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For over a century, El Palacio has been a forum for voices exploring New Mexico’s art, archaeology, history, and landscape. Explore the writers, photographers, historians, and scientists whose perspectives have defined the magazine’s pages—past and present.
Arthur Sze is the current U.S. Poet Laureate. Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of twelve books, including Into the Hush, Sight Lines, and others. Sze’s poems have been translated into fifteen languages, and he is the recipient of the National Book Award among many other honors. He lives in Santa Fe.
Deborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo. Her memoir Whiskey Tender was a 2024 National Book Award Finalist and was longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Taffa serves as the director of the MFA in creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Cara Romero is an award-winning contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero’s expansive oeuvre has been informed by formal training in film, digital, fine art, and commercial photography. She maintains a studio in Santa Fe, regularly participates in Native American art fairs, and was featured in PBS’ Craft in America (2019).
Lynn Cline (opens in a new tab) is an author and freelance writer who has covered Santa Fe and New Mexico for The New York Times, New Mexico Magazine, Bon Appetit, and other publications. She’s the author of Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers’ Colonies and Romantic Days and Night in Santa Fe, a travel guide. She has lived in Santa Fe since 1993.
BY LYNN CLINE It’s been thirty years since the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture opened its doors on Museum Hill. This year also marks the twentieth anniversary of the opening of MIAC’s permanent exhibition Here, Now and Always, and the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Laboratory of Archaeology. (more…)
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The Museum of Art’s St. Francis Auditorium— a sanctuary for the soul of Santa Fe—turns 100.
