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WS: Can you tell us a bit about your background? Corazzi: I began my professional career, in Eastern Pennsylvania, as a French teacher. After 7 years, I became a high school principal and for my last 16 years in public education,  I was school superintendent. In 2000,...

Natalie Reichert is Western Spirit’s Bruner Scholar for Spring 2023. We caught up with Natalie to ask her about her experience as a Bruner Scholar and her work in Visitor Services. WS: How did you become a Bruner Scholar? Reichert: After I was hired to work in Visitor...

Dr. Scott Robertson came to Scottsdale forty years ago, having been recruited to build a cardiovascular center. He’s been here ever since. The West, you might say, was always near and dear to his heart, as were horses. We caught up with him recently to ask him about...

Occasionally, unpublished Curtis photographs surface, but never in history has 100 emerged at once! What few unpublished pictures have surfaced are generally in private collections, and no one ever gets to see them. When Edward Curtis’ only grandchild, Jim Graybill,...

If you’ve visited Western Spirit lately, or plan to visit soon, you may well see an artist, hard at work in the lobby, painting a life-size fiberglass model of a stallion. The energy of creation is electric, setting the stage for visitors to enter into the artistry of...

Dr. Betsy Fahlman is a professor of art history at Arizona State University, where she has taught since 1988. A specialist in American Art, her interests include public art, American modernism, the New Deal, industrial archeology, and the art history of Arizona. Since...

Dr. Lydia OteroWestern Spirit is proud to host Dr. Lydia Otero, the first guest in our Ask the Author series. In addition to writing, they were a tenured professor of Mexican-American studies and founder of the public history department at the University of Arizona....