Spoon to City
BY LAURA ADDISON In a 1953 letter to friends back in Michigan, designer Alexander Girard enumerated what [...]
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When Georgia Met Sandro
BY KATE NELSON In the Museum of International Folk Art, curator Laura Addison opens a nondescript flat file [...]
A Dazzling Denizen
BY JESS MULLALY Alexander Girard might be thought of as the man at the beginning of the rainbow. As [...]
New Mexico to the Bone
BY SPENCER G. LUCAS AND RICK HENDRICKS New Mexico has long been world-famous as a place where [...]
Family Ties
BY KATE NELSON Back in 1917, John Pickard had a problem. A renowned art historian and archaeologist at the [...]
The Canyon Under the Lake
BY KATHERINE WARE Some places are so special that we can’t wait to visit them again and again. For many [...]
They Also Dug
BY CATHERINE S. FOWLER AND NANCY J. PAREZO If asked, could you name five or more archaeologists famous for [...]
On Display in Santa Fe (Part II)
BY DAVID ROHR (You can read Part 1 here). On a warm evening in August of 1917, a group of prominent painters [...]
Love is a Verb
BY LES DALY In the year 1968, America was in turmoil. It was a time of war, assassinations, riots, and [...]
The People’s Art
BY CHARLENE CERNY A Gathering of Voices: Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collection, an [...]
The Captive
BY PAUL ANDREW HUTTON The Mexican soldiers came late in the Spring of 1855. The people saw them in the [...]
Flowing From Our Wildest Imaginations
BY WILLY CARLETON · PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHERMAN HOGUE/BLMNM My legs dangle over the small bridge as I watch the [...]
The Practice of Aural History
BY JACK LOEFFLER Imagine yourself camped in the Kuakatch Wash in an isolated area of the Sonoran Desert. It [...]
Dance of the Monarch
BY EMILY WITHNALL Thomas Haukaas (Lakota) beads like a painter. At first glance, a viewer might simply see [...]
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