Designing Change
The Creativity for Peace Quilt BY LAURA MARCUS GREEN On a warm July day in 2014, a group of young women [...]
Summer 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 [...]
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