by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Three Picuris women, Maria Ramita Simbola Martinez, Cora Durand, and Virginia Duran, helped to preserve the micaceous pottery tradition that remains important in Picuris and other nearby pueblos today. Picuris is a Tiwa speaking Pueblo located fifty-seven miles north...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Maria Montoya Martinez, Povika, “Pond Lily,” was a self-taught potter, who, with her husband, Julian Martinez, revived black pottery. In the late nineteenth century, pottery usage and production had been in decline as commercially produced goods became more common in...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
An early female country and western radio star in the 1930s, Louise Massey Mabie was born in Texas, made her career in Roswell, New Mexico, and finally settled in the Hondo Valley in New Mexico. Her career spanned more than thirty years, from 1918 until 1950. Her...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
One of the foremost women photographers of the twentieth century, Laura Gilpin spent more than half a century photographing Southwest cultures and landscapes. She is renowned for her photographs of Navajo and Pueblo people. Gilpin ventured into remote landscapes...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
According to oral and recorded history, the Santo Domingo people have consistently made and traded jewelry, including heishi, a shell drilled and ground into beads and strung into necklaces. Generations of Santo Domingo women have passed down this art. Recent...
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...
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...
