Barbara McCauley and her husband, Alvaro Cardona-Hine, were planning a move to New Mexico from Minnesota. While their lives there were wonderful, their children were grown and they wanted to try making it as full time artists. They believed New Mexico was the place to do that. Alvaro wanted to move to Santa Fe, and […]

Before coming to New Mexico I had never heard of the Taos Modernists. I now consider them a primary inspiration for my work. I will write later about the group and its artists but first I wanted to celebrate the work of Beatrice Mandelman, my favorite Taos Modernist. I first became aware of her work […]