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, [...]
Art
The Right to Remember
BY EMILY WITHNALL In 1990, at the height of Peru’s war, Wari Zárate and other artists in the Andes began [...]
The People’s Art
BY CHARLENE CERNY A Gathering of Voices: Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collection, an [...]
Presents Rich with Provenance
BY NICOLASA CHÁVEZ The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) regularly displays recently acquired items [...]
Dance of the Monarch
BY EMILY WITHNALL Thomas Haukaas (Lakota) beads like a painter. At first glance, a viewer might simply see [...]
Photo Synthesis
BY HANNAH ABELBECK One hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of Navajo people undertook a second arduous [...]
More Than Words
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER Ten years ago, Shirley Klinghoffer launched her seminal Santa Fe-based Love Armor [...]
Back to the Future
BY KATE NELSON For Mary Kershaw, all it took was one sight of brick walls soaring up to an industrial-style [...]
Chief of Hearts
BY MARCUS AMERMAN I create many things in beadwork, but of all the things I bead, I appreciate [...]
Spheres of Influence
BY MARSHA C. BOL Extraordinary how a small glass bead from the Italian island of Murano or the mountains of [...]
Family Affair
BY ROSS ALTSHULER How do skill, talent, and creativity run through New Mexico’s Native families of artists? [...]
By the Book
BY JAMES GLISSON After nearly twenty years in Los Angeles, Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009) moved to [...]
A Sketch in Time
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER They are words—jaw-dropping, amazing, wondrous—one doesn’t usually hear from [...]
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 [...]
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