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SANTA FE, N.M. Las Vegas, N.M. – The New Mexico Highlands University Media Arts and Technology Department will build a digital community-based archive to preserve the histories of villages and towns of northern New Mexico, thanks to a $970,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Some of the communities that will benefit include Las Vegas, Taos, Chimayó, Abiquiú, Embudo Valley, Amalia and El Valle.
Miriam Langer, chair of the Media Arts and Technology Department at New Mexico Highlands University. (Courtesy of New Mexico Highlands University)
“We’re building a community-based archive for the people of Northern New Mexico in order to honor their history and ties to the land,” said Miriam Langer, Media Arts and Technology Department chair. “The idea is to connect through a collection of documents, images, video, audio and oral histories. It’s called the Manitos Community
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It’s the driving force behind the Manitos Community Memory Project.
With a $970,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to New Mexico Highlands University, the project will continue its memory-gathering effort and community-based archive.
The digital archive will be an online repository that is accessible and usable across Indo-Hispano communities in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
The archive will be developed with a growing number of individual and organizational partners from rural villages that include Abiquiú, Chimayó, Villanueva and Questa, as well as urban centers such as Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Denver and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Estevan Rael-Glvez, Manitos Community Memory Project Director