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Book looks at the brilliant but brief life of Native American cartoonist Eva Mirabal


.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....Eva Mirabal was a firebrand, a painter and muralist and likely the first female Native American cartoonist.
Eva Mirabal in 1944 examining a model plane while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. She was preparing to work on the mural “Bridge of Wings.” (Courtesy of The Museum Of New Mexico Press)
Seemingly born with a spirit of adventure, this Taos Pueblo woman joined the Women’s Army Corps during World War II and raised two children all in her brilliant but brief life.
Lois Rudnick and Mirabal’s son Jonathan Warm Day Coming have chronicled her legacy in “Eva Mirabal: Three Generations of Tradition and Modernity at Taos Pueblo” (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2021.) ....

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