Laura Gilpin

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...

Kewa Women’s Co-op

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...

Juanita T. Toledo, Pha-wa-lulh-luh (Ring-Cloud Around the Moon)

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

In 1583, approximately two thousand people lived in the Pecos Pueblo, one of the most heavily populated pueblos. By 1838, disease and raids had drastically reduced the population. The last remaining seventeen Pecos residents packed up their belongings and relocated...

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 (Blue Water)

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...

Cora Durand

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 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...