From Headed into the Wind: A Memoir
BY JACK LOEFFLER The North American Southwest is desert country, a vast mosaic of dry habitats where [...]
Dust Jacket
An Adapted Excerpt from Chapter Three: “History and Architecture of the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple”
BY KHRISTAAN VILLELA From its inception, the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple was a touchstone in the debate [...]
Olive Rush
Finding Her Place in the Santa Fe Art Colony JANN HAYNES GILMORE By May 15 the party had arrived in Santa Fe, [...]
Some of the Great Potters
I Have Known: Maria Martinez BY FRANCES H. HARLOW The pueblo nearest Los Alamos is San Ildefonso. First [...]
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
BY FRANCES LEVINE Summer, especially those without the cooling monsoon rains, can be long and hot in New [...]
The Spirit of Flamenco
BY NICOLASA CHÁVEZ Why has this way of life, so natural in Spain, become such a fixture in New Mexico? Why [...]
Oblique Views
On a warm July afternoon in 1929, a small group of archaeologists gathered around a campfire deep in the [...]
Turquoise, Water, Sky: Meaning and Beauty in Southwest Native Arts
BY MAXINE E. MCBRINN AND ROSS E. ALTSHULER Attend any gathering — whether ceremonial or civic — of [...]
Indian Country
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH Through his career, artist David Paul Bradley, an enrolled member of the Minnesota [...]
If There’s Squash Bugs in Heaven, I Ain’t Stayin’
BY STACIA SPRAGG-BRAUDE The farm these harvest days is gold and earthy, a ten-year-old at the end of summer, [...]
The Black Place
BY WALTER W. NELSON, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATHERINE WARE AND AN ESSAY BY DOUGLAS PRESTON From the [...]
The Art and Legacy of Bernardo Miera y Pacheco
Though small in physical stature—just five feet tall—Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco cast a considerable shadow across the eighteenth-century frontier of the Spanish Empire, now the American Southwest. [...]
Woven Identities
By Valerie K Verzuh North American Indian baskets are cultural histories—documents of the aesthetics, [...]
The Work of Art
BY CARMELLA PADILLA As refugees, [Joy] Ndungutse and [Janet] Nkubana were among the lucky. Both educated and [...]
The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo
BY DWIGHT P. LANMON AND FRANCIS H. HARLOW Until quite recently, pottery making was considered by Pueblo [...]
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