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: Santa Fe Indian Market
Don't Miss These Indian Market First-Timers
IF YOU’RE A FLEDGLING INDIGENOUS ARTIST, a golden opportunity to launch your rising star into the stratosphere comes around every August. Since 1922, the Santa Fe Indian Market has provided emerging…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Join the party of the century. Hundredth birthdays call for a party, and this weekend’s Santa Fe Indian Market gets the big-bash treatment for reaching its 100th year as the nation’s premier Native…
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Marla Allison Colors New Worlds
“I AM FROM LAGUNA PUEBLO, so I paint Laguna Pueblo,” says Marla Allison, though her influences span from Hopi and Laguna pottery designs to the modernism of Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. Art lovers in…
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Editor's Letter: Fine Arts
I CAN'T SAY that before moving to New Mexico I had ever purchased a piece of art—unless you count what can be found at Ikea. But in just a short time here, my wife and I have bought enough pottery…
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Amber-Dawn Bear Robe Moves Indigenous Fashion Forward
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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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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Three Questions With Designer Orlando Dugi
Above: Santa Fe fashion designer Orlando Dugi (Dine) unveils his new collection at the Santa Fe Indian Market Fashion Show on Sunday. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. THE INDIAN MARKET FASHION SHOW is…
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Five Things To Do This Weekend: August 14-16
Above: While you may not be able to smell the chiles roasting, there's plenty of fun chile events this weekend at the Bosque Chile Festival. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. Attend the Bosque Chile…
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Shop: Santa Fe Indian Market
Above: Painting by Heather Johnston. Courtesy of SWAIA. EVERY AUGUST, THE SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET draws the best Indigenous artists in America and hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Plaza for a…
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