San Luis Valley
Colcha Embroidery Project

Los Testamentos
Kathryn Nelson
The Range
September 12 – December 7, 2025

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Los Testamentos brings together 71 black and white silver gelatin prints Nelson made in the late 70s and early 80s to document the colcha embroidery and weaving artists in the communities of Capulin, Center, La Garita, Saguache, and San Luis. The photographs are presented alongside colcha embroideries and weavings that Nelson collected during her time working to record the lives of these artists.

Featured artists in the exhibition include Eppie Archuleta, Rebecca Benton, Cordy Duran, Patsy Garcia, Margie Gurule, Agueda Martínez, Mary Martinez, Lydia Martinez, Señon Martinez de Chavez, Viola Martinez, Loyola Medina, Sadie Pacheco, Carina Quintana, Marcella Quintana, Nora Quintana, Virginia Rodriguez, Joyce Romero, Olivia Medina, Cecilia Sanchez, Bernie Trujillo, Evelyn Trujillo, Tiva Trujillo, and Julia Valdez.

Mi Vida en Colcha
Josephine Lobato
University of Denver
September 24 – December 4, 2024

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Mi Vida en Colcha is a comprehensive retrospective of the artist Josephine Lobato.

Home on the Range
The Range
August 3 – September 12, 2024

Participating San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery Artists:
Maria Eufemia Barela, Kate Daly, Sandy Dolak, Hannah Evans, Patsy Garcia, Peggy Garcia Williams, Josephine Lobato, Donna Madrid Hernandez, Aurora Martinez, Julia Mondragon, Kathryn Nelson, Marcella Pacheco, Marcella Quintana, Trent Segura, Tiva Trujillo, Judy Vigil, Mary Vigil de Rodriguez, Delores Worley

Colcha Embroidery of the San Luis Valley
The Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities
September 14 – November 12, 2023

Mary Baker, Maria Eufemia Barela, Sandy Dolak, Adrienne Garbini, Patsy Garcia, Peggy Garcia Williams, Margie Gurule, Josephine Lobato, Rita Lobato Crespin, Virginia ‘Bena’ Lovato, Brenda Lovato, Loretta Rose Lujan, Donna Madrid Hernandez, Connie Mamich Morrell, Aurora Martinez, Junita Martinez, Lydia Martinez, Irene Medina, Julia Mondragon, Mary Olivas, Daisy Ortega, Evanea Rae Pacheco, Marcella Pacheco, Marcella Quintana, Nettie Quintana, Virginia Rodriquez, Sostena Sandoval Cleven, Trent Segura, Mary Taylor, Tiva Trujillo, Tina Valdez, Judy Vigil, Mary Vigil de Rodriquez, and Delores Worley.

Colcha Embroidery Traditional and Contemporary
La Hacienda de los Martinez
July 1–31, 2023

Maria Eufemia Barela, Sandy Dolak, Adrienne Garbini, Patsy Garcia, Peggy Garcia Williams, Donna Madrid Hernandez, Aurora Martinez, Julia Mondragon, Marcella Pacheco, Marcella Quintana, and Mary Vigil de Rodriquez included in an exhibition of New Mexico and Southern Colorado colcha embroidery.

Colcha Embroidery Traditional and Contemporary on Rocky Mountain PBS

San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery
The Range
Saguache, Colorado
May 7 – June 19, 2022

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, Peggy Garcia Williams, 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 Rodriguez, and Delores Worley.

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