Artists’ Revival Retreat for Women started with this idea, how do you get yourself, as busy creative women, to become more IN your work? Curiously we found part of the answer in a term used for wine making, terroir.

Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West is currently in Mabel’s hometown. The exhibition, hosted by the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State in Buffalo, New York, runs March 10 through May 28, 2017.

March 2017 marked both the completion and this announcement of the WomenofTaos.org archival website – an independent resurrection of the original Remarkable Women of Taos 2012 website. In tandem, the old Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Remarkable Women of Taos (2010-2012) blog–archived on this website–makes its renewed debut.

This year marks the 138th anniversary of Mabel’s birth on February 26, 1879. Interestingly, the Mabel Dodge Luhan House has celebrated her birthday on special occasions since 1979. That year then owners George and Kitty Otero threw her a centennial party. Advertised in The Taos News, the event was listed under “Banish Winter Blues.” In the 1990s, Mabel House management continued the tradition with occasional lively dinner parties.

More recently two salons honored Mabel…