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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…

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,…

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…

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…