Four Women guiding the stories of Taos Art
By Elizabeth Burns
In April last year, the New York Times published a story noting a trend: “From the Louvre to the Vatican Museums and the National Gallery of Art, female directors are taking over from men.” The story goes on to note “four British museums; the Vatican Museums; the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Saint Louis Art Museum and many more.…” are now overseen by women.
Here in Taos, these women oversee some of Taos’ most storied institutions: the Harwood Museum of Art, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos Art Museum at Fechin House, and Taos Center for the Arts. Each of these women, profiled here by Elizabeth Burns, had a unique path to this famed mecca for the arts; and each path was interesting, even portended. Whatever their path to Taos — or, in the case of the Harwood’s Juniper Leherissey — back to Taos, we think you’ll enjoy meeting these “Aribiters of the Arts.”
