Biographies

Introduction text....Meet some of the people at Tierra Wools

Pauline Sanchez

Francine Diaz

Nancy Maestas

Leah Hoffman

My name is Leah Hoffman, and I live in Cebolla, New Mexico.  I have lived in Cebolla for 23 years.
 
It was my great priviledge to learn weaving at Tierra wools, and I am so happy to share my joy in weaving with others.

Jo Louisa Gonzales

Louisa Ulibarri

Helen Manzanares

Toni Broaddus

Toni Boyd Broaddus was born in Santa Fe and raised on ranches in northern NM.  She graduated with the last graduating class of Chama High, 1966.  She has had a desire to learn to spin and weave, especially saddle blankets since the founding of Tierra Wools in 1983. 

Molly Manzanares

Molly, one of the founding spinners and weavers at Tierra Wools, grew up in a cattle ranching family, (in northern NM, in the Chama area).  After graduating from Escalante High School, she attended University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
 

Leroy Lopez

Although my family is originally from Canjilon, New Mexico, I was born in Espanola, New Mexico.
 
I've made art most of my life because my family and an art teacher, Florencio Montoya, helped and encouraged me early in life.
 
Now I am inspired to make art for myself and to share my art with others.  I teach Woodcarving for the Northern New Mexico Community College where I learn as much or more from my students as they do from me.