(Closing Date) Aymara Weavings: The Indigenous Andes

Aymara Weavings: The Indigenous Andes

at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Exhibit dates:

January 30, 2026, through September 13, 2026

Exhibit location:

Carolyn C. and William A. McDonnell Gallery 100

Aymara Weavings: The Indigenous Andes

presents exceptional weavings by Aymara artists and related works from the Central Andes. Dating primarily to the 18th and 19th centuries, these skirts, mantles and ponchos demonstrate how artists in Bolivia maintained and reinvented ancient artistic practices to express Indigenous identities during the colonial era.

While pattern and form vary considerably across type, the textiles in this exhibition share a number of characteristics. Each design reflects the vertical structure of the warp yarns, made from exceptional hand-spun and -dyed fibers harvested from camelids such as alpaca and vicuña.

Showcasing select works from a 2018 gift of art by Paul and Elissa Cahn,

Aymara Weavings

will offer visitors the chance to engage more deeply with the technically sophisticated and historically rich practice of warp-faced weaving among the Aymara.

Aymara Weavings: The Indigenous Andes

is curated by Alexander Brier Marr, associate curator of Native American art.