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The Las Cruces-based nonprofit Weaving for Justice is welcoming two presenters for its Oct. 27-28 textile sale to benefit Maya youth. This year’s program, co-sponsored by NMSU’s University Museum, will include presentations by Norma Subuyuji from Santo Domingo Xenacoj, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, and Elisabeth Nicholson from Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The sale will be 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, and noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the NMSU Museum, Kent Hall, 1280 E. University Ave., near the intersection of University and Solano Drive. The presentations by Subuyuji and Nicholson will be at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Subuyuji started her own textile business in Guatemala after completing a university degree made possible by a scholarship from the Maya Educational Foundation (MEF). Nicholson has been MEF director since 2010. Weaving for Justice has partnered with MEF since 2015 to raise funds for scholarships for Maya youth.
More than 1,000 items from the collections of 72 donors will be available for purchase during the sale, including textiles from Mesoamerica and items from other parts of Latin America, including huipils (women’s blouses), yardage of cloth, table runners, jewelry, books, Cuban film posters and tourist items.
All proceeds from the sale will go to scholarships for Maya youth in Belize, Guatemala, and Chiapas, Mexico, under the auspices of MEF, said Weaving for Justice co-founder Christine Eber, a retired NMSU professor of anthropology who has been working with women weavers in Chiapas, Mexico, since the 1980s.
MEF, based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has worked since 1992 to assist Maya children and youth to pursue a path out of poverty through education, Eber said. MEF’s scholarships help provide computers and online access to students who might have borrowed computers before Covid-19 or gone to Internet cafes that are now closed.
Parking is free on campus after 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, and all-day Saturday, Oct. 28. For parking passes, visit park.nmsu.edu/visitor.
For more information, send an email to weavingforjustice@gmail.com.
Visit weaving-for-justice.org/, mayaedufound.org/ and univmuseum.nmsu.edu.
