Angel Vigil
Angel Vigil is an award-winning author, historian, performer, theater director and educator. His awards include the Governor's Award for Excellence in Education and the Mayor’s Individual Artist Fellowship Award. He has also received the Heritage Artist Award and the Master Artist Award from the Colorado Council on the Arts. He has also received the Colorado State Theatre Educator of the Year Award.
Angel is the author of seven award-winning books on Hispanic and Western culture and arts. His books have won the prestigious New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age National Award, the Border Library Association Southwest Book of the Year Award, and the Colorado Book of the Year Special Recognition Award. His latest book is Borderlands, Living in Two Worlds – the Story of Hispanics in the American Southwest.
Angel is a Colorado Heritage Artist storyteller whose specialty is the oral traditions of the Hispanic Southwest.
Angel is also a member of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Chautauqua program for his historical presentations.
