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New Mexico’s deep artistic traditions have long engaged with the multifaceted histories and cultures of the state. At Encounter Culture, we talk with artists, historians, scientists, museum curators, and writers who are all a part of New Mexico’s centuries’ old lineage of helping us understand the places and people who make the Land of Enchantment so unique.

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Rolling Into Rural Communities: Bookmobiles and Books by Mail Across New Mexico 

For many people who live in New Mexico the nearest library might be three hundred miles away. Luckily, the New Mexico State Library runs two excellent rural library services: Books by Mail and three bookmobiles…

A History of Genízaro Identity in the Heart of New Mexico with Dr. Gregorio Gonzales 

What do we lose when we don’t know ALL of our histories? Understanding our great, great, great, great grandparents’ lives and how they survived, where they settled or traveled, and what languages they spoke –…

Adventure Begins at Your Library: Explore New Mexico Tribal Libraries and Youth Programming

At their core, libraries are community gathering spaces. And in a large, low-population state like New Mexico, with lots of rural communities, libraries play a vital role in literacy, education, and job skills training—along with…

Protective Threads: Exploring Indigenous Fashion and Advocacy with Bobby Brower and Tara Trudell

Creating art in the face of grief can be complicated and hard to navigate, especially when the grief feels both private and personal—and a part of a much larger epidemic, like the Missing and Murdered…

Star Parties, Rim-Blown Flutes, and Pueblo History at Jemez Historic Site

Jemez Historic Site, like all of New Mexico’s Historic Sites and museums, offers unique historical and cultural perspectives on the deep and wide-ranging communities, languages, and traditions across the state. And while New Mexico contains…

Keeping New Mexico’s Spanish Alive: The National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Legacy Project

Traveling to some remote parts of Northern New Mexico can feel a little like traveling back in time. There’s the slower, rural lifestyle and lack of cell reception, for starters, but in some small pockets…

Look Up! Leo Villareal’s Astral Array at New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary 

What would it be like to see a symphony? How can you capture the rhythm of waves or a murmuration in constellations of light? If anyone can offer a visual representation of multi-sensory experiences, multimedia…

Listen to the Land: Art at Bosque Redondo with Dakota Mace, Daisy Trudell-Mills, and Kéyah Keenan Henry

Indigo, cochineal, red earth, and corn pollen: these are among some of the traditional materials used in the art of Dakota Mace (Diné), Kéyah Keenan Henry (Diné), and Daisy Trudell-Mills (Santee Dakota, Mexican, and Jewish)…