Pablita velarde biography of mahatma
The Making of the Mahatma: Gandhi's Childhood Lesson Plan In this biography lesson, students analyze the upbringing and events that finally shaped Mahatma.!
Pablita Velarde, her daughter Helen Hardin, and her granddaughter Margarete Bagshaw.
Pablita Velarde
American painter
Pablita Velarde (September 19, 1918 – January 12, 2006) born Tse Tsan (Tewa: "Golden Dawn")[1] was an American Pueblo artist and painter.
Early life and education
Velarde was born on Santa Clara Pueblo near Española, New Mexico on September 19, 1918.[2][3] After the death of her mother, when Velarde was about five years old, she and two of her sisters were sent to St Catherine's Indian School in Santa Fe.
At the age of fourteen, she was accepted to Dorothy Dunn's Santa Fe Studio School at the Santa Fe Indian School and was one of the first women students.[4] There, she became an accomplished painter in the Dunn style, known as "flatstyle" painting.
Concerned about the rapid changes in native lifestyles, she described the School's flat painting narrative style as "memory paintings" which could help preserve older ways of life.[5] In her early classes she befriended artist Tonita Peña, wh