19 Facts About Margarete Bagshaw

Margarete Bagshaw was an American artist known for her paintings and pottery.

Margarete Bagshaw was descended from the Tewa people of K'apovi or the Kha'p'oo Owinge, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.

Margarete Bagshaw was born November 11,1964, and was the daughter of artist Helen Hardin and Pat Terrazas, and the granddaughter of Santa Clara Pueblo artist Pablita Velarde.

Margarete Bagshaw married at age 19 to Greg Tindel, a master framer.

Margarete Bagshaw did not start to create her own artwork until 1990, at the age of 26, while she was pregnant with her second child.

Margarete Bagshaw started having more confidence in her work as an artist, after a series of positive responses followed.

In 2012, Margarete Bagshaw co-founded the Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women, dedicated to her grandmother's legacy as well as other female Native American artists in Santa Fe, however it closed in 2015 when Margarete passed away.

In 2012, Margarete Bagshaw wrote and published her memoirs Teaching My Spirit to Fly along with her mother's biography A Straight Line Curved by Kate Nelson, and her grandmother's biography Pablita Velarde, In Her Own Words by Shelby Tisdale.

Margarete Bagshaw's memoirs chronicled her early life living with a family of famous artists.

Margarete Bagshaw wrote about her artistic and business life and detailed betrayal by a best friend and family.

On March 19,2015, Margarete Bagshaw died at the age of 50 after having a stroke and then subsequently being diagnosed with brain cancer.

Margarete Bagshaw was featured in many publications including: The SantaFean magazine, The Essential Guide magazine, Southwest Art magazine, Native Peoples magazine, the New Mexico Magazine and recently both the Albuquerque Journal and ABQ Arts.

Margarete Bagshaw took part in over a dozen major museum exhibitions, including the Eiteljorge Museum Of American and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Hamden Museum in Virginia, and numerous invitational shows with the Museum of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In 2010, Margarete Bagshaw presented a one-woman show at the Smoki Museum in Prescott, Arizona.

In 2012, Bagshaw had a solo exhibition, Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

In 2013, The Color of Oil: Paintings by Margarete Bagshaw exhibition was held at the Ellen Noel Art Museum.

In 2011 at the annual conference of the Folk Art Society in Santa Fe, Margarete Bagshaw spoke about the tension between carrying on Native traditions and her impetus toward more modernist expression.

In 2011, Margarete Bagshaw was invited to be a speaker for Women's History Month at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

Margarete Bagshaw married in 1984 to Greg Tindel and together they had two children, Forrest Tindel and Helen K Tindel.