Above: Ira Wilson. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. IRA WILSON GREW UP among a family of artists. His father was a painter, his grandmother a weaver, his uncle a jeweler. When he moved to Albuquerque…
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Above: Asa Stone at Sidetrack Brewery. Photograph by Minesh Bacrania. ASA STONE THIRSTS for knowledge. When graduating from high school in Hitachi, Japan, she didn’t want to study just one thing, as…
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Agapita Judy Lopez began working in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú home in 1974. Photograph by Stefan Wachs. RAISED IN ABIQUIÚ and between Barranco and Vallecitos, Agapita “Pita” Lopez grew up learning to…
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Above: Larry Deaven. Photograph by Minesh Bacrania. LARRY DEAVEN HELPED FOUND helped found Los Alamos National Laboratory’s portion of the Human Genome Project, work that earned him the lab’s highest…
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Above: Devon Sandoval of NM United. Photograph by Kate Russell. THE FRONT OFFICES OF NM UNITED in downtown Albuquerque feel like a very puro New Mexico project. Owner Peter Trevisiani is from Santa…
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Above: Doris Herrera of Anodyne. Photograph by Allison Pharmakis. DORIS HERRERA GREW UP IN TINY Anthony, Texas, just across the New Mexico state line, where she graduated from a high school class of…
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DAVE HAHN SAYS HE'S ALWAYS been somewhat homeless. Born on a military base in Japan, he grew up in California and New York and has split his time among the tallest mountains of the world ever since…
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Above: Sammy Chioda. Photograph by Brian Leddy. NOT MANY PEOPLE HAVE DONE more for Gallup sports than Salvatore Chioda, affectionately known as “Sammy C.” Chioda is involved in many community…
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Above: Michelle Otero. Photograph by Steven St. John. MICHELLE OTERO HAS LONG LOVED to show people the poetry that surrounds them every day. As Albuquerque’s newest poet laureate, a role she will…
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Above: Stephanie Oyenque of Albuquerque's Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. Photograph by Steven St. John. GROWING UP IN McCarty’s Village, on Acoma Pueblo, Stephanie Oyenque enjoyed an adventuresome…
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