Putting Culture on the Catwalk
A PUFFY, WHITE BOMBER JACKET evokes desert skies. Pieced together using elegant patchwork, it incorporates vintage textiles to create a billowy shape that seems borrowed from monsoon clouds. Blue…
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Tag: Indigenous Art
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Have a classically cool time. Classic car lovers take over downtown Artesia during the 25th annual Main Event Car Show and Cruise. It kicks off Friday at the Bulldog Bowl when a parade of cool…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Come to dinner. Santa Fe’s Form & Concept gallery opens its newest exhibition, A Feast to Remember , with an artist reception Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. The installation piece by Santa Fe artist Jenny…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See Indigenous art. Reflective Presence , a new visual art exhibition at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, in Albuquerque, features work by Indigenous artists Jessie Littlebird (Laguna/Kewa Pueblos)…
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Weaving Ancestral Threads
RHIANNON GRIEGO SITS IN White Sands National Park, working the strings and pedals of her loom in time with her heartbeat. The gypsum dunes, bathed in the lambent rays of the setting sun, serve as her…
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Dissonance in the Desert
COMPOSER RAVEN CHACON TRACES coordinates in the air above the dining table of his Albuquerque bungalow. He triangulates the house his father built in Corrales in the early 1970s; the Navajo Nation of…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Visit new shows at the Wheelwright Museum. Santa Fe’s Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian kicks off 2024 with two new exhibitions, Pathfinder: 40 Years of Marcus Amerman and Master Glass: The…
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IAIA Offers Double Vision in New Exhibits
IN 2023, THE READERS of USA Today voted the Santa Fe–based IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts the third-best art museum in the country. Run by the Institute of American Indian Arts, which has a…
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Standing at the Crossroads
ONE WINTER DAY IN SANTA FE, I WALKED along Rodeo Road, camera in hand, seeking inspiration. I was also on the verge of tears. I was depressed—haunted by a future that seemed to be slipping from my…
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