Five Things to Do This Labor Day Weekend
1 Get fired up for Old Man Gloom. Summer ends with a bang as the Burning of Zozobra celebrates its centennial on Friday at Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe. The roaring 70-foot-tall marionette—stuffed…
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Tag: Indigenous Artists
Native Designers Redefine Western Chic
CHIZHII BY CARRIE WOOD. “Western wear is definitely something I associate with my identity as a Native person, as a Navajo person, because that’s what everyone wears,” says designer Carrie Wood, who…
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Dante Biss-Grayson Shows His Range
THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of color and flare in Taos-based Dante Biss-Grayson’s latest collection: Sky-Eagle Mens Ranch Wear. The Osage designer’s Ace High II Western-cut shirts are designed with pearl…
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Modernize Your Western Fit
Illustrations by Chloe Zola. IN WESTERN WEAR, a cotton kerchief, flashy belt buckle, or squash-blossom necklace can customize and elevate a classic look. However, a fixation on tradition can leave…
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New Mexico Sets Western Style Trends
WESTERN STYLE—iconically American and intrinsically Southwestern—is in full swing on a bumpin’ Friday night at the Dirty Bourbon Dance Hall & Saloon, in Albuquerque. From the wooden railing…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Burn him! Just in time for the 100th burning of Zozobra—which happens next Friday at Fort Marcy Park—the New Mexico History Museum, in Santa Fe, debuts a new exhibition, Zozobra: A Fire That Never…
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Michael Naranjo's Visionary Touch
IN 1999, AT THE DEDICATION for the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, in Washington, D.C., then Senator Barack Obama read a statement inscribed on one of the memorial’s 18 glass panels…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Take the family to the fair. It’s hard not to feel like a kid at the San Juan County Fair in Farmington, where colorful lights, whooshing rides, fun games, and delicious eats are at your…
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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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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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