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ARTISTS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
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LANA DURA – MINNA WHITE
Taos
Exhibition
Lana Dura – Minna White
The Art and Legacy of the
Navajo-Churro Sheep
Nov 12, 2022 - Jan 29, 2023
Curated by Susan A Christie
RioBravoFineArt Gallery
Truth or Consequences, NM
Main Room
Lana Dura – Minna White
The Art and Legacy of the
Navajo-Churro Sheep
Nov 12, 2022 - Jan 29, 2023
Curated by Susan A Christie
RioBravoFineArt Gallery
Truth or Consequences, NM
Main Room
Lana Dura wool felt rugs. Perfect for the hearth (wool is fire resistant) or bedside or bath mats or pet beds.
Thick Navajo-Churro wool, vacuum or hand wash, reversible and all natural wool.
FOR A CURRENT LIST OF AVAILABLE PRODUCTS, VISIT LANA DURA'S WEBSITE
Thick Navajo-Churro wool, vacuum or hand wash, reversible and all natural wool.
FOR A CURRENT LIST OF AVAILABLE PRODUCTS, VISIT LANA DURA'S WEBSITE
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Place Mats
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I use only wool from Navajo-Churro sheep, the breed which I raised since 1990. These sheep give me a sophisticated and wonderful
natural color palette. 
Lana Dura’s popular 2ft by 3 ft Navajo-Churro wool felt floor rugs.
About the Navajo-Churro Sheep
This historic and now rare breed arrived in this hemisphere with the Spanish Conquistadores in the 1500s. I am fortunate enough to have found their wonderful fiber and this thoroughly sustainable material enables me to Give Sheep a Job. Lana Dura LLC
Minna White |
Making felt is fun!
Lana Dura uses natural colors of Navajo-Churro wool (imagine: unusual browns, grays, white, black together reflecting the landscape colors of the Southwest). We create felt products with hot water and friction: Floor Rugs, Wall Art and home accessories. Everything is hand-washable, hand-made in Taos and reversible, with unique designs fitting all decor schemes. In addition, we host felt-making workshops where everyone makes their own 18" by 48" runner and we have fun! 
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ANNE VICKREY EVANS
Handmade Felt Wearables
Tierra Amarilla
Image: The Taos News
"Tuffet's" by Anne Vickrey Evans
The 38th Annual Taos Wool Festival 2021
TAOS NEWS
Wool Festival recap
by Haven Lindsey Oct 7, 2021 Updated Nov 11, 2021
Following rain showers and snows in the highlands, the sun welcomed the fiber artists to Taos for the
38th Annual Taos Wool Festival and the colorful, whimsical atmosphere was downright poem-inspiring.
For the range of arts that come from spinning, roving, felting, weaving, knitting and more, there seems to be
a fiber art for everyone. Beginners learned about rug punching and experts compared qualities and colors of
dyed fabrics while noticing intricacies that only trained eyes could see. Creativity abounds. Anne Vickrey Evans
and her husband build felting machines from their home in Tierra Amarilla that felt artists use. Evans noticed the
metal they order for their machines was delivered in cylindrical tubes and she asked her husband to save them
"I wasn't sure why but I knew there was something there I could eventually use," she explained. As creatives often experience, within time those tubes sparked an idea and the brightly colored, felted 'tuffets' were the result.
When asked what a tuffet is, Evans smiled and responded,
"You know…Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet."
TAOS NEWS
Wool Festival recap
by Haven Lindsey Oct 7, 2021 Updated Nov 11, 2021
Following rain showers and snows in the highlands, the sun welcomed the fiber artists to Taos for the
38th Annual Taos Wool Festival and the colorful, whimsical atmosphere was downright poem-inspiring.
