From Hard Times to Holy Roller
NICHOLAS HERRERA didn’t grow up in the small northern New Mexico community of El Rito intending to be an artist. But to say that art became his calling is an understatement. After a near-fatal car…
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Camel Rock Studios Sets the Stage
IN DIRECTOR PAUL GREENGRASS’S News of the World, many scenes in the Tom Hanks Western captured the New Mexico landscape. Shot in and around Santa Fe and Galisteo, the 2019 movie marked the inaugural…
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Native Lab Amplifies Indigenous Voices
“I ALWAYS LIKE to say that clay is really my family’s way of storytelling,” says Charine Pilar Gonzales. The Santa Fe–based filmmaker and screenwriter, who comes from six generations of San Ildefonso…
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Lights, Camera, New Mexico!
NESTLED AMONG the sagebrush and rocky, inhospitable terrain at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, an octagonal hogan sits uninhabited. Just a few weeks earlier, a flurry of…
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The Fechin House Builds on Its Past
FOR THOSE WHO spend a fair amount of time in northern New Mexico, entering the historic Fechin House in Taos brings a sense of welcome familiarity. The home of the Taos Art Museum is known as an…
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Chip Thomas Honors the People with Art
SOMETIME AROUND 2012, Chip Thomas, a family physician with a practice on the Navajo Nation, began seeing an uptick in certain health issues in Indigenous men in their seventies and eighties who had…
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Michael Naranjo's Visionary Touch
IN 1999, AT THE DEDICATION for the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, in Washington, D.C., then Senator Barack Obama read a statement inscribed on one of the memorial’s 18 glass panels…
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Five Women Artists to Watch
NEW MEXICO ART watchers already know Eliza Naranjo Morse, Nikesha Breeze, Rose B. Simpson, Szu-Han Ho, and Jennifer Nehrbass. Now, thanks to the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the rest…
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Santa Fe's New Museum on the Block
WHEN THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART opened its doors in 1917, archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett (1885–1946) envisioned the downtown Santa Fe building—a swooping adobe example of then-new Pueblo…
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Coming Out West
A MAN IN A BLACK LEATHER-AND-SNAKESKIN jacket and a magenta cowboy hat fringed with dangling knives looks like one dude you don’t want to mess with. But in this image of Texas-born visual and…
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