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New Mexico's history has been full of fascinating, energetic, and resourceful women-artists, anthropologists, homemakers, pioneers, healers, scientists, and educators. These women, who often worked under difficult and unusual circumstances, helped to shape New Mexico and their impact is still evident today. In celebration of Women's History Month, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art is creating an exhibition in honor of one of these women: Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven.
Born in Galisteo in 1910 to a prominent New Mexican ranching family, Concha was at the forefront of the women's rights movement in New Mexico for much of her life. Encouraged and mentored by her father, José Ortiz y Pino, at the age of 26 she became the third female to serve in the New Mexico state legislature. But even before then she had embarked upon a remarkable path to support and encourage the education and economic improvement of her fellow New Mexicans.
In 1929, Concha started the Colonial Hispanic Crafts Society of Galisteo to teach traditional New Mexican crafts to local residents. Concha's sister, Mela Ortiz y Pino de Martin, taught embroidery, Concha taught weaving, and she hired an expert in colonial crafts to teach additional courses. She arranged to sell the students' products in Leonora Curtin's Native Market in Santa Fe. Although the program lasted only a few years, during that time the New Mexico Department of Vocational Education sent six people for training, and, using her model, Brice Sewell started the State vocational education programs in traditional arts that continued for the next several decades.
Fulfilling a vow made by one of her Pino ancestors, Concha ran for state congress in 1936 and served for six years. In 1941, she became the first female Majority Whip in any state legislature in the country. In her three terms as a legislator she helped to establish the Equalization Fund that distributed education funds evenly among rural and urban areas of New Mexico; she introduced the first bilingual legislation in the state to ensure that Spanish be taught in all the public elementary schools; and she sponsored legislation giving women the right to serve on juries.
After her marriage in 1943 to Victor Kleven, a law professor at UNM, Concha dedicated her life to many humanitarian efforts. She worked tirelessly for women's rights, benefits for the disabled, education, and the arts. Three different presidents appointed her to national organizations for humanitarian aide and she was a long-time member of the Santa Fe Arts Commission. Appointed to the National Commission on Architectural Barriers by President Lyndon B. Johnson, she helped to create the legislation for handicap-accessible parking. While overseeing the Ortiz y Pino family ranch and bringing it back to financial stability, she restored one of the state's oldest moradas on the ranch property.
In many ways a thoroughly modern woman, Concha was also very traditional. A devout Catholic, she was a member of the cofradía of La Conquistadora and the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre. She donated a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the town of Villanueva near her family's ranch and restored the shrine after it had been vandalized in 1972. Determined not to let her family's ties to Spain be forgotten, on many formal occasions she wore the elegant mantón, mantilla and peineta adopted by upper class women of Spain. Concha epitomized both the aristocracy of Spain and the resourcefulness of the colonial pioneers; she was a thoroughly New Mexican woman.
"Life is so interesting if you don't sit on it...The worst thing, to me, is the accumulation of goods that don't help anyone..."
Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven
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Cuando nacio josefa ortiz de dominguez?
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez nació el 19 de abril de 1768. Fue una figura clave en la lucha por la independencia de México, y es considerada una heroína de la patria.
Me gusta veneer en la boca de tu madre?
te gusta la concha de tu madre verda come pinga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gypsy on 1961 5 Mexican Peso?
There was no five peso coin issued in Mexico in 1961. The five centavo coin, however, has a portrait of Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, who fought for independence against Spain during the Mexican War of Independence in the early 19th century. She is often referred to as "La Corregidora".
Quién es la madre de mi prima?
La tía es la madre de tu prima. La prima es la hija de la hermana de tu madre o de tu padre. Ella es también la hija de la esposa del hermano de tu madre o de tu padre o del esposo de la hermana de tu madre o de tu padre.
When was Annales de la Société Entomologique de France created?
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France was created in 1932.
When was Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo born?
Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo was born on March 26, 1948, in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
What is the population of Bárcena de Pie de Concha?
Bárcena de Pie de Concha's population is 787.
When was José de Santiago Concha born?
José de Santiago Concha was born in 1667.
What is the area of Bárcena de Pie de Concha?
The area of Bárcena de Pie de Concha is 30.53 square kilometers.
When was Debajo de un pino created?
Debajo de un pino was created in 1987.
When was Felix de la Concha born?
Felix de la Concha was born on 1962-08-20.
When was Rafael Macedo de la Concha born?
Rafael Macedo de la Concha was born in 1950.
When did Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha die?
Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha died on 1955-05-30.
When was Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha born?
Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha was born on 1878-04-03.
When did Melchor de Concha y Toro die?
Melchor de Concha y Toro died on 1892-07-21.
When was Melchor de Concha y Toro born?
Melchor de Concha y Toro was born on 1833-10-10.
When did Andrea De Pino die?
Andrea De Pino died on August 4, 1966, in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
