The Auntie Way
ENCHANTING IN A RUG-PRINT DRESS and Marco Arviso statement earrings, Nasheen Sleuth adiates warmth. When we meet, I immediately feel a pull of kinship to the Albuquerque actress and social media…
Read More
Tag: Native Arts
Datebook: April 2022
THE GATHERING OF NATIONS—North America’s largest powwow—is traditionally held in spring. This year, the season of rebirth gives the event special meaning. After two years of pandemic-related hiatus…
Read More
Threads of History
EVERY OTHER FRIDAY, Diné weavers assemble in the Crownpoint elementary school gymnasium to mingle with bidders—some from as far away as New Zealand and China. At 7 p.m., traditional Navajo rugs are…
Read More
Art, Trauma, and the Abeyta Family Legacy
BEYOND THE SANTA FE PLAZA, where history pulses and church bells ring, you climb the creaking steps to Tony Abeyta’s studio. As you ascend, the scents of oil paint, dust, and something like old…
Read More
Flower Child
LIKE THE PUFFY CLUSTERS of yarrow flowers that blossom during the summer, Shayai Lucero (Laguna Pueblo) is a rare delight. As the owner of Earth & Sky Floral Designs, she is among the very small…
Read More
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See sk8er art. Skateboard decks become canvases in PIVOT , an exhibit opening at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, in Albuquerque, on Thursday (through February 2023). The exhibit’s title…
Read More
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Ride with the rodeo. Charreada , a new exhibition opening Friday at Las Cruces’s Branigan Cultural Center, features 15 images by photographer Mel Stone. The 79-year-old worked for years as a…
Read More
What We're Reading: Virgil Ortiz: reVOlution
VIRGIL ORTIZ'S FIRST CLAY FIGURE, created at age six, was a curvy woman clad in a man’s two-piece suit and bow tie. For his genre-bending work, the potter, provocateur, fashion designer, and futurist…
Read More
Culture Hero
Above: Lee Francis IV drawson his Laguna Pueblo heritage and doctorate in educational leadership. Illustration by Dale DeForest. LEE FRANCIS IV GREW UP PICKING COMIC BOOKS off the spinner racks at…
Read More
Five Things to Do This Weekend
Above: Start your holiday shopping at the Winter Indian Market at La Fonda on the Plaza. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. 1 Support Indigenous artists at Winter Indian Market. Native artists show their…
Read More