The Science behind Frederick Hammersley’s Modern Art
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT I met Frederick Hammersley in the early 1980s. We bonded quickly around our shared [...]
2018
Straight Back to Our Own Country
BY HAMPTON SIDES This story accompanies Esther G. Belin’s poem, “The Petition(-ing, er) of [...]
The Petition(-ing, er) of Peace(-ful)(mak -ing, -er)
BY ESTHER G. BELIN This poem accompanies Hampton Sides’s story, “Straight Back to Our Own [...]
Unnatural Resources
BY AMY GROLEAU AND MARLA REDCORN-MILLER As artists, Aymar Ccopacatty (Aymara) and Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa [...]
Project Indigene in Action
In the spring of 2018, eight dynamic Santa Fe cultural institutions joined forces in a collaboration called [...]
Fundamentals for a Diné Gathering
BY LUCI TAPAHONSO The enticing scents and dishes of a Diné family meal are always accompanied by children [...]
Before Photocopiers
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL I went to visit Tom Leech, curator and director of the Palace Press, in hopes of [...]
Building a Photograph
BY KATHERINE WARE Photographer Patrick Nagatani (1945–2017) didn’t just take pictures, he made pictures. [...]
Acts of Love and Protection
BY CATALINA VICENTE WITH PW CHATTEY What’s the longest hike you’ve ever been on? A few hours, maybe a day [...]
An Adapted Excerpt from Chapter Three: “History and Architecture of the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple”
BY KHRISTAAN VILLELA From its inception, the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple was a touchstone in the debate [...]
Turning Toward the Taproot
BY EMILY WITHNAL Roxanne Swentzell’s kitchen does not have a refrigerator. Instead, books and large glass [...]
The Continuous Path
BY ROBERT PREUCEL AND SAMUEL DUWE When Juan de Oñate journeyed north up the Rio Grande valley in the summer [...]
Manson’s Mission
BY DENISE LASSAW In 1967, I turned twenty-two years old at New Buffalo in Arroyo Hondo. I loved living in [...]
The House of Mirth
BY LES DALY Meet James Holmes, “Compulsive Artistic Humorist.” That wouldn’t all be on his business [...]
Radio Killed the Sheet Music Star
BY MEREDITH DAVIDSON AND JAMES M. KELLER Before radio and television, when making music at home was the [...]
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