130 1957 Jim Amaral, an American artist and fellow alumnus of Cranbrook Academy of Art, travels to Bogotá following his service on a US Navy base in the Philippines. Vélez and Amaral are married later that year and set up a home in Bogotá. Vélez takes the name Olga de Amaral (fig. 3). 1958 Amaral has her first solo exhibition at Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos in Bogotá. 1958 The Amarals have their first child, Diego. 1960 The Amarals’ second child, Andrea, is born (fig. 4). 1965 Olga de Amaral founds the Textile Department at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and remains director until 1972. 1966 The Amarals move to New York City to live for a year. 1966 Amaral has her first exhibition outside of Colombia in the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (fig. 5). 1967 A selection of Amaral’s weavings are exhibited at Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc. Showroom in New York City, her first US showing since the student exhibition at Cranbrook. Included in the exhibition are Entrelazado en blanco y turquesa (Interlaced in White and Turquoise) (1965, p. 41) and Tejido doble en blanco, negro y gramote (Double Weave in White, Black, and Gramote) (1965, p. 40). Figure 3 Wedding of Olga Ceballos Vélez and Jim Amaral, 1957. Figure 4 Clockwise from top left: Olga de Amaral, Jim Amaral, Diego Amaral, and Andrea Amaral, 1961.