![A circular structure in a desert. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Coronado-Monument-NM102-400x225.jpg)
New Light on the Village of Kuaua
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Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Staff favorites
Winter 2016
2016 / Vol. 121 / No. 4
![A man and woman pose for a portrait in front of a white sheet in a decorated room, with a dog lying on the floor in the foreground. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Windows-into-Wonder_1-400x225.jpg)
Windows into Wonder
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK What makes vintage photographs so fascinating? Unidentified folks, long-gone buildings, and the clothes people wore all contribute to the allure of these images. [wonderplugin_slider id="46"] (more…)
Categories: Framework, New Mexican history, Southwestern history
![A group of decorated pottery figurines arranged on a cloth, labeled as Pottery figures, By Pueblos of New Mex. with a painted backdrop behind them. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Man-of-Clay_2-400x225.jpg)
Man of Clay
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL He thrust his huge head forward, his mouth open. He held out his left hand, fingers spread wide with energy while he clutched his right hand to his chest. Despite his urgency, I would turn away. I was not coming to the Buchsbaum Gallery at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture to study this emotive anomaly.
Categories: New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art
![A brown horse grazes in the foreground of a hilly landscape with adobe buildings and green trees under a partly cloudy sky. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screen-Shot-2019-04-12-at-10.21.39-AM-400x225.png)
Olive Rush
Finding Her Place in the Santa Fe Art Colony JANN HAYNES GILMORE By May 15 the party had arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they found an enchanting town. Olive and her family stayed at the Hotel de Vargas. Olive found plentiful subject matter for her art in Santa Fe. (more…)
Categories: New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art
![Adobe-style building with wooden accents, two flags (USA and New Mexico) on the roof, blue sky, and landscaping in front. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/moa_entrance-400x225.jpg)
Because the Road Rises to Meet Their Feet
BY ANNE VALLEY-FOX Anne Valley-Fox has published four collections of poetry, most recently How Shadows Are Bundled (University of New Mexico Press, 2009). She is coeditor, with Ann Lacy, of five books of documents culled from the New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project (Sunstone Press). See AnneValleyFox.com. (more…)
Categories: Poetry
![Light blue Japanese kimono with painted figures, including women, children, and animals, in colorful traditional clothing, depicted on the lower half of the garment. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/unnamed-400x225.png)
Stitches in Time
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER DESPITE SOME SIMILARITIES—like long tables, extendable lights, and various tubes hanging from the ceiling—the textile conservation lab, deep in the New Mexico History Museum, isn’t operating-room sterile. (more…)
Categories: Landscape and environment, New Mexican history, Southwestern history
![Two painted cloth panels depict figures in colorful attire, some riding animals, set against a plain background with red borders. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Provisions-for-the-Soul_1-scaled-1-400x225.jpg)
Pomme Crazy
BY CANDACE WALSH Recently, I found myself halfway up an apple tree. You may have never stopped climbing trees, but I haven’t done it since childhood. (more…)
Categories: Editor's Letter
![A series of seven vertical and one horizontal painted scrolls depicting various figures and scenes in vibrant red, yellow, and green, arranged against a black background. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Provisions-for-the-Soul_4-400x225.jpg)
Provisions for the Soul
BY TRIAN NGUYEN The Yao objects in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Sacred Realm exhibition have eye‑opening stories to tell. [wonderplugin_slider id="43"] (more…)
Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art
![A piece of paper with a red and blue emblem. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sheilds-of-Grace_10-400x225.jpg)
Shields of Grace
BY ROGER LOUIS MARTÍNEZ-DÁVILA Faced with deadly religious discrimination that demanded more than faith and less than the truth, conversos turned to heraldry. [wonderplugin_slider id="42"] (more…)
Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history
![Aerial view of a large red rock canyon with steep cliffs, green trees, and a sandy floor, showing clear layers of sediment and sparse vegetation. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Elevated-Perspectives_2-scaled-1-400x225.jpg)
Elevated perspectives
The Ultimate Time - Lapse Photography Project BY MAXINE MCBRINN ONE LATE JANUARY MORNING, I WAS treated to an aerial overview of the greater Santa Fe region, flying with pilot-photographer Adriel Heisey. His work is featured in the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s exhibition Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time alongside images of the northern Southwest and Rio Grande created by Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1929.
Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history