The Governor's Artists of the Year
Above: Innovative, successful, and philanthropic, the Meow Wolf team has quickly brought young energy to Santa Fe and beyond. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. SINCE 1974, dozens of New Mexico’s best…
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Category: Artists
Beyond O'Keeffe
Sculptor Debra Fritts and artist Frank Shelton in their Art Chapel. NOT MANY ART ADVENTURES begin with what sounds like spy talk: Meet me under the pink flamingo at Bode’s . That’s the starting point…
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On the Line
Above: Wet Snow Falls from a Pine Branch, in the artist's studio. Photography by Kim Richardson. WILLY BO RICHARDSON remembers the day his daughter asked, with an eight-year-old’s irrepressible…
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How To Get the Shot
Above: Noah Daly, of Aspen Colorado, looks for a shot. CAR TRUNKS CRAMMED with camera bags, tripods, and lenses, we flee Farmington before dawn, engines aimed south. Despite our haste, a half hour…
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Artful Lodgers
Above: The newest residences give artists places to live, work, and gather. CURIOUS THINGS HAPPEN in Roswell. You can easily ponder why its earliest residents would have bothered to settle there on…
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Art & Soul
Above: Gustavo Victor Goler. GUSTAVO VICTOR GOLER Rooted in the art, culture, history, and landscape of Taos, Gustavo Victor Goler was almost fated to become a premier santero. Surrounded by his…
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Global Villager
Above: Matthew Thomas. ON A WARM SEPTEMBER WEEKEND last year, the Taos Historic District was transformed from quaint to cool when an avant-garde carnival of arts lit up the streets. A giant sculpture…
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In His Own Skin
Above: Santa Fe artist Frank Buffalo Hyde explores charged issues in bright, playful images. “THAT'S MY REAL NAME, by the way,” Frank Buffalo Hyde announces out of the blue. “A lot of people think I…
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The Part of the World I Love Best
Above: Bob Nugent / Courtesy the Place of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA) #043588 IF YOU TAKE a map of New Mexico, set one point of a pair of dividers somewhere a little north of Silver City…
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The Tin Master
Above An 1885 nicho, made of tin and glass, by Higinio Gonzales. Photo: David Nufer/Albuquerque Museum Gift of Dr. Ward Alan & Shirley Jolly Minge (PC1997.51.10.A) NEED TO KNOW December 19–April 4…
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