Georgia O’Keeffe

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Born on November 15, 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe grew up on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, the second of seven children. As a child, she received art lessons at home, and her abilities were quickly recognized and encouraged by teachers throughout her school years....

Fern Sawyer

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Dessie Sawyer and her daughter Fern Sawyer are two women whose accomplishments and lasting benefits are hard to separate. Both came from ranch life in southern New Mexico in the counties of De Baca, Lea, and Lincoln. They could equal men in ranching skills, sought an...

Feliciana Tapia Viarrial

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Feliciana Tapia Viarrial was born in 1904 into a family from Pojoaque, or Posuwageh, water drinking place, a Tewa village founded around A.D. 1000. By 1913, the Pojoaque homelands were severely diminished. Most members left for neighboring Pueblos and Colorado. The...

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert had the rare experience of living in two centuries, over a lifetime that spanned nearly the entire 20th century. Particularly as a Hispanic New Mexican woman, her place in time helped position her to achieve and experience many seminal...

Eve Ball

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Eve Ball grew up on the plains of Kansas and Texas and moved to the Ruidoso highlands of New Mexico after World War II. She attended college and taught several grades, as well as junior college level courses, in Dodge City, Kansas. Her many travels to New Mexico,...

Three Wise Women: Eva Scott Fényes, Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, and Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo and the Acequia Madre House®

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Eva Scott Fényes (1849-1930), Leonora Scott Muse Curtin (1879-1972), and Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo (1903-1999)—mother, daughter, and granddaughter—were three visionary women ahead of their time who were not constrained by societal codes. They were primarily...

Esther Martinez, P’oe Tsáwä

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Esther Martinez was born in Utah in 1912, the year New Mexico became a state. Her father named her P’oe Tsáwä (Blue Water) after his favorite fishing hole. When she was a baby, the family moved to Colorado, where her father, whom she described as a “jack of all...

Estella García and Women of the WPA, Fabric Artists

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Along with lace making, colcha embroidery came to New Mexico with the first Spanish settlements and was an occupation for gentlewomen. Women embroidered cloth for table covers and coverlets or bedspreads in the house or altar cloths in the church. Men were the...

Emma Estrada, Parteras of New Mexico

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Prior to the arrival of the United States Army in 1846, no known doctors are known to have practiced in New Mexico. After that, a combination of vast distances and sparse, rural population in New Mexico contributed to a continued shortage of trained medical...

Elizabeth Gutierrez Garrett

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Elizabeth Garrett was the third of eight children born to Pat Garret, well known as the sheriff who brought outlaw Billy the Kid to justice, and Apolinaria Gutierrez Garrett. Born October 9, 1885, in the Garrett home in Eagle Creek outside Alto (near Ruidoso), she...