Archive for December 2017
Meet Annette Gutierrez Turk
“I volunteer with the Weaving Group,” says Annette Gutierrez Turk. “I came to El Rancho de las Golondrinas in 2009 as a visitor and was enticed into volunteering by then-coordinator, Beatrice Maestas Sandoval. Under her tutelage, I learned to spin with the malacate and spinning wheel, learned how to dye wool with native plant materials…
Read More2017 International Folk Culture and Tourism Products Expo
Julia R. Gomez, right, and Annette Gutierrez Turk, left, are members of Sandia Mountains Chapter – EGA. As fiber artists, they were pleased to accept an invitation to represent the United States in a cultural exchange at the 2017 Cultural Expo in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China on November 10–12, 2017. This fair invited 287 enterprises…
Read More2017 History Scholars Lecture Series
Please join us for local historian, author, and Office of the State Historian — History Scholars’ Program grant recipient, Dr. Linda Tigges TODAY, December 1, at noon, in the Yucca Room, State Records Center and Archives. Dr. Tigges will discuss material culture in New Mexico from 1692 through the 1740s. She has researched and compiled…
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