IF YOU MEET PAULA WILSON AT HER STUDIO during the weekly art event known as MoMAZoZo, you might not actually see her for a while. Art tends to get in the way, along with history, a growing artistic…
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Hopi Dancers (State I) , 1974, by Fritz Scholder. Courtesy of Tamarind Institute. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, printmaker June Wayne devised a bold plan to rescue the dying medium of lithography. It…
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AT A TEMPERATURE OF 1,000 DEGREES—the heat of lava—the glass at the end of the blowpipe resembles a fiery sun at dusk as it leaves the furnace for the workbench, cooling enough on the way to reveal…
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Jewelry artist Keri Ataumbi works in her Cerrillos Hills studio. IF YOU CAN GET “work” and “play” to be synonymous, then you’re golden. Using that advice from her parents, Kiowa jewelry artist and…
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A gleaming selection of turquoise bracelets. Courtesy of New Mexico Tourism Department. True Blue WATER HELPS COPPER AND ALUMINUM SEEP THROUGH rocks and alchemize into veins of blue stone found in…
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Artist Ed Sandoval is surrounded by his work in his Taos gallery. WHEREVER THE GNARLED OLD man appears, time seems to stand still. Dressed in the same hat and weathered brown coat, he leans his bent…
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Untitled Coalminer #1 , by artist Maye Torres stands before the Miners' Colfax Medical Center. Photograph by Kate Nelson. TEN FEET TALL, HE RISES BEFORE the Miners’ Colfax Medical Center, his bronze…
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Eroded rock inspires Afton Love’s 16 Faces and 16 Bowls. Courtesy of Afton Love. AFTON LOVE’S ARTISTIC AMBITIONS are immense. “I wanted to explore the mysteries of life,” says the Ojo Caliente–based…
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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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Collette Marie incorporates New Mexican imagery such as coyotes, quails, and medicinal plants in her work. Photographs by Jay Hemphill. COLLETTE MARIE INFUSES her folk art with memories of…
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