Marco Oviedo has been making art since he was six years old. “Longer than I want to admit,” he says. He belongs to one of the few families that have been continuously, over the last 500 years, doing this same process. There is an example in a text he shares, showing a piece by his […]
Lashes LaRoo: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 2
Continued from yesterday’s post (Lashes LaRoo: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 1), which tells how Lashes started in the film business. Today—Lashes moves to Hollywood, in her own words: I grew up in New York and I got into the business in New York. Then I moved to California, unfortunately, because of a relationship, […]
Lashes LaRoo: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 1
My good friend, who lives here in Truchas, is an intensely private person in a very public business. She has agreed to share her story under a pseudonym of her choosing. In the 1940’s there was a Western actor named Lashe LaRue, so in keeping with her love of film, my nameless friend will now […]
Judith Hert, Artist
Judith Hert is a painter and writer who moved to Truchas, New Mexico with her husband in the spring of 1999. She wondered aloud when we were talking the other day if any place one moves to ever turns out the way they think it will. It sure didn’t for her. Six weeks after coming […]
Centinela Traditional Arts, Part 2
Irvin Trujillo has won countless major awards for his weaving including The Spanish Market Master’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, and a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 2007. His work is collected throughout the world by individuals and museums, including The Smithsonian. But he didn’t even mention any of this […]
Centinela Traditional Arts, Part 1
Weaving was not handed down to her from her immediate family. Lisa Trujillo married into a fiber arts heritage that goes back seven generations. She learned her art from her husband, Irvin Trujillo, and his father, Jacobo. She began weaving in the early 80’s and has distinguished herself as a master weaver in her own […]
Isabro Ortega, Master Carver
Isabro Ortega grew up very poor in the village of Truchas, New Mexico. He and his friend, Rudy, were inseparable. There was a boy in town who had lots of toys while Isabro and Rudy had none. The other boy had an electric train set, so Isabro and Rudy made their own out of sardine […]
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