This event is an opportunity to meet three weaving artists, Teresa Gómez Sántiz, Analí Gómez Sántiz, and Consuela Sántiz Gómez, from the Jalabil women’s weaving collective visiting Colgate for a two-week artist residency from Oxchuc, Chiapas, Mexico. This residency celebrates Jalabil’s international debut, as well as the acquisition of two new works to the University Museums’ permanent collection. This drop-in style event provides a wonderful chance to meet the artists, learn about their weaving practices and design choices, and watch them in action as they weave new artworks. Refreshments will be served.

Jalibil’s residency events also included a linguistic component, as Jalabil's delegation includes both bilingual Spanish-Tseltal (a Mayan language) and Tseltal-speaking members. We are excited to provide interpretation from Tseltal to Spanish and Spanish to English. 

This event is hosted by the Department of History and Longyear Museum of Anthropology and is generously co-sponsored by the Colgate Arts Council, ALANA Cultural Center, the Office of Equity and Diversity, the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, the Office of Off-Campus Study, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Africana and Latin American Studies, Department of Art, CORE Communities, Department of Economics, Department of Educational Studies, W. M. Keck Center for Language Study, Museum Studies, Native American Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Women’s, and Gender, and Sexuality Studies.