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Bronc riding, calf roping, and steer wrestling may not be pastimes for old men, but taking pictures of the action sure as heck is. Sam Adams, a retired literary agent for motion pictures and television, has been taking/making photographs since he was nine years old and spent five years documenting the rodeo circuit at the turn of the twenty-first century. (more…)
As the founder and director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s licensing program, Pamela Kelly helps to translate treasures from the collection into products that are sold across the country. (more…)
Research so often starts with serendipity. My study of the historic furniture made for the New Mexico Museum of Art began quite by accident. (more…)
Much of the furniture created for the New Mexico Museum of Art over the years since its opening in 1917 still exists in galleries and storage areas. (more…)
In the early twentieth century the traditional arts of Hispano New Mexico were disappearing. Mass-produced items had become increasingly available via rail transport to New Mexico beginning in 1880 and were eclipsing the crafts of local santeros, tinsmiths, carpinteros, and weavers. (more…)
In nearly five decades as an archaeologist I have analyzed or supervised the analysis of more than a million potsherds. (more…)
Poor Santa Fe, its style is dead, or so I have been told. We are told that Santa Fe is a myth, as if it is misrepresenting itself in some sneaky way, pretending to be something it is not or passing itself off as old or charming when it is, in fact, a false creation, albeit old and charming. (more…)
More than a thousand years ago, Rio Grande potters developed innovative designs for cooking jars that would resist boiling over. (more…)
Until quite recently, pottery making was considered by Pueblo people to be women’s work; Pueblo potters were almost always women. Before the 1930s, men who decided to become potters adopted the female lifestyle, including dress. (more…)
What’s New in New, an exhibition of recently acquired works by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, provides a sampling of the contemporary Native art added over the last twenty years to the museum’s collection of more than 100,000 objects. (more…)
