Travel the High Road
ON THE HIGH ROAD to Taos, the landscape keeps changing. Back in Santa Fe, the earth felt hot and dry. But as I approach Nambé on NM 76, the scenic byway’s unofficial starting point, sandy ground…
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Tag: Santero Art
Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum Evolves
ST. GERTRUDE, THE BENEDICTINE MYSTIC, is known for her compassion for souls in purgatory. If one could nominate a patron saint to watch over and protect an unrivaled collection of Spanish Colonial and…
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New Mexico Santos: May 1935
THE INTEREST WHICH has developed in the study of early New Mexican religious art as represented by santos is shown by their scarcity within late years. Some twenty years ago when I first became…
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New Mexico Santos: April 1935
LUMMIS HAS REFERRED TO NEW MEXICO as “The Land of Poco Tiempo .” It might well be termed, “The Land of Santos .” Whenever and wherever the Spaniard established a set tlement, invariably he placed it…
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New Mexico Santos: March 1935
TIME NEVER LIES HEAVY on the mind of the man or woman who has a hobby. This is an old and familiar adage, the truth of which I can vouch for from my own experience. As a boy, I collected stamps…
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Self-Portrait in a Complex Mirror
VICENTE TELLES CAREFULLY rolls open a storage cabinet, revealing a retablo of Our Lady of Guadalupe that’s more than 200 years old. “Pedro Antonio Fresquís, he’s the one known as the first native New…
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From Hard Times to Holy Roller
NICHOLAS HERRERA didn’t grow up in the small northern New Mexico community of El Rito intending to be an artist. But to say that art became his calling is an understatement. After a near-fatal car…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Heat up Nob Hill. The biggest block party of the season happens when Nob Hill hosts the Route 66 Summerfest on Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. Central Avenue shuts down between Girard Boulevard and…
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Why We Love NM: Our Art Tells Sacred Stories
THE ART OF THE SANTERO, or maker of saintly images, is believed to have begun around 1760 in colonial New Mexico. Franciscan priests, charged with the task of establishing Christianity on the…
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Discover a Santo Wonderland
SEPARATED FROM THEIR NEAREST SUPPLY points in Mexico, Spanish colonial–era artists in New Mexico made do with the materials they found here. Cottonwood branches and roots became bultos, or statues…
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