• Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond: Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph, Thornton Dial, and Lonnie Holley

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond took an in-depth look at the creative vision of a master quilt-maker, Mary Lee Bendolph, and the intersecting artistic worlds in which she participated. Twelve dramatically designed, richly colored, improvisational quilts created by Mary Lee Bendolph and her family members — her mother Aolar Mosely, her daughter Essie B. Pettway, […]

  • Trasteros and Trunks from the Permanent Collection

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The tradition eventually crossed the Atlantic into Mexico and New Mexico. Spanish chests were often decorated with ornate mudejar, or Christo-Mauresque, woodworking techniques as well as baroque relief carving. In New Mexico these highly decorative outside influences translated into a more "simple" folk style. Most chests and trunks were made locally in New Mexico, while […]

  • Spider Woman’s (NA ASHJE’II ’ASDZÁÁ) Gift

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Santa Fe, NM—A striking array of Diné (Navajo) textiles and baskets will soon be on display at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Spider Woman’s (Na ashje’ii 'Asdzáá) Gift: Navajo Weaving Traditions, a long-term exhibition, features weavings from the 1850s through the 1890s—the Classic and Transitional periods. A weaving demonstration, gallery talk, and hands-on […]

  • Spider Woman’s (NA ASHJE’II ’ASDZÁÁ) Gift

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Santa Fe, NM—A striking array of Diné (Navajo) textiles and baskets will soon be on display at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Spider Woman’s (Na ashje’ii 'Asdzáá) Gift: Navajo Weaving Traditions, a long-term exhibition, features weavings from the 1850s through the 1890s—the Classic and Transitional periods. A weaving demonstration, gallery talk, and hands-on […]

  • El Favor de los Santos

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States
  • El Favor de los Santos

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Divine intercession, miracles, blessings, and gestures of appreciation: retablos and ex-votos were a main form of devotion to saints and the Holy Family for nineteenth-century Mexican families. Created largely by self-taught artists, retablos were used as objects of veneration in home worship; a way for the faithful to continue their personal relationship with the divine. […]

  • Native Couture A History of Santa Fe Style

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Santa Fe style represents a state of mind held by those who live in this town either as full-time or part-time residents. Santa Fe style influenced fashion and design worldwide. It is not just jewelry and clothing but a feeling inside, a sense of place and that total belief in the Navajo saying, “Walk in […]

  • Flower Power

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Images inspired by the Flower Power movement of the 1960s.