Juanita Jaramillo-Lavadie

Juanita Jaramillo Lavadie is a fiber artist, graphic designer and oral history practitioner who lives and works in Taos, New Mexico. She is a retired public school teacher who was certified in Elementary Education, K-12 Art, and K-12 Bilingual Education. She holds a BA and MA in Art from New Mexico Highlands University. She received a 1979 National Endowment of the Arts Apprenticeship Grant to study Nuevomexicano traditional wool spinning, dyeing and weaving. Her work was shown in the 2016 exhibition, “Ciboleros, Comancheros and the People Back Home” at the Gutierrez Hubble House in Albuquerque. Her 2014 essay, “Four Generations of Weaving” was published in Taos: A Topical History, published by the Taos County Historical Society/UNM Press.

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