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Colcha Embroidery by Esther Luján Vigil
Colcha Embroidery by Esther Luján Vigil (from the artist's collection), shown from front and back, with detail image from front and back
Irene Brandtner de Martínez
Irene Brandtner de Martínez (b. 1932, El Paso, Texas) was raised in Bayard, New Mexico, the eldest of five siblings. She is a lifelong embroiderer who has concentrated on colcha embroidery since 1992, the year of her retirement as a longtime…
Kay Lewis
Kay Lewis (b. 1942, Los Angles, California) moved to New Mexico at age eighteen months. In 1882 Kay's great-grandfather became the first station agent in Española, New Mexico, where Kay's grandmother lived with the family in the Denver and Rio…
Julia R. Gómez
Julia R. Gomez (born 1941, Madrid, New Mexico) was first exposed to colcha embroidery by her mentor, Mónica Sosaya-Halford, in the 1970s. She later learned to weave at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, where master weaver, Beatrice Maestas Sandoval,…
Barbara Romero Alba
Barbara Romero Alba (b. 1949, Nambé, New Mexico) grew up alongside her twin brother in Nambé, New Mexico, where they enjoyed exploring nature and building tree houses. She always loved observing the variation in landscapes, trees, and clouds. Upon…
Christina Martinez
Christina Martínez (born 1952, Silver City, NM) lived in Las Cruces, NM, until age five, when her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. She studied anthropology at Arizona State University prior to attending graduate school in library science at the…
Mónica Sosaya-Halford
Mónica Sosaya-Halford (b. 1931, Santa Fe, New Mexico), the eighth and last child of Augustine and Victoria Sosaya, grew up in a home built by her father on what is now Sosaya Lane. Her mother's family, the Roybals, descend from the original settlers…
Sharon Arellano
Sharon Arellano (b. 1958, Taos, New Mexico) is the eldest of four daughters raised in Peñasco on the scenic High Road to Taos. She received her Bachelor of Social Work from New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM. Following a twenty-five year…
Isabel Nestora Bringas
Isabel Nestora Bringas (born 1934, Taos, New Mexico) was born and raised in the house that her parents built in Taos in 1920. As a child she loved playing in her uncle's cornfield next door and learning to sew on her grandmother's old Singer treadle…
Connie Fernández
Connie Fernández (born in New Haven, Connecticut) was raised in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious family in Oregon and rural San Fernando Valley, California. Connie has resided in Taos, New Mexico, for more than thirty years following…
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"Sacred Heart, Never Ending..." "Corazón sagrada...al fin" by Jerry Hopkins-Velarde
Sacred Heart, Never Ending... / Corazón sagrada...al fin by Jerry Hopkins-Velarde. Made in 2018, this colcha embroidery is worked in natural-dye…