Faces & places
NewMexicoWomen.Org, a program of the New Mexico Community Foundation, awarded $96,000 to 13 organizations across New Mexico in support of their gender justice and healing work.
Grants were made to the following organizations: Breath of My Heart Birthplace, Changing Woman Initiative, Encuentro, Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute, Healing Circle Drop In Center, New Mexico Asian Family Center, Northern New Mexico College Office of Equity and Diversity, Southern New Mexico Wellness Alliance, Southwest Organizing Project, Tewa Women United, Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico, Tri County Family Justice Center and Youth Research & Resource Center.
The 13 grants made will serve the following counties: Bernalillo, Doña Ana, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Taos. The grants will also serve the following pueblos and tribes: Nambe, Navajo Nation, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Taos and Tesuque.
The School for Advanced Research’s Indian Arts Research Center looks forward to welcoming the 2017-18 artists in residence. Three artist-inresidence fellowships are given annually to advance the work of mature and emerging Native artists. The fellowships give them time to explore new avenues of creativity, grapple with ideas to further advance their work, and to strengthen existing talents. Each artist will present an evening lecture and studio tour during the upcoming fiscal year.
The 2017 Ronald and Susan Dubin Fellow is Acoma Pueblo fashion designer and jeweler Loren Aragon. A mechanical engineer by trade, Aragon uses couture fashion to capture ideas predominantly influenced by the pottery culture and traditional dress of his community. Aragon will be in residence from June 15 to Aug. 15.
The 2017 Rollin and Mary Ella King Fellow is Warren Montoya, a painter and sculptor from Santa Ana and Santa Clara pueblos. Montoya will be in residence from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1.
The 2018 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellow is painter, printmaker and designer, Jordan Craig (Northern Cheyenne). Craig will be in residence from March 1 to May 31.
Two New Mexico Department of Game and Fish game wardens graduated from the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy in Santa Fe. The department’s graduates of the 16-week law enforcement training academy are:
Ariel Perraglio of Kirtland, a graduate of New Mexico State University.
Christian Marrujo of Roswell, a graduate of The University of New Mexico.
In addition to the attending the law enforcement academy, conservation officers, also known as game wardens, undergo four weeks of departmental training in wildlife laws, policies and procedures. They also undergo many months of on-the-job training under the supervision of a field training officer before being assigned to a district.