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Through photographs and interviews, this book is an extraordinarily intimate glimpse into the creative spaces and minds of 52 New Mexico artists whose work environments are as varied as the artwork produced in them. Among those represented are contemporary painters, sculptors, printmakers, ceramic and textile artists, video and conceptual artists living in the art capitals of Taos and Santa Fe and in many remote locales throughout the state.

Ernest Knee captured with intimacy and a sensitive modernist eye the expanse of southwestern landscapes and gave us iconic images of the churches at Ranchos de Taos and Trampas, the ruins at Canyon de Chelly and mesa Verde, the sand hills of Abiquiu and Monument Valley. Knee's landscape work remains a primary achievement in New Mexico's photographic history.

Maria, the potter of San Ildefonso (1887 1981), is the most famous of Pueblo Indian potters. She and her family revived a dying art form and a renaissance in Pueblo pottery."

This heartfelt novel for ages 9-12 describes the life of Miguel Rivera, who illegally enters the United States with his parents when he is five.

The author includes over 30 poems culled from the last 25 years which truly showcase his life and soul, a soul that was kidnapped by rodeo and stolen by poetry. His poems and the accompanying photographs by Barbara Van Cleve capture the grit of the rodeo style.

This anthropological and historical study delves into the San Cristobel Ranch in the archaeology-rich Galisteo Basin that has seen centuries of human history and prehistory in lavish photography and lucidly written text. It captures the tale of New Mexico in all its expansive richness -- a beauty of a book, full of archival and landscape photos.

Kansas-born educator Dorothy Dunn established America''s first Indian art school, thus ushering in the flat-art style by which Native American painters have been celebrated as the first modernists. Reproduced here are over ninety paintings by such prominent artists and former students as Pablita Velarde, Joe H Herrera, Allan Houser and Pop Chalee.

This book traces the use and artistry of milagros, small objects offered to Saints and other popular deities by Latin Americans in return for favors or answered prayers.

Two bestselling handbooks and field guides for identifying, collecting, and preparing wild plants for health and healing. Michael Moore draws on his extensive background in botanical medicines and pharmacological sources, as well as Indian and Spanish herbal traditions, to present a highly readable and fascinating tour of the mountain west and the desert and canyon west.