public awareness and promote positive action around climate change” said Mia Hanak, the Founding Executive director of the Natural World Museum.

 
Envisioning Change: Melting Ice/A Hot Topic
Transforming Climate Change Understanding

Melting Ice/A Hot Topic - Lucy and George Orta.

2007 World Environment Day, Norway, Monaco, USA
In 2007, the traveling exhibition Melting Ice/A Hot Topic: Envisioning Change opened at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway exploring questions such as “What is climate change?” “What are the political implications?” “How does sustainable development create a pathway to peace?” and “Why should we care?” The exhibit was the result of the exploration by 40 artists from 25 countries of the melting of the polar ice caps and permafrost cause by climate change. Focusing on “Change” the exhibit explored physical moments of transformation—of our rapidly melting glaciers from ice to water, Earth’s climate changes and how organisms must adapt to these new conditions—as well as metaphorical changes about our hope to transform society’s mindset to act individually and collectively in a positive way toward a more sustainable future. The exhibit was the official programming for the Tenth Special Session of the UNEP’s Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Monaco and closed at the prestigious Field Museum in Chicago, USA.

 
Deserts & Desertification – Don’t Desert Drylands
Containing Desertification

Deserts and Desertification.

2006 World Environment Day, Algeria
Desertification as a global dilemma is no mere concept. It is a reality that is shaping the development of entire continents presently, and if unrealized as a global threat, into the planet’s future as well. Artists participating in the Art for the Environment initiative exhibit Deserts & Desertification represented desert life from Algeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Mali, and the United States. Education and support about this issue, in addition to development and availability of technology for reducing strain on the microclimates are methods that will ultimately lead to a successful future of containing desertification. It was the hope that sharing artists’ deep sense of belonging to our earth, the consciousness of humanity can evolve to a deeper understanding of what it means to be a part of the legacy of our natural world.

 
Environmental Renaissance Exhibit
Connecting Consumerism to Environmental Stewardship

Environmental Renaissance - Leslie Shows.

2006 World Environment Day, San Francisco
How does our use of cell phone in San Francisco contribute to the disappearance of endangered mountain gorilla habitat in Rwanda? Natural World Museum’s exhibit Environmental Renaissance in San Francisco explored how our daily habits contribute to environmental issues and shared how to take personal action in being part of the solution. In this exhibit, art served as the catalyst to stimulate dialogue about topics such as Waste Reduction, Water, Environmental health, transportation, Urban Design, Urban nature, and Energy.

 
Tree on Life Support
2006 A Permanent Art Installation

Tree on Life Support.

Tree On Life-Support, Nairobi, Kenya In March 2006. The Natural World Museum (NWM) and UNEP, with the help of The Baum Foundation and the Meridian Health Foundation, celebrated the launch of the initiative with the opening of the first exhibition at United Nations Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The “Trapped Inside” art was installed as a permanent exhibition at UNEP in Gigiri, Nairobi Kenya on March 31, 2006, and features a living tree on life-support designed by French artist J.C. Didier, a work of art commissioned by NWM and donated to UNEP.

Urban Jungle Environmental Art Expo
Sparking Environmental Conversations

Urban Jungle Environment Exhibit.

2005 World Environment Day, San Francisco
Natural World Museum (NWM), with the assistance of The Baum Foundation and the Meridian Health Foundation, conceptualized, created, and produced a 25,000 square foot environmental art exposition for the 2005 World Environment Day that opened with a reception at San Francisco’s City Hall, hosted by Daryl Hannah and Julia Butterfly Hill. The exhibition included rare works of art from the private family collections of Ansel Adams and Robert Bateman, and featured 75 emerging artists with the theme of Green Cities. The Exhibition served as important model of conservation, and works of art from internationally renowned artists as well as installations from talented local emerging environmental artists served as a back drop to Al Gore’s San Francisco talk about An Inconvenient Truth.

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Human Nature.

RARE Art/Berkley Art Museum
Can art inspire conservation? Can conservation inspire art? The project Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet began in 2006 in the form of these questions, triggering an unusual collaboration and an extraordinary and circuitous journey. In a groundbreaking collaboration, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the environmental conservation organization, Rare and three other contemporary U.S. museums partnered for the Rare Art Project, a traveling exhibition created to raise awareness of endangered ecosystems around the world through artists’ residencies at World Heritage Sites. The premise of Rare Art is that visual artists can bring attention to this fragile but crucial coexistence through works that engage the broadest possible audiences and that encourages global support for the protection of cultural and biological diversity. The Baum Foundation was one of the first sponsors of the Rare Art Project. From Simien National Park in Ethiopia to Argentina’s Peninsula Valdes, from the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in Mexico to the Three Parallel Rivers in China, humankind and nature exist in a delicate balance.

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From “Ausangate”  Photo Credit Andrea Heckman.

The documentary film Ausangate tells the stories of the lives of the Quechua people who live around the sacred peak of Ausangate in Peru, as expressed through their textiles and rituals. Ausangate textile designs are not found elsewhere in the Andes; they have survived centuries of conquest, adapting with the influx of western culture but remaining at heart an unbroken tie to the world of the ancients.

The clothes that the Quechua people wear in ritual and in daily life incorporate the stories of their ancestral beliefs, their connection to the mountain, the land, their way of life, their animals, and their sense of the interrelatedness of all things. The film is available for educational purposes through Documentary Educational Resources (DER), and it has screened at film festivals around the world.

Directors: Tad Fettig and Andrea Heckman
Producers: Tad Fettig, Andrea Heckman, Judy Walgren

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