Encounter Culture

Chisme at the Museum: Rebuilding Community and Nurturing Tradition with Elena Baca and Jana Gottshalk

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Some of New Mexico's most prominent artists are passing traditional Nuevo Mexicano art forms like colcha embroidery, retablos and bultos, tinwork, and straw applique down to the next generation. These artists include Jean Anaya Moya, Vanessa Zamora, Vincente Telles, Arthur Lopez, Eric Romero, Vanessa Alvarado, Rhonda Crispin, and Cleo Romero.

Elena Baca, education program manager at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (Albuquerque), and Jana Gottshalk, curator and director at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum (Santa Fe), create spaces where these traditions stay alive and where kids can explore and express themselves freely.

Discover more:

National Hispanic Cultural Center Learning programming

National Hispanic Cultural Center Museum

Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum ongoing programming

Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum

Wonders on Wheels

Button Box Dreams & Repair-Shop Flair: Mastering the Art of Accordions with Tony Tomei and Antonio Maestas

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Accordions are woven into New Mexico's soundscape—at fiestas, on plazas, and in the musical storytelling traditions that travel across generations. In this episode of Encounter Culture, host Emily Withnall talks with Tony Tomei and Antonio Maestas, a master-and-apprentice duo who completed the New Mexico Arts Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program in 2024, focusing on accordion restoration and traditional New Mexico tunings.

Tony and Antonio fell in love with the accordion in different decades and play different styles. Tony first encountered the accordion as a child in the 1950s, growing up in an ethnically diverse community where the instrument was central to social life. "And that was before the Beatles came in the sixties and basically wreaked havoc with the accordion and everybody switched over to the guitars," Tony laughs.

Discover more:

New Mexico Arts Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs on YouTube

Hear more on Encounter Culture:

The American Mystique of the Cowboy Boot with Deana McGuffin and Jes Márquez

Learn more:

Hohner

Albuquerque Accordion Club

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Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio MagazineExecutive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. RuizRecording Engineer: Collin Ungerleider and Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa FeEditor & Production Manager: Alex RieglerAssociate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

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Boosterism, Broken Narratives, and What the Camera Sells: The Mullarky Collection, New Mexico History Museum Photo Archives

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Photos can obscure as much as they reveal. When we encounter historic photographs, it can feel like we've entered the past through a portal. But like contemporary photographs, what is left out of the frame is as interesting and puzzling as what we can observe. Still, the donation of historic photos to any archive can only help to add to our knowledge and expand the questions we need to ask. This is certainly the case for the William Thomas Mullarky photo collection at the New Mexico History Museum's Palace of the Governors Photo Archive. The Mullarky collection has never been accessible until recently and they provide unusual and unexpected windows into 1930s Gallup, New Mexico.

For the Fall 2025 issue of El Palacio, University of New Mexico professor and labor historian, David Correia, wrote an article about the Gallup Coal Wars of 1933-35. Mullarky's photos of the events in Gallup at the time accompany Correia's words. For this episode of Encounter Culture, however, Correia talks about who Mullarky was and what makes his photos so out of the ordinary.

Discover more:

New Mexico History Museum Palace of the Governors Photo Archive

William Thomas Mullarky Photographs of the Gallup Coal War

Hear more on Encounter Culture:

A History of Genízaro Identity in the Heart of New Mexico with Dr. Gregorio Gonzales

The Promise of a Photo with Anthropologist Robert Quintana Hopkins and Archivist Hannah Abelbeck, New Mexico History Museum

Read more in El Palacio:

"Strike and Struggle: The Great Gallup Coal War, 1933-35," by David Correia Fall 2025 issue of El Palacio

Learn more:

An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries, by David Correia

Edward Curtis photographs (as example of "frontier photography")

Simeon Schwemberger photo collection at The University of New Mexico

J.R. Willis

Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial

Center for Southwest Research at The University of New Mexico

The Myth of Santa Fe, by Chris Wilson (UNM Press)

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Excavating New Mexico's Land Grant Legacy at Cañón de Carnué with Archaeologist Kelly Jenks

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0400

In this episode of Encounter Culture, community-led archaeology takes center stage as an alternative to extractive excavation practices of the past and a best practice rooted in respect and deeper historical understanding.

At the Cañón de Carnué land grant in New Mexico, New Mexico State University has partnered with land grant heirs, as Dr. Kelly Jenks, a historical archaeologist with NMSU, discusses efforts to uncover the layered history of a community first established in 1763, revealing how Indigenous, Genízaro, and colonial peoples together shaped the region's frontier past.

Discover more:

Archaeology in Cañón de Carnué, New Mexico State University

Cañón de Carnué land grant history

New Mexico land grant history

United States v. Sandoval Supreme Court decision stripping land grant rights

Present-day land grant actions

San Miguel del Vado land grant recovery efforts

Nación Genízara: Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico, edited by Moises Gonzales and Enrique R. Lamadrid

Hear more on Encounter Culture:

A History of Genízaro Identity in the Heart of New Mexico with Dr. Gregorio Gonzales, Encounter Culture season 6

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Encounter Culture is a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineers: Collin Ungerleider & Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

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BONUS: Come Together Over New Mexico Culture This Winter

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:30:00 -0400

Are you feeling the pull to be connected this winter? We have some opportunities for you to be a part of New Mexican culture featuring art, history, science, poetry, and live conversations.

Plus find out who loves winter and who does not... Encounter Culture host Emily or producer Andrea?

Learn more about the Folk Art Apprenticeship Program & Apply: https://bit.ly/nmartsfolk

Get details about the reopening of the Museum of Natural History & Science: https://bit.ly/nmnathistory

Join Us For An El Palacio Reading:

January 11, 2026, 2pm @ FUSION, Albuquerque - https://bit.ly/elpaljan2026

February 22 at 2 pm in the Donnelly Library at New Mexico Highlands University - Details coming soon. Follow El Palacio on Instagram or Facebook for updates.

Read more in El Palacio:

Before the Famous Fossils: Ancient Life in the Paleozoic Era in New Mexico by Tamara Enz, Spring 2025

Winter 2025 issue!

Your Encounter Culture Playlist:

The American Mystique of the Cowboy Boot with Deana McGufin and Jes Márquez, Season 8

TIme Travel: From GIant Millipedes to Modern Landscapes with New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Season 8

Ancient LIfe: There's No Shame in Extinction video on YouTube

Big, Toothy, and Conveniently Dead: Why We Are Obsessed with Dinosaurs Featuring Anthony Fiorillo, Season 5

An Underground Love Affair, The Palace Seen and Unseen with Archaeologists Cordelia Snow & Stephen Post, Season 1

Everyone Wants to be Included in the Story of New Mexico: The Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum, Season 9

Good Heart Work: Poetry as Medicine with Manuel González, New Mexico Poet Laureate, Season 9

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Good Heart Work: Poetry as Medicine with Manuel González, New Mexico Poet Laureate

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0400

New Mexico has a new Poet Laureate! Although Manuel González is well known in the slam poetry circles in Albuquerque—where he also served as the city's poet laureate from 2016 to 2018—he is now stepping into a larger role with big visions about how to engage the entire state in the unique connection and expression inherent to poetry.

Throughout his career, González has made it his mission to reach the most marginalized people in New Mexico, and now he plans to leverage his role as Poet Laureate heal hearts in as many communities as possible.

Discover more:

Manuel González Xicanopoet

New Mexico Arts

Manny and the Casanovas

Al Hurricane

Native American Community Academy

Hear more on Encounter Culture:

From Goatheads to Grand Canyons: A Love Letter to the Landscape with New Mexico State Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp, Season 6

Curanderismo, Poetry, and How to Heal a Broken Heart with Tommy Archuleta, Santa Fe Poet Laureate, Season 7

Read more in El Palacio:

Art and Activism at Highlands University, by Myrriah Gόmez, Winter 2025

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Encounter Culture is a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio MagazineExecutive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. RuizRecording Engineers: Collin Ungerleider & Kabby at Kabby Sound StudiosEditor & Production Manager: Alex RieglerAssociate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

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Everyone Wants to be Included in the Story of New Mexico: The Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:00:00 -0400

New Mexico is the fifth largest state, making access to art, history, and culture at museums or historic site difficult for many. The Wonder on Wheels mobile museum traverses the state to bring art and history directly to small towns, villages, and Pueblos, ensuring everyone can participate in the rich cultural conversations so central to New Mexican identity.

The exhibition inside the thirty-eight-foot RV changes annually and this year, the eight New Mexico State Historic Sites tell the state's story across centuries, from 1150 to the early twentieth century. The staff pack rich history into a small space, supported by oral narratives and dialogue.

Plan your visit:

Wonders on Wheels

Wonders on Wheels Facebook Group

New Mexico Historic Sites

Hear more on Encounter Culture:

Listen, and Speak the Truth: Collaborating Through Conversation on the Bosque Redondo Memorial with Manuelito Wheeler and Aaron Roth, Encounter Culture, Season 2

Listen to the Land: Art at Bosque Redondo with Dakota Mace, Daisy Trudell-Mills, and Kéyah Keenan Henry, Encounter Culture, Season 6

Everything Past is Present at Los Luceros Historic Site with Rebecca Ward and Carly Stewart, Encounter Culture, Season 3

The Land is Everything: Voting Rights vs Tribal Sovereignty with Dr. Maurice Crandall, Encounter Culture, Season 4

Read more in El Palacio:

"The Man in the Sala," El Palacio Summer 2023

"Cathay Williams: In Search of Liberation with the Buffalo Soldiers," El Palacio Summer 2025

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Behind the Mic and Between the Pages: Sharing Award-Winning Stories and Season 9 Preview with Emily Withnall & Andrea Klunder

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0400

In anticipation of another rich season of New Mexico history, art, and culture, El Palacio editor and Encounter Culture host Emily Withnall and producer Andrea Klunder reflect on a year of award-winning storytelling.

From earning national recognition for both the podcast and the magazine to the art of curating New Mexico's most compelling voices, Andrea and Emily share what it takes to craft stories that resonate across time and place.

They also look ahead to a new season of conversations with artists, historians, and cultural stewards. Plus, tune in to hear about a few favorite winter traditions that make this time of year uniquely New Mexican! Join us for a window into the creative collaboration that continues to shape Encounter Culture.

Connecting People Through Time - Makowa: The Worlds Above Us with Misha Pipe and Kaela Waldstein

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400

For as long as humans have been on this earth, we have looked to the cosmos for information and direction. The Indigenous people of North America used the skies to make sense of their environments and to guide them in planting crops, building villages, and conducting ceremonies. The new exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Makowa: The Worlds Above Us, showcases a wide range of art, photographs, videos, and more to center the wisdom and longevity of Native astronomy and to remind us that we are all interconnected. On this episode of Encounter Culture, guest consultants for the Makowa exhibition, Misha Pipe and Kaela Waldstein, join host Emily Withnall in the studio to talk about all of this and more.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Makowa: The Worlds Above Us exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

"Symphonies in the Skies": article about Makowa in Summer 2025 issue of El Palacio

"Star Parties, Rim Blown Flutes, and Pueblo History at Jemez Historic Site with Marlon Magdalena," Encounter Culture podcast episode

Lowell Observatory

Jemez Historic Site (and summer Star Party events)

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineer: Collin Ungerleider and Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

Uplifting Cultural Knowledge with Navajo Picture Book Author Daniel Vandever

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400

On the surface, Diné author Daniel Vandever's picture books might appear to be straightforward stories, but the messages about the power of imagination and adventure in his books are imbued with layers of meaning. In his book Fall in Line, Holden!, a little boy breaks free from the constraints of rules and discipline by using his imagination. On a deeper level, the book speaks to the history of Indian Boarding Schools in pushing cultural assimilation.

