IF YOU MEET PAULA WILSON AT HER STUDIO during the weekly art event known as MoMAZoZo, you might not actually see her for a while. Art tends to get in the way, along with history, a growing artistic…
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AMBER-DAWN BEAR ROBE WAS GIVEN HER SIKSIKA NAME, Many Butterfly Woman, from a relative’s dream. In it, a tepee was covered in butterflies, but as the dreamer approached, the butterflies took flight…
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Jemez Pueblo’s Oak Canyon Dancers perform in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center courtyard. Photograph courtesy of Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. THE SCENT OF BAKING BREAD wafts across the courtyard of…
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Brandon Hobson's The Removed debuted in February. Photographs courtesy of Ecco and Brandon Hobson. BRANDON HOBSON'S NOVELS ARE GUIDED BY the Cherokee legends his mother and granny told him, by themes…
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Anne Hillerman reunites her crime-fighting trio in this fictional tale of murder, astronomy, and a magical sacred site. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. ANNE HILLERMAN REUNITES HER FICTIONAL…
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Diné weaver Kevin Aspaas lives near the Ship Rock formation, a sacred peak to his people. AN INHERITED UPRIGHT LOOM STANDS against the wall of weaver Venancio Aragon’s Farmington studio. The warps…
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Melinda Bonewell owns the Mine Shaft Tavern, in Madrid. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. MELINDA BONEWELL TRADED SEATTLE’S RAIN FOR the sunny skies of New Mexico 18 years ago when she moved to the…
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Hopi Dancers (State I) , 1974, by Fritz Scholder. Courtesy of Tamarind Institute. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, printmaker June Wayne devised a bold plan to rescue the dying medium of lithography. It…
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Betty Williamson grew up just outside the town of Pep, in southeastern New Mexico. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. BETTY WILLIAMSON’S GRANDPARENTS HOMESTEADED a piece of land 10 miles outside the town…
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The Sacred Heart Church in Bueyeros still holds Mass the first Saturday of each month. AFTER SERVICES IN SACRED HEART CHURCH, Mary Libby Campbell remembers, folks gathered in the old WPA schoolhouse…
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