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By Nicolasa Chávez
The exhibition Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in the Global Marketplace opens June 9 in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Gallery of Conscience. It explores the ways in which folk artists from around the world and in New Mexico work within the global market setting.
Julia Gomez is an artist and educator. She teaches Spanish Colonial arts and lifeways at Rancho de los Golondrinas, and is known for her skill in colcha embroidery.
Nicolasa Chávez (opens in a new tab) is the curator of Latin American & Nuevomexicano Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art. She is a respected historian, curator, and performance artist and previously served as the Deputy State Historian of New Mexico. Her past exhibitions at the museum include New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más, The Red that Colored the World, Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico, and Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico.
Candace Walsh (opens in a new tab) is a former editor of El Palacio. Currently, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Central Washington University. Walsh holds a PhD in creative writing from Ohio University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Candace has worked on staff at Condé Nast International, Mothering Magazine, and as the managing editor of New Mexico Magazine. Her writing has appeared in numerous national and local publications. Walsh is the author of Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity (Seal Press 2012), a 2013 New Mexico – Arizona Book Awards winner, and two of the essay anthologies she co-edited were Lambda Literary Award finalists: Dear John, I Love Jane and Greetings from Janeland.
“I think New Mexico is the greatest experience I ever had from the outside world.” —D. H. Lawrence[wonderplugin_slider id=”18″] (more…)
Christian Waguespack is the director of curatorial affairs and curator of Northwest Art at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington. He is a former head of curatorial affairs and curator of twentieth-century art at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. Waguespack received an MA in Museum Studies with an emphasis on Curatorial Studies and Museum Education and an MA in Art History with an emphasis on Modern + Contemporary Art, both from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He holds a BA and BFA from the University of New Mexico.
The Museum of Art’s St. Francis Auditorium— a sanctuary for the soul of Santa Fe—turns 100.(more…)
Lynn Cline (opens in a new tab) is an author and freelance writer who has covered Santa Fe and New Mexico for The New York Times, New Mexico Magazine, Bon Appetit, and other publications. She’s the author of Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers’ Colonies and Romantic Days and Night in Santa Fe, a travel guide. She has lived in Santa Fe since 1993.
Gregory Hinton is a writer, historian, and the producer of Out West, a national museum program series dedicated to shining a light on LGBT history and culture in the American West.
Herbert Lotz was born and raised on a small farm town in Illinois and drafted in his third year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied photography. He served as a radio operator in Vietnam in 1968 detached to the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi, the experience of which was to affect him the rest of his life, not unlike so many others of his generation. Driving into Santa Fe from the north passing by the National Cemetery in 1970, Lotz felt he had found his new home but still struggled to deal with his wartime experiences. In 1981, Lotz finally came to terms with his experience and continues to work with the photographs he took in Vietnam.
Meredith Davidson is a former curator of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Southwest Collections at the New Mexico History Museum. She also edited the book Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest (Museum of New Mexico Press) by author Jack Loeffler.
Isabel Seligman is the Bridget Riley Art Foundation exhibition curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, and curator of the exhibition Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now.
Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga/Nez Perce) (opens in a new tab) is an artist and writer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian, and numerous corporate and private collections, and has been shown internationally and in major US cities. Learn more at frankbuffalohyde.com.
Vietnam, the televised war, the war that divided us, the war we did not win. Some of us unavoidably served in it, others protested it, many young men died. There is no shortage of photographs documenting the horrors of this “police action.” Military photographers and the free press took millions of photographs of the Vietnam conflict between 1962 and 1975.
Daniel Kosharek (opens in a new tab) is a writer and former photo curator at the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives at the New Mexico History Museum.
Herbert Lotz was born and raised on a small farm town in Illinois and drafted in his third year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied photography. He served as a radio operator in Vietnam in 1968 detached to the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi, the experience of which was to affect him the rest of his life, not unlike so many others of his generation. Driving into Santa Fe from the north passing by the National Cemetery in 1970, Lotz felt he had found his new home but still struggled to deal with his wartime experiences. In 1981, Lotz finally came to terms with his experience and continues to work with the photographs he took in Vietnam.
Penelope Hunter-Stiebel was a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, and recently curated Mirror, Mirror: Photographs of Frida Kahlo for the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum.