For the range of arts that come from spinning, roving, felting, weaving, knitting and more, there seems to be
a fiber art for everyone. Beginners learned about rug punching and experts compared qualities and colors of
dyed fabrics while noticing intricacies that only trained eyes could see. Creativity abounds. Anne Vickrey Evans
and her husband build felting machines from their home in Tierra Amarilla that felt artists use. Evans noticed the
metal they order for their machines was delivered in cylindrical tubes and she asked her husband to save them
"I wasn't sure why but I knew there was something there I could eventually use," she explained. As creatives often experience, within time those tubes sparked an idea and the brightly colored, felted 'tuffets' were the result.
When asked what a tuffet is, Evans smiled and responded,
"You know…Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet."
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Anne’s first introduction to felt was as a child visiting her grandparents in Norway where nearly everyone had
a pair of felt boots. When a Danish friend visited her in 1982 she learned the technique for making felt slippers. From that point on, felt became a focus for her and she eventually wrote five books on the subject, made two videos under the name “Anne Einset Vickrey”
a pair of felt boots. When a Danish friend visited her in 1982 she learned the technique for making felt slippers. From that point on, felt became a focus for her and she eventually wrote five books on the subject, made two videos under the name “Anne Einset Vickrey”
CLÔDIE FRANÇOIS
MESDAMES CARTON
Chamisal
"Buoyant Dialogue!"
"Bird of Paradise Flower"
"Landscape Enigma"
"Vanishing Moon"
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"Transitional State"
"Seduction"
I am nuts about trees,
I even speak to them...and to the branches I cut along the arroyos to create my lamps. I ask: speak to me, tell me one of your stories, some dream, some fantasy. Shutting the buzz in my mind, I listen with my eyes, until my hands follow & shape with colorful papers, the story they whisper. Each new lamp is a duo between the peculiar nature of the branches and my own imagination. Visit Clôdie François's Listing on
The New Mexico Artist Directory |
“Snow Petrel”
"Soliace in the Garden"
Studio located in Chamisal,
New Mexico, on the "High Road to Taos” Open all year round by appointment Phone: (505) 689 1194 clodiefrancois52@gmail.com Whimsical Design Furniture
& Lamps mesdamescarton.com Facebook Instagram Represented by: www.gauchoblue.com (Peñasco) |
CHERYL JANIS
TAOS
“Art heals. It is an invitation to transformation, deep nourishment, and joy; a path to our center. Art heals.”
— Cheryl R. Janis | Modern Felt Maker Represented by Alchemy Studio, Madrid, NM
www.alchemystudiomadrid.com 
"Archangels Uriel" - Fhelyai - Zadkiel
Natural, cruelty-free, Teeswater
fleece and natural New Zealand Merino wool. Polished agate stone infused with angelic frequencies.
17" x 32"
My textile art is a radical act of healing; a return to nourishment and self love. Through the alchemy of
wet felting, transforming the individual wool fibers into a solid cloth, the pain of separation is transmuted and we are returned to the unconditional love of the Mother, akin to the drop of water who is finally reunited with her ocean. The integration of dry needle sculpting the feathery fibers into the work evokes the soft iridescent qualities of nourishment—the clouds, the rainbows, the heavenly realms of all that is—into a unified structure. |
"Angel - Serenus",
Ethically sourced natural New Zealand Merino wool and
US Polwarth wool. One sliced and polished agate crystal embedded
with the frequency of
Angel Serenus.
35" x 36"
"Spiritual Sovereignty",
Natural white, organic, cruelty-free New Zealand Merino wool. Natural white, cruelty-free US Polwarth wool. Hand dyed blush and mink Corriedale wool with ecologically-safe Oeko-Tex compliant dyes. 29" x 60"
"Passion Flower", Organic, ethically sourced natural white New Zealand Merino wool, natural sliced agate geode infused with Reiki energy. 16" x 16"
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LISE POULSEN
Peñasco
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Lise and her husband Nick own
Gaucho Blue Fine Art Gallery in Peñasco - in the mountains south of Taos. |
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IRVIN & LISA TRUJILLO
Centinela Traditional Arts - Chimayo Weavers
Chimayo
Centinela Traditional Arts is a tapestry gallery located in Chimayo, New Mexico, specializing in hand woven tapestry wool products using natural dyes, custom-dyed yarns, handspun yarns, and the traditional Chimayo
and Rio Grande weaving styles. The weaving gallery is operated by
Irvin and Lisa Trujillo and 8th Generation Emily Trujillo,
who are award-winning weavers and whose work has been shown in, and collected by, museums across
the United States, including the Smithsonian.
