HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC AFFECTED MUSEUMS? EXAMPLES FROM THE BLACKWATER DRAW MUSEUM AT EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY
By Samantha Bokamp
“The Blackwater Draw Museum (BWDM) was among the many museums in the country whose daily operations were disrupted during the pandemic.”
ART CANNOT BE CAGED: DETAINED MIGRANT YOUTH CREATE AN EXHIBIT
By Kayla Myers
“’Uncaged Art Tornillo Children’s Detention Center’ is fundamentally about Central American children who came to our nation seeking security and safety and found themselves incarcerated within the walls of a sterile detention center built in the Chihuahuan Desert.”
NATIONAL HISTORY DAY STUDENTS NAMED FOR SMITHSONIAN DOCUMENTARY SHOWCASE
National Museum of African American History and Culture selected student films showcased in the Smithsonian Learning Lab
THE FOOL’S JOURNEY
By Bethany Tabor
“It’s impossible to travel through Albuquerque without encountering at least one beautiful, larger-than-life mural on the side of a building or wall.”
MANITO
By Leeanna Teresa Martinez y Torres
“Manito: Examining and Deconstructing New Mexico’s Tri-Cultural Myth; ‘Patterns of Migration’
Mama’s easy, un-flinching and quick-to-respond reply to this unfamiliar term, word, name, was curious to me. Manito.”
THE SANTA FE TRAIL
By Thomas Chávez
“For much of its history New Mexico was an island in the wilderness, a unique European settlement among Native cultures in the middle of the continent distant from the so-called frontier lines of the United States and Mexico.”
LÁGRIMAS: POEMS OF JOY AND SADNESS
By Nasario García
“I was fascinated by rural life in the desert where the landscape, the sky, the animals, the birds, and the people brought both happiness and sorrow to my heart, but at the same time each one inveigled my imagination.”
INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH
By Ann Bentley
“What do you think of when you hear ‘book club’? Middle aged women discussing the latest literary fiction or, maybe chick lit, novel, while drinking wine of course. Or maybe you think of retirees, discussing the latest John Grisham or C.J. Box novel. You probably don’t think of inmates discussing the plot line of any novel; much less bring up the plot device of ‘the hand of God’ also known as ‘Deus ex machina.'”
ACEQUIA AQUI: TECHNOLOGY AND CRAFT
Technology and Craft is the third part of our Starting Conversations: Acequia Aqui series. As part of our partnership with The Paseo Project (Taos, NM), this program is celebrating Paseo Project’s recent publication: “Acequia Aqui: Water, Community and Creativity.” This booklet highlights selections from the Acequia Aqui project that took place between 2018 and 2020. It’s an artistic and community driven project that aims to give voice to the historic acequias of Taos to illuminate the importance of this vital resource and cultural wellspring. You can view a digital version of this booklet on ISSU.
ACEQUIA AQUI: WATER, COMMUNITY AND CREATIVITY
In partnership with The Paseo Project, the New Mexico Humanities Council is pleased to host a live Starting Conversations discussion in celebration of the publication of Acequia Aqui: Water, Community, and Creativity. For this conversation we will be joined by two contributing writers, Miguel Santistevan and Sylvia Rodriguez, who will address the urgent topics of acequias in New Mexico, their histories, and their futures.