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Despite my passion for travel, curiosity about world cultures and love of art, I had never managed to make it to the world-renowned Santa Fe International Folk Market.  I’d always been working.  This year, I hit the ground running as a volunteer. Joshua Maes and I spent a few hours working the cashier’s station.  It [...]

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“I’m quite sure that it will take the angel band just a short time to get over the shock of ‘The Old Rugged Cross’ in 5/4 time or ‘Amazing Grace’ to the tune of ‘Gilligan’s Island’.” –Van Mertz “Bill’s reggae version of the Ballad of Jed Clampett was one of my favorites…” –Mike Tonder He [...]

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Emerging and independent artists have a low cost opportunity to step up their game with the Artist’s Boot Camp series starting Thursday, May 6th at Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort and Spa.   Sponsored by the Santa Fe Small Business Development Center and Creative Santa Fe, the weekly workshops focus on issues central to successful sales.  The [...]

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Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind which reproduces itself. The Assyrians call it the Phoenix. –Ovid A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled over an exchange on Facebook that dug into my mind like a splinter and stewed there, coalescing ideas until it pushed itself back to the surface. [...]

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Search for Red Cell on Facebook  and you’ll see a haggard face with sad, bitter eyes. A man beaten by life.  This is not Red Cell.  The tiny headshot of an anonymous, dustbowl prisoner stands in wry contrast to the genial visionary powerhouse himself.  But controverting your expectations is stock-in-trade for the man behind The [...]

Great cities are defined by great art.  We acknowledge the fact, profit from the spirit, but don’t necessarily involve ourselves with feeding our city’s vital arts character. Blessedly, in New Mexico, many do.
Last week, I took part in #abqtalk: a Twitter Talk show moderated by William C. Reichard, multi-talented communications pro and author of the blog [...]

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Never underestimate the power of a cheeseball.
Forty some years ago, my southern-born mama started making cheeseballs for The Sorry Muthas: a Minneapolis based folk band. Before the band went off on tour, mom would fill doubled up paper sacks from the local Red Owl grocery store with oranges, crackers and other substantive snacks.  Cheeseballs were [...]

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Santa Fe’s Eastside is where many of the defining events in Santa Fe’s history occurred. Art and Santa Fe have been intertwined for generations. One of the most colorful and earliest artist groups to settle in Santa Fe was called Los Cincos Pintores (The five painters) which included. Josef Bakos, Fremont Ellis, Walter Mruk, Willard [...]

As Nature digs into her annual cycle of reduction, reuse and recycling, Santa Fe is celebrating its own happy mash of Green and artistic sensibilities through several shows that reanimate the material dead. October 30th marked Meow Wolf’s opening for GEODEcedant, a massive, riveting installation of found objects hung in a delicate midair dance, as [...]

Sure, Santa Fe was crowned a UNESCO Creative City in 2005 (for folk art and design) and has apparent squatter’s right in the Small Cities category of American Style’s annual poll on the top 25 arts destinations.  We’re known for the Canyon Road art galleries, the opera, Indian Market, Spanish Market and most recently, the [...]