Where Worlds Collide
BY DAVE HERNDON In the fifties and sixties, Alexander Girard’s status as both a Modernist designer and a [...]
Culture
Ringing False/ Ringing True
BY MICHELLE GALLAGHER ROBERTS More than one bell has graced Acoma tower over the St. Francis Auditorium, [...]
From Headed into the Wind: A Memoir
BY JACK LOEFFLER The North American Southwest is desert country, a vast mosaic of dry habitats where [...]
Heavy Meta
How do you design an exhibit about exhibits? In late 2017, Museum Resources Director David Rohr came to us at [...]
Women and Jodhpurs and Pipes, Oh My!
BY HANNAH ABELBECK A friend of mine, Annie Sahlin, often comes in to work on some of the materials she [...]
Spinster Acts
BY ETHAN ORTEGA On March 28, 2019, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation designating Los Luceros [...]
Vessels of a Truth Obscured
BY BRUCE BERNSTEIN, ERIK FENDER, AND RUSSELL SANCHEZ This past summer, at the Museum of Indian Arts and [...]
The Naming Ceremony
BY ROSEMARY DIAZ Through the thin layer of darkness that slowly moved away from the coming morning, I could [...]
The 2019 Governor’s Arts Awards
On June 14, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Arts Commission announced this year’s [...]
The Fuel of Activism
BY SUZAN SHOWN HARJO Almost all of decades of meetings and visits with Herman Agoyo in New Mexico involved [...]
Desperately Seeking Carmel
BY FRANCES LEVINE The Santa Fe Trail is not often associated with stories of frontier women, although there [...]
Double Take
BY HANNAH ABELBECK, JENNIFER DENETDALE, AND DEVORAH ROMANEK More than a hundred and fifty years ago, probably [...]
Two Poems by Suzan Shown Harjo
after-dinner remarks (after dinner with guillermo gomez-pena and the sisters) we are uncommon peoples with [...]
Spoon to City
BY LAURA ADDISON In a 1953 letter to friends back in Michigan, designer Alexander Girard enumerated what [...]
The Grace of Water and the Focus of Rock
BY PATSY PHILLIPS On September 20, 2019, Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne, Hodulgee Muscogee) will be honored with [...]
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