All Creatures BY CHRISTINE MATHER Being the witness to a pure act of creation — a time when something new to the artistic [...]
Donald Woodman BY MARY ANNE REDDING In many ways photographer Donald Woodman is one of the stereotypical free spirits who [...]
Judy Chicago BY KATHRYN M DAVIS Few women in recent history have midwifed their own second birth as has Judy Chicago, [...]
Cody Hartley BY LAURA ADDISON On a bright day in January, Museum of International Folk Art curator Laura Addison sat down [...]
The First Issue Of El Palacio BY BRUCE BERNSTEIN The first issue of El Palacio was published in November 1913 as a monthly eight-page [...]
Pindi Pueblo Comes Home To Roost BY STEPHEN S. POST AND ERIC BLINMAN On December 4, 1933, excavation began on the first site to be listed in [...]
Betty Thomas Toulouse BY CORDELIA THOMAS SNOW On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of El Palacio, Betty Toulouse, then [...]
Folk Art Through The Decades BY CARMELLA PADILLA Since 1953 fourteen words have declared themselves to all who enter the Museum of [...]
The Rio Grande Painters BY LOIS RUDNICK The Rio Grande Painters group wished at the time to have a gallery outside of the State Art [...]
Reading between the Lines BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL Works on paper are seldom seen in the original. The vulnerable sheets are kept in [...]
The Long Road Home BY FRANCES LEVINE I am dirty, ragged and sunburnt, but of best cheer. My life’s work has begun at last. — [...]
Protecting New Mexico’s Cultural Resources J. MICHAEL BREMER WITH SHELLEY THOMPSON Once a month my husband and I grab daypacks, hiking sticks, and [...]
Guilty Boxes BY DODY FUGATE When I was very young my family and I used to travel from down south to visit a park in [...]
Archaeologists, Collectors, and Mueum Collections: BY CHRIS MERRIMAN The relationship between professional archaeologists and private collectors has been [...]
Woodrow Ruin BY JAKOB WILLIAM SEDIG Since 1971 the Museum of New Mexico (MNM) has owned one of the largest and [...]