Phone: 575 581 9197
Email: santosgedeon@yahoo.com
Address: State Rd. 554 #1197
P.O. BOX 432
EL RITO, NM 87530

ARTIST STATEMENT
Gedeon is orginally from guatemala, but has been living in nm for the last 10 years. He learned to weave at an early age and sold weavings to help pay for his education. all handmade weavings are produced on a backstrap loom with cotton thread using traditional designs from Guatemala. His newer weavings are being incorporated with southwestern designs. Gedeon has demonstrated his work in the weaving department at northern new mexico community college and has exhibited in the international folk art market, Espanola Arts Festival, El Rito studio tour, as well as Albuquerque.