Pamela Kelly with Shelley Thompson

BY SHELLY THOMPSON As the founder and director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s licensing program, Pamela Kelly helps to translate treasures from the collection into products that are sold across the country. (more…)

Categories: Featured, Interviews, Visual art

Furnishing the Santa Fe Style

BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL Research so often starts with serendipity. My study of the historic furniture made for the New Mexico Museum of Art began quite by accident. (more…)

Categories: Featured

Furnishing the Santa Fe Style

BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL Much of the furniture created for the New Mexico Museum of Art over the years since its opening in 1917 still exists in galleries and storage areas. (more…)

Categories: Featured

A CCC Legacy For Bandelier

BY ROBIN FARWELL GAVIN In the early twentieth century the traditional arts of Hispano New Mexico were disappearing. Mass-produced items had become increasingly available via rail transport to New Mexico beginning in 1880 and were eclipsing the crafts of local santeros, tinsmiths, carpinteros, and weavers. (more…)

Categories: Featured

Santa Fe Style is Dead

BY CHRISTINE MATHER Poor Santa Fe, its style is dead, or so I have been told. We are told that Santa Fe is a myth, as if it is misrepresenting itself in some sneaky way, pretending to be something it is not or passing itself off as old or charming when it is, in fact, a false creation, albeit old and charming.

Categories: Uncategorized

Part of the Scenery

BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN More than a thousand years ago, Rio Grande potters developed innovative designs for cooking jars that would resist boiling over. (more…)

Categories: Editor's Letter

The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo

BY DWIGHT P. LANMON AND FRANCIS H. HARLOW Until quite recently, pottery making was considered by Pueblo people to be women’s work; Pueblo potters were almost always women. Before the 1930s, men who decided to become potters adopted the female lifestyle, including dress. (more…)

Categories: Visual art

What’s New in New?

BY CATHY NOTARNICOLA What’s New in New, an exhibition of recently acquired works by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, provides a sampling of the contemporary Native art added over the last twenty years to the museum’s collection of more than 100,000 objects. (more…)

Categories: Visual art

Sitting Still for Beauty

BY JOAN LOGGHE When I come into town, with my lists and good outfits, with my parcels to mail with my radio on KSFR. (more…)

Categories: Poetry