Artist Margarete Bagshaw has been long known for her use of color, composition and texture. This exciting Modernist has been featured in many publications including but not limited to: “The Santa Fean Magazine”, “Southwest Art” magazine, “Native Peoples” magazine, and the “New Mexico Magazine”. She has successfully shown in two of the most prestigious galleries in Santa Fe over the past 10 years, and now shows in her own gallery featuring the work of herself, her mother – Helen Hardin, and her grandmother – Pablita Velarde. Margarete has taken part in over a dozen major museum exhibitions, including: the Smithsonian N.M.A.I. in Washington, DC in 2011, and will be the featured artist for 2012 at the Museum Of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe. In 1996, she gave a personal slide presentation at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. As the subject of a documentary film project, Margarete spoke at the dedication ceremony for the donation of “The White Collection” (featuring a number of Margarete’s works), at the Lakeview Museum in Illinois in September of 2008. In March of 2010, Margarete presented a “One Woman Show” at the SMOKI Museum in Prescott, Arizona. After painting and showing in the Virgin Islands 2006 – 2009, she is now back at home in New Mexico, and in 2009 opened Golden Dawn Gallery, named after her grandmothers Indian name – “Tse Tsan” (Golden Dawn).

Margarete is a featured lecturer across the country: in September 2010 was the keynote speaker at the “International Folk Art Society Annual Conference”; and in March 2011 she spoke in Washington DC for “Women’s History Month” at the Smithsonian.

Painting in complex compositions that feature a dynamic color palette, her work is instantly recognizable. Her large monumental canvases honor the work of her mother and grand mother and are truly a testament to the significant place the women of her family hold in the art world – together they form the only documented full-time professional female painting dynasty ever – anywhere!