Earth and I Gave You Turquoise
BY N. SCOTT MOMADAY Earth and I gave you turquoise when you walked [...]
Summer 2014
Della Warrior
WITH STEVE CANTRELL Della Warrior arrived at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in July 2013 after [...]
Blue Bloods
BY MARGARETE BAGSHAW Gobs and gobs of turquoise, draped over the old, young, and middle-aged women, men, and [...]
The Black Place
BY WALTER W. NELSON, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATHERINE WARE AND AN ESSAY BY DOUGLAS PRESTON From the [...]
Loti, Laguna Pueblo
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Karl Moon was born in Wilmington, Ohio, in 1878 and moved to Albuquerque, where he [...]
A Master’s Private Turquoise
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL Turquoise has become so closely associated with New Mexico that I was surprised to [...]
Our Lady Comes to the New World
BY KATE NELSON A 1960s wave of ecclesiastical urban renewal convinced priests at mission churches throughout [...]
Photography and Identity
BY KATHERINE WARE In an initiative titled Focus on Photography, the New Mexico Museum of Art is devoting its [...]
Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer Shines Again (Minus One Bird’s Nest)
BY CATHY NOTARNICOLA The twenty-four-foot bronze sculpture Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer stands tall on [...]
Layu Resplendent Turquoise on the Roof of the World
BY FELICIA KATZ-HARRIS New Mexico’s adoration of the turquoise stone is palpable. Whether native, [...]
Turquoise at Ogapogeh
BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR In October 2008, the Santa Fe Community Convention Center opened at the northeast [...]
So Many Ways of Looking at Turquoise
Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning, the new exhibition curated by Maxine McBrinn at the Museum [...]
Living The Turquoise Trail
BY DOUGLAS MAGNUS The scattered presence of turquoise along North America’s Turquoise Trails reveals a [...]
Pueblo Jewelry Making In Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
BY FRANCES JOAN MATHIEN Jewelry making in the Southwest has a long history, and the Ancestral Pueblo people [...]
Turquoise, Water, Sky
BY CINDRA KLINE TURQUOISE REQUIRES WATER TO form,” explains Maxine McBrinn, curator of archaeology at the [...]
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