TRADICIÓN SEPTEMBER 2013 REVISTA Home Country CHiles, Frijoles & BizCochitos A new mexiCo rAilroAd tAle our sAints Among us revisited el CAmino reAl de tierrA Adentro Teresa May Duran New Book to be Released This Fall from the Award- winning team of Rudolfo Anaya & Nicolás Otero www.corazondeduran.com [email protected] 303/522-6994 Contemporary & Traditional Art by ROSA MARIA CALLES Available in late fall in time for the holiday season . Email us now and we will put you on the list to get additional information as soon as it is available — [email protected] P.O. 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Photograph by Paul Rhetts 6 TRADICIÓN September 2013 TRADICIÓN FEATURING SOUTHWEST TRADITIONS, ART & CULTURE SEPTEMBER 2013 VOLUME XVIII, NO. 3 (#62) IN THIS ISSUE FEATURE ARTICLES A NEW MEXICO RAILROAD TALE .........................................................................76 BY VErnON GLOVER OUR SAInts AMOng US REVISITED ...................................................................86 BY BarBE AWALT & PAUL RHEtts CHILES, FRIJOLES, anD BIZCOCHITOS ....................................................................100 BY CHERYL FOOTE EL CamINO REAL DE TIErra ADEntrO .........................................................110 BY JOSEPH SanCHEZ HOME COUntrY .................................................................................................................124 BY SLIM RanDLES Departments EDITOrs’ NOTES/PUBLISHErs’ MEssagE ..................................................11 WHat’S GOIng ON AT SCAS? ..................................................................12 BOOK REVIEWS & RESOURCES .......................................................................128 “Los Tres Reyes” by Nicolás Otero displayed as part of the “Our Saints Among Us Revisited” exhibit which runs through March at the Silver City Museum (see page 86). This art was originally created as an illustration in Rudolfo Anaya’s new children’s book “How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico.” TRADICIÓN September 2013 7 Award Winning Artist Ramona Vigil Eastwood Showing at Contemporary Hispanic Market Santa Fe, NM t July 27-28 t Museum of New Mexico Foundation ON THE PLAZA: New Mexico Museum of Art Shop Palace of the Governors Shop ON MUSEUM HILL: Museum of International Folk Art Shop Colleen Cloney Duncan Museum Shop at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture ON THE WEB: www.shopmuseum.com PO Box 23455, Albuquerque, NM 87192 www.newmexicocreates.org 505.296-2749 email [email protected] www.worldfolkart.org TRADICIÓN September 2013 9 10 TRADICIÓN September 2013 pensamientos de los editores These have not worked and they are not going to. Let’s go on the record that Peruvian silver exhibits do not draw anyone in because people don’t care to see it. Comparing Publishers’ Peru Spanish Colonial to New Mexico Spanish Colonial might have been interesting but SCAS missed the mark on that too. It is time to gut and start over at SCAS. See the farce Message on page 12. SCAS Is Broken Kudos We have been saying it for about twenty years, SCAS Congratulations to Henrietta Martinez Christams on is broken. But it seems lately that they have lost direction her honor from the National DAR for Hispanic Preserva- and common sense. The role of the artists has long been tion. diminished but the posted ad for the new Executive Di- Congrats also go out to Don Bullis and Denise Chavez rector of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society is completely for being named as recipients of the 2013 Rounders missing any mention of artists. Without artists there is no Award from the New Mexico State Department of Ag- SCAS, no Spanish Colonial art, and frankly no history riculture. The award is named after Max Evans, another because the people who run SCAS have no clue about New Mexico treasure. the past contributions. We agree 100% that Winter Market had to be moved Places to visit from Santa Fe. No one outside of Santa goes, the Conven- Make sure you attend these opportunities to see art tion Center and the City of Santa Fe do not support Win- and talk to artists: ter Market, and SCAS is reluctant to publicize it outside The Heard Spanish Market – November 9 & 10 in of Santa Fe and the Albuquerque Journal. Winter Market, Phoenix, this year, will be Friday and Saturday – November 29 & Los Lunas Museum of Heritage & Culture, 30, at the Hotel Albuquerque. THERE IS A $6 PER HEAD Silver City Museum – Our Saints Among Us : Revis- ADMISSION FEE! What are they thinking? ited until March, You are in a new city, on new days, on Black Friday Valencia County Historical Society Author Day at the and Saturday, while charging $6@ to get in? Get the peo- Los Lunas Transportation Center - Sunday, November 10, ple in then worry about getting money from them! The Winter Market – Hotel Albuquerque – Friday & Satur- argument some SCAS Board members use erroneously is day, November 29 & 30. that shows of value charge to get in. These are shows that (NOTE: No Contemporary Hispanic Winter Market) have a track record and Winter Market in Albuquerque does not. The SCAS Board may have shot Winter Market And events we are partial to – the release of Rudolfo in the foot. On top of all of that is Black Friday - people Anaya’s new book for children in time for the holidays – are at malls getting Christmas deals. Artists will suffer. How Chile Came To New Mexico: And of course SCAS has yet to spread the word in Albu- The Los Lunas Museum of Heritage & Arts on Satur- querque that Winter Market is in Albuquerque. day, November 16, 1pm Frankly, artists should be mad at the SCAS Board and Sunday, November 24, 3pm at Bookworks on Rio staff for being clueless. They don’t care because it isn’t Grande Blvd. their livelihood at stake. On top of all this chaos, Maggie, The Main Santa Fe Library on Sunday, December 1 at the Market guru at SCAS, told people she had more than 1pm 100 artists signed up for Winter Market BEFORE she sent Books will be signed by Rudolfo, illustrator Nick Otero, out the applications. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to and translator Nasario Garcia. If we do say so, they make figure out that she was spouting pie-in-the-sky! the perfect holiday gift! Artists do not organize and they do not unite for the Hardback editions of several books will be available common good. This is not a put down – it is just the way this holiday season, including Tale of the Pronghorned Can- it is. Frankly, Winter Markets in Taos, Las Cruces, and taloupe, Los Chilitos, and Shoes for the Santo Niño. Make sure Gallup might be interesting and give artists a new venue you check these out. to sell. But no! It would take someone to work and SCAS And finally when you buy gifts – buy local! It makes isn’t going to do that! They are much more interested in a difference. high teas, or fashion shows, or home tours of garages. TRADICIÓN September 2013 11 The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Executive Director Search: Or What Is Going On? by Barbe Awalt My involvement with the “search” came from end- she needed. Pedace also announced at St. John’s College of-the-summer something to do and the opportunity to Spanish Market in front of many people after she got the say what was wrong with SCAS. I had flirted with the job, that she didn’t like New Mexico Hispanic art because idea of applying for the job but when I saw the badly it was too folksy! Good thing for the Executive Director of put together requirements I had to do it – it was a great SCAS to say in public. opportunity! Her reign of terror lasted about two plus years. She The advertisement on the SCAS website was four had many verbal altercations and outright fights. We pages long and badly written. Aside from the strange witnessed one against Ramona Vigil-Eastwood at Pedace’s spaces and different sizes of type, the ad was missing the first Preview. She actually came into the Contemporary salary or range of salary, benefits, if the job was full or Market Preview and yelled at Ramona because the part-time (I had heard the SCAS Board didn’t even know Convention Center doors into the hall were not locked.