Gallup's Route 66 Adventure
AUTHENTIC NATIVE JEWELRY, rugs, and pottery displayed in the windows of trading posts, galleries, and shops along Route 66 in downtown Gallup let travelers know that they’ve arrived at the Gateway to…
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Emerald Tanner's Fine Art Focus in Gallup
Emerald Tanner enjoys highlighting contemporary artists in and around Gallup at Tanner's Indian Arts. Photograph by Brian Leddy. AS THE FIFTH-GENERATION OWNER of Tanner’s Indian Arts, Emerald Tanner…
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Maisel’s Historic Murals
Pop Chalee’s Animals in the Forest . Courtesy of Historic Albuquerque. A BLUE-SKINNED APACHE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT dancer in ruffled yellow pants hops on his moccasined foot. He brandishes two painted swords…
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Meet Eight Exceptional Women Forging New Paths in New Mexico
Collette Marie incorporates New Mexican imagery such as coyotes, quails, and medicinal plants in her work. Photographs by Jay Hemphill. How Artist Collette Marie Infuses Folk Art with Memory The…
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A Guide to Santa Fe Art
THE FIRST TIME I STEPPED into Art House, one of the many galleries in Santa Fe’s famed Canyon Road art district, I lost my bearings. Crossing the threshold of a historic adobe home, I entered a dim…
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Trading With History
Above: Santo Domingo Trading Post. Note the reference to New Mexico Magazine , between defunct Life and Look. UPDATE: Santo Domingo Pueblo has indefinitely postponed the planned opening for the trading…
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25 Reasons to Love Route 66
COME TAKE A RIDE. The passenger door is open. We have a 19-foot-long shell-pink and iridescent-lavender American automobile to take us down the road. Some days, as the early-summer sun shakes down…
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