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Carmen Vendelin is a former curator of art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. She organized Colors of the Southwest and O’Keeffe In Process in 2015 and is curated Stage, Setting, Mood: Theatricality in the Visual Arts as a complement to the traveling exhibition First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.
Laura Addison is curator of North American and European folk art at the Museum of International Folk Art. She was previously curator of contemporary art at the New Mexico Museum of Art (2002–13), and is a frequent contributor to El Palacio.
Felicia Katz-Harris is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For nearly twenty years, she was the museum’s Curator of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Oceanic Folk Art at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her past exhibitions include Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan, Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan and the award-winning Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia, which won an award from the American Alliance of Museums for overall excellence in museum exhibitions.
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.
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.
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.
It must have been a good year for the Jornada Mogollon farmer tending his field along Rio Bonito, in south-central New Mexico. That year was about AD 1400, and the farmer had enough corncobs to fill an oversized ceramic storage vessel with the fruits of his labor.
[wonderplugin_slider id=”91″]Gary Cozzens is a former site manager for Lincoln Historic Site. A native New Mexican, Gary grew up in Portales where he attended Eastern New Mexico University with a double major in History and Political Science. Following college, he served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps with a total of twenty-four years of service, including Operation Desert Storm. He retired as a Major in 1999. He is the former president of the Lincoln County Historical Society, former board member of Fort Stanton Inc., former assistant coordinator of the Lincoln County Site Watch, and current member of the Historical Society of New Mexico.
These poems were previously published in The Curvature of the Earth, by Gene Frumkin and Alvaro Cardona-Hine, with a foreword by V. B. Price (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007). Used with the permission of Alvaro Cardona-Hine.
Alvaro Cardona-Hine (opens in a new tab) is a native of Costa Rica and has lived in the United States since 1939. He has published seventeen books of poetry, prose, and translation. He lives in the village of Truchas, New Mexico, where he makes his living as a painter with his wife Barbara McCauley.
Gene Frumkin (1928-2007) was an American poet and teacher. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Los Angeles, and later moved to Albuquerque to teach at the University of New Mexico. Frumkin edited the Blue Mesa Review and taught a number of well known poets including Joy Harjo, Gloria Frym, and Simon Ortiz. His poetry appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies.
The title of the ongoing exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum—From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism—reminds me of my coming-of-age in postwar New York City and raises the question of what brought so many homegrown immigrants, including artists, from a place of such material abundance to a place of such abundant emptiness.
[wonderplugin_slider id=”91″]Adriel Heisey is an aerial photographer known for his sumptuous views of the Southwest and for beautiful and informative photographs of archaeological sites.
Tom Ireland (opens in a new tab) served as the editor of El Palacio from 2015 to 2016. He is an author known for his books Mostly Mules, a travel journal with photos by Molly Mehaffy; Birds of Sorrow: Notes from a River Junction in Northern New Mexico; Our Love Is Like A Cake, true-life romance in post-Soviet Poland; The Man Who Gave His Wife Away, an essay collection about relationships; and The Household Muse, a collaboration with Anne Valley-Fox. He was awarded a literary fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Jeffrey E. Smith award in nonfiction from The Missouri Review. Two of his essays were chosen to appear in Best American Travel Writing.
