Of Taos Pueblo passed away peacefully on December 4th 2023 in Albuquerque just a few months shy of her 100th birthday. She was preceded in death by her parents, Pedro
• Apr 30, 2021
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, the NMU School of Art and Design and the NMU Center for Native American Studies participate in the Great Lakes Indigenous Art, Education, and Healing project.
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....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.)