Remarkable Women

The Remarkable Women of Taos, the 2012 creative community traveler education theme, is a year-long celebration honoring outstanding historic and contemporary women of Taos. The women portrayed here share their passions, accomplishments, advice, and the challenges they met in life. Taken together their stories provide a sampling of the breadth and depth of the remarkable women who call Taos home, who experience the physical, and sometimes ineffable, influence of the land and of the generations who have inhabited it.

Recently when actress and activist Ali MacGraw visited Taos for a dramatic reading of art patroness and salon hostess Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Edge of Taos Desert during a community awareness evening about the PBS documentary-film-in-progress Awakening In Taos at the Harwood Museum of Art. Ali agreed to share her views on remarkable women in an interview. Her words provide the underpinning for the profiles of remarkable Taos women that follow.

I came here to get away from a whole lot of stuff that could have turned me into a person that I wouldn't have been comfortable with as I got older. I think that's true of many, in particular women, in New Mexico. I know many, many, many of them who have almost reinvented themselves, maybe not in the dramatic self-conscious way that Mabel Dodge Luhan did, but we all know that there's a bunch of stuff that has to get shucked.

Ali MacGraw, 2011. Read more>>