Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Geek out at ScienceFest. Every summer, the city of Los Alamos hosts ScienceFest, a flurry of hands-on activities, concerts, and markets that focus on science and history. It kicks off Friday with…
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Tag: Folk Art
Carving Out Legacies
ONCE THERE WAS A FATHER FROM MEXICO, a skilled curandero who could find powerful medicine in the most barren deserts. He moved to Arizona with his wife in the first few years of the 20th century, but…
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Discover the World in a Shop
HAYWARD SIMONEAUX WAS DRIVING the High Road to Taos to visit his partner’s family when he noticed a “for rent” sign posted on a building in Truchas and felt compelled to stop. “The space just kind of…
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Five Things To Do This Weekend
1 Decide for yourself. Malinche, as she is known to history, was a central figure during the Spanish conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521. An Indigenous woman, Malinche spoke Nahuatl and Maya, skills…
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Market Season is (Finally) Here
Native dance, traditional Spanish art, and global folk art return this summer. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. MARKET SEASON IS ABOUT MORE THAN ART. The Santa Fe events are cultural touchstones. “They…
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How Artist Collette Marie Infuses Folk Art with Memory
Collette Marie incorporates New Mexican imagery such as coyotes, quails, and medicinal plants in her work. Photographs by Jay Hemphill. COLLETTE MARIE INFUSES her folk art with memories of…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend: July 10-12
Above: An Otomi textile by Mexican artist Julio Laja Chichicaxtle, measuring 68-by-72 inches, is among the works available at the International Folk Art Market's One World Gala and Auction. Photograph…
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Globetrotters
Above: A weaver at the International Folk Art Market. Photograph courtesy of the International Folk Art Market. My first time visiting the International Folk Art Market, in Santa Fe, I was one part…
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A Guide to Santa Fe Art
THE FIRST TIME I STEPPED into Art House, one of the many galleries in Santa Fe’s famed Canyon Road art district, I lost my bearings. Crossing the threshold of a historic adobe home, I entered a dim…
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How To Live, Sleep, And Eat With Folk Art
Above: Judith Espinar in her Santa Fe home. Photographs by Bill Stengel. The man on the other end of the phone meant business. In his native French, he declared, “Non!” Do not come to his village. A…
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