Agnes Chavez
United States, born 1961
https://taos.org/agnes-chavez/
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BiographyAgnes Chavez is a Cuban-American multi-media artist and educator. Her work and vision is at the core of Taos’ celebrated, now annual Paseo event. Her parents immigrated to the US in 1948 and 1953, and she was born and raised in NYC where she lived until she was 17, when her family moved to Miami. She got her Associate Degree in Art at Miami Dade Community College in 1980 before heading to California where she got her BA in Fine Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1984. She moved to Paris where she lived for a while before coming to New Mexico in 1986. She continued to travel but kept a foot in Taos.
https://taos.org/agnes-chavez/
