Open Stacks Artist Book Project

Eliza Naranjo Morse

Eliza Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owingeh / Santa Clara Pueblo) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Northern New Mexico. Her work spans painting and sculptural work, land-based practices and institutional engagement with collections and programming. Naranjo Morse has worked with major institutions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Museum of Contemporary Native Art. As the Cultural Arts teacher at Kha’p’o Community School, she integrates land-based art education into her curriculum, creating support between students and their relationship with the environment. A graduate of Skidmore College and a lifelong student of her extended family, she continues to develop her artistic, educational, and land efforts towards considering humans’ relationships within the universe and the possibility that exists through knowledge sharing and effort making.

Tessie Naranjo

Tessie Naranjo (Kha’p’o Owingeh / Santa Clara Pueblo)  is a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo, and part of a large extended family. Tessie holds a PhD in Sociology (1992) from the University of New Mexico. As co-Director of the Northern Pueblos Institute (2005–2010) at Northern New Mexico College, she helped establish the AA and B.A. degree programs in Pueblo Indian Studies and co-taught courses, including Pueblo Women’s Studies, Tewa Pueblo Agriculture, Native American Literature, Pueblo Indian Education and Independent Studies. Tessie has a passion for collecting oral Pueblo memories, loves walking to ancestral Pueblo sites, and continues to do language and cultural work in her Pueblo.