Likewise, in his wordless picture book Herizon, a girl goes on a magic scarf ride to find her lost sheep. This book is imbued with symbolism about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) epidemic, as well as cultural references to the Navajo Nation. Herizon was nominated to represent New Mexico at the 2024 National Book Festival.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Fall in Line, Holden! by Daniel Vandever

Herizon by Daniel Vandever

We Weave by Daniel Vandever

Salina Bookshelf

New Mexico representation at the 2024 National Book Festival

The Long Walk

Livestock Reduction Act

"A Brief History of Navaj- Churro Sheep" in the Spring 2025 issue of El Palacio

Navajo Code Talkers

Deb Haaland's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report: Volume I and Volume II

The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss

Roadrunner's Dance by Rudolfo Anaya

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin

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Time Travel: From Giant Millipedes to Modern Landscapes with New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

Wed, 28 May 2025 09:00:00 -0400

A long, long time ago, the region that is now New Mexico was part of a giant land mass, and it was located on the equator. The climate was warm and tropical and much of the present-day state was covered in shallow seas. This was long before humans or even dinosaurs existed—252 to 541 million years ago.

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has recently opened a new permanent exhibition, The Bradbury Stamm Construction Hall of Ancient Life, that covers the vast geologic history of ancient life in the state. Piecing together the story of ancient life in New Mexico can read like a detective story, and Matt Celeskey, Curator of Exhibits, and Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology, help us unravel it.

Mentioned in this Episode:

New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

The Bradbury Stamm Construction Hall of Ancient Life

Before the Famous Fossils: Ancient Life in the Paleozoic Era in New Mexico article in Spring 2025 issue of El Palacio

Video walkthrough of exhibition in its final stages of construction

Gordodon reptile fossil found near Alamogordo

Eoscansor tree-climbing reptile fossil found near Chama

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Exhibition Design, 3-D Modeling, and Clown Chess Sets at New Mexico Highlands University with Lauren Addario and Becca Sharp

Wed, 14 May 2025 09:00:00 -0400

The Media Arts & Technology department at New Mexico Highlands University is a one-of-a-kind program. Students not only learn about technology and design, but they get to implement their ideas, working from brainstorming and mind mapping to exhibition design and installation, interactive displays, and so much more.

NMHU professors Lauren Addario and Becca Sharp join Emily Withnall to talk about their program and their 20-year partnership with the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, including their exhibition design at many of DCA's Historic Sites. This partnership and internship program is one way students from rural parts of the state can learn about various jobs in the arts and develop their skills in design, interpretation, cultural technology, and so much more.

Mentioned in this Episode:

NMHU Media Arts & Technology

Los Luceros Historic Site

Jemez Historic Site

Coronado Historic Site

Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site

New Mexico State Land Office

Returning Home article by DezBaa' about the NM State Land Office's land exchange program

Mineral Hill (Lauren's band!)

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The American Mystique of the Cowboy Boot with Deana McGuffin and Jes Márquez

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0400

New Mexico Arts runs a Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program that pairs masters in a particular art form with apprentices so that a wide variety of arts unique to New Mexico can be passed on. In this episode of Encounter Culture, host Emily Withnall chats with bootmakers Jes Márquez and Deana McGuffin about their experience with the Apprenticeship Program and the wonderful challenge of making beautiful cowboy boots.

Mentioned in this Episode:

New Mexico Arts Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Jes Márquez Instagram profile

Jes Márquez website

New Mexico Arts Art in Public Places

Zozobra event in Santa Fe

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Collin Ungerleider and Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

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La Virgen de Guadalupe: Photographing a Cultural Icon with Delilah Montoya and Katie Doyle

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0400

The Virgin of Guadalupe is a cultural icon with deep roots in Mexican and Chicano communities across the United States and Mexico, among other places. Artists in New Mexico often reference Guadalupe in their work—including Chicana artist Delilah Montoya.

A mixed-media piece, "La Guadalupana," by Montoya features a large photograph of the Virgin of Guadalupe as tattooed on the back of an incarcerated man. It is one of the many works of art on display at New Mexico Museum of Art's Vladem Contemporary as a part of their "identity" theme in Off-Center.

Katie Doyle, assistant curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art, says Montoya's work fits in with Vladem's exhibition because it tells one of many essential stories about the cultural and historical issues that have continued to affect people in New Mexico.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Gloria Anzaldúa on la Virgen de Guadalupe

Off-Center: New Mexico Art, 1970-2000 at New Mexico Museum of Art's Vladem Contemporary

La Guadalupana by Delilah Montoya

Chicano Awareness Center in Omaha, Nebraska

Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska

National Geographic article about DNA and human ancestry

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Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio MagazineExecutive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. RuizRecording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa FeEditor & Production Manager: Alex RieglerAssociate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

Boots, Books, and the Vast Unknown: Season 8 Preview with Emily Withnall and Andrea Klunder

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0400

Join host Emily Withnall and producer Andrea Klunder for a preview of the upcoming 8th season of Encounter Culture. This season features diverse topics, including an interview with artist Delilah Montoya, a tour of the brand-new Ancient Life exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, a conversation about children's books with author Daniel Vandever, and a deep look inside the art of bootmaking.

"It's cool to think about art in that way, you know, to create beauty from nothing. It starts as an idea and then all of a sudden you have this beautiful object that you've somehow created from that original spark of an idea in your brain." ~Emily Withnall

ENCOUNTER CULTURE EPISODES REFERENCED

Look Up! Leo Villareal's Astral Array at New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary

FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION

Delilah Montoya

Off-Center at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Vladem Contemporary

Ancient Life at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

Program for Interactive Cultural Technology, New Mexico Highlands University

Fall in Line, Holden! by Daniel Vandever

Herizon by Daniel Vandever

We Weave by Daniel Vandever

New Mexico State Library

New Mexico Arts Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program

Jes Márquez

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

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Visit newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

Our favorite way to fully experience everything they have to offer is with the New Mexico CulturePass. Reserve yours online!

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineers: Collin Ungerleider & Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

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The Oryx and the Bomb: Colonial Legacies at White Sands Missile Range with Marcus Xavier Chormicle

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0400

Roughly six thousand large antelopes native to Africa live on the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Once small in number, these oryx have proliferated and make for an unexpected sight with their giant bodies, striking black and white faces, and long, spear-like horns. What are the oryx doing in New Mexico? Las Cruces-based photographer, Marcus Xavier Chormicle's research of the animals has informed his oryx photography series. The oryx series was the focus of Chormicle's work during his New Mexico Arts residency at Lincoln Historic Site in the spring of 2024. He joined Encounter Culture to share what he has learned about the history of the oryx in the state and how his project has helped him wrestle with the complicated questions that arise from the animals' presence.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Marcus Xavier Chormicle photography

Deep Springs photography book by Sam Contis

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University

American artist Binh Danh

Lincoln Historic Site

White Sands Missile Range

Trinity Site

For further reading and more resources, view the full show notes.

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Encounter Culture is a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

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The Beaded Nun, Haunted Exhibitions, and Other Museum Stories with Nick Waddell and Michelle Rodriguez, Museum of International Folk Art

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0400

How many times have you visited the same museum? Whether your answer is "one" or "hundreds" this episode of Encounter Culture invites listeners behind the scenes to hear about the rewards of visiting and revisiting the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Longtime security guard Nick Wadell and docent and customer service rep, Michelle Rodriguez, share stories about works of art, mysteries, and memorable visitors that will give listeners a deeper experience of the museum—and hopefully, entice them back again.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Girard Wing at the Museum of International Folk Art

Santero Felix Lopez

Article in fall issue of El Palacio: The Art of Survival: The Aftermath of the Deadly 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot

Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine: Exhibition at MOIFA through April 27, 2025

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Encounter Culture is a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

For further reading and more resources, view the full show notes.

The Great Debate: How old ARE the Footprints at White Sands? with David Rachal and John Taylor-Montoya

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0400

How old are the footprints at White Sands? It depends on who you ask. Scientists are currently divided on this question, but the division is one that is propelling more research with the goal of determining whether humans have been in North America for 23,000 years or closer to 15,000 years.

The ditch weed, or Ruppia, is at the center of this debate. What can a plant tell us about carbon dating to determine the age of the footprints at White Sands? What are the pitfalls of depending on an unreliable organic material? Dr. John Taylor-Montoya, director of the Office of Archaeological Studies, and Dr. David Rachal, a geoarchaeology consultant, have a lot to say about the scientific debate about the age of the footprints—and about the research that needs to be done to resolve the question.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Dr. David Rachal's White Sands research papers

White Sands field interview with Dr. David Rachal

History, Science, Mythology, and the First Americans article in Summer 2023 issue of El Palacio

New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies

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Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio MagazineExecutive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. RuizRecording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa FeEditor & Production Manager: Alex RieglerAssociate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi NavaInstagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

Painting Wildstyle Out in the Streets with Graffiti Writer Strike and Art Curator Rebecca Gomez

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0400

What is art, and who gets to define it? The Convergence x Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque provides an entry point to this conversation.

Former National Hispanic Cultural Center curator Rebecca Gomez and street artist Strike have a lot to say about the challenges and contradictions inherent to creating a street art exhibition. By bringing street art into a museum setting, the exhibition challenges stereotypes, blurs the boundaries between gallery art and street art, and invites viewers to reflect on what it means to create art in the face of some of life's biggest challenges.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Convergence X Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest

Gil Rocha

Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas

South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque

Murals in Barelas Neighborhood in Albuquerque

Illegal? Art Show in Las Cruces

Borderland Jam in El Paso, Texas

Paint Louis graffiti art festival in St. Louis, Missouri

For further reading and more resources, view the full show notes.

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Encounter Culture is a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

Truth and Tragedy: The Timeless Mythology of La Llorona with Irene Vásquez at University of New Mexico

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:00:00 -0400

Some stories persist for hundreds of years. La Llorona is one such story. Though there is much speculation about where exactly the original story began, it is clear that La Llorona as a legend and myth has staying power. What is it about the weeping woman that has captured our imaginations for centuries? And how has the story of La Llorona changed over time?

Irene Vásquez, chair of the Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico, has a lot to say about why this folk tale is so compelling and how the best stories take on a life of their own.

Mentioned In This Episode:

UNM Chicana and Chicano Studies

Southwest Hispanic Research Institute

Gloria Anzaldúa's La Llorona story

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

COVID-19 version of La Llorona story as referenced in Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

Roots of La Llorona story

2019 La Llorona film set in Guatemala

The Curse of La Llorona film

"Woman Hollering Creek" La Llorona story by Sandra Cisneros

"La Lloroncita" song by Rómulo Castro y el Grupo Tuira

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Encounter Culture is a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

Curanderismo, Poetry, and How to Heal a Broken Heart with Tommy Archuleta, Santa Fe Poet Laureate

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:39:00 -0400

Let's be honest: these are turbulent times for us all. No matter who you are and what your personal circumstances are, it's likely that you may be in need of some remedies or poetry—or both! Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta offers both in his new collection, Susto.

The book of poems weaves poetry about love and loss with meditations on the New Mexican landscape. Threaded between the poems are remedios for a broken heart. No matter your ailment, these remedios are bound to offer some relief.

"With each evolution of each draft, there's just this beauty that was coming out," Archuleta says. "Because being asked, 'Why the heck do you write about death so much? My God, all of you guys--all the way back to Dante.' … I don't know what his excuse is, but I think the reason is because it's a way of embracing the present life that you do have."

ENCOUNTER CULTURE EPISODES TO CATCH UP ON:

From Goatheads to Grand Canyons with Laura Camp

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Learn more about Tommy Archuleta's readings and poetry workshops

Request a reading or workshop from Tommy Archuleta

Susto, poetry collection written by Tommy Archuleta, Santa Fe Poet Laureate

CulturePass New Mexico State Library

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Encounter Culture is a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

Investigating Who We Are Across Media and Millennia: Season Preview with Emily Withnall and Andrea Klunder

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0400

Dispelling misconceptions about street art, discovering ancient footprints that reconfigure our origin stories, and delving into remedios for a broken heart… A new season of Encounter Culture is coming your way October 2024!

