Over fall break, PhD student Sophie Richard visited the New Mexico State Archives to review historic family records and drawings by Gilded Age activist, Nina Otero-Warren, whose legacy was recently recognized as part of the US Mint’s American Women’s History honorary quarter project.  Sophie will include this research in a cross-disciplinary seminar paper within the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies by looking at the ways in which feminist critique can aid in the visual analysis of Otero-Warren’s previously unstudied drawings of traditional Spanish costumes. 

Additional highlights from the trip include visiting the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (which owns and maintains Otero-Warren’s family home on an adjacent property), the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA). This research was generously supported by the Department of History of Art.