Neon Signs of Life
BY AMY GROLEAU Gráfica Popular Limeña (the folk graphic tradition of Lima) was born in the streets. It has [...]
2018
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 [...]
A New Lease on Light
BY MICHELLE GALLAGER ROBERTS When the New Mexico Museum of Art opened its doors as a purpose-built art [...]
Straight Back to Our Own Country
BY HAMPTON SIDES This story accompanies Esther G. Belin’s poem, “The Petition(-ing, er) of [...]
Spheres of Influence
BY MARSHA C. BOL Extraordinary how a small glass bead from the Italian island of Murano or the mountains 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 [...]
Crash Report
BY CANDACE WALSH One of my least favorite jobs was working as a ghostwriter for a website’s figurehead. The [...]
Turning Toward the Taproot
BY EMILY WITHNAL Roxanne Swentzell’s kitchen does not have a refrigerator. Instead, books and large glass [...]
Opening the Doors to Closure
BY AMY GROLEAU | TRANSLATED, FROM THE SPANISH, BY STEPHANIE RIGGS AND AMY GROLEAU At the height of the [...]
Sacrifice Lost…and Found
BY DEVORAH ROMANEK Only a few years before the United States joined the Great War as it was raging in Europe, [...]
Outside the Frame
BY HANNAH ABELBECK Carl Newland Werntz was a painter, fine arts photographer, advertiser, illustrator, [...]
They Came to Heal and Stayed to Paint
BY NANCY OWEN LEWIS “The people in this part of the country have about as much use for an artist as their [...]
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