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New Mexico Historic Sites hired Dr. Oliver Horn as the new regional site manager to oversee the operations of Fort Stanton and Lincoln Historic Sites. Recently, Olivers at down with Historic Sites’ historic preservation and interpretation specialist, Dr.
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BY AMY GROLEAU AND MARLA REDCORN-MILLER As artists, Aymar Ccopacatty (Aymara) and Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo) each explore the question of non-biodegradable waste in Native communities through their art.
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MODERATED BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER & CONDENSED BY CANDACE WALSH Peter: The Be Here Now collaborations are using the counterculture movement in the United States as their centerpiece, their lodestone. Herb, your exhibition of photographs focuses on your experiences and your fellow soldiers in Vietnam.
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WITH JACK LOEFFLER “Many are the stories and songs about this trail that describe lives both saved and lost during that period when westward expansion followed in the wake of
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This spring we mark the seventieth anniversary of the first detonation of the atomic bomb with an essay by distinguished cultural critic Lois Rudnick on a group of “Atomic Artists,” as she calls them, who span several generations in New Mexico.
BY ANDREW JOHN CECIL Sculptor Felipe Archuleta (1910 –1991) produced hundreds of animal carvings , many of which are on view in Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, at the Museum of International Folk Art.
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WITH KATHERINE WARE While working on the solo exhibition Delilah Montoya: Syncretism, artist Delilah Montoya spoke with curator Katherine Ware about growing up as a New Mexican in Omaha, her emerging activism, the importance of collaboration, and how art can give a voice to communities.
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WITH STEVE CANTRELL Della Warrior arrived at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in July 2013 after serving as president of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), director of Indian Education for the Albuquerque Public Schools, and the first female chairperson of her Otoe-Missouria Tribe in Oklahoma.
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On a bright day in January, Museum of International Folk Art curator Laura Addison sat down with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s new director of curatorial affairs, Cody Hartley, for a conversation about Hartley’s long engagement with the long history of art in New Mexico and his vision for its future.