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EPISODES TO CATCH UP ON:

Science Fiction for Social Justice

Prison Art as an Assertion of Humanity

From Goatheads to Grand Canyons with Laura Camp

ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Tommy Archuleta, Santa Fe Poet Laureate

Convergence x Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest at National Hispanic Cultural Center

Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA)

New Mexico Arts

Lincoln Historic Site

CulturePass

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio magazine Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler Associate Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota) Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

From Exoplanets to Earthly Technology: Exploring Our Fears and Dreams Through Science Fiction with Ness Brown and Chris Orwoll

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0400

What does the space history have to do with science fiction? More than you'd think! Among the many exhibitions the New Mexico Museum of Space History offers is one called Sci Fi & Sci Fact: Two Worlds Collide. As Chris Orwoll, executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Space History shares, TV shows and movies like Star Trek and Star Wars were greatly influential to NASA employees. And that's just one example!

On the flip side, contemporary technologies can influence artists, writers, and filmmakers. For Los Alamos native, science fiction novelist, and astrophysicist student, Ness Brown, the connection between art and science is clear: "Truth is stranger than fiction."

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Ness Brown's horror sci-fi novel, The Scourge Between Stars

MEGACON

Comic-Con

International Space Hall of Fame

Roswell Museum

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

For a transcript and full show notes, please visit podcast.nmculture.org

Prison Art as an Assertion of Humanity with Museum of International Folk Art Curators Patricia Sigala and Chloe Accardi

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0400

Museum of International Folk Art curators Patricia Sigala and Chloe Accardi are dedicated to co-collaborating exhibitions alongside community members. For the upcoming exhibition, Between the Lines: Prison Art & Advocacy, this commitment to community feedback and engagement is particularly strong.

What began as a small exhibition in the museum's Gallery of Conscience last year, will be opening as a much larger show on August 9, 2024. Between the Lines: Prison Art & Advocacy will feature a wide range of prison art from across the country and the world. Local collaborations with formerly incarcerated Santa Fe artists and children whose home lives have been impacted by incarceration have been crucial to the process.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

EC0501: Listen to the Land: Art at Bosque Redondo with Dakota Mace, Daisy Trudell-Mills, and Kéyah Keenan Henry

Santa Fe YouthWorks

Sites of Conscience

Brown v Board of Education School-to-Prison Pipeline initiative

Love Pa' Mi Gente Shine Through Me, by Jimmy Santiago Baca in the Spring 2024 issue of El Palacio

John Paul Granillo

Carlos Cervantes

Golden Venture

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

For a transcript and full show notes, please visit podcast.nmculture.org

Rolling Into Rural Communities: Bookmobiles and Books by Mail Across New Mexico

Wed, 29 May 2024 09:00:00 -0400

For many people who live in New Mexico the nearest library might be three hundred miles away. Luckily, the New Mexico State Library runs two excellent rural library services: Books by Mail and three bookmobiles that serve different regions of the state.

If you live 20 minutes outside of the city limits of any city in New Mexico, or if you live within city limits but are homebound, or if you can only read large-print books, you can sign up for Books by Mail. The Books by Mail collection contains more than 30,000 titles, including books in Spanish, audiobooks, eBooks, and more.

For schools and small communities who want to browse the shelves or access the internet from the bookmobile's portable satellite terminal, check out the New Mexico State Library website to find out when and where a bookmobile will be stopping near you. And don't forget to chat with the bookmobile librarian to find out what reading events and projects are offered during stops in your community!

"I care about people first. I care about what's going on in their lives," says Berdina Nieto, the New Mexico State Library Books by Mail librarian and rural services outreach specialist. "Patrons will call just to get their book order and then tell me what's going on in their world, and then I'll do the same.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Books by Mail

Bookmobiles

New Mexico State Library

Cimarron City Library

Santo Domingo Pueblo

RECOMMENDED EPISODES

EC0602: Adventure Begins at Your Library: Explore New Mexico Tribal Libraries and Youth Programming

EC0601: From Goatheads to Grand Canyons: A Love Letter to the Landscape with New Mexico State Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp

EC0306: Healthy Escapism: The State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled with Tim Donahue and Berdina Nieto

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

For a transcript and full show notes, please visit podcast.nmculture.org

A History of Genízaro Identity in the Heart of New Mexico with Dr. Gregorio Gonzales

Wed, 15 May 2024 09:00:00 -0400

What do we lose when we don't know ALL of our histories? Understanding our great, great, great, great grandparents' lives and how they survived, where they settled or traveled, and what languages they spoke – all of these details reveal so much about who we are and how we landed here in this place, at this moment in time. How our ancestors interacted with other people and with the land has had ripple effects on why things are the way they are today.

Dr. Gregorio Gonzales (Comanche, Genízaro), the tribal liaison for the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, works to develop relationships with 23 tribal governments based within New Mexico. DCA divisions interact with as many as 34 American Indian tribal governments, which include tribes with ancestral ties to New Mexico and whose tribal headquarters are located in Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. Gonzales is uniquely suited to this position due to his impressive knowledge of Indigenous history in the state—including Genízaro history which is still largely unknown in the context of United States history.

Even within New Mexico, groups without any connection to a Genízaro identity are not likely to know this history. And as Gonzales reveals, he didn't understand the full history and context of his Genízaro identity until he was a young adult.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

For a transcript and full show notes, please visit podcast.nmculture.org

Adventure Begins at Your Library: Explore New Mexico Tribal Libraries and Youth Programming

Wed, 01 May 2024 09:00:00 -0400

In a large, low-population state like New Mexico, with lots of rural communities, libraries play a vital role in literacy, education, and job skills training—along with the simple joy that comes from learning and being immersed in the numerous worlds that can be found within a book's pages.

Each of the 130 libraries across New Mexico, including 21 tribal libraries, serves the specific needs of its own community. Many tribal libraries, such as the Santa Clara Pueblo's library, maintain a community archive of historic photos, interviews, and oral histories that preserve the past and help restore the language.

Also, youth programming plays an important role in helping kids become early readers through story time, summer reading challenges, and special events. Youth programming also provides databases for research, tutoring, and resources for homeschoolers.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

New Mexico State Library

Santa Clara Pueblo Community Library

Aspen Song Kids

Carnegie Library in Las Vegas

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

For a transcript and full show notes, please visit podcast.nmculture.org

From Goatheads to Grand Canyons: A Love Letter to the Landscape with New Mexico State Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0400

Poetry is everywhere. Poetry is in the way we speak or sing or the ways we imagine. Poetry offers space and possibility. And poetry is the best kept open secret we have. Because as it turns out, poetry can sometimes have the unfortunate reputation of not being for everyone.

Thankfully, state poets laureate are working to change this perception and helping people find the magic and meaning in poetry. New Mexico State Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp, is no exception. Now midway through her three-year term, she's made it her mission to traverse the vast reaches of the state to build community and poems.

Camp's passion for poetry is infectious. Whether making poems as collages or writing about goatheads or night skies, her poetry invites readers and other poets and would-be poets in.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Lauren Camp's website

In Old Sky: Poems Inspired by the Grand Canyon

New Mexico Epic Poem Project/New Mexico Arts

Article: New Mexico's Queen of Poetry, El Palacio, spring 2023

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

For a transcript and full show notes, please visit podcast.nmculture.org

Protective Threads: Exploring Indigenous Fashion and Advocacy with Bobby Brower and Tara Trudell

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:00:00 -0400

Creating art in the face of grief can be complicated and hard to navigate, especially when the grief feels both private and personal—and a part of a much larger epidemic, like the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis.

Both Bobby Brower (Iñupiaq) and Tara Trudell (Santee Sioux/Rarámuri/Mexican/Spanish) found their way into speaking about the MMIP crisis through clothing and adornment that are linked to a long history of protection, prayer, and collaboration.

On this episode of Encounter Culture, Brower and Trudell talk with host Emily Withnall about creating Native Alaskan atikluks and creating beads out of paper, respectively, and the reason it is so important to do this work in community.

Brower is a fashion designer whose work has been featured on the TV series Alaska Daily and in New York Fashion Week, among others. Trudell is a multi-media artist working in fabric, paper, photography, and film, among other mediums.

For both women, the art cannot exist without community, and it is in community that important stories and information can be shared and held.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Museum of International Folk Art

Bunnell Street Center Arts Center

Alaska Daily (TV series)

Tower Gallery

Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Special music in this episode: "Kinship Honor – K'é Biyiin," written by Herman Cody & Radmilla Cody, performed by Radmilla Cody. Courtesy Canyon Records. Also, "Mother's Words – Amá Bizaad," written by Herman Cody & Radmilla Cody, performed by Radmilla Cody, courtesy Canyon Records.

Instagram: @newmexicanculture and @elpalaciomagazine

Star Parties, Rim-Blown Flutes, and Pueblo History at Jemez Historic Site with Marlon Magdalena

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:00:00 -0400

Jemez Historic Site, like all of New Mexico's Historic Sites and museums, offers unique historical and cultural perspectives on the deep and wide-ranging communities, languages, and traditions across the state. And while New Mexico contains a complicated and layered history, these Sites not only honor history but vibrant and ongoing cultures that continue to this day.

Marlon Magdalena, the Instructional Coordinator Supervisor at Jemez Historic Site and member of the Jemez Pueblo, says that all aspects of his community, currently and in the past, are important.

"My primary goal is just to tell people who the Jemez people are--that we're people that are still around. We're Indigenous people, Native American people, that we still exist. We're still here. And we still have our languages, we still have our language, we have our culture traditions."

In this episode of Encounter Culture, Marlon Magdalena shares his knowledge of the night skies, his perspective on the Pueblo Revolt, and his flute making and flute playing. Notably, Marlon played with Clark Tenakhongva and Matthew Nelson of Öngtupqa in the United Arab Emirates. Clark and Matthew's music (featuring Gary Stroutsos on flute) is featured throughout season 4 of Encounter Culture, which tells the story of Miguel Trujillo.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

Keeping New Mexico's Spanish Alive: The National Hispanic Cultural Center's Legacy Project

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:00:00 -0400

Traveling to some remote parts of Northern New Mexico can feel a little like traveling back in time. There's the slower, rural lifestyle and lack of cell reception, for starters, but in some small pockets of rural communities, people still speak a 17th-century dialect of Spanish.

Encounter Culture host Emily Withnall speaks with National Hispanic Cultural Center's executive director, Zack Quintero, archivist Robin Moses, and Librarian Amy Padilla about their work to collect and preserve this ancient Spanish dialect before it disappears—which they say could happen in just fifteen years. Though the mountainous region of Northern New Mexico once helped to preserve this unique dialect, greater connectivity and the forces of assimilation have resulted in fewer native speakers.

As Zack, Robin, and Amy reveal, they hope to preserve New Mexican Spanish as a part of their work with NHCC, but their investment in the project is personal, too.

To learn more about the Legacy Project, go to www.nhccnm.org. New information will be added to the website as the project progresses. Or visit the National Hispanic Cultural Center in person. The museum is open every day of the week, except Mondays. And if you're interested in contributing to the project, please contact Zack Quintero at Zack.quintero@dca.nm.gov or Robin Moses at robin.moses@dca.nm.gov.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

New York Times article by Simon Romero

Esther Cordova May

Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque

New Mexico Highlands University

Northern New Mexico College

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Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

Big, Toothy, and Conveniently Dead: Why We Are Obsessed with Dinosaurs, Featuring Anthony Fiorillo, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:00:00 -0400

If you've ever been to a Sinclair gas station and see the green dinosaur out front, paleontologist Tony Fiorillo says it's a fair approximation of New Mexico's Alamosaurus—which was first discovered in New Mexico more than one hundred years ago. Not only is the Alamosaurus a "New Mexican icon," as Fiorillo says, but it's also the only dinosaur discovered in North America so far that appears to have migrated from South America.

In addition to his work as a researcher and paleontologist, Dr. Tony Fiorillo is the executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. His career has covered several continents largely to study dinosaurs and the environments in which they lived. For more than two decades, Fiorillo focused on the Cretaceous of Alaska. There, his teams made significant advances in the understanding of ancient Arctic biodiversity and paleoecosystems as a way of understanding future climates.

In this episode, Fiorillo joins Encounter Culture host Emily Withnall in a conversation about arctic dinosaurs, what 19th-century scientists understood about the first dinosaurs they found, and how dinosaurs can provide insight for what's in store for humans.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

https://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/crystal-palace-dinosaurs.html

Dinosaurs at Denali National Park

https://www.nps.gov/dena/learn/nature/fossils.htm

We'd love to hear from you! Send feedback to elpalacio@dca.nm.gov. You can write a regular email or record a short voice memo and attach it for us to listen to.

