Masters Award for Lifetime Achievement
The Masters award is given to an artist who has participated 20+ years in Market who has been a teacher, artist and promoter of the Spanish New Mexican artistic traditions and culture; has raised awareness of the art form on a regional and/or national level; is included in private and museum collections; and has received awards at Spanish Market and at other fairs/exhibitions. The recipient of the Masters Award for Lifetime Achievement is given by former Master award winners each year.
2019 Masters Award Recipient
Rita Padilla-Haufmann
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The Recipient for the 2019 Masters Award for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to Rita Padilla Haufmann. During the last three years of her teaching career, which spanned 26 years, Rita decided to learn how to spin and weave. She learned through mentors, friends, lessons and trial and error. She calls herself a self-taught spinner, dryer and weaver; although she likes to think that she just picked up where other family members left off. She remembers when her grandfather brought bags of raw fleece home and her grandmother washed and carded the wool for colchones, or mattresses. She also discovered that her great-great-great-great-grandmothers were listed on the 1823 Census for Rio Tesuque as stocking knitters. In remembrance of these great-grandmothers, she uses as her signature, a small stocking in the lower right hand corner of her woven pieces. Rita grew up in Tesuque, New Mexico and lives there with her husband and near family members.
Rita's signature stocking.
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MASTERS AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - PAST RECIPIENTS
1987 – Horacio Valdez
1988 – Emilio and Senaida Romero
1989 – Paula and Eliseo Rodriguez
1990 – Leo Salazar
1991 – Angelina Delgado Martinez
1992 – Marie Romero Cash
1993 – Tomas Sena
1994 – Monica Sosaya Halford
1995 – Ben Ortega, Sr.
1996 – Frank Brito
1997 – Ricardo Lopez
1998 – Zoraida and Eulogio Ortega
1999 – Bonifacio Sandoval
2000 – Sabinita Lopez Ortiz
2001 – Cordelia Coronado (1988) and Eppie Archuleta (1990)
2002 – Carlos Santistevan
2003 – David C. de Baca
2004 – John Jimenez
2005 – Irvin Trujillo
2006 – Charles Carrillo
2007 – Felix Lopez
2008 – Ramon Jose Lopez
2009 – Gloria Lopez Cordova
2010 – Belarmino Esquibel
2011 – Ralph Sena
2012 – Arlene Cisneros Sena
2013 – Jimmy E. Trujillo
2014 – Debbie Carrillo
2015 – Lawrence Baca
2016 – Gustavo Victor Goler
2017 – Mel Rivera
2018 – Carlos José Otero
1988 – Emilio and Senaida Romero
1989 – Paula and Eliseo Rodriguez
1990 – Leo Salazar
1991 – Angelina Delgado Martinez
1992 – Marie Romero Cash
1993 – Tomas Sena
1994 – Monica Sosaya Halford
1995 – Ben Ortega, Sr.
1996 – Frank Brito
1997 – Ricardo Lopez
1998 – Zoraida and Eulogio Ortega
1999 – Bonifacio Sandoval
2000 – Sabinita Lopez Ortiz
2001 – Cordelia Coronado (1988) and Eppie Archuleta (1990)
2002 – Carlos Santistevan
2003 – David C. de Baca
2004 – John Jimenez
2005 – Irvin Trujillo
2006 – Charles Carrillo
2007 – Felix Lopez
2008 – Ramon Jose Lopez
2009 – Gloria Lopez Cordova
2010 – Belarmino Esquibel
2011 – Ralph Sena
2012 – Arlene Cisneros Sena
2013 – Jimmy E. Trujillo
2014 – Debbie Carrillo
2015 – Lawrence Baca
2016 – Gustavo Victor Goler
2017 – Mel Rivera
2018 – Carlos José Otero