Villanueva tapestry project : material generated for the project, 1975-1876.

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Villanueva tapestry project : material generated for the project, 1975-1876.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37995195

Summary: Collection consists of materials which document the creation of embroidered panels by the women of Villanueva, New Mexico. The panels relate the history and activities of the village and were placed in Our Lady of Guadalupe church in Villanueva. The Villanueva Tapestry Corporation coordinated the project. The folders contain Corporation grant proposal, articles, newspaper clippings, and transcriptions from some of the sound cassettes. Graphic materials include black-and-white negatives and contact sheets made from them depicting ceremonies opening the exhibit; color prints and slides of tapestry panels, the stitchers, and opening events. Sound cassettes contain interviews with stitchers. Photographers were Chester Maydole and Art Taylor.

Folders : 16.Photographs : 318.Contact sheets : 14.Negatives : 305.sound cassettes : 4.Slides : 174.

Museum of New Mexico Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7399108

Museum of New Mexico Library

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Maydole, Chester.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (Villanueva, N.M.)

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Villanueva Tapestry Corporation.

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Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

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Since its official opening in 1953, the Museum of International Folk Art, a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, has sought to collect, preserve, interpret, and present material folk culture from all parts of the globe. It has developed notable collections of textiles, costumes, Spanish Colonial art, contemporary Hispanic crafts of the Southwest, and Latin American folk art. From the description of New Mexico Northeast Sector Overview Project survey, 1984- 1985. (Museum of New Mexico Li...

Taylor, Art

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