This permanent exhibition features highlights from the Autry’s Southwest textile collection which includes over 2,000 Diné and Pueblo weavings, both historic and contemporary. The Autry continues to honor the communities and individuals who have produced these pieces and collects contemporary work to represent these ongoing traditions.

This exhibition was co-curated by master weaver and textile artist Melissa S. Cody, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. A fourth-generation weaver, Cody’s work is associated with the Germantown Revival, a stylistic movement named after commercial, government wool from Germantown, Pennsylvania, that was supplied to the Diné/Navajo during the time of the Long Walk and subsequent internment at Bosque Redondo from 1864 to 1868. Using a traditional loom, she overlays historic geometric patterns with contemporary references drawn from pop culture, Op Art, and techno aesthetics.