Kathryn Nelson

Kathryn Nelson, San Pablo, Colorado, 1980.
Kathryn Nelson at Colcha Embroidery of the San Luis Valley
at The Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 2023

Kathryn Nelson is a photographer that documented artists and their surroundings in the San Luis Valley from 1978 to 1981 with a grant from the Colorado Arts and Humanities Council. She went on to make the slide show documentary Los Testamentos (1980) about the work of Eppie Archuleta and Tiva Trujillo. She then completed a documentary around Grover, Colorado called Grassland Women.