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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).
Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Choctaw/Hopi) is the curator of collections at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe, NM. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts Administration from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Lomahaftewa-Singer has more than thirty years of experience with contemporary Native American Art. She has authored catalogue essays in Action/Abstraction Redefined: Native American Art, 1940s to 1970s (2018), 50/50: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years (2012), and Lifting the Veil: New Mexico Women and the Tri-cultural Myth (2007). She currently sits on the New Mexico Capital Arts Foundation Board and the Terra Foundation Indigenous Advisory Council, and she has juried numerous art programs including the Forge Project Fellowships, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Fellowships, and the Santa Fe Art Institute Visual Arts Review Committee.
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BY TATIANA LOMAHAFTEWA-SINGER Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence, at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), celebrates the work of the famed Cherokee artist, designer, and educator, who is still discussed and admired for his modern and innovative foresight and artistry one hundred years after his birth. [wonderplugin_slider id="78"] (more…)
