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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Three Artists Inspired by Water
SASHA VOM DORP Taos Sasha vom Dorp set out to see sound. After learning that sounds had form, he started searching for its shapes and for a medium that would respond to its waves. The answer was…
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Editor's Letter: Water Signs
WHEN THE NEWS CAME IN mid-April, we were well into reporting this month’s “Worth Every Last Drop” cover story. The Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit American Rivers had placed New Mexico’s rivers—yes…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Focus on abstraction. The Taos Abstract Artists Collective opens its Spring Exhibition at the Taos Center for the Arts with a reception on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. Featuring works by 64 abstract…
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True Heroes 2023: Richard Sturgeon
RICHARD STURGEON BEGAN RIDING motorcycles when he moved to New Mexico, where a Los Alamos National Laboratory coworker encouraged him to learn. An environmental science technician, he now rides his…
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What We're Reading: Water for the People
IN OLIVIA ROMO’S “Bendición del Agua,” the poet fetches a ceremonial glass of water for her elder, then says a prayer of respect for both agua y abuelo. That poem (and rite) kicks off Water for the…
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