Contributors

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.

Robin Farwell Gavin

Robin Farwell Gavin is chief curator for the Spanish Colonial Arts Society and the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum, formerly the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was also a curator at the Museum of International Folk Art. Her books include Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest (coedited with William Wroth; Museum of New Mexico Press) and Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica (University of New Mexico Press).

Blue on Blue

Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain BY ROBIN FARWELL GAVIN In 1957, as renovations were being made to the Conquistadora Chapel in the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, one Franciscan friar was on hand to oversee the work.  [wonderplugin_slider id="116"]   (more…)