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Annette is a frequent colcha embroidery instructor, who spins her own wool to weave the sabanilla base cloth for her hand dyed churro embroidery leading monthly sessions at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Albuquerque Bio-Park.
Annette is a volunteer at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas (a living history museum), demonstrating churro wool carding, spinning, dyeing and weaving techniques. She is a familiar figure in state-wide wool technique demonstrations specializing in colcha embroidery. Her work has been on exhibit at New Mexico’s El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the New Mexico Expo Hispanic Art Gallery, and the Bond House Museum in Espanola NM.
Her work has also been on display during embroidery demonstrations held throughout the state including the Spanish Colonial Arts Society Spanish Market, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico State Monument El Camino Real International Heritage Center, Viva Santa Fe (NM) 400th Anniversary Opening Event, 100th Anniversary of NM Statehood celebration, City of Albuquerque Museum San Ysidro Gutierrez-Minze House, Santero Market in Old Town Albuquerque, Los Ranchos Growers Market and independently sponsored shows featuring local artists.
She is an award winning artist at the First Annual Corrales Wine Festival in NM, NM Expo Hispanic Art Gallery and Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta. In 2013 and 2014, on invitation from the China International Folk Art Expo in Tianjin, China, and the Beijing (Guoan) International Folk Crafts Expo 2015, Annette participated and showed various pieces of her weaving and colcha embroidery, winning a fourth place award in 2015. Her work is now on exhibit in the Guiyang Museum of China.
Most recently, Annette taught colcha embroidery classes on the National Level through the Embroiderers’ Guild of America in Santa Fe NM (2012)and The Rocky Mountain Region in Albuquerque NM (2014).
The Textile Society of America Symposium nationally advertised colcha embroidery exhibit featured a film entitled “Colcha Circle: A stitch in Northern New Mexico Culture”.
Annette is featured in the Albuquerque BioPark’s 2020 Virtual Harvest Festival available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e9ZfxJxsijo