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

Look Up! Leo Villareal's Astral Array at New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0400

What would it be like to see a symphony? How can you capture the rhythm of waves or a murmuration in constellations of light? If anyone can offer a visual representation of multi-sensory experiences, multimedia artist Leo Villareal can. As Villareal shares in his conversation with Encounter Culture host, Emily Withnall, "I think of my tools more like instruments in a way. And I'm making kind of visual music."

Leo Villareal is a world-renowned artist with roots in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in El Paso and Marfa, Texas. He currently lives in Brooklyn where he owns a gallery and oversees a team of artists, engineers, and programmers. His light sculptures can be seen in galleries in Geneva, London, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Madrid, Washington, D.C., Beijing, Amsterdam, New York, and San Antonio—to name a few.

Among Villareal's newest light sculptures is Astral Array, an installation on view permanently in the outdoor breezeway to New Mexico Museum of Art's new Vladem Contemporary location in the Santa Fe Railyard.

Villareal draws inspiration from the natural world, from Indigenous weaving, and from computer coding and programming. Despite the sometimes-impermanent nature of his installations, many of which are site- and time-specific, he appreciates the cycle of creation and dismantling inherent to his work and to the ways in which his continued experiments with light are visible to all.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary

Illuminated River: A Public Art Commission

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

Our favorite way to fully experience everything they have to offer is with the New Mexico Culture Pass. Find out how to get yours here.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

Listen to the Land: Art at Bosque Redondo with Dakota Mace, Daisy Trudell-Mills, and Kéyah Keenan Henry

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0400

Indigo, cochineal, red earth, and corn pollen: these are among some of the traditional materials used in the art of Dakota Mace (Diné), Kéyah Keenan Henry (Diné), and Daisy Trudell-Mills (Santee Dakota, Mexican, and Jewish) in the Naaldeeh exhibition at the Bosque Redondo Memorial.

Dakota Mace is a nationally renowned artist and instructor at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. In creating work for the Bosque Redondo Memorial, Dakota invited her students, Kéyah and Daisy, to create works alongside her that would speak history of the place and the suffering endured by the Diné people during the Long Walk and their four-year internment at Fort Sumner.

Encounter Culture host Emily Withnall invited the three artists to speak about their art, the history of Bosque Redondo, and the ways art can provide healing for the Diné and Ndé whose histories are tied to the land.

Many Diné people grew up with warnings from elders to never travel to Bosque Redondo Memorial. Some continue to hold this warning to heart, and some, like Dakota and Kéyah, offer their art in prayer. For Daisy, the stories of the homesickness that the Diné and Ndé experienced at Bosque Redondo resonated deeply.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

EC0202: Listen, and Speak the Truth: Collaborating Through Conversation on the Bosque Redondo Memorial with Manuelito Wheeler and Aaron Roth

El Palacio: Challenging History: The Conception and Crafting of A World-Class Exhibition That Honors One of New Mexico's Darkest Chapters

Dakota Mace

Daisy Trudell-Mills

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Our favorite way to fully experience everything they have to offer is with the New Mexico Culture Pass. Find out how to get yours here.

Subscribe to El Palacio Magazine

Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Dusty Mesas & Accessible Art: Introducing Our New Host, Emily Withnall

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:00:00 -0400

Meet Emily Withnall, the new editor of El Palacio Magazine and your new podcast host of Encounter Culture.

As a journalist and writer—and New Mexican, first of all—Emily is acquainted with all facets of the magazine publishing process. In conversation with Andrea Klunder, producer and story editor for Encounter Culture, Emily talks about her love of audio storytelling that goes all the way back to growing up on radio. With Encounter Culture, she strives for captivating storytelling with just the right amount of wandering.

Emily is passionate about artists experimenting with public spaces, making art more accessible and less intimidating. Wearing the hats of El Palacio editor and Encounter Culture host, she wants to expand the magazine's conversations into the podcast and also invite more Indigenous writers and artists to join in.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

EC0308: How to Write About Art and Environment with Emily Withnall, El Palacio

EC0307: Geology in New Mexico with a Side Gig in Space with Jayne Aubele and Dr. Larry Crumpler

EC0305: Art That Is For Everyone: Cristina González and Katie Doyle, Vladem Contemporary

EC0302: What Have the Trees Seen? New Mexico Folklore at Los Luceros Historic Site with Carly Stewart and Rebecca Ward

"The Feather Thief" on This American Life

Will Schwarz's Sunday Puzzle

Latino USA with Maria Hinojosa

Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman

KUNM

Cristina González at Vladem Contemporary

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

Our favorite way to fully experience everything they have to offer is with the New Mexico Culture Pass. Find out how to get yours here.

Subscribe to El Palacio Magazine

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Emily Withnall, editor at El Palacio Magazine

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Editor & Production Manager: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Democracy is Indigenous: The Power of the Vote with Laura Harris

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0400

When Indigenous people vote, they honor their past and forge a better tomorrow for their communities. The act itself remains a complicated exercise. Indigenous voters must contend with a history of colonial rule, the goal of which was to eradicate their way of life, as well as present-day attempts by self-styled "poll watchers" to block their access to polling places or annul their ballots. And yet, democracy has always been Indigenous; a tribe's power has always rested with its people.

Welcome to the sixth and final episode in Encounter Culture's series about the life and legacy of Miguel Trujillo, a collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum. Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski and series co-host Stephanie Padilla speak with the esteemed Laura Harris of Comanche Nation.

Laura has extensive experience in national, state, and local campaigns and political fundraising. She's also the executive director of Americans for Indian Opportunity. The trio discusses advocacy, education, and voting as paths to protecting Indigenous self-determination; they examine threats Indigenous voters face when participating in the electoral process – and finally recap the series.

This episode was recorded in October 2022. Specific references to campaigning efforts and reported voter suppression tactics are from that election season, but voters continue to face similar challenges.

Miguel Trujillo's legacy forms the foundation for every conversation in our current series. If you haven't already, we urge you to catch up on the previous 5 episodes.

We'd love to hear from you! What did you think of this season's collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum about Native American Voting Rights Before and After Trujillo v. Garley? Send feedback to elpalacio@dca.nm.gov. You can write a regular email or record a short voice memo and attach it for us to listen to.

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Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

Enter to win a package of four CulturePasses and a one-year subscription to El Palacio magazine all valued at $145 by visiting https://podcast.nmculture.org/giveaway

Whether you're a local resident, or you're visiting us on your travels, CulturePass is your ticket to each of our 15 museums and historic sites.

Enter by August 31, 2023. You must be 18 years or older to apply and there is no purchase necessary. This opportunity is made possible by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Stephanie Padilla (Isleta, Laguna, Cochiti) & Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director & Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Consulting Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Associate Producer & Editor: Alex Riegler

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Social Media Design: Caitlin Sunderland

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Special thank you to Clark Tenakhongva, along with Gary Stroutsos and Matthew Nelson, for the incredible Hopi music featured throughout all 6 episodes of this season. Their new album Hon Muru is set to release in August 2023 and will be available for purchase along with their other recordings on Bandcamp and at ongtupqa.com.

This season was made possible due to the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the family of Miguel and Ruchanda Trujillo.

You Can Make a Difference in Your Community with Kara Bobroff

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski and series co-host Stephanie Padilla, a member of Isleta Pueblo, trace a throughline from Miguel Trujillo to their guest Kara Bobroff (Diné /Lakota), an educator honored by President Barack Obama as one of the best emerging social entrepreneurs in the country. Kara's exceptional career achievements include her current role as executive director of One Generation (One Gen) and founder of the Native American Community Academy (NACA) and NACA Inspired School Network (NISN).

If knowledge is power, access is the key to unlocking its potential. Kara has made it her life's work to provide every Native child a way in. "I think at the center of how I was raised is really being of service to others and understanding that anything is possible.

The trio discusses Kara's incredible personal journey, her commitment to supporting Indigenous youth, and how culturally competent education provides Native communities the tools they need to continue their fight for equal rights and protection.

This season, Encounter Culture is sharing the story of Miguel Trujillo, an unsung hero of voting rights activism for Native Americans in New Mexico. His legacy forms the foundation for every conversation in our series. If you haven't already, we urge you to catch up on episodes one, two, three, and four.

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Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

Enter to win a package of four CulturePasses and a one-year subscription to El Palacio magazine all valued at $145 by visiting https://podcast.nmculture.org/giveaway

Whether you're a local resident, or you're visiting us on your travels, CulturePass is your ticket to each of our 15 museums and historic sites.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Stephanie Padilla (Isleta, Laguna, Cochiti) & Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director & Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Consulting Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Associate Producer & Editor: Alex Riegler

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Social Media Design: Caitlin Sunderland

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

This season was made possible due to the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the family of Miguel and Ruchanda Trujillo.

A Generational Shift: Exploring Citizenship and Identity with Dr. Porter Swentzell

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 09:00:00 -0400

Voter participation often begins with a simple question: Why should I bother? For Indigenous people, the answers come tangled in hundreds of years of broken treaties, systemic racism, and voter access restrictions like those that Miguel Trujillo fought to overturn. And yet, Dr. Porter Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) challenges the notion that engaging with the colonizer's process can't work in tribes' favor.

Judge June Lorenzo (Laguna Pueblo and Navajo/Diné) agrees. Judge Lorenzo works tirelessly to connect with Indigenous voters and ease their way once at the polls.

Welcome to the fourth episode in Encounter Culture's collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum exploring Indigenous voting rights before and after Trujillo v. Garley. If you've never heard of the case or the inspiring story of Miguel Trujillo, we encourage you to check out the last three episodes. Then join us here to learn about the complicated realities surrounding Indigenous suffrage with Dr. Porter Swentzell), executive director at Kha'p'o Community School, tribal leader, and invaluable consultant on this project, and June Lorenzo, chief judge of Pueblo of Zia.

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Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

Enter to win a package of four CulturePasses and a one-year subscription to El Palacio magazine all valued at $145 by visiting https://podcast.nmculture.org/giveaway

Whether you're a local resident, or you're visiting us on your travels, CulturePass is your ticket to each of our 15 museums and historic sites.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Stephanie Padilla (Isleta, Laguna, Cochiti) & Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director & Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Consulting Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Associate Producer & Editor: Alex Riegler

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Social Media Design: Caitlin Sunderland

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

This season was made possible due to the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the family of Miguel and Ruchanda Trujillo.

The Land is Everything: Voting Rights vs Tribal Sovereignty with Dr. Maurice Crandall

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0400

Long before colonizers imposed their political ideologies upon Indigenous people, many tribes governed themselves by community consensus. Today, Native people who are citizens of federally recognized tribes are afforded a kind of dual citizenship in the US: subject to the traditional rule of their tribal government and also that of the federal government.

How does the tribal ideal of cooperative agreement square with the "founding fathers" vision for majority rule? And what obligation do tribal communities have in honoring the settler system of governance?

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski and series co-host Stephanie Padilla (Isleta, Laguna Cochiti), dig into the complexities of tribal sovereignty, systems of government, and citizenship with Dr. Maurice S. Crandall (Yavapai-Apache), Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and author of These People Have Always Been a Republic.

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Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

To celebrate this season's collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum, we'd like to thank you for being a part of our listening community at Encounter Culture.

Enter to win a package of four CulturePasses and a one-year subscription to El Palacio magazine all valued at $145 by visiting https://podcast.nmculture.org/giveaway

Whether you're a local resident, or you're visiting us on your travels, CulturePass is your ticket to each of our 15 museums and historic sites.

Enter by August 31, 2023. You must be 18 years or older to apply, and there is no purchase necessary. This opportunity is made possible by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Stephanie Padilla (Isleta, Laguna, Cochiti) & Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director & Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Consulting Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Associate Producer & Editor: Alex Riegler

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Social Media Design: Caitlin Sunderland

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

This season was made possible due to the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the family of Miguel and Ruchanda Trujillo.

