Turning Toward the Taproot
BY EMILY WITHNAL Roxanne Swentzell’s kitchen does not have a refrigerator. Instead, books and large glass [...]
Spring 2018
Sacrifice Lost…and Found
BY DEVORAH ROMANEK Only a few years before the United States joined the Great War as it was raging in Europe, [...]
The Continuous Path
BY ROBERT PREUCEL AND SAMUEL DUWE When Juan de Oñate journeyed north up the Rio Grande valley in the summer [...]
Manson’s Mission
BY DENISE LASSAW In 1967, I turned twenty-two years old at New Buffalo in Arroyo Hondo. I loved living in [...]
The House of Mirth
BY LES DALY Meet James Holmes, “Compulsive Artistic Humorist.” That wouldn’t all be on his business [...]
Radio Killed the Sheet Music Star
BY MEREDITH DAVIDSON AND JAMES M. KELLER Before radio and television, when making music at home was the [...]
Opening the Doors to Closure
BY AMY GROLEAU | TRANSLATED, FROM THE SPANISH, BY STEPHANIE RIGGS AND AMY GROLEAU At the height of the [...]
Outside the Frame
BY HANNAH ABELBECK Carl Newland Werntz was a painter, fine arts photographer, advertiser, illustrator, [...]
They Came to Heal and Stayed to Paint
BY NANCY OWEN LEWIS “The people in this part of the country have about as much use for an artist as their [...]
Roamings, Run-Ins, and Rendez-Vous
BY MERRY SCULLY Planning for our centennial exhibitions required reflection on the past, but also the kind of [...]
Living History
BY CANDACE WALSH History. When I was in high school in the eighties, it was called Social Studies. My teens [...]
History’s Footprints
BY LAURIE WEBSTER Visit the storage facility of any Southwestern anthropology museum, and you’ll see drawer [...]
The Solution That Sticks
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER Few things make a conservator swoon quite like a good adhesive. After all, in a [...]
An O’Keeffe Odyssey
BY KATE NELSON I don’t think the Museum of Art could have asked for or received a better birthday [...]
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