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Don’t think that you injure me by calling my fathers hebrews. of course they were, and thus i want them to be.
—Attributed to Alonso de Cartagena, ancestral cousin of Juan de Oñate, in Diálogo de Vita Beata, by Juan de Lucena, 1502
(more…)José Antonio Esquibel is a genealogical researcher, historian, and author of articles and books related to Spanish colonial genealogy and history, with a particular focus on New Mexico and northeastern Mexico. He is a co-author of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693 (University of New Mexico Press, 2012). He is also co-authored The Royal Road: El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe (University of New Mexico Press, 1998). In 2009 he was knighted by Juan Carlos II, King of Spain, and inducted into the Order of Isabel la Católica with the rank of Cruz de Oficial for his dedication to preserving the history of Spain and Spanish heritage in New Mexico.
Frederick Turner is the author of seven books of nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Christine Mather is a former curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Museum of International Folk Art and former curator of collections at the New Mexico Museum of Art. She wrote the books Santa Fe Style, Native America, True West, and Santa Fe Houses, and curated That Multitudes May Share: Building the Museum of Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Governor’s Gallery.
Lloyd Henri Kiva New (Cherokee, 1916-2002) (opens in a new tab) was best known for fashion design and developing innovative concepts in culturally-based education for Native people. Earning a degree in art education from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1938, New taught painting at the Phoenix Indian School until enlisting in the Navy in 1941, where he served on the USS Sanborn on the Pacific Front. Upon returning to Phoenix after World War II, New became a charter member of the Arizona Craftsmen cooperative, a group of artists who helped develop Scottsdale, Arizona into a western center of handcrafted arts. New took the trade name Kiva in 1946, and the Lloyd Kiva Studio built an affluent clientele and earned national acclaim for handbags, clothing, and printed textiles throughout the 1950s. In 1961, New changed his career path, accepting a position as Art Director at the newly formed Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). New was appointed director of IAIA in 1967 and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1978. Although officially retired, New continued to be active in the Native arts community, serving on the Indian Arts and Crafts board, several boards of national museums, and engaging in writing and speaking engagements world-wide until his death in 2002.
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.
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.
Valerie K. Verzuh is an anthropology graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, has studied and cared for Native American artifacts for the last twenty years, first at the Oakland Museum of California and later at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. As curator of the Individually Cataloged Collections, she has worked to increase understanding of Southwest American Indian material culture and accessibly to the museum’s holdings for artists, scholars, and community members.
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.
