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Harmon Parkhurst, Burros at Acequia Madre, Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca. 1915. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 011047.

Acequias de Santa Fe:

By Adele Oliveira Kyle Maier, Shrine alongside the Acequia de la Muralla, 2020. Courtesy of the Historic [...]

Couple at Prom, Robertson High School, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1981. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 164812.

So Far From Paris or Santa Fe

BY SAMANTHA DUNN · PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEX TRAUBE Las Vegas, New Mexico. Fifty-four miles east of Santa Fe and [...]

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), Agnes Sims, 1946. Gelatin silver print. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist; P1979.130.955. © 1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Filling Gaps in the Archive:  

By Robin Babb At the entrance to the gallery, a quote on the wall provides context and raison d’être for [...]

Middle Fork of the Gila River in the Gila Wilderness. Digital photograph by Jay Hemphill.

Nde Benah

By Joe Saenz One hundred years ago, on June 3, 1924, the U.S. Forest Service designated the Gila Wilderness [...]

StormMiguel Florez. Photograph by Gordon Garcia. · Women reunite and reminisce about their community and being out in high school in the 1970s and 1980s. Production still from The Whistle, 2019. Courtesy of StormMiguel Florez. · Collage of Albuquerque lesbian youth in the 1980s. The Whistle, 2019. Courtesy of StormMiguel Florez. · Director of Photographgraphy, Annalise Ophelian; Director, StormMiguel Florez; Participant, Michelle Martinez. The Whistle, 2019. Photograph by Jai James. · i like girls. Production still from The Whistle, 2019. Courtesy of StormMiguel Florez.

The Sound of Community:

By Lazarus Letcher Early in his documentary The Whistle, StormMiguel Florez muses about his LGBTQIA+ friends [...]

Unidentified Artist, Chicano Beauty from the Barrio, date unknown. 15 1/2 × 16 in. National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Permanent Collection, 2019.30.130. Photo by Addison Doty.

Love Pa’ Mi Gente Shine Through Me

By Jimmy Santiago Baca There was a time when you would have never caught me in a museum. At most, I had maybe [...]

Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower (Iñupiaq, Utqiag˙vik), Melissa Ahnoorik Ahlooruk Ingersoll (Iñupiaq, Nome), Cassandra Tikasuk Johnson (Unalakleet), Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer (Iñupiaq, Kotzebue), Beverly Tuck (Unangaxˆ, St. Paul Island), Healing Stitches, 2021. Cotton and polyester. Sarah Ayaqi Whalen-Lunn (Iñupiaq), Solidarity, No More Stolen Sisters, and Black Lives Matter, 2020. Digital illustrations on aluminum. Photograph by Blair Clark. Courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art.

Grief’s Outline, Memory’s Shape

BY ANNIE WENSTRUP Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq is a permanent work in progress. Webb is a Yup’ik artist [...]

Jean Toomer, Taos, New Mexico, circa 1935. Courtesy Jill Quasha. Copyright the Estate of Marjorie Content.

Jean Toomer’s Search for Identity in Taos

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Mysterious, mercurial, hard-to-pin down sociologically or racially—and even [...]

Cowboy Boots and Cow Pies, Clay and a Soup Spoon:

By Maurice M. Dixon, Jr. In the spring of 1974, while firing some newly crafted clay vessels, an incident [...]

Petroglyphs of a war club, concentric circles, and a partial human figure on the lower right overlook the northern Rio Grande Valley on Mesa Prieta.

Sacred Geographies Of Northern New Mexico

By Matthew J. MartinezPhotography by Jim O’Donnell To us, these petroglyphs are not the remnants of some [...]

Baumann family marionettes, ca. 1959. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. HP.2011.07.003.

No Untroubled Worlds:

by JenniferLevin Gustave Baumann is best known for color woodcuts depicting Southwestern [...]

The USS Bryant, on which Dominic was stationed, photographed in South Carolina on January 7, 1944. Images courtesy of Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

Gallup to Guam

By Mark J. Crawford Although new to America and often struggling to find work, Italian immigrants Joe and [...]

Wilfred Stedman, a noted Santa Fe artist, created many maps that featured on covers and on inside pages. May 1936; image courtesy New Mexico Magazine.

The Accidental Archivist

By Kate Nelson MY INTRODUCTION to New Mexico Magazine’s archive in 2013 elicited my inner Bette Davis. Led [...]

Ground Zero Trinity site, epicenter of first explosion, San Antonio, New Mexico, 1945. J. Robert Oppenheimer (center left) and Lieutenant General Groves (center) investigate the wreckage. Courtesy the Santa Fe New Mexican Collection, Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. HP.2014.14.1712.

A Blinding Light

By Andrew Wice With a fireball brighter than the New Mexican sun, matter flashed into energy at 5:29 a.m. on [...]

A New Frame for New Mexican Art

BY RAY MARK RINALDI WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR A PIECE OF ART TO BE NEW MEXICAN? Does it have to be created in the [...]

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