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The New Mexico History Museum celebrates its
One Year Anniversary this weekend. The
Spiegelberg
Shop at the
NMHM is filled with incredible things from
the artists
of New Mexico Creates. While on your visit
to this
incredible
museum, you won't want to miss the Palace of the
Governors Book, Print and Photo Archive Shop
as well.
The Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops are
now on Facebook. Check out our page!
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Victoria Rogers
Victoria Rogers is a creative, busy person
here in
Santa Fe. On our website, New
Mexico Creates we are
proud to feature a fine group of her
photographic
prints, such as the dramatic Fourth of
July,
which was actually taken on a Fourth of July.
With
her select traditional prints archived in the New
Mexico
Museum of Art's Jane Reese Williams
Collection,
she can now print images in the way she intended
them to be represented. As Rogers says, "I have
been
able
to master the digital processes as an artform,
including printing. Trusting my own eye and
senses, I
replicate subtleties of palette, detail and
feeling
present in the original transparencies to
show how
truly beautiful nature is."
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Christina Hall-Strauss
Sheng Jewelry is the name that Christina Hall-
Strauss has lent to her distinctive and
stylish line of
hand crafted jewelry. Her interest in beads,
and her
Asian/Chinese design aesthetic was partially
inspired
by working in the Museum of International
Folk Art
Shop years back. As she says, I find what I
call "focal
pieces" in antique shops, bead emporiums and
other
places like the Bead Show here in town." She
creates
her unique necklaces by hand-knotting these
special
beads
with beautiful jade, quartz, onyx and other
stones,
such as in this elegant serpentine
necklace.
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Kathryn Blackmun
Born in Trinidad, (not Colorado) Kathryn
Blackmun
studied at UC Irvine, graduating with honors,
then
when onto the Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena as an illustration major. She went
on to
make a living as an editorial designer and
illustrator
for many years in Los Angeles. Her line of
pottery is
whimsical, entertaining, yet functional. As she
says "It's useful but one-of-a-kind, not what
you expect
from a bowl or pitcher. Don't worry, just
enjoy!" It's
hard not to enjoy Kathryn's handmade pieces,
such
as this wonderful Norteņo Farm
Plate.
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Wild at Heart
Ernest Thompson Seton |
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While I was visiting a family member a few months
ago, she went to her bookshelf and pulled out
a lovely little
book. She said "you should read this
again---I'll bet it
will mean something different to you now." It
was my
copy of Wild Animals I Have Known,
which I got
when I
was 9 years old.
When we received word of the exhibit at the New
Mexico
History Museum on Ernest Thompson Seton,
called Wild at Heart,
I
decided to listen to sis and pick up that book
again. After
rereading the stories, I now realize just what
an impact Seton had in helping form part of
my world
view. My compassion for animals and love of
nature
was partially formed through it.
Generations of
readers have had a similar experience. As Seton
wrote: "Ever since Lobo, my sincerest wish
has been
to impress upon people that each of our
native wild
creatures is in itself a precious heritage
that we have
no right to destroy or put beyond the reach
of our
children."
The story of Seton's life is a truly
fascinating one and
Ernest Thompson
Seton illuminates just what
an amazing man he was: conservationist, writer,
artist , New Mexico resident and co-founder
of the Boy
Scouts of America. Celebrated in text and
visuals,
Ernest Thompson Seton features more than
100 of Seton's paintings and illustrations
and is the
catalog for the exhibit at the New Mexico
History
Museum. Written by David L. Witt, with a
foreword by David Attenborough. Available at the
Spiegelberg Shop at the New Mexico History
Museum and on New Mexico
Creates.
Visit
Wild
At Heart-Ernest Thompson Seton at the New
Mexico History Museum
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