Tiva Trujillo, The San Luis Valley, 1979. Courtesy of History Colorado.
Tina Valdez, The Vega, 1976. Courtesy of Sangré de Cristo Heritage Center.
Patsy Garcia, Kachina, 1978/2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Sostena Sandoval Clevens, El Rancho Grande, 1989. Courtesy of Sangré de Cristo Heritage Center.
Donna Madrid Hernandez, One of Many Huge Pigs Owned by Don Juan,
from a 1957 Photograph, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Delores Worley, Rita, 1978. Courtesy of the artist.
Josephine Lobato, Los Pastores de La Sierra, 2006. Courtesy of Rita Lobato Crespin.
Mary Baker, Geometric, 1984. Courtesy of Don Baker.
The Range
Presents
San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery
May 7 - June 19, 2022
Opening Saturday May 7
with Celebration of the Artists at 1pm
at
307 4th Street
Saguache, CO
Featured Artists
Mary Baker, Maria Eufemia Barela, Dale Barron,
Debbie Barron, Cathy Baxter, Mae Chacon, Sally Chavez,
Vicki Chavez, Janice Cisneros, Kate Daly, Sandy Dolak,
Ester Esquibel de Romero, Maria Fernandez Graves,
Adrienne Garbini, Belinda Garcia, Patsy Garcia,
Elsie Gallegos, Mary Ann Gallegos, Annette Gutiérrez Turk,
Julia Gomez, Margie Gurule, Yvonne Halburian, Pacifica La Combe,
Josephine Lobato, Lita Lobato, Rita Lobato Crespin,
Virginia 'Bena' Lovato, Brenda Lovato, Loretta Lujan,
Lori Lujan, Donna Madrid Hernandez, Aurora Martinez,
Junita Martinez, Lydia Martinez, Mary Martinez, Evelyn Medina,
Irene Medina, Julia Mondragon, Connie Morrell, Mary Olivas,
Anthony Ortega, Daisy M. Ortega, Daisy V. Ortega, Evanea Rae Pacheco,
Marcella Pacheco, Sadie Pacheco, Marcella Quintana, Nettie Quintana,
Joyce Romero, Barbara Romero Alba, Francis Russell, Evangeline Salazar,
Sostena Sandoval Clevens, Lupe Tafoya, Nyla Thompson, Evelyn Trujillo,
Tiva Trujillo, Patricia Tucker, Julia Valdez, Tina Valdez,
Vanessa Zamora Vazquez, Brenda Vialpando, Mary 'Tiola' Vialpando,
Nancy Vialpando, Mary Vigil de Rodriquez, Peggy Williams, and Delores Worley.
Partner Organizations
Alamosa Public Library,
Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC),
Chicano/a Murals of Colorado Project,
HEART of Saguache/KV,
History Colorado,
MSU Denver Chicana/o Studies,
Northern Saguache County Library District,
Sangre de Cristo Heritage Center, and
Sisters of Color United for Education.
Support
Funding for San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery is provided by a Colorado Creative Corps ARP grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Saguache County sales tax grant. The Range would like to give special thanks to Diversions Needlepoint in Englewood, Colorado for providing colcha embroiderers with supplies.
Press
Piecework Magazine
Center Post Dispatch
Valley Courier
Questa Del Rio News
Puntada a Puntada, Gustavo Valdés' CNN en Español's San Luis Valley Colcha Embroiderers Feature, 2021.
Saguache Colcha Embroiderers, Saguache Main Street, 1980. Courtesy of Northern Saguache County Library.
Aurora Martinez, Donna Madrid Hernandez, Maria Eufemia Barela, Julia Mondragon, 2022.
Installation of artwork of Rita Lobato Crespin and Josephine Lobato (left) and Tiva Trujillo (right), 2022.
Installation of San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery, 2022.
Celebration of the Artists, San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery, May 7, 2022.
Celebration of the Artists, San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery, May 7, 2022.
Workshop with Julia Gomez and Annette Gutiérrez Turk, San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery, May 8, 2022.
Workshop with Julia Gomez and Annette Gutiérrez Turk, San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery, May 8, 2022.
Workshop with Donna Madrid Hernandez at Alamosa Public Library, May 26, 2022.
Artworks from the Sangre de Cristo Heritage Center collection.
Artworks by Delores Worley.
Artworks by Virginia 'Bena' Lovato, Sadie Pacheco, Brenda Lovato, Junita Martinez, Adrienne Garbini, and Donna Madrid Hernandez.
Artworks by Mary Baker.
Installation of San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery, 2022.
Marcella Pacheco and Josephine Lobato at the Fiesta de Santiago y Santa Ana colcha embroidery display in San Luis, July 23, 2022.