Who Was Miguel Trujillo? In the Words of His Granddaughter

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0400

How do you take the measure of a man, especially one as reticent about his history-making accomplishment as Miguel Trujillo? If you've never heard of Miguel or Trujillo v. Garley, the landmark 1948 case that provided Native Americans residing on tribal lands in New Mexico the right to vote, settle in for this intimate portrait of a true American hero.

This is the second episode in Encounter Culture's collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum, exploring the fascinating story of Native American suffrage before and after Trujillo v. Garley.

If you haven't already, we recommend you check out episode one, as it forms the foundation of the entire season. Then join host Charlotte Jusinski and series co-host Stephanie Padilla (Isleta, Laguna, Cochiti) here as they piece together the extraordinary life of Miguel Trujillo, an unsung champion of the voting rights movement who's perhaps better known as a beloved husband, father, and grandfather––with Karen Waconda, Native healer, community health educator, and granddaughter of Miguel Trujillo.

Cover Photo: Miguel and Ruchanda Trujillo, ca. 1980. Photograph courtesy Dr. Michael Trujillo.

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Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

To celebrate this season's collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum, we'd like to thank you for being a part of our listening community at Encounter Culture.

Enter to win a package of four CulturePasses and a one-year subscription to El Palacio magazine all valued at $145 by visiting https://podcast.nmculture.org/giveaway

Whether you're a local resident, or you're visiting us on your travels, CulturePass is your ticket to each of our 15 museums and historic sites.

Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Stephanie Padilla (Isleta, Laguna, Cochiti) & Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director & Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Consulting Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Associate Producer & Editor: Alex Riegler

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Social Media Design: Caitlin Sunderland

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Special thank you to Clark Tenakhongva, along with Gary Stroutsos and Matthew Nelson, for the incredible Hopi music featured throughout all 6 episodes of this season. Their new album Hon Muru is set to release in August 2023 and will be available for purchase along with their other recordings on Bandcamp and at ongtupqa.com.

This season was made possible due to the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the family of Miguel and Ruchanda Trujillo.

Trujillo v Garley: the Landmark Case for Native American Voting Rights in New Mexico

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0400

The right of every United States citizen to vote in local, state, and national elections is as American as the laws that have barred many groups from accessing the ballot box. Women, people of color, the unhoused––all have fought to claim their rightful place at the table of democracy. So, too, have Native Americans.

This season, we've partnered with the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) to bring you the fascinating story of Native American suffrage before and after Trujillo v. Garley, the landmark case of 1948.

In 1948, Miguel Trujillo (Isleta Pueblo) walked into the Valencia County clerk's office with the intent to register to vote as a Native American. He was denied, of course. This affront set in motion a legal challenge that would eventually topple decades of institutionalized discrimination. But the story of Trujillo v. Garley doesn't end there. Nor does it begin on that fateful day.

Stephanie Padilla (Isleta Pueblo), attorney for the Children's Court, State of New Mexico, joins Charlotte Jusinski as co-host this season. Stephanie worked directly with the NMHM as Guest Curator to preserve Miguel's achievement through the recollections of those who know his story best:

Laura Harris (Comanche), executive director of Americans for Indian Opportunity;

Michael Trujillo (Isleta Pueblo), MD, former director of the Indian Health Service, and son of Miguel Trujillo;

Gordon Bronitsky, PhD, president, Bronitsky and Associates;

Karen Waconda (Isleta Pueblo), community health educator, Native healer, and granddaughter of Miguel Trujillo;

John Waconda, Jr. (Isleta Pueblo), restoration partnership coordinator with U.S. Forest Service, and grandson of Miguel Trujillo;

Dr. Porter Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo), executive director, Kha'p'o Community School, and tribal leader;

Dr. Maurice S. Crandall (Yavapai-Apache), associate professor of history, Arizona State University School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies;

Kara Bobroff (Diné/Lakota), executive director of One Generation Fund, founder of the Native American Community Academy (NACA) and NACA-Inspired School Network (NISN), and advisor to the Miguel Trujillo project; and

June L. Lorenzo (Laguna Pueblo/Navajo (Diné), chief judge, Zia Pueblo.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

To celebrate this season's collaboration with the New Mexico History Museum, we'd like to thank you for being a part of our listening community at Encounter Culture.

Enter to win a package of four CulturePasses and a one-year subscription to El Palacio magazine all valued at $145 by visiting https://podcast.nmculture.org/giveaway

Whether you're a local resident, or you're visiting us on your travels, CulturePass is your ticket to each of our 15 museums and historic sites.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Stephanie Padilla (Isleta Pueblo) & Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director & Post-Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Consulting Producer & Editor: Monica Braine (Assiniboine/Lakota)

Associate Producer & Editor: Alex Riegler

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Social Media Design: Caitlin Sunderland

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Special thank you to Clark Tenakhongva, along with Gary Stroutsos and Matthew Nelson, for the incredible Hopi music featured throughout all 6 episodes of this season. Their new album Hon Muru is set to release in August 2023 and will be available for purchase along with their other recordings on Bandcamp and at ongtupqa.com.

This season was made possible due to the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the family of Miguel and Ruchanda Trujillo.

How to Write About Art and Environment with Emily Withnall, El Palacio

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 09:00:00 -0400

El Palacio, the official magazine of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, possesses an identity as vibrant as the art, history, and culture it chronicles. First distributed in 1913 as a thin pamphlet, the publication has evolved into the gorgeous print quarterly and digital asset it is today, thanks to the contributions of countless talented individuals. Today, El Palacio continues to attract some of the best and brightest writers in the Southwest.

Encounter Culture host and El Palacio editor Charlotte Jusinski speaks with Emily Withnall, a writer who has contributed to the magazine more than just about anyone else in recent memory. Charlotte and Emily discuss the writer's path to El Palacio, the significant role nature plays in her writing, and her ability to sift through the ephemera that often complicates discussions about art.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Cara Romero Photography

Diego Romero

Roxanne Swentzell

Is All Writing Environmental Writing? - Camille T. Dungy

National Geographic

New Internationalist

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Associate Producer: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Geology in New Mexico with a Side Gig in Space with Jayne Aubele and Dr. Larry Crumpler

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -0400

While the United States boasts incredible geology from coast to coast, Dr. Larry Crumpler says it's relatively silent. But New Mexico is different. "Here, it's just babbling away, and all you have to do is understand what it's saying. It turns out to be totally shocking and amazing most of the time." Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski invited Larry Crumpler and Jayne Aubele, two geologists working with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, to lead a virtual expedition through eons of the state's geologic history. As audiences will discover, Jayne and Larry share more than a fiery passion for this landscape. But first, the trio discusses what makes this diverse and wild place so special, the cultural implications arising from the volcanic processes that formed the area's rifts, and what New Mexico can teach us about Mars and Venus.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Missions To Mars

Perseverance Rover

Magellan Radar Mission

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Associate Producer: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Healthy Escapism: The State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled with Tim Donahue and Berdina Nieto

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:00:00 -0400

Reading is the one form of escapism that just about anyone can practice, regardless of income. Even so, roadblocks keep many folks from getting lost in a traditionally printed book. Thankfully for New Mexicans, staffers at the New Mexico State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled have committed themselves to remove those barriers.

Charlotte Jusinski chats with Tim Donahue, Reader Services and Outreach Librarian, and Berdina Nieto, Reader Advisor, both of whom work at LBPD, which is part of the New Mexico State Library system. They discuss LBPD's impressive list of services, the value of providing patrons access to physical readers and mobile apps, and what's to love about Santa Fe (spoiler alert: it's everything!)

LBPD programs are free and available to all who qualify with various impairments along the spectrum of sightedness. LBPD also extends its services to those with certain learning challenges, such as dyslexia.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD)

New Mexico State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled Facebook Group

National Federation for the Blind

New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

The Seeing Eye

New Mexico Commission for the Blind

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Associate Producer: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Art That Is For Everyone: Cristina González and Katie Doyle, Vladem Contemporary

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:00:00 -0400

In the Summer of 2023, the New Mexico Museum of Art will open its highly anticipated exhibition space, Vladem Contemporary, in Santa Fe's Railyard District. There's a LEED-certified farmer's market building, retail and entertainment options, and ample green space to enjoy. As changes continue, so do debates about the area's rapid gentrification.

The Vladem enters this chat as a modern complement to the NMMA's historic location on the Plaza, featuring established and emerging contemporary artists. Most importantly, the space will deepen conversations between the institution and community regarding New Mexico's multicultural artistic heritage.

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski spoke with Katie Doyle, assistant curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and Cristina González, an artist whose work will adorn the Window Box gallery, an exterior-facing exhibition space at the corner of Montezuma Avenue and Guadalupe Street. The trio discuss what it means for NMMA to set up in the Railyard, what folks can expect from Vladem, and the ever-evolving nature of public art.

CORRECTION: The neighborhood around Santa Fe's Railyard was called the Barrio de Guadalupe, not the Barrio Analco, as mentioned in this episode. We apologize.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

SITE Santa Fe

Gilberto Guzman mural

Leo Villareal

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Associate Producer: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Discovering Delight with Rachel Preston: Celebrating the Girard Wing's 40th Anniversary at the Museum of International Folk Art

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:00:00 -0400

Take a trip through Santa Fe, and you'll undoubtedly notice that this city wears its design diversity with pride. Architectural storyteller Rachel Preston Prinz joins host Charlotte Jusinski to discuss the history of Museum Hill, Santa Fe's remarkable collection of museums just outside downtown.

The episode focuses on the Museum of International Folk Art, by engineer-turned-architect John Gaw Meem, and its Girard Wing, which currently displays over 10,000 pieces of folk art. Built in 1953, MOIFA is considered a revolutionary testament to Modernism in the city and an anomaly among New Mexico's museums.

As it approaches its 70th anniversary, MOIFA is preparing for the next wave of design conversations, scouring its archives for treasures that will inspire fresh stories.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

EC0105: An Underground Love Affair, The Palace Seen and Unseen with Archaeologists Cordelia Snow & Stephen Post

First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque

St. John's College Santa Fe

La Reina Bar at El Ray Court

Compound Restaurant

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours, and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Associate Producer: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Science Fiction for Social Justice: Fronteras del Futuro at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum with Jadira Gurulé and Augustine Romero

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:00:00 -0400

What does the future hold? Apocalypse or idyll? Robots or retro tech? Artists have asked that question for millennia and responded with wildly inventive, often provocative works. Fronteras del Futuro: Art In New Mexico And Beyond at the art museum at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque brings several dozen cosmic possibilities together in one exciting, forward-focused exhibition.

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski peers into this thoroughly modern future with Jadira Gurulé, the exhibit's curator, and Augustine "Gus" Romero, one of its featured artists. They discuss what it means for people of color to interact with the science fiction genre and to finally see themselves in narratives that white voices have long dominated.

Fronteras del Futuro features its share of super-cool spaceship-like transport, beeping machinery, and alien figures from an arguably unnerving other world. Even so, the exhibit remains undeniably calm. That's due to an emphasis on optimism, humanity, and justice for all.

Fronteras del Futuro is on view at the art museum at the National Hispanic Cultural Center through March 12, 2023. Learn more about the NHCC and plan your visit at nhccnm.org.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

EC0204: Rooted in Tradition, Focused on the Future: Celebrating The National Hispanic Cultural Center with Dr. Margie Huerta and Noël Bella Merriam

Bless Me, Última

Marion C. Martinez

The End Is Nye

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Associate Producer: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

What Have the Trees Seen? New Mexico Folklore at Los Luceros Historic Site with Carly Stewart and Rebecca Ward

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0400

October may reign supreme as the spookiest season, but ghosts roam the picturesque grounds of Los Luceros all year round––or so say Carly Stewart, Site Manager, and Rebecca Ward, Instructional Coordinator, of the culturally significant and geographically secluded property. In part one, Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski and her guests introduced audiences to the epic history of New Mexico's newest historic site. In part two, the trio invites curious minds to set aside plausible explanations in favor of a "spirited" trip around Los Luceros' atmospheric acreage.

Otherworldly encounters at Los Luceros include heavy windows mysteriously opening on their own and broken clocks suddenly ticking the time. Haunted though it may be, Rebecca's quick to point out that Los Luceros and its invisible inhabitants are welcoming. "I've never felt like it's malicious or malevolent or anything like that."

Learn more about this fascinating historical site and plan your visit at Los Luceros. Dawn-til-dusk days are the first Sunday of every month.

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

HORNS Paranormal

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Associate Producer: Alex Riegler

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Everything Past is Present at Los Luceros Historic Site with Rebecca Ward and Carly Stewart

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Everything past is always present in New Mexico, especially the stories embedded in its land and architecture. People here are as passionate about the state's hard-working historical buildings as they are about a modest 150-year-old neighborhood adobe. At Los Luceros, New Mexico's newest historic site, "now" and "then" mingle on 140+ bucolic acres stretching along the Rio Grande's banks about 20 minutes north of Española, on Highway 68. While only open to the public since 2019, the history of this culturally significant (and possibly haunted) place dates back to at least the 1400s.

Two of Los Luceros's most knowledgeable staffers, Site Manager Carly Stewart and Instructional Coordinator Rebecca Ward share its fascinating history and preview its contemporary contributions.

The stories unfold across the site's fertile, farmed fields, its replica fruit orchard, paddocks full of livestock, and numerous historic buildings: the 18th-century capilla (or chapel), a Victorian cottage, the river house built (but never used) to accommodate the Dalai Lama, a small art gallery — and the highlight, its grand hacienda.

Learn more about this fascinating historical site and plan your visit at Los Luceros. Dawn-til-dusk days are the first Sunday of every month.

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Season 3 - Beneath the Surface

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0400

The official podcast of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs returns this fall for Season 3!

We've toured the museums of Santa Fe and ventured out to engage with the hidden histories of our state.

And now...

Flamenco, pottery, architecture, design, ghosts!

From Fronteras del Futuro to local local lore at Los Luceros, we're inviting you to catch a glimpse of what lies just beneath the surface at our cultural institutions and historic sites. You'll be ready for your next happy hour with more than your fair share of state trivia!

For now, catch up on the episodes you missed in seasons 1 and 2, and visit our website: podcast.nmculture.org. Thanks for listening. We're excited to have you along for the ride as we encounter culture together.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Additional Production & Editing Support: Alex Riegler and Helen King

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Words on Walls with Dr. Maggie DePond, Exhibition Copy Editor for Santa Fe Museums and Historic Sites

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Word nerds and punctuation perfectionists rejoice! Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski ends the season in grand, grammatically correct fashion with Dr. Maggie DePond, exhibition copy editor for the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Maggie also lends her talents to El Palacio magazine, casting a last, learned glance over every issue before it goes live.

The pair geek out over the intricacies of language, style guide rivalries, and challenges associated with distilling eons of information into 100-word captions. Buckle in for syntax shenanigans, a touch of ASMR, and permission to end sentences with a preposition.

Ever wondered who edits all the text accompanying every exhibition in the four state museums of Santa Fe (the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Museum of International Folk Art, the New Mexico History Museum, and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture)?

The answer is Dr. Maggie DePond.

The work, which is often tedious, requires a tenacious character and plenty of red pencils. For all its old-fashioned aspects, copy editing is a revolutionary profession. Who else but a copy editor could refer to medieval usage of the singular "they/them" to support our modern personal pronoun debate? "I feel that by doing that," Maggie says, "I'm also teaching other writers what language is, the spectrum of language, and how language can evoke feelings." And, by extension, every lucky museum goer in the state.

Thank you for joining Encounter Culture this season. Season three coming soon!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Chicago Manual Of Style

Associated Press Style Guide

Elements Of Indigenous Style

Merriam-Webster Twitter

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Take Action: The New Mexico State Library with Jean Whitehorse and Eli Guinnee

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Walk into any library, and the world is revealed, from tall tales and vital truths to oral histories and picture books. It's no wonder that these magical repositories of imagination and knowledge also contain some of the coolest, most subversive, and most innovative people on the planet: librarians.

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski goes directly to the source. She chats with Eli Guinnee, New Mexico State Librarian, and the incomparable Jean Whitehorse, Outreach Librarian, Tribal Libraries Program in Crownpoint, NM, on the Navajo Nation. Eli provides background on the state library's programs and initiatives while Jean educates listeners on everything else. That's not hyperbole; Jean is an astonishing font of information, determination, and wisdom behind the circulation desk.

The New Mexico State Library is a vital hub, offering career training, financial literacy, computer competency, and infrastructure advocacy programs. Jean's approach to librarianship mirrors her approach to life––examine systems, identify the inequities, and take action. "There's always another way," she says, referencing the creative problem-solving spirit that her father passed down to her.

Jean's macro-micro sensibility has garnered her invitations to speak around the world. She's even addressed The United Nations' Permanent Committee on Indigenous Issues. But no matter how far afield she travels, Jean remains rooted in Navajo Nation. "I grew up in a hogan with a dirt floor. I'm the daughter of a Navajo Code Talker," she says, pride mingling with a bit of impatience. There's still so much she wants to accomplish.

Here's hoping we'll find Jean behind the circulation desk for another 25 years.

Visit the New Mexico State Library to learn more about its programs and initiatives. If you're in Santa Fe, drop by the library at 209 Camino Carlos Rey for research and browsing. Don't live in Santa Fe? Submit your questions to a librarian via the New Mexico State Library reference desk! All inquiries receive a response within two business days.

You can view a trailer for Amá, the film featuring Jean Whitehorse's story of forced sterilization, at dartmouthfilms.com/ama.

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org

The Story of Structures: Historic Preservation with Jeff Pappas

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:00:00 -0400

For a podcast that boasts so many fascinating guests, State Historic Preservation Officer Jeff Pappas, PhD stands out as a favorite. Beyond the paperwork and rule-making that naturally accompany any federal job, his day-to-day at the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division is more interesting than one might expect.

Charlotte Jusinski chats with Jeff about what historic preservation means in a state like New Mexico, a place with a visible, tangible, touchable history dating back 17,000+ years. How does his office preserve the past and plan to tell this sprawling story in the future, in a place where the tri-cultural myth and a history of colonialism make everything that much more intricate and complicated?

"If you look at the preamble of the National Historic Preservation Act (signed into law in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson), a democratic society has a right to understand its history," says Jeff, formally explaining the gubernatorial-appointed role he currently holds. Informally, "I'm basically the eyes and ears of the governor's office," he jokes.

What, exactly, is a historian looking out for in an office that's primarily concerned with the architecture or archeology of New Mexico? Story.

"It's not just about the architecture or the empirical building itself. It's really about the story that building tells over time." That narrative rings hollow without input from a diverse compilation of voices from the past (culled from research), present (captured in real-time), and future (via anticipatory analysis). Jeff centers this commitment to community when making recommendations. He must do so as the department is constantly updating the state's historical context to help folks understand its evolving history.

As with any issues addressed by the state, decisions on historic preservation aren't made in a vacuum. Managing expectations, interests, and tax dollars requires patience. Jeff applies a deliberate approach to the societal and cultural cost of each project, tempered with an awareness that everything his department does is political. Ultimately, he returns to the story embedded in each location, a history waiting to be told for the first time or reviewed through a more modern lens.

"I do feel that story absolutely matters, however cliche that may be," he says. "You get to the root of engaging and enfranchising disadvantaged communities, marginalized communities that have not had a voice in the historic narrative for eons."

Learn more about the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, including a full list of its duties and how the public can nominate sites for historic consideration.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

All Roads Lead to Chocolate: Origins of Cacao in Chaco Canyon with Dr. Patricia Crown and Jay Shapiro

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Is there a food more universally loved than chocolate? No other ingredient lends itself to savory, sweet, and even alcoholic applications, tempting folks in everything from molten cakes to moles to Martinis.

Chocolate—or, more specifically, cacao—has been processed and consumed in Mesoamerica for millennia. In Chocolate: The Exhibition, which opens on June 17 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and is brought to us from Chicago's Field Museum, audiences are invited to explore chocolate's worldwide significance and learn how it spread to all corners of the human experience.

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski takes the local angle. She and her guests delve into the Ancestral Puebloan's connection to the non-native cacao bean, charting its arrival and usage by way of the unique cylindrical jars discovered at Chaco Canyon––with renowned scholar Dr. Patricia Crown and retired archaeologist Jay Shapiro.

Chocolate at Chaco Canyon is a mystery that remained hidden in plain sight for decades until Dr. Crown began piecing the clues together, starting with the uniquely decorated jars stored among artifacts at the Museum of Northern Arizona. "I wasn't sure why I was so interested," she recalls, but the intrigue prompted her to consult a colleague who specialized in similar pottery found in Mayan civilization. When told that the Mayans drank cacao from the cylindrical vessels, Patricia assumed her colleague had conducted organic residue studies to reach that conclusion. Instead, her colleague had simply read the hieroglyphics. "It says: this jar is used for drinking chocolate," laughs Patricia.

So how did drinking chocolate end up in Chaco Canyon, a locale inhospitable to the cultivation of the cacao tree? Three possibilities pique the professionals' curiosity: people from the south traveled north with cacao; people from the north ventured south, then returned with cacao; or cacao moving from hand to hand, village to village, eventually reaching Chaco Canyon.

"That's the conundrum with archeology. We don't know everything," admits Jay. "We know some things, and some things may simply not be discernible from the archeological record, and how cacao got to Chaco may, unfortunately, be one of those things."

Even without a definitive origins story, it's fascinating to imagine native civilizations throughout the Southwest encountering cacao for the first time, then adopting drinking chocolate for use in their ceremonies, as a therapeutic medicine, and even as a form of liquid courage.

Chocolate: The Exhibition opens on June 17 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

El Palacio Summer 2022

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Field Museum

Museum of Northern Arizona

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Rooted in Tradition, Focused on the Future: Celebrating The National Hispanic Cultural Center with Dr. Margie Huerta and Noël Bella Merriam

Wed, 25 May 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Is it possible for an arts organization to respect the hallowed neighborhood in which it resides and be future-focused?

Could it serve as a cultural home for locals while attracting worldwide attention?

Can its campus reverberate with the buzz of performances, exhibitions, and events yet provide space for quiet contemplation?

If the arts organization in question is The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, the answer is a resounding "yes."

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski chats with Executive Director Dr. Margie Huerta and Artistic Director Noël Bella Merriam about the NHCC's exciting, affordable programming as well as its ongoing efforts to preserve, promote, and advance Hispanic culture.

The multi-hyphenate institution, which sits in the middle of the historic Barelas neighborhood, is home to a museum, a performing arts center with three stages, a history and literary arts building, and Mundos de Mestizaje, the stunning 4,000 square foot concave fresco by Frederico Vigil.

As for the future of the NHCC, Margie maintains that community collaboration and support are vital. Inherent to that goal is education, connecting with schools in the surrounding communities, reiterating to students and their families that the NHCC is a place where they belong.

Cultivating inclusion and celebrating diverse identities. Who says the NHCC can't do all the things?

Explore the events calendar and plan your visit to the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

El Palacio - Fall 2021

El Palacio - Winter 2019

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

History For Folks Who Don't Like History at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum with Heather Reed

Wed, 11 May 2022 09:00:00 -0400

As humans, we learn best when we don't realize that learning is taking place. We're naturally drawn to hands-on displays and curious about reenactments. We can recall tiny details from those experiences more enthusiastically than the rote memorization of our school days.

Heather Reed is convinced that more people love history than let on precisely because they don't realize they love history. She's spent her career breathing life into dusty dates, artifacts, and historical personalities, then sharing that information under the guise of fun. As executive director of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces, NM, she continues that legacy, bringing her passion for teaching to this unique institution, inviting everyone to discover something new about the land beneath their feet.

Guests find a mix of indoor and outdoor exhibits spread across 40 acres, showcasing 4,000 years of the region's farming and ranching history, from Indigenous traditions to the agricultural contributions of women. And, of course, there's livestock, sheep and cattle breeds, some of which are native to New Mexico, as well as the ranch hands that care for them.

Farm & Ranch has a community center feel about it. On any given day, visitors explore the exhibits and interact with staff while area residents wander in to provide entries for the museum's oral history project. If Heather had her way, every museum would feel like this: welcoming.

