Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology--Honoring William Wroth

Robin Farwell Gavin has worked in the field of Spanish Colonial art history for over thirty years. She served as curator of Spanish Colonial art at the Museum of International Folk Art and as chief curator at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, both in Santa Fe. Her publications include Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest (with William Wroth) and Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica (with Donna Pierce and Alfonso Pleguezuelo). Donna Pierce is former Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art and head of the New World Department at the Denver Art Museum. She served as curator at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, the Palace of the Governors, and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. She has published extensively and coauthored Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica, Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, and Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds.