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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 [...]

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 [...]

Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower (Iñupiaq, Utqiag˙vik), Melissa Ahnoorik Ahlooruk Ingersoll (Iñupiaq, Nome), Cassandra Tikasuk Johnson (Unalakleet), Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer (Iñupiaq, Kotzebue), Beverly Tuck (Unangaxˆ, St. Paul Island), Healing Stitches, 2021. Cotton and polyester. Sarah Ayaqi Whalen-Lunn (Iñupiaq), Solidarity, No More Stolen Sisters, and Black Lives Matter, 2020. Digital illustrations on aluminum. Photograph by Blair Clark. Courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art.

Grief’s Outline, Memory’s Shape

BY ANNIE WENSTRUP Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq is a permanent work in progress. Webb is a Yup’ik artist [...]

Jean Toomer, Taos, New Mexico, circa 1935. Courtesy Jill Quasha. Copyright the Estate of Marjorie Content.

Jean Toomer’s Search for Identity in Taos

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Mysterious, mercurial, hard-to-pin down sociologically or racially—and even [...]

Foreground: Jar, Acoma or Laguna Pueblo, ca. 1910. Clay, crushed potsherd temper, mineral and carbon paint, slip. 12 × 11 11/16 inches. Gift of Juan Olivas. MIAC Collection: 12024/12. Background: Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo), Ancestral Awakening, 2019-2022. Photograph by Tira Howard.

Evoking Empowerment

By Lillia McEnaney As visitors enter the Arts section of the Here, Now and Always at the Museum of Indian [...]

Tin Man

By Charlotte Jusinksi I first started researching my article about the Bosque Redondo Memorial (see page 24) [...]

Winning with Work

By Hannah Abelbeck Publications are the work of many people, and the Federal Writers’ Project, founded in [...]

The Naming Ceremony

BY ROSEMARY DIAZ Through the thin layer of darkness that slowly moved away from the coming morning, I could [...]

Western Apacheria

BY NEPHI CRAIG LAND Landscape is destiny. As Indigenous peoples, we represent our landscapes. Basically, [...]

Photo Synthesis

BY HANNAH ABELBECK One hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of Navajo people undertook a second arduous [...]

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