Marco Oviedo has been making art since he was six years old. “Longer than I want to admit,” he says with a grin. He belongs to one of very few families that have carried on the exact same traditions for over 500 years. With noticeable pride, he showed me a photograph of a sculpture created […]
Artist Profiles
Lorey Sebastian: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 2
Continued from yesterday’s post (Lorey Sebastian: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 1), which tells how Lorey started in the film business. Today—Lorey moves to Hollywood, in her own words: I grew up in New York and got into the business there. Then I moved to California—unfortunately, because of a relationship with a man, which […]
Lorey Sebastian: Tales of the Film Industry, Part 1
My good friend, Lorey Sebastian, who lives here in Truchas, has been a still photographer in the film industry for several decades and has photographed just about every actor imaginable. She is an intensely private person in a very public business. However, she agreed to talk to me about how she started in film, why […]
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 and a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship. His work is collected throughout the world by individuals and major museums, including The Smithsonian. Yet, he didn’t even mention these accolades to me. More important […]
Centinela Traditional Arts, Part 1
I sat down to speak with Lisa Trujillo of Centinela Traditional Arts. As she walked me through her creative space and talked about her process, she explained that weaving was not handed down to her from her immediate family. Instead, Lisa married into a fiber arts heritage that goes back seven generations. She learned the […]
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 […]