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Sister Giotto Moots
Sister Giotto Moots
Sister Giotto Moots

Sister Giotto Moots

1927 - 2018
BiographySister Giotto Moots arrived in Albuquerque in 1969. She was born Evelyn Moots in 1927 and was a Roman Catholic nun in the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa from 1949 to 2018, the year she died. She established and was the director of the Sagrada Art Center, also known as the Sagrada Art Studio, a complex in Old Town Albuquerque which included a gallery for religious art, a restaurant, and a graduate school for artists. From the early 1970s into the 1980s, the Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe and other buildings tucked into Patio Escondido, 404 San Felipe NW, were part of the Sagrada Art Studios. The studios were part of the graduate school program for the University of Albuquerque. The studio was based at 425 San Felipe Street NW, in Albuquerque.
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Mary Pickford
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Dorothy Diver
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