Kathy Riggs and Jake Willson are two potters living in Ojo Sarco, one village up the mountain from Truchas.
Artist Profiles
An Artist’s Journey – Donna J. Caulton
There are so many ways to describe the pathway to calling oneself an artist and to permitting that artist inside to develop and sustain a vision. The stories that come to the forefront of memory differ from one day to the next.
Would You Like to Design Your Own Quilt?
I have a long standing kinesthetic relationship with fibers—I like to touch. It feels elemental, like something from another lifetime. Knitting, crocheting, reverse applique, embroidery, needlepoint, weaving, and sewing—I’ve dabbled in them all.
Why Move From New Jersey to New Mexico?
What is a woman from the suburbs of New Jersey doing in a remote Hispanic mountain village? Living her dream, of course!
Karen Cordova Caraco, Master Potter
Karen Cordova specializes in micaceous pottery which is indigenous to Taos and Picuris Pueblos. Her work is traditionally made, hand coiled and pit fired and built from clay gathered from historic clay pits where native peoples have gathered clay for hundreds of years.
William deBuys Comes to the Truchas, NM Library
William deBuys came to the Truchas Library recently to read for us from two of his books. In fact deBuys lived in Truchas back in the early 70s and recalled tutoring local children in the very building that is now the library. Back then it was the school. Several old-timers greeted him and he remembered them by name. Very impressive.
David Sipp, Llano de la Yegua, NM
“My journey, like that of many of my contemporaries, was a search for a place within which to be at peace and find love…” – An interview with David Sipp