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The Foremothers Project: A Video Interview with Robin

by Robin Brooks | May 29, 2023 | News and Events, Stories of Our Foremothers

Keith Spiro Interviews Robin about the Foremothers Project In this interview with Keith Spiro I speak about my inspiration for The Foremothers Project and how I started gathering Foremothers stories from other people in the community. Keith describes himself as a...

New Mexico, In the Footsteps of My Foremothers, Part 1

by Robin Brooks | Apr 27, 2022 | News and Events, Stories of Our Foremothers, Uncategorized

Georgia O’Keeffe, photo courtesy of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico From Santa Fe to Abiquiu to Ghost Ranch On Sunday, April 17, I headed out from Albuquerque toward Santa Fe. I met up with my friend Susan who I’ve known since...

Robin’s Foremothers: Wings of Memory

by Robin Brooks | Jul 23, 2021 | News and Events, Stories of Our Foremothers

A Poem about Memory: The Foremothers The Foremothers On the wings of a butterfly, on a feather’s breath of memory, their stories, their spirits resonate. I see these women, my ancestors, with their courage, humor, and tenacity. In my mind I can taste their...

Robin paints her grandmother Rebecca

by Robin Brooks | Apr 2, 2021 | News and Events, Stories of Our Foremothers

Rebecca in a purple coat, acrylic on gessoed paper, 18 by 22 inches, 2021 Here is the finished painting entitled “Rebecca in a purple coat.” The painting is included in my Foremothers Gallery. It depicts my grandmother Rebecca Rosenfield nee Kaplan. In...

Hope is the thing with feathers…a Foremothers project update

by Robin Brooks | Mar 25, 2021 | News and Events, Stories of Our Foremothers

“Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314) by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul- and sings the tune without the words- and never stops- at all- … (to read the entire poem, click on the...
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