By Rick Hendricks Keynote Address Three Trails Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 18 September 2015 I consider myself something of a Jack of All Trails. In the course of what is beginning to seem like a rather long career, I have been researching, lecturing, and writing about New Mexico history…
Summary: Fred Geary was an artist who designed promotional materials about New Mexico for Fred Harvey & Co. Fred Geary was born in 1894 in Missouri. He created images that were used in railway promotional brochures for Fred Harvey & Co., whose personnel ran the restaurants for the Santa…
At the end of the nineteenth century, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Thomas J. Morgan (1889-1893) and Superintendent of Indian schools Estelle Reel (1898-1910) introduced art instruction in the curriculum of federal boarding schools as an optimal means to reach the goals of assimilation. Art Education at the Albuquerque Indian…
Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta Pueblo) writes about the influence and importance of writer and poet Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo). By Evelina Zuni Lucero Summer 1978. I was a young journalist, in love with words, thriving on deadlines and adrenaline rushes, disbelieving that I actually got paid to meet and…
Traditional beliefs, customs, songs, stories, ideology, and nature contributed to a cultural worldview expressed through a lifetime of artistic work: Allan Houser June 30, 1914-August 22, 1994. By Valerie Rangel Sponsored by the Paul C. S. Carpenter History Project and funded by the King/Carpenter Charitable Trust Regionally acknowledged as…
Allan Houser Chronology 1914 Born June 30 to Sam and Blossom Haozous on the family farm near Apache, OK. 1920 Began grade school at Boone Public School, Boone, OK. 1922 Attended Fort Sill Indian School, Lawton, OK. 1923 – 1928 Completed grade school at Boone Public School. 1928…
A Century of Delight By Juliet Currie Gustave Baumann, ingenious master of the color woodcut, was born one hundred years ago in Magdeburg, Germany. Once he said, “Given a free choice in the matter, I would have selected the Southwest as the place to be born. I would…
By Norma Libman Sponsored by the Paul C. S. Carpenter History Project and funded by the King/Carpenter Charitable Trust Simon Ortiz grew up on the pueblo in the town of McCartys (“Deetseyamah”), and worked in the uranium mines, served in the military, attended college, and then took up what…
Isaac Hamilton Rapp was a pioneering architect in what came to be known as the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style. By Paul Weideman Isaac Hamilton Rapp (1854-1933) was a pioneering architect in what came to be known as the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style or “Santa Fe Style.” Illinois natives, Isaac Rapp and…
Native designers of high fashion express creativity, identity, and tradition in thier clothing designs. By Jessica R. Metcalfe While flipping through Native Peoples magazine one day in 2003, I came across a photo spread of contemporary Native high fashion. It intrigued me how the designers incorporated elements from their…
