Baumann: Born in Germany in 1881, Baumann eventually settled down in Santa Fe, taking inspiration from the New Mexican countryside for many of his woodblock prints. In 1931, he began carving his “little people”—marionettes that he toured around the state for many years. Baumann’s legacy lives on today through replicas of his loveable little people, […]
How the West Is One views New Mexico art as a holistic tradition that has been produced by important interactions between aesthetic perspectives. Over the last few decades, historians have emphasized the fracturing of New Mexico art into competing ethnic, aesthetic, and conceptual groupings. This fractured history promoted the idea of three separate cultures in […]
Though the source of the Segesser Hide Paintings is obscure, their significance cannot be clearer: the hides are rare examples of the earliest known depictions of colonial life in the United States. Moreover, the tanned and smoothed hides carry the very faces of men whose descendants live in New Mexico today. Perhaps both paintings illustrate […]
Presented by Susan Gervasi Filmmaker Washington, D.C.
Near Winslow, AZ, stand ruins of Homolvi’s 13th century pueblos, and the trails of Hopi migrations. This trip will highlight these sites and Chevelon Canyon, containing over 3000 petroglyphs which go back as far as 4000 years. We will stay at the historic La Posada hotel, the final masterpiece of genteel Fred Harvey Santa Fe […]
Storytelling has long been a part of Native American culture. Comic Art Indigène which opens at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on May 11, 2008 looks at how storytelling has been used through comics and comic inspired art to express the contemporary Native American experience. Under the larger definition of narrative art, comic […]
Please join us at Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, Santa Fe’s only museum-quality Indian art show. Presented by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Native Treasures features over 140 Native American artists, who are specially invited by the Museum to represent the best and brightest of the Indian art world. In fact, many of […]
Called "the longest, crookedest, most arduous pack mule train in the history of America" by Colorado historian Leroy R. Hafen, the Old Spanish Trail is both one of the nation’s least known trails but one of the most important pack mule trading trails in this region. The Old Spanish Trail was primarily a horse and […]
Old Spanish Trail celebrates the early trade route from 1829 Santa Fe to Los Angeles.2:00pm to 3:00pm, Entertainment by Mariachi Buenaventura.
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