2024

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 [...]

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), Agnes Sims, 1946. Gelatin silver print. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist; P1979.130.955. © 1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Filling Gaps in the Archive:  

By Robin Babb At the entrance to the gallery, a quote on the wall provides context and raison d’être for [...]

Middle Fork of the Gila River in the Gila Wilderness. Digital photograph by Jay Hemphill.

Nde Benah

By Joe Saenz One hundred years ago, on June 3, 1924, the U.S. Forest Service designated the Gila Wilderness [...]

Unidentified Artist, Locuda (date unknown), ink on handkerchief, 12 ¼ × 12 ¾ in. National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Permanent Collection, 2019.30.42. Photo by Addison Doty.

Rebellious

By Julio Estevan Mendez ¿Quien lo cura? ¿Quien lo cura? I lost all sense of identity and gained a false [...]

Aerial view of the Fort Stanton parade ground with the Visitor Center/ Museum on the left and the Barracks/Dining Hall on the right in the foreground. Both structures, which were originally barracks, and the parade ground date to 1855. The Sierra Blanca Mountains can be seen in the distance and are a part of the Mescalero Reservation. Photo by Tira Howard.

Historic Site Conversations:

New Mexico Historic Sites hired Dr. Oliver Horn as the new regional site manager to oversee the operations of [...]

Capilla de Santa Rita, Penitente chapel near Chimayo, New Mexico, ca. 1955, New Mexico Tourism Bureau, New Mexico Magazine Collection. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), HP.2007.20.562.

Tinieblas

By Leeanna Torres “Dónde estás?” asked Papa over the phone, and after explaining I’d just left the [...]

StormMiguel Florez. Photograph by Gordon Garcia. · Women reunite and reminisce about their community and being out in high school in the 1970s and 1980s. Production still from The Whistle, 2019. Courtesy of StormMiguel Florez. · Collage of Albuquerque lesbian youth in the 1980s. The Whistle, 2019. Courtesy of StormMiguel Florez. · Director of Photographgraphy, Annalise Ophelian; Director, StormMiguel Florez; Participant, Michelle Martinez. The Whistle, 2019. Photograph by Jai James. · i like girls. Production still from The Whistle, 2019. Courtesy of StormMiguel Florez.

The Sound of Community:

By Lazarus Letcher Early in his documentary The Whistle, StormMiguel Florez muses about his LGBTQIA+ friends [...]

Look Long

By Emily Withnall Throughout the eight years I lived in Montana, I wrote essays that were essentially love [...]

Cara Romero, Sand & Stone, 2020. Photograph. 19 × 12 ¾ inches. © Cara Romero. Courtesy of the artist. All rights reserved.

A poem to acknowledge that the land itself — along with the people whose language, culture and religion were born of it — is rarely acknowledged

BY CMARIE FUHRMAN — CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and co-editor of [...]

Unidentified Artist, Chicano Beauty from the Barrio, date unknown. 15 1/2 × 16 in. National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Permanent Collection, 2019.30.130. Photo by Addison Doty.

Love Pa’ Mi Gente Shine Through Me

By Jimmy Santiago Baca There was a time when you would have never caught me in a museum. At most, I had maybe [...]

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