The Color in Color Photography
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK The tradition of coloring, or at the least applying a little tint, goes way back to the [...]
Summer 2015
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 [...]
True Colors
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL It has stopped me in my tracks every time I have encountered Luis Jiménez’s [...]
David Bradley: The Postmodern Trickster
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In fine art, postmodernism embraces diversity and contradiction, destabilization, and [...]
Cables from Hiroshima
BY THOMAS LEECH In a sheet of paper the immeasurable strength of a human being is concealed. – Kuo Hamada [...]
To Feel Less Alone: Gay Block, A Portrait
BY KATHERINE WARE Is a portrait a picture of the person in front of the camera or the person behind the [...]
Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK, MEREDITH DAVIDSON, AND THOMAS LEECH [M]ay my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I [...]
Designing Change
The Creativity for Peace Quilt BY LAURA MARCUS GREEN On a warm July day in 2014, a group of young women [...]
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 [...]
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