What We're Reading: Shutter
RITA TODACHEENE, RAISED IN TOHATCHI, is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police. She also sees dead people. Both skills come in handy when she’s called to the scene of a grisly…
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Category: Arts & Entertainment
Couse-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…
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Discover a Santo Wonderland
SEPARATED FROM THEIR NEAREST SUPPLY points in Mexico, Spanish colonial–era artists in New Mexico made do with the materials they found here. Cottonwood branches and roots became bultos, or statues…
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The Life and Art of Gary Niblett
GLOSSY NEW MEXICO LIGHT SHINES through sprawling bay windows at artist Gary Niblett’s home, in the northern foothills of Santa Fe. His American West oil paintings in gilded frames fill the space. His…
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Become a Jewelry Rock Star
BEHIND A STRIP-MALL DOOR, A SMALL brigade of makers has blowtorches blazing, tiny hammers swinging, and buffing stones whirling. At Albuquerque Silver & Stone Academy, beginners and pros alike learn…
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Try Your Hand at Jewelry Making
Decide what you want to make. Then find who teaches it. Albuquerque’s Meltdown Studio offers specialized classes in specific styles of jewelry, including corset and spinner rings, cuff bracelets, and…
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Earn Your Spurs in Silversmithing
OUT WHERE THE HIGH PLAINS meet Route 66, people from all over the world are drawn to the Cowboy Arts/Western Silversmithing associate’s degree program at Mesalands Community College, in Tucumcari…
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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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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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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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