Designing Change
The Creativity for Peace Quilt BY LAURA MARCUS GREEN On a warm July day in 2014, a group of young women [...]
2015
Five Barrels of Cochineal A Gift from King Philip III of Spain to Shah ‘Abbas I of Iran
BY MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON On April 8, 1614, Castilian nobleman Don García de Silva y Figueroa set sail from [...]
Seeing Red
Finding Cochineal BY MARK MACKENZIE Enter the Museum of International Folk Art exhibition The Red That [...]
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 [...]
On (Not) Leaving Home
BY TOM IRELAND It’s been over forty years since I and my wife at the time, newly married, bought four [...]
The Summer of Color
BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN The spectacular exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art, The Red That Colored [...]
The Wheelwright Museum Reinvents Itself with an Expanded Mission Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry
BY JONATHAN BATKIN This summer the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian celebrates the opening of the [...]
Colors of the Southwest
BY CARMEN VENDELIN Contemporary artist Beverley Magennis, describing her first foray into New Mexico in 1975, [...]
El Color Morado (The Color Purple)
BY AMANDA CROCKER Phoenicia — not New Mexico — is the land of purple. However, purple will get the [...]
Blue on Blue
Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain BY ROBIN FARWELL GAVIN In 1957, as renovations were being made to the [...]
Turquoise Tenacity
Saving Every Last Bit For Santo Domino’s Mosaic Jewelry BY CINDRA KLINE Turquoise is the Museum of [...]
Adobe Summer
BY KATE NELSON Mix desert soil with sun and water and you can produce one of the strongest building materials [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe Line, Color, Composition
BY CODY HARTLEY Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I [...]
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