On a sunny early September afternoon, longtime San Luis resident Donna Madrid Hernandez sat at a shaded picnic table in the town park. She threaded about a foot of blue wool fiber onto an embroidery ...

An 88-year-old Westminster woman has been making quite a name for herself through her art in the past five years. In 2019, Josephine Lobato was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National ...

Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local ...

The Wray Museum, in conjunction with the Prairie Sea Projects, is hosting a colcha embroidery workshop. Artist and colcha historian Trent Segura will lead a two-hour exploration of the themes, ...

Colcha is a type of embroidered textile in which a long stitch is tacked down with a series of angled cross stitches on a piece of woven fabric. “That makes it specifically colcha, as opposed to any ...

There are groups of women in the San Luis Valley who craft elaborate scenes using embroidery, detailing scenes from farms, labor history and mountain landscapes in their region. Their work, known as ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Josephine Lobato is a history buff. Specifically, the 84-year-old needlework artist is drawn to the stories ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Longtime Traditional Spanish Market artist Julia Gomez has become an international ambassador for New Mexico’s ...

An 88-year-old Westminster woman has been making quite a name for herself through her art in the past five years. In 2019, Josephine Lobato was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National ...

Tucked away in storage for decades, some cultural treasures are on display again at the Arvada Center. They represent a folk art that is unique to Colorado's San Luis Valley. With a single needle and ...