Pepita Redhair was 27 years old when she disappeared from Albuquerque in March 2020. Her case has still not been resolved. This oil painting was painted by a member of our “They Had No Time to Say Goodbye” collective, Sandi Ludescher. It is one of several depicting actual missing and murdered Indigenous women whose families have given us permission to share their images through local lawyer and activist, Darlene Gomez. Scroll down to learn more

We are honored that our “They Had No Time to Say Goodbye” collective is featured in an in-depth article in the inaugural edition of Horizon Review. This is an annual arts publication put out by FUSION Albuquerque. The launch party in April was everything we hoped it would be, in spite of a partial brown-out (when visibility is limited because of dust storms—a common phenomenon in the high desert). The launch party started with many

Dear friends, What a whirlwind trip! First to the Tampa Bay Area. In the ten days I was there I taught a Daylong Mixed Media workshop (both in person and online) followed by a They Had No Time to Say Goodbye workshop. The latter was on our multimedia collaborative art project, about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). In every presentation and workshop I share statistics on MMIW. For instance: despite having the 5th

First, some good news—we recently learned that our proposal to be featured in the inaugural edition of the Horizon Review has been accepted. Up to now, we’ve relied on social media, occasional newsletters and word of mouth to communicate about our multimedia collaborative art project, They Had No Time to Say Goodbye, about the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Finally, our diverse collective, scattered throughout the area, was in one place to be interviewed for the article—out

The biggest, newest and most exciting event is that our They Had No Time to Say Goodbye collective has teamed up with Amanda Erickson, producer and director of She Cried That Day! This is Amanda’s first feature length documentary. It chronicles the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relative’s crisis through the lens of one Indigenous woman haunted by her sister’s unsolved murder. We, Patricia Yazzie (Diné), Sandi Ludescher, a New Mexican portrait painter, and