The Life & Work of Eva Mirabal

Join Curator MaLin Wilson-Powell and Artist Jonathan Warm Day Coming along with other members of the family for an intimate conversation about the life and work of Eva Mirabal, who is currently featured in the exhibition Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos.

As a youth, Eva Mirabal attended the Santa Fe Indian boarding school in Santa Fe, where she studied in Dorothy Dunn’s legendary painting program. She enlisted in the army in 1943, and her full-time assignment was painting several murals at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. She also created a cartoon titled G.I. Gertie, about a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) who undermines military protocol. After her discharge in 1946, Mirabal taught for a year at Southern Illinois Normal University and then returned to Taos Pueblo. While nursing her elderly mother, she attended the Mandelman-Ribak Taos Valley Art School with her GI Bill benefits.

Support for this program is provided in part by New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.