2024

Color photograph of portfolio of fine art prints displayed vertically and open

Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts Celebrates Fifty Years

By Jennifer Levin New Mexico Governor Bruce King and First Lady Alice King established the Governor’s [...]

black and white, historic photograph of a politician holding up a stack of papers

The Art of Survival

By Stephanie Joyce The engraving on the side of the cup is painstakingly scratched out of the silver metal. [...]

What the Land Holds

By Emily Withnall Returning from a trip once, the woman seated beside me peered out the window as the plane [...]

color landscape of rain in the foreground and light behind

She, The Mountain

By Santana Shorty At a sleepover when I was seven, my friend said the mountain was a volcano that would erupt [...]

color photo of two girls on tricycles in matching yellow outfits in the mid 70s

Almost Yuman (1972)

Deborah Jackson Taffa Remembering the Animas River helps me forget, at least for a moment, the challenges, [...]

Diverse group of older children eating outdoors at a picnic table

Hands, Heart, Land, Table

By Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz When we arrive at the table, we witness an assortment of heads intermittently [...]

illustration of ancient times in full color - three guards on the roof, a hunter with a catch speaks with a female figure weaving at her loom

Feet, sandals,and the power of political agency in the ancient southwest

By Jim O’Donnell · Illustrations by Marty Two Bulls Sr. Eight hundred years ago, something profoundly [...]

Landscape photograph with a clear blue sky, a foreground of high desert native plants and a mesa at the horizon.

Returning Home

By DezBaa´ Santa Ana Pueblo / Tamaya Santa Ana Pueblo calls itself Tamaya and its people, the Tamayame, [...]

Four dancers on a stage with a black background in various poses, several with arms extended wide.

“¿Tecolote d’ónde vienes?”

By Myrriah Gómez Four dancers take the stage. Their headpieces cast a striking resemblance to the [...]

Pico del Hierro-Villa, Las virgencitas enamoradas, 2022. 12 × 18 in., digital photograph. From Breaking the Borders of La Virgen de Guadalupe.

Who Gets to Be a Saint?

By Jacks McNamara What is love? What is holy? Inside ovals of radiance, two girls holding hands, nearly [...]

Traversing the Memory Field

By Emily Withnall There are several threads running through the articles and essays in this issue of El [...]

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico 1942-1946. U.S. Department of Justice photograph, PAMU.233.2. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), Neg. No. HP.2014.14.2948

Monuments of Mutuality

By Almah LaVon Rice The documentary begins with a close-up view of an apparent snowscape. The camera eye [...]

Harmon Parkhurst, Burros at Acequia Madre, Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca. 1915. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 011047.

Acequias de Santa Fe:

By Adele Oliveira Kyle Maier, Shrine alongside the Acequia de la Muralla, 2020. Courtesy of the Historic [...]

Dylan McLaughlin, Skowhegan, 2023. Courtesy of artist.

Dylan McLaughlin: The Alchemy of Art and Science

By Jason Asenap A drone glides across an empty riverbed, then transitions to a seemingly endless double line [...]

Couple at Prom, Robertson High School, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1981. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), 164812.

So Far From Paris or Santa Fe

BY SAMANTHA DUNN · PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEX TRAUBE Las Vegas, New Mexico. Fifty-four miles east of Santa Fe and [...]

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