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 [...]
Issues
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 [...]
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, [...]
Stitched to the Soul
BY KATE NELSON Once upon a time, in a trading post on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, a bored [...]
A Fateful Commencement
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT One hundred years ago, New Mexico’s famed light streamed through the new museum’s [...]
The Art of Remembrance
BY LAURA ADDISON In 2003, Amy Groleau was doing archaeological field work as a graduate student in Ayacucho, [...]
Material World
BY CULLEN ARLINGTON CURTISS Of the hundreds of peoples that lived and flourished in native North America, few [...]
The Poem in the Prose
BY CANDACE WALSH When I asked Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge to contribute a poem to our Museum of Art commemorative [...]
Pictures of an Evolution
BY KATHERINE WARE Like many significant anniversaries, the New Mexico Museum of Art’s one-hundredth [...]
Blazing New Trails
BY PATRICK MOORE New Mexico enjoys one of the most complex and culturally rich histories of any state in the [...]
Into the Light
BY KATE NELSON In 1995, during his first Christmas break as a student at Saint Mary’s Seminary in [...]
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