and honours At the age of 14, she won her first award in a contest organized by the NGO Minka de Huancayo, with a gourd depicting the sowing and harvesting of wheat. In 2005, she won first place in a contest organized by the Ministry of Education and the Museo de la Nación on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Likewise, she has been decorated as "Meritorious Personality of Culture" by the Ministry of Culture in 2012,ref name="1:eswp" /> and received the UNESCO Recognition of Excellence for Crafts of the Andean Region in 2014. She also won a Smithsonian Institute contest, with a tribute to the pachamama. Selected works "Nuestra Ave Fénix" (Our Phoenix Bird), a piece exhibited at the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima in 2017. Carved matte that summarizes in 38 scenes the first 54 chapters of Don Quixote de la Mancha, winner of the contest organized by the Ministry of Education and the Museum of the Nation of Peru for the quadricentennial of the emblematic work in 2005. References 1969 births Living people Peruvian artists Indigenous activists of the Americas Women in craft Peruvian women artists Women engravers 20th-century engravers 21st-century engravers Folk artists