Plan a visit to New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Las Cruces, NM, the next time you find yourself tooling around the southern end of I-25.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

El Palacio - Spring 2021

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Associate Editor: Helen King

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Listen, and Speak the Truth: Collaborating Through Conversation on the Bosque Redondo Memorial with Manuelito Wheeler and Aaron Roth

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Conversations worth having never come easy. Perhaps that's why previous attempts to present a complete history of the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, an inhospitable million-acre concentration camp into which thousands of Navajo and Mescalero Apache people were forcibly relocated by the US government in the 1860s, fell short.

The primarily white cohort of state employees who initially created those exhibitions did so without input from Indigenous partners––the people whose ancestors suffered brutal mistreatment on The Long Walk and cultural genocide at Fort Sumner.

Although Fort Sumner Historic Site was established on the grounds of Bosque Redondo in 1971, it's taken half a century to develop an exhibit that properly represents the history of this region. Or as properly as it can for now.

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski speaks with Aaron Roth, historic site manager, Fort Sumner Historic Site, and Manuelito Wheeler, director of the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, AZ, about Bosque Redondo: A Place Of Suffering, A Place Of Survival on the eve of its grand opening in May 2022. The trio discuss Bosque Redondo's tragic past, the impetus for reimagining its memorial, and amplifying tribal voices as a matter of authentic historical record.

For this permanent installation, the exhibit team created an environment in which visitors can form a deeper emotional connection with the Navajo and Mescalero people––two groups that the US government had identified as "problematic" in the 1800s during its drive to settle the West––so as to understand better the devastating effects of the 300+ mile death march and traumatic camp internment that followed.

Rethinking Bosque Redondo presented an opportunity for the museum to truly engage with the area's difficult history, presenting a narrative that challenges non-confrontational whitewashed versions.

By combining multimedia storytelling with spaces that invite reflection, the interpretive exhibit seeks to promote more inclusive and, yes, difficult conversations going forward.

Bosque Redondo: A Place Of Suffering, A Place Of Survival opens on May 28, 2022.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

Billy the Kid Museum - Fort Sumner

Visit https://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

It Does Take Money: The Economic Impact of Art with Michelle Laflamme-Childs, New Mexico Arts and Rose Eason, gallupARTS

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Wherever there are people, there is art. Sadly, wherever there is art, there are few creatives who can earn a living solely from their work.

Nowhere are those facts more apparent than in New Mexico, one of the most rural states in the Union, yet one laden with artistic riches.

Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski explores the benefits of and mechanics for funding New Mexico's robust artistic community with two women who know local arts advocacy best. Michelle Laflamme-Childs is executive director at New Mexico Arts, which oversees the distribution of state and federal funds to arts organizations in every corner of this land of (artistic) enchantment.

She's joined by Rose Eason, director of gallupARTS, the nonprofit arts council of Gallup and McKinley County in the western part of the state. The trio discuss the breadth of New Mexico's art scene and how important art is for the state's landscapes: cultural, educational, and perhaps most importantly, economic.

As audience members, we admire the end product but rarely do we consider the costs and opportunities associated with its creation.

"Art is significantly more than a pretty picture on the wall," says Michelle. It's community, connection, and fuel for the state's economic growth.

Learn more about gallupARTS and New Mexico Arts by visiting their respective websites.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Tierra Amarilla Theater Club

The Butterfly's Evil Spell - by Federico García Lorca

Art 123 Gallery

LOOM Gallery

Gallup Coffee Company

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

Season 2 - The Bottom Line of Art & History

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0400

Charlotte Jusinski is back for Season 2 of Encounter Culture!

In Season 1, we took you on a behind the scenes tour of the museums of Santa Fe. Now we're venturing out to discover the hidden, perhaps darker, histories of New Mexico and learning how fresh eyes translate those histories to the museum world.

We're looking at how art affects New Mexico's bottom line budget-wise, and giving you a preview of new exhibitions you should definitely check out this spring and summer

At this moment, we're deep in conversation with some of the people behind the Bosque Redondo Memorial, the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico Arts, the State Library, and more.

The new season starts this spring! We're excited to have you along for the ride as we encounter culture together.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski, Editor at El Palacio Magazine

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

Instagram: @newmexicanculture

For more, visit podcast.nmculture.org.

What's Important is the Art: The Legacy of Elaine Horwitch, Southwest Rising with Dr. Julie Sasse

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:00:00 -0400

In a fitting close to Encounter Culture's inaugural season, host Charlotte Jusinski returns to where it began. The New Mexico Museum of Art's exhibition Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch celebrates the woman responsible for launching this region's contemporary art movement into the stratosphere.

Joining Charlotte to dish on the legendary gallery owner's influence are Dr. Julie Sasse, Chief Curator at the Tucson Museum of Art and author of the book that informed the original exhibition at TMA, and Christian Waguespack, Curator of 20th-century art at the New Mexico Museum of Art, who reconceived the idea for MOA using works from its permanent collection.

"She was totally confident, totally unabashed," recalls Julie. "She showed what she liked, and she liked boldness. She liked color. She liked precision painters. But she also liked abstraction. She had no problem showing Filipe Archuleta next to a Paul Jenkins, or a famous artist next to an emerging artist." No one is in a better position to evaluate the Horwitch's magic than the woman who spent 14 formative years by the impresario's side, attending every party, documenting each sale, and cataloguing the impossibly vibrant collection for which the gallery owner was renowned.

Horwitch opened her first gallery in Scottsdale in 1973. By 1976, she had an outpost in Santa Fe, followed swiftly by Sedona, then Palm Springs. Her rise was meteoric, as were the careers of the artists she championed.

Although she fostered a summer camp and cocktails vibe, the art always came first. She displayed a shrewd business acumen and an impeccable ability to predict the "next big thing" coming out of the Southwest Pop scene in the 1970s and 80s. Horwitch was well-known for her support of female and indigenous artists––creators who didn't often receive the same recognition (or fees) outside her gallery.

"It wasn't about your name. It wasn't about your pedigree," says Christian. "It was about what you were producing and that merit, your merit as an artist. I think that that changed the game for a lot of gallerists and curators working here in the Southwest."

For MOA's interpretation of Southwest Rising, Christian made great use of the museum's light-filled top floor gallery, creating an immersive experience that pays homage to Horwitch's passion for contemporary Southwestern artistry and unabashed showmanship. The exhibit is also something of a tribute to Julie's meticulous original narrative. "This work on this project has gotten me excited," he says. "This is a time period and artistic moment that really needs some more digging into, and Julie has given that to us."

Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch is on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art through January 2nd, 2022. Plan your visit to the New Mexico Museum of Art.

The beautiful book Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch, written by Dr. Julie Sasse, is co-published by Cattle Track Arts & Preservation and the Tucson Museum of Art.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State - by Betsy Fahlman & Lonnie Pierson Dunbier

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest - by Lesley Poling-Kempes

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

Dressing With Purpose: Norwegian Bunad and Cultural Belonging with Laurann Gilbertson and Carrie Hertz, Museum of International Folk Art

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:00:00 -0400

Traditional clothing can inform, inspire, and connect. Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia, which opens at the Museum of International Folk Art in December, examines three Scandinavian folk dress traditions—Swedish folkdräkt, Norwegian bunad, and Sámi gákti. Host Charlotte Jusinski explores the history, social implications, and present-day interpretations of these iconic, often intricately embroidered garments with guests Laurann Gilbertson, chief curator at Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, IA, and Carrie Hertz, curator of textiles and dress at MOIFA.

"If we're going to really confront the legacies of things like colonialism, like racism, like inequality, we have to start thinking about all of the hidden and maybe not-so-hidden nuances that are contained in the words that we use." Carrie's counsel reminds us that terms used to describe most folk dress were, historically, intended to classify people, validating some by stigmatizing or exoticizing others. The textiles in Dressing with Purpose are not costumes or early versions of cottagecore. They're exceptional examples of living traditions, tracing two centuries' worth of social and political change across Scandinavia.

MOIFA has an exceptional collection of traditional dress from Scandinavia, thanks to the avid interest of Florence Dibble Bartlett, the museum's founder. One such ensemble, the Norwegian bunad, is instantly recognizable to many with its black skirt, red vest, and embroidered breastplate. The bunad's complicated fabric patterns and embroidery communicate multiple aspects of the owner's life, from family origins to specific regional achievements.

Laurann points out that the bunad is something of a 20th-century phenomenon, especially in communities outside of Scandinavia with high Norwegian populations who wish to honor their ancestral home while acknowledging their current place. "It's an easy way to have meaningful motifs from their own state or their community, but on a common Norwegian silhouette," she says of the folks who've created modern, uniquely Norwegian-American bunads.

Dressing with Purpose encourages visitors to reflect on judgements they may hold, either consciously or unconsciously, about traditional dress. "We're trying to look past all of those assumptions that have been projected onto these clothes, often by outsiders, to understand the perspective of the people who actually wear them," explains Carrie. Beyond that, perhaps visitors might also recognize similarities between the Scandinavian immigration story and their own familial experiences.

Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia is on display from December 12, 2021 through February 19, 2023. Plan your visit: Museum of International Folk Art.

After December 1, 2021, pick up your winter copy of El Palacio Magazine to read more about Sámi gákti from Laurann.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

A Circle That Begins Anywhere: Here, Now and Always at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture with Tony Chavarria & Lillia McEnaney

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:00:00 -0400

From technological innovations to societal attitudes, a lot has changed in the last twenty years. As evolutionary processes go, the gallery-wide refresh of the celebrated permanent exhibition Here, Now and Always (HNA), which opened at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in 1997, offers exciting opportunities for greater collaboration with the Southwest's Native peoples and vibrant new storytelling techniques.

Host Charlotte Jusinski chats with Tony Chavarria, Curator of Ethnology at MICA/Laboratory of Anthropology, and Curatorial Assistant Lillia McEnaney about the tangible and conceptual transformations. The trio also explores the history of museums as Euro-American colonial institutions and their future role as inclusive cultural facilitators.

From the moment it opened, HNA was groundbreaking. "It was a unique exhibition, especially for its time, because it was an exhibition that featured and relied heavily on native voice," says Tony. That voice, essential to any authentic presentation, is (still) too often left out of standard interpretations at other institutions.

HNA didn't simply include a few examples; it wove a rich Native narrative by Native peoples through every element. "Native voice actually went into much of the planning of the exhibition. [ ] The group of different curators, advisers, the Indian advisory panel––which also serves the museum in other contexts––were all involved in both selecting objects, writing about objects and interpreting objects as well," Tony says.

Twenty years later, the museum's commitment to tribal collaboration is stronger than ever. The revitalized exhibit continues its legacy of connecting ancestor to descendant, first-person storyteller with visitor. HNA utilizes ancient artifacts and modern pieces, such as the traditional Laguna dress that Deb Haaland wore for her swearing in as the United States secretary of the interior.

These state-of-the-art interactive displays are designed to emphasize the fluid nature of Native life. "You can add some more of those things [ ] that engage younger audiences into the museum to help enhance the learning experience," says Tony of the bells and whistles planned for the space.

A revamped Here, Now and Always will broaden the visitor experience, immersing them in a vibrant, living culture. Tony and Lillia also hope that the exhibit will provoke additional conversations––about how we learn, how we listen, and how we confront colonization so as not to repeat mistakes from the past. "It's more important than ever," Lillia says, "for non-Native folks, especially, to understand the Indigenous histories of the lands we all live in and occupy."

Take a virtual tour of the new exhibit: MIAC: HNA Gallery. Plan your visit to the museum: Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Collaboration, Multivocality, and Authority - by Felicia Garcia And Lillia McEnaney, El Palacio Spring 2021

Leaving the Ladder Down - by Diane Bird, El Palacio Winter 2019

Cannibal Tours in Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums - by Michael M. Ames

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor - by Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

An Underground Love Affair, The Palace Seen and Unseen with Archaeologists Cordelia Snow & Stephen Post

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0400

If Santa Fe held an election to decide the city's official meme, "I rebuilt the Palace of the Governors at my own expense" would surely garner a hefty number of votes. Various governors––Spanish, Mexican, and American––over the last 400 years have uttered versions of that phrase, highlighting their individual efforts to remodel and repair the oldest public building in Santa Fe.

