The Ride Stuff
IN THE BEGINNING, there was a pony. Rosemary and James Wilkie got it for their five-year-old son. But the Carlsbad couple freely admits they had no business owning any property of the livestock…
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Tag: Art NM
The Great Big Pottery Project
Above, from left: San Ildefonso artists who worked on the pots include Evone Martinez, Johnny Cruz, Becky Martinez, N. Summer Martinez, Barbara Gonzales (seated), Cavan Gonzales, and Eva Moquino…
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Crowd Pleasers
Above: An all-ages show at the Center of Contemporary Arts. PHOTOGRAPHY BY: COURTSEY CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS ON A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON this spring, months before opening night of the Santa Fe…
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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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A Stitch Out of Time
AT EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS, a sprawling “living history” museum south of Santa Fe, colcha embroiderers demonstrate their craft on a dusty plaza enlivened by the aroma of fresh-baked bread. Julia…
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The Hippie and the Hopi
Above: Sabatie bolo slide made of sterling silver, fossilized ivory, turquoise, and ebony. A GUEST ARRIVES two weeks early, by accident, to a pueblo dance. She’s embraced as the apprentice of Hopi’s…
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The Power of the Place
Above: Dancers from various pueblos and tribes, including Hopi from Arizona (pictured), perform at the IPCC on weekend afternoons . ON A BUSTLING BLOCK in Albuquerque’s North Valley, the Indian Pueblo…
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New Revelations
Above: Lloyd Kiva New designed this Southwest-patterned ensemble; it dates to the early 1980s. Photo by Kitty Leaken White leather Kiva bag with Charles Loloma detailing, from the 1950s. Photo by…
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Be The Maker
Photo by JAY HEMPHILL SILVER CITY Towers of Wow Self-described outlaw artist Jean-Robert P. Beffort is the front man of Silver City’s community art garage, A Space, where he reuses and recycles doll…
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