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Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, a native Nuevomexicana, is the Curator of Contemporary
Hispano and Latino collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa
Fe. She received her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies (with a focus on art history
and history) from the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Sin
Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era (University of New
Mexico Press, 2001). Sin Nombre has just been awarded the Ralph Emerson
Twitchell Award for “significant contribution to history” by the Historical
Society of New Mexico. Nunn has curated numerous exhibitions the most recent
of which is “Flor y Canto: Reflections from Nuevo México.” She lectures widely
on various aspects of contemporary and traditional Hispano and Latino art and
cultural identity. Her latest article, “Goldie Garcia: La reina de rasquache
and South Broadway” is included in the new award-winning book, Chicana Traditions:
Continuity and Change, edited by Norma Cantú and Olga Najera-Ramírez (University
of Illinois Press, 2002).
Nunn was voted Santa Fe Arts Person and Woman
of the Year in 2001.
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