Back to Chimayo: Part One
It is always fun to introduce newbies to New Mexico as we get to see it fresh through their eyes, but we also get to visit old friends, make new ones, and explore new places that we can then visit wit ...
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A Personal Pilgrimage: El Santuario de Chimayó
El Santuario de Chimayó is a Roman Catholic church in Chimayó, New Mexico, built in 1816. This shrine, a National Historic Landmark, is famous as ...
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History and Hollywood at the Nambe Trading Post
Stevie Mack and I are in Santa Fe, preparing for our Tres Culturas seminar this summer. Yesterday I took her to the Nambe Trading Post, once an historic trading post in Nambe, New Mexico. Now it is ru ...
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Tres Culturas: Art at the Capitol
The Collection consists of nearly 600 artworks, exhibited in the interior public spaces of the State Capitol Complex (includes main building and Capitol North annex), as well as on the Capitol grounds ...
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Fun at the Folk Art Flea
Once a year the Museum of International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe hosts the Folk Art Flea Market, to raise funds for the Museum from folk art donated by the Friends of Folk Art and others. I was abl ...
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Presenting SchoolArts Magazine's First Summer Issue
This new issue of SchoolArts magazine marks the inauguration of our first Summer issue, devoted to the theme of recharge/renewal/refresh. If you are like most of the art teachers I know, you are ...
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Mad About Meow Wolf
If you plan to come to Santa Fe, New Mexico anytime soon, be sure to plan a visit to Meow Wolf, an interactive, artists' collaborative art installation, fun house, and magical mystery tour. Meow Wolf ...
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Experiencing Paper
It’s not every day you are invited to attend a workshop with an internationally known artist. Crystal Wagner came to Southeast Missouri State University to create an installati ...
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Fool the Eye Photography
Two years ago I had the privilege of having a wonderful student teacher named Laura Klein from the art education program at Northern Illinois University. NIU is my alma mater, so I was more than enthu ...
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Santa Fe Japanese Cultural Festival
Today in Santa Fe we went to the 12th Annual Japanese Cultural Festival, held at the convention center. It is fantastic to live in a place that is so multicultural - I think there is some kind o ...
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