CHEYENNE – Cheyenne resident Ann Redman will be among those installed as Corn Mothers during a special opening reception for the Return of the Corn Mothers Pueblo (Colorado) Exhibition on Oct. 4.
Redman will join several other women at the reception, which is scheduled to take place from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Pueblo City-County Library District Central Library, Rawlings Branch, at 100 E. Abriendo Ave. in Pueblo, Colorado. It will include an opening blessing, photographic exhibition, refreshments, music and oral histories by the new inductees.
Ed Winograd, editor and Spanish translator of the printed Corn Mother anthology, and Todd Pierson, exhibition photographer, will also present a brief history of the project. In addition, there will be a book signing by the Pueblo Corn Mothers whose portraits, bios, dichos (life sayings) philosophies and short stories of women who influenced these extraordinary women appear in the 2019 Corn Mother anthology.
The exhibition, and the anthology that goes with it, are based on the Pueblo myth of the Corn Mother, who represents growth, life, creativity and the feminine aspects of the world. Pierson, a master photojournalist, has trekked for more than a decade, capturing the images of present-day Corn Mothers who have made significant contributions to their communities in the Southwest. This nationally recognized exhibit has traveled extensively to more than a dozen universities and museums throughout Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming in the past decade.
The exhibition will continue in Pueblo through Nov. 5.
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