Posts From: November 2022
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Say baa . Navajo Churro sheep set their hoofprints in New Mexico hundreds of years ago, and their wool quickly earned the adoration of weavers and textile artists. A new exhibit, Art and Legacy of…
Read MoreThese Baskets Carry Native History
MADE OF BIRCHBARK, THE CANOE STRETCHES 21 feet from stern to bow. A Dene (Northern Athabaskan) maker, likely from the Upper Yukon in British Columbia, Canada, crafted it around 1900—but not for…
Read MoreVintage Art Gets a Recycled Twist
FOR AS LONG AS SHE CAN REMEMBER, Devin Vasquez has been immersed in art and car culture. “Pretty much since I was born,” says the 28-year-old maker, whose father, Chris Vasquez, is an airbrush artist…
Read MoreBuilding on Sacred Traditions
FATHER ALBERT BRAUN SO LOVED the Mescalero Apache people that he dedicated decades of his life to creating a Romanesque church with rock walls that soar as high as 90 feet. The cornerstone was laid in…
Read MoreCelebrating Traditions at Acoma Pueblo
THE 2,000 LUMINARIAS, set and lit by hand, line the road up the mesa to Acoma Pueblo’s 370-foot-high Sky City. Inside the 1629 San Esteban del Rey Mission Church, tribal dancers pound their feet onto…
Read MoreCouse-Sharp Site Connects the Past with Present
THE SMALL TOWN OF TAOS owes much of its prestige as an art-lovers’ destination to a group of painters who hailed from Indiana, Ohio, New York, and other parts far east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1915…
Read More2022 True Heroes
Join us on November 17 at 7 p.m. for New Mexico Magazine's True Heroes recognition ceremony on Facebook: @NewMexicoMagazine Presented by KOB4, New Mexico State Department of Health and New Mexico…
Read MoreFive Things to Do This Weekend
1 See legendary prints. Explore the works of renowned Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) in a new exhibition at the Las Cruces Museum of Art opening Friday. José Guadalupe Posada:…
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