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- ↑ Karla Hostetler leaving Mariposa Museum, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. July 4, 2024.
- ↑ Sentinel Staff. Mariposa touts executive director in announcing her departure. The Keene Sentinel. Jul 7, 2024; Updated Aug 14, 2024.https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/mariposa-touts-executive-director-in-announcing-her-departure/article_3c8702e4-3c8c-11ef-95fb-e38f766df045.html
- ↑ History of Twenty-Four Main Street. https://peterborough.stqry.app/story/187529
- 1 2 Gajda, Emily (27 August 2023). "Mariposa Museum Quilt Exhibit Is a Compassionate Collaboration". Vineyard Gazette . Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- 1 2 3 Regan, Shelby (20 July 2020). "History, culture, and sculpture". The Martha's Vineyard Times . Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- 1 2 Greenman, Daniel (14 August 2024). "Mariposa Museum in dire straits". The Martha's Vineyard Times . Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ↑ Pretsky, Holly. Weaving a Narrative of Resilience. The Vineyard Gazette. August 1, 2019. https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2019/08/01/weaving-narrative-resilience
- 1 2 3 4 Walker, Aliyah. A Clarion Call for Art That Digs Deeply The Vineyard Gazette. June 24, 2021. https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2021/06/24/clarion-call-art-digs-deeply
- ↑ Robert, Allison. "Stitching Time," a social justice quilting project: Exhibit at Mariposa Museum highlights works created by Black men who are incarcerated. MV Times. August 9, 2023. https://www.mvtimes.com/2023/08/09/stitching-time-social-justice-quilting-project/#:~:text=Mariposa%20Museum%20and%20World%20Cultural,named%20after%20a%20former%20slave
- ↑ Exhibit: The Luminous Worlds of Omar Victor Diop Sunday, July 31, 2022. The Complete Martha's Vineyard Calendar. https://calendar.vineyardgazette.com/event/exhibit_8645