TRADITIONAL ARTS

WEAVING & TEXTILE DESIGN

Futuros gathers cohorts of 70+ weavers and colcha bordadoras across Taos County to revive, sustain, and carry forward the rich textile traditions of Northern New Mexico.

In our studio spaces at La Cumbre and La Hacienda de Los Martinez, we meet to practice our crafts, spin & dye yarn, take lessons, and teach workshops.

TAOS PUEBLO
WEAVING COHORT

Artist in Residence, Marlee Espinosa of Taos Pueblo, weaving a ceremonial sash belt.

COLCHA
BORDADORAS

Artist in Residence, Benita Ortega-Rael, teaching colcha and sabanilla workshops.

RIO GRANDE
WEAVING COHORT

Cohort Member, Carla of Valdez, weaving a revival Rio Grande blanket.

EMERGING
WEAVERS COHORT

Cohort Member, Belle of Taos Mesa, weaving on a backstrap loom.

SHEEP TO LOOM

We collaborate with our Artists in Residence to share & sustain ancestral sheep-to-loom traditions. For example, our artists teach shearing & fleece processing workshops with shepherds, farmers, and weavers.

GOAT SHEARING

Farmers Buck Johnston (Diné), Ria Jim (Taos Pueblo, Diné) and Raul Velderrain Gomez learning to shear their goats at a workshop.

HIDE PROCESSING

Artist in Residence, Laine Rinehart (Taos Pueblo & Tlingit), stripping hair from an Alaskan mountain goat hide for spinning yarn.

WOOL SPINNING

Artist in Residence, Kevin Tsosie (Diné), carding heritage Navajo-Churro wool to prepare for spinning yarn.

NATURAL DYEING

Our artist in residence, Josh Tafoya, teaching an indigo dyeing workshop at our La Cumbre studio.

ADOBE ARCHITECTURE

We partner with La Hacienda de Los Martinez and our Artists in Residence to teach workshops on making adobes (mud bricks) and building hornos (outdoor adobe ovens) for community centers & cohort members.

For example, we've taught adobe & horno workshops with adults and youth in Los Sembradores & New Mexico Acequia Association, Embudo Valley Library & Afterschool Program, Taos Land Trust, New Mexico’s Youth Conservation Corps, and SMU Taos.

ADOBE MAKING

Adobero, Daniel Barela of Talpa, collaborates with Kevin Tsosie (Diné) to teach adobe workshops at Martinez Hacienda.

HORNO BUILDING

Artists in Residence, Daniel & Kevin, partnering to teach an horno workshop with local youth.

MUD WASHING

Adobe apprentice, Seth, mud washing the weaving room at Martinez Hacienda.

PLASTERING

Apprentices in our Adobe Horno Cooperative collaborate to plaster an horno for their grandma.

TRADITIONAL FOODS & AGRICULTURE

In our newly built ovens — including the hornos at Taos Land Trust and the Embudo Valley Library — our artists teach workshops on making traditional foods, such as horno roasted corn, empanadas, bread, and biscochitos.

In our Adobe Horno Cooperative, we build hornos with our Taos Pueblo Weaving Cohort to support their continued legacy of food preservation & celebration.