Governor grandstanding aside, visitors expecting a gilded European-style building are often let down when they encounter the single-story adobe structure for the first time. But as host Charlotte Jusinski learns, the iconic landmark houses an archival treasure trove both above and below ground. She's joined by Cordelia Snow and Stephen Post, the guest curators of The Palace Seen and Unseen: A Convergence of History and Archaeology, the new long-term exhibit at the New Mexico History Museum. The trio digs into four centuries of Palace history, exploring stories revealed in excavated artifacts and anticipating mysteries not yet uncovered.

"Depending on whom you ask, the Palace of the Governors is perhaps one of the most important, if not the most important, building in New Mexico in a lot of ways." Cordelia, or Dedie as she's known, doesn't make that claim lightly. From that day in 1974, when she first set foot inside, Dedie immediately fell in love with the Palace and down its archeological rabbit hole. "It was, for a historic archaeologist, an absolute dream of a place to work," she says, adding, "I had no more idea of what was going on where the archaeology was like Alice in Wonderland."

While Dedie concentrated on the history hidden beneath the Palace floorboards, Stephen focused on the possibilities buried outside its walls. He began his career at the Palace in 1978, carefully sifting through the fine, sandy soil in search of historic bits and pieces.

A lot has changed over the last 40 years, and Stephen's hopeful that modern techniques will positively impact archaeology's future. "I think in the future, we'll do a better job of being more careful about how the buried deposits and the remains left by past peoples will be treated," he says, "so that we don't unnecessarily disturb aspects of the past that could be there, should really be there, for another 400 years."

The Palace Seen and Unseen is an intentionally titled exhibit. It reminds us that this historic site continuously reveals itself to us, inviting present-day visitors to connect with those from 400 years ago in the same magnificent space.

The Palace Seen and Unseen: A Convergence of History and Archaeology is at the New Mexico History Museum through June 19, 2026.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

Failure and Flow with Glass Artist Robert 'Spooner' Marcus, Clearly Indigenous at Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 08:49:19 -0400

Glass isn't typically the first material that folks associate with Indigenous artwork. And yet, the medium lends itself well to unique cultural interpretations, combining fundamental elements of earth, air, and fire with generational artistry. Native artists have been drawn to glassblowing since the 1970s, utilizing it to reinterpret traditional forms and tell thoroughly modern stories.

Host Charlotte Jusinski explores the hypnotic beauty on display at Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), the first exhibition of its kind on view until June 2022.

Joining Charlotte are her co-host for this episode Dr. Matthew Martinez, interim director of the museum, and Robert "Spooner" Marcus, one of the glassblowers featured in the exhibit. The two men share a bond that stretches back to their childhood on the reservation in Ohkay Owingeh, NM, an experience that informs their perspectives on art and colors this conversation.

This is perhaps one of the most aesthetically beautiful exhibitions ever to grace Santa Fe's cultural landscape. That's saying something given the city's renowned collection of museums. Visitors to Clearly Indigenous descend from MIAC's bright galleries into a dimly lit space, a journey that feels almost subterranean, forcing the senses to adjust to a new environment. This darkness emphasizes the molten glow emanating from within some of these intensely fragile pieces and recalls their beginnings in a blazing furnace. The effect casts a regal air over the entire exhibit.

Juxtapose the majestic characteristics of glass with the personable, often irreverent nature of its artists. Spooner is warm and easygoing despite working with this daunting, often dangerous material.

"Glass is a very fickle thing," he says. "If you don't respond to what it's doing, then it's not going to cooperate." That Zen-like approach to his craft was born when he answered a newspaper ad for a production line glassblower––no experience necessary. Spooner's earliest pieces were juice cups, fashioned assembly line style over and over again. But the utilitarian end product didn't diminish the allure of working with glass. "I walked into the shop, there's this big furnace that's blazing, and I basically did not turn back. I really knew from that moment that it was going to be in my life for a relatively long time."

Twenty years later, Spooner's technique-driven work is on display at MIAC alongside 32 fellow Indigenous glass artists in an exhibition that includes pieces by Dale Chihuly, the artist credited with bringing the medium to Indian Country. Clearly Indigenous highlights an immense range of forms and the ways in which glass can reference the past while remaining wholly modern.

Spooner agrees. He hopes the show inspires others to become better acquainted with the methods and magic of glass art. "It's that spark, that interest in creating that hopefully an exhibit like this [creates]. Somebody will see it and say, 'Hey, you know, I want to try doing this!' or maybe buy a piece of glass or go take a lesson."

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass is at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture through June 16, 2022. To learn more about Robert "Spooner'' Marcus, visit his website and follow him on Instagram. Connect with Dr. Matthew Martinez via LinkedIn. Explore glass blowing classes and experiences in Santa Fe at Prairie Dog Glass.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

The Promise of a Photo with Anthropologist Robert Quintana Hopkins and Archivist Hannah Abelbeck, New Mexico History Museum

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0400

If a picture is worth a thousand words, who gets to craft that narrative? How does their version compare to others, and what does it tell us about the subject? An era? Ourselves?

Host Charlotte Jusinski and her guest Hannah Abelbeck, archivist at the New Mexico History Museum's Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, explore all the angles, prompted by the discovery of 19th century archival images of Sam Adams, an African-American veteran of the New Mexico civil war.

The portraits of Mr. Adams are captivating and confusing. What was so important about him to warrant taking his picture? How did he end up in New Mexico? What was his life like?

Robert Quintana Hopkins, a descendant of Sam Adams, joins the conversation to discuss bringing under-told stories to light and the ways in which family history illuminates our current identities in multiple fascinating ways.

Curiosity is what led Robert to Sam Adams and Timotea Chavez, wife to Sam and great, great grandmother of Robert. "The world told me that I was Black, which is true," Robert says, "and I also have the experience of being half-Mexican. But there was no way for me to reconcile that within the larger context of the society that I lived in. And so I grappled with that myself, like, what does it mean to be both?"

He explored this duality via his master's thesis in anthropology and discovered a family history of non-conformance, giving him a new appreciation for and understanding of his own identity. His research eventually became blog posts through which Hannah later connected with him for her archival project.

Although the story of Sam Adams is far from complete, his portraits remind viewers that vibrant histories do exist for underrepresented communities if we're willing to take a closer look.

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A photograph of Sam Adams is on display as part of the exhibition Looking Back: Reflecting on Collections at the New Mexico History Museum through October 17, 2021. Plan your visit at New Mexico History Museum. To learn more about the photography collection or make a research appointment, contact the Palace of the Governors Photo Archive.

Read much more about Sam Adams and Robert Quintana Hopkins and see those beautiful historic portraits of Adams in the December 2021 issue of El Palacio magazine, available soon in print. Meanwhile you can check out Robert's MA Thesis: El Mestizo moderno: the story of a modern day mixed blood and his journey towards self identity.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

Sacred Toilet Paper and Santa Corona: The Museum of International Folk Art's #mask with Santero Arthur López

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0400

Masks have become ubiquitous in the last 18 months. In a pinch, they can be constructed out of inexpensive, repurposed materials, while their use (or lack thereof) can provide commentary on how the wearer feels about politics, responsibility, and design––a lot like art.

Host Charlotte Jusinski introduces listeners to #mask: Creative Responses to the Global Pandemic at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA). She's joined by this episode's co-host Felicia Katz-Harris, senior curator at MOIFA, and Santa Fe native Santero artist Arthur López, whose works were the inspiration for this exhibition.

Although masks take center stage in the exhibition's title, Arthur's beautifully carved La Sagrada Papel prompted the MOIFA to explore ideas around personal safety during the pandemic. The wooden sculpture features a roll of toilet paper surrounded by golden rays akin to religious works depicting the saints.

It's fitting as Arthur describes himself as a contemporary Santero artist, a modern-day saint maker who honors traditional methods of carving and coloring his retablos (two-dimensional panels) and bultos (three-dimensional works). La Sagrada lends a humorous touch to an object that obtained almost sacred status during the lockdown of March 2020.

Arthur's tongue-in-cheek approach extends to 2020 Altar Vision, his second piece for #mask. In it, a kitchen sink is transformed into an au courant altar, complete with hand sanitizer, soap, and a bottle of Corona––offerings to the patron saints of healthcare and wine.

"A lot of people that are doing what are called traditional art, I look at as textbook, and I've never wanted to be a textbook artist," he says. No worries there. Additional visual details in 2020 Altar Vision perfectly capture the danger still lurking outside our kitchen windows while speaking to the solace many of us have found in "FaithTime," the artist's nod to connecting via FaceTime.

Like Arthur, the other artists featured in #mask draw on their traditions and cultural heritage for inspiration, creating works that address protection in the time of COVID-19. They question the social implications of a crisis that has disproportionately affected marginalized communities around the globe and celebrate what it means to care for each other.

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#mask: Creative Responses to the Global Pandemic is on view at the Museum of International Folk Art through January 15, 2023. Plan your visit at internationalfolkart.org. To learn more about Arthur López and his work, visit artlopezart.com

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

The Fragility of Breathing: The New Mexico Museum of Art's Breath Taking with artist Cynthia Greig

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:32:23 -0400

Breath. Prior to 2020, most people didn't give the complex, involuntary act of breathing much thought.

Times have changed. So, too, has the lens through which both audiences and artists view Breath Taking, a new exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Encounter Culture host Charlotte Jusinski, the editor of El Palacio magazine, welcomes Kate Ware, her co-host for this inaugural episode and curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and artist Cynthia Greig to the conversation.

Cynthia, Kate, and Charlotte discuss Cynthia's video and photographic experiments, works that explore the shimmering intimacy and fragility of breathing in a world grappling with a respiratory virus. Afterward, Kate shares a behind-the-scenes look at what happens when a curator finalizes an entire exhibition only to pivot that original concept in the wake of a pandemic and the social justice impact resonating from the phrase "I can't breathe."

Breath Taking is an inadvertently timely exhibit featuring contemporary artists and the inventive ways they've discovered to express the fundamental and elusive act of breathing. In many ways, every breath now carries with it an ominous undertone. Breath is front-page news, leading stories from politics to protests. Through it all, breathing remains "this human act that unifies us," says Kate. We all do it––and none of us know when we'll breathe our last.

"I know everything's sort of transformed the interpretation and significance of breath to a different level since the virus is transmitted through the exhalations that we have and share," says Cynthia. The 54 photos that make up her contribution to the exhibition reveal the individuality of this life-giving force. Each image, captured on a flatbed scanner, is an imprint of the person releasing it, as unique as a snowflake. This breathscape envelopes visitors in an ethereal cosmos, forcing them to consider breath differently than they might have two years ago.

While the original plan for Breath Taking was conceived before the concept of breath exploded in the zeitgeist, Kate moved swiftly to capture the immediacy of this moment. The result is a cohesive and well-done exhibit, offering audiences a space to contemplate and to process all that's happened in the last 16 months.

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Breath Taking is on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art through September 5th, 2021. Plan your visit or take a virtual tour at nmartmuseum.org.

To learn more about Cynthia Greig and her work, visit CynthiaGreig.com.

Visit http://newmexicoculture.org for info about our museums, historic sites, virtual tours and more.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.

Trailer: A new podcast from the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 20:31:41 -0400

For centuries, the culture of New Mexico has offered residents and visitors a lush, complex texture of styles, designs and lifestyles. In recent history, that has included surviving a global pandemic.

So who are we now? What aspects of self do we take with us as we move forward, and what do we leave behind?

Take a look inside the museums and historic sites of New Mexico—this time, without leaving home. This season, we're touring the museums of Santa Fe as host Charlotte Jusinski, our curators, artists, and exhibitors grapple with the question of identity.

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Encounter Culture, a production of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, is produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios.

Hosted by Charlotte Jusinski

Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz at Mondo Machine

Recording Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Executive Producer: Daniel Zillmann

Theme Music: D'Santi Nava

For more, visit NewMexicoCulture.org.