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Past Staff & Support
Many people have helped Tierra Wools over the years as it has grown.
The early members of Ganados, including
Antonio Manzanares, Gumi Salazar, Maria Varela, Rosendo and Angie Serrano, Cruz Aguilar, and Beth
Rhodes, were instrumental in creating the organization that gave birth to
Tierra Wools. Founding weavers including Gregorita
Aguilar, Kika Chavez, Maxine Garcia, Josie Ulibarri, Molly Manzanares,
Johanna Terrazas, Nena
Garcia Russom, Angie Serrano, and later Sophia
(Chavez) DeYapp, Karen Casias,
Carla Terrazas and Norma Martinez, sustained
Tierra Wools through the lean early years. We thank all them for having the
vision and faith to keep building through many obstacles.
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Rachel Brown, who was invited to teach spinning and saw
that the future of Tierra Wools was in weaving, created our cirriculum and drove hours back and forth from Taos
to teach, plan, encourage, and celebrate our first successes. Maria
Varela was a mentor and crucial champion
of Tierra Wools in its infancy and growth. She organized, fund-raised,
publicized, taught, criticized & encouraged, as we struggled through
our first years. We still much appreciate the work both did toward making
Tierra Wools thrive. Doug Spence, serving as Executive Director of Ganados, was invaluable in providing support to Tierra
Wools after our spin-off, particularly in negotiating the sale of the TD
Burns building.
Deborah Begal, Helen Manzanares,
Estefanita Martinez, Debbie Manzanares,
Loyola Archuleta, Rosendo Serrano, Robert Wells, Vangie Cordova, Elipio Mercure, Belarmino Archuleta,
and Estella Ulibarri, all served on the Ganados Board, and Lou Zervakos,
Will Pape, Paul Trachtman,
and Sophia Chavez served as Ganados Committee
members, during the complicated time that it took to spin Tierra Wools off
as a for-profit organization. Debra Sanchez Reed, Barry Dicker, Peter
Chestnut, Sara Bobrow and Ann Lockhart assisted
as consultants. We thank them, and all previous board members, for their
hard work in achieving this.
Johanna Terrazas, founding member of Tierra
Wools and Master Weaver, served as Marketing Manager until 1992. Cindy
Friday, Managing Member and weaver, served as Marketing Director from 1993
to 1998. Both have provided invaluable contributions in making Tierra
Wools, Ganados and Los Ojos
better known.
Donations, Grants and Loans: Over the years individuals, banks and
non-profits have provided financial support to the Tierra Wools enterprise
through Ganados del Valle or directly. These
include: Whitney Durell, Margaret Graham and
Walter Earle, Helenti Homans,
Molly and Antonio Manzanares, Robin Collier, Mary
and John Collier Jr., Earl & Deborah Potter, Sally Wagner, Jim Figura, Wayne Tully, Will Pape,
Valley National Bank, The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, The
Noyes Foundation, The New Mexico Arts Division, The MS Foundation, The NM
Women's Foundation, The Thaw Family Trust, The New Mexico Community
Development Loan Fund, The Santa Fe Community Foundation, The New Mexico
Community Foundation, The New Mexico Sheep & Goat Council, The New
Mexico Department of Agriculture and The Regional Development Corporation
(with funds from the Department of Energy & the US Congress).
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