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.

Arthur Sze

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

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

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).

Jadira Gurulé

Jadira Gurulé (opens in a new tab) is a curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, where she organized exhibitions such as Qué Chola (2019) and Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place in NM (2018). Jadira has a MA in American Studies from the University of New Mexico where she studied Visual Culture with an emphasis on race, gender, identity, and culture.

A life-sized car sculpture covered in blue, yellow, white, and silver fringe, resembling a piñata, displayed in a gallery setting. [gen-ai]

Twenty in Twenty

By Jadira Gurulé Over the years, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum has presented exhibitions that explore visual culture, identity, social issues, and creative expression from around the world. Each year, the NHCC Art Museum presents an average of five exhibitions in its three gallery spaces and offers a robust schedule of educational programming that invites children, families, and adults to explore the richness of Hispanic, Latina/o/x, and Latin American art from a variety of perspectives.