Piecing Together Mimbres History
THE COW PASTURE’S RAIN-DAMPENED soil bucks and falls in irregular patterns, evidence of past archaeological digs on the NAN Ranch, near Silver City. Chest-high sacaton grass, interspersed with native…
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Category: 2022
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Go West(ern). Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado combine forces to celebrate cowboys and carbs this weekend at the second annual Colexico Experience Spaghetti & Westerns Festival (its name…
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Keeping Weaving Traditions Alive
WHEN I SCHEDULE A CLASS WITH Silver City’s Wild West Weaving, Hosana Eilert gets the measurement from the top of my hip to the floor, to decide where I belong. “We’ll put you on the front loom,” she…
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Step Up Your Mixology Skills
YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S ANGOSTURA BITTERS may have done the trick for her occasional Manhattan, but these days, that drop of added flavor has grown exotic and eclectic. Since 2010, Santa Fe’s Bitter End…
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Weaving Workshops at Your Fingertips
AT WILD WEST WEAVING, in Silver City, owner Hosana Eilert specializes in Chimayó– and Río Grande–style weavings created with handspun and dyed Churro fleece. Her three-hour Beginner Río Grande Weaving…
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Wool, Yarn, and Weaving, Oh My!
EVERY OCTOBER, the New Mexico Fiber Arts Center hosts an exploration of the role Navajo-Churro sheep play in the state’s weaving history. In addition to workshops on fiber processing and Río Grande…
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Find Peace at These Artistic Retreats
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE’S former stomping grounds near Abiquiú make for memorable learning. Ghost Ranch, located near the famous painter’s former home and studio, serves up workshops that range from plein…
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Del's Restaurant Serves Up Five-Star Experiences
ON A SCORCHING JULY AFTERNOON, a few dozen folks sit on the patio at Del’s Restaurant, in Tucumcari, listening to a local band perform classic country and rock hits. Others dance or admire the vintage…
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Mineral Museum Displays Rock-Solid Collection
THE GEODES AND TURQUOISE draw most visitors, Kelsey McNamara tells me. The curator of the Mineral Museum on the New Mexico Tech University campus, in Socorro, interrupts my reverie at a vitrine…
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The Mabel Dodge Luhan House Sparks Creativity
EVEN IN A TOWN AS STORIED IN ART and history as Taos, the Mabel Dodge Luhan House stands out. For years, it has maintained its origins as a nearly 100-year-old salon and retreat for artists to…
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