San José de Gracia Church at 250
FOR FREQUENT TRAVELERS of the High Road to Taos, the image of San José de Gracia church is stamped into the mind’s eye in two ways. Heading north on NM 76, the road climbs into the isolated mountain…
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Tag: Bultos
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Gaze at ethereal sculptures. Spiritual themes appear in the figures carved by late sculptor Patrociño Barela, whose work makes up the new exhibition, Patrociño Barela: I Stand On My Own Feet at the…
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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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Master Santeros Save the Sacred
MASTER SANTERO FÉLIX LÓPEZ calls the artworks at San Antonio de Padua Church, in Córdova, where his great-grandparents are buried, “a door to the sacred.” St. Anthony’s, as it’s casually known in the…
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The Saints Go Marching On
IN 1926, WHEN MARY AUSTIN and Frank Applegate sponsored the first Spanish Market in the Santa Fe Plaza, their enthusiasm for the preservation of the culture and heritage of traditional Spanish…
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