and Rio Grande weaving styles. The weaving gallery is operated by
Irvin and Lisa Trujillo and 8th Generation Emily Trujillo,
who are award-winning weavers and whose work has been shown in, and collected by, museums across
the United States, including the Smithsonian.
IRVIN TRUJILLO
As a seventh-generation Rio Grande weaver living in Chimayo, New Mexico, my work has evolved from the traditional styles of my forefathers. I use design ideas from historic Rio Grande weavings of Northern New Mexico and add my own aesthetic by combining old ideas with my own vision. My pieces may interpret my Hispanic history and culture, document events of the modern world, or make observations based on what is happening in my life. Most of my weavings develop spontaneously, as my father taught me. Executing an idea means discovering and overcoming the limitations imposed by traditional techniques and looms, and adopting, or perhaps changing, solutions as the weaving progresses. The binary logic of weaving makes the creative process and the execution of ideas inseparable. Not knowing the final outcome makes each weaving a journey. EMILY TRUJILLO
8TH Generation Chimayo Weaver 
"Maniac," or "Maníaco"
By Emily Trujillo Honorable Mention at Spanish Market 2022 40"x60" Trampas Vallero, made of two 20"x 60" tapestries, sewn together. All churro yarn from Emily's Aunt's sheep with a touch of cochineal dye. |
LISA TRUJILLO
Lisa Trujillo learned to weave after marrying Irvin in 1982. She has spent the years since then immersing herself in learning traditional design systems as well as finding new ways to use traditional techniques and materials. She has become adept at spinning churro wool quickly into a yarn ideally suited for her richly-textured tapestries and blankets. Her occasional weaving workshops have helped her develop teaching materials that she hopes to eventually make available beyond just her workshop students. 
Irvin Trujillo
Collection Smithsonian American Art Museum 
LISA TRUJILLO
"19, 20, 21" To be Exhibited at the Museum of International Folk Art in the Gallery of Conscience |
IRVIN TRUJILLO - EMERGENCE IN TUNISIA
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IRVIN TRUILLO - GRACE
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LISA TRUJILLO -
LIPSTICK SUNSET
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LISA TRUJILLO - FLORITAS
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Website: chimayoweavers.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChimayoWeavers Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/centinela |
Located in Chimayo, New Mexico, on the
"High Road to Taos" Centinela Traditional Arts, 946 State Road 76, Chimayo, NM 87522 Phone: (505)351-2180 Email: centinela@newmexico.com |
JULIE WAGNER
El Rito
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I grew up on the east coast, wandering the woods, collecting leaves, bones, and bugs. My work is based on the natural environment where I live, maps, scientific diagrams and microscopic images. juliewagnerstudio.com |
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These new works are part of a series called Bearers of Hope, or Hibakujumoku (survivor trees), which was inspired
by the story of the ginkgo trees which survived the bombing of Hiroshima. Immediately after the bombing,
they started sending out fresh buds and came back to life. The Japanese regarded them as “bearers of hope”.
They are all 6 1/2” in diameter and 7” high, and the medium is acrylic ink on handmade Japanese paper.
by the story of the ginkgo trees which survived the bombing of Hiroshima. Immediately after the bombing,
they started sending out fresh buds and came back to life. The Japanese regarded them as “bearers of hope”.
They are all 6 1/2” in diameter and 7” high, and the medium is acrylic ink on handmade Japanese paper.
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