High Road Artist

March 22, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 24 Comments

Rescue Dog Braves the Great Outdoors: Skye Breaks Free

We’ve had a pretty big event here in our Weigel household today: Skye WENT OUT THE FRONT DOOR! She’d been used as a bait dog to teach fighting dogs how to kill and was covered with puncture wounds. The vet didn’t know if she could ever have anything like a normal dog’s life but, slowly, […]

March 21, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 10 Comments

Why do Artists Create?

I’ve been feeling stressed lately. I know you all can relate. In spite of the fact I love my work and it’s actually my dream to be doing this work, it has occurred to me recently that I work ALL THE TIME! You’ve heard the saying “all work and no play…” or better yet, “too […]

March 18, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 11 Comments

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 […]

March 17, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 14 Comments

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 […]

March 16, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 2 Comments

Raymond Carver, 2

I have always appreciated the simplicity of Raymond Carver’s voice. This poem has spent lots of time on my refrigerator. Beloved And did you get what you wanted, from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

March 14, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 13 Comments

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 […]

March 11, 2011 by Jeane George Weigel 5 Comments

The Treasure

Alvaro Cardona-Hine is a treasure. There’s just no other way to put it. He was born in Costa Rica 84 years ago to a literary family, has published 18 books in Spanish and English, has composed works that have been performed by symphony orchestras and has painted masterworks that are collected all over the world. […]