Marisol Villanueva MéndezSince the mid-1990's, Marisol Villanueva Méndez has been dedicated to working with indigenous people and their threatened ways of life and habitats. Her first long-term documentary photography project, The New Old World: Antilles - Living Beyod the Myth, opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 2002. The exhibition included lectures, panels and an extensive educational program, serving as a vehicle for participants to engage and learn about the cultures represented. The exhibition also formed an alliance amongst the indigenous people of the Caribbean basin. Villanueva's publications, The New Old World/El nuevo viejo mundo, Bread Made From Yuca and Cazabi: Gift of the Americas, came out of The New Old World's archives. In 2004, Marisol started working with the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers when the Grandmothers met and formalized their council at the Global Women's Gathering in Phoenicia, New York. Villanueva became the Grandmothers' official photographer and documentarist, traveling with them to their international official gatherings from 2004 to 2015. In 2010 Marisol launched mä creative and began documenting the Grandmothers individually for the Grandmothers Wisdom Project. In 2019 she published the Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation book. In 2020 mä creative launched the Listen to the Grandmothers Wisdom: Meeting Challenging Times online series, which provided a teaching platform for over thirty teachers and for thousands of participants from all over the world. Read More Read Less