Back by popular demand!

We are pleased to announce we will have five Native American designers participating in this year's Art-for-Wear event.

Join us in the big tent from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Featuring exquisite designs by Patricia Michaels, Pilar Agoyo, Penny Singer, Teri Greeves, Margaret Roach Wheeler, and TahNibaa Naat'aanii.

Left: Fashion aficionados enjoy the Native couture at the annual Art-for-Wear event.

Patricia Michaels

Widely traveled, well-educated, and inexhaustibly creative, Patricia Michaels is a traditional Native American woman who is a style-maker at the forefront of modern fashion design and aesthetics. She creates boldy hip designs with a quality of timeless elegance by blending her heritage with the inspiration she draws from the ever-changing world around her.

Patricia lives and works in Taos, New Mexico, where, in her studio, she produces custom-tailored, avant-garde fashions, high-end limited-edition apparel, and ready-to-wear lines for men and women, as well as surface designs, including fabrics for interiors.

Left: Design by Patricia Michaels.

Pilar Agoyo

The clothing and accessories that Pilar continues to produce are still being labeled cutting edge, goth, punk, chic, elegant, and risqué. Whatever they become, be it traditional, fashionable, or even functional, her garments are distinctive.  She continues to work in a wide array of textiles, but her reputation for integrating anything from placemats to trading cars, clothes hangers, newspapers, and even masking tape, will continue to be unrivaled. Pilar resides in Santa Fe, with her family and endless amounts of inspiration.

Left: Designs by Pilar Agoyo.

Penny Singer

At 40, Penny is still going strong, creating new designs for her own line of wearable art from her Albuquerque studio. "I love to sew and create new fresh looks in Native fashion. The fabric is an open canvas, the thread is my color palette, and the sewing machine is my brush."

She learned the fundamentals of sewing from her mother who sewed alot when she was growing up. "I would make pillow cases, clothes for dolls and accessories. I learned by watching her make traditional Navajo clothes for my grandmother."

A sought-after star at premier venues across the United States, her original PenSin™ line of clothing has amassed a long list of top awards and accolades at the Santa Fe Indian Market, Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market, Eiteljorg Museum Indian Art Market, and scores of others. 

Left: Designs by Penny Singer.

Teri Greeves

Teri employs a variety of beadwork techniques in her art. Her larger pictorial work involves beads stitched onto brain-tanned deerhide, which she often mounts onto wood or other structures. She strives to simultaneously portray Kiowa realities and oral history with her contemporary experiences. Her beadwork and dedication to furthering Native American art has earned Greeves innumerable awards and honors. Greeves won Best of Show at the 1999 Indian Market and has since won many other awards at the Heard Museum, Indian Market, and Eight Northern Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show.

Left: Design by Teri Greeves.

Margaret Roach Wheeler

The spirit of her great-great-great-great grandmother Mahota flows through the contemporary Native American designs woven by Margaret Roach Wheeler, a Native American of Chickasaw-Choctaw descent.  Wheeler has merged her fine arts education with her Native American heritage to weave contemporary garments based on American Indian costumes.  She has also created “the Mahotans,” an imaginary tribe of totemic structures and spirit figures, where each member is adorned in handwoven robes.

Wheeler’s weavings have been shown in museums in Oklahoma, New Mexico, New York, Colorado, and Arizona and in Handweavers Guilds of America’s “Convergence” fashion shows. Wheeler lectures and teaches workshops and seminars on Native American fibers and her unique style of weaving.

Left: Design by Margaret Roach Wheeler.