TRADICIÓN APRIL 2012 REVISTA Alien Visitors ApAche BAsket-mAking through A photogrApher’s eye reVolt & treAson triAls of 1847 Dueling Boundaries, sAntA fe county, texAs CHARLIE CARRILLO SANTO BY CHARLIE CARRILLO AND POTTERY BY DEBBIE CARRILLO STUDIO BY APPOINTMENT 2712 PASEO DE TULAROSA, SANTA FE, NM 87505 505/473-7941 E-MAIL: [email protected] TRADICIÓN FEATURING SOUTHWEST TRADITIONS, ART & CULTURE APRIL 2012 VOLUME XVII, NO. 1 (#57) ISSN 1093-0973 PUBLISHERS/MANAGING EDITORS Barbe Awalt Paul Rhetts CONTRIBUTORS Loretta Hall Francisco Toste Santana Claude Stephenson Michael Stevenson Robert Tórrez Don Usner Elisa Wood Tradición Revista is published electronically four times a year by LPD Enterprises, 925 Salamanca NW Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM 87107-5647 505/344-9382 t FAX 505/345-5129 Website: www.nmsantos.com Email: [email protected] The nmsantos.com website contains information on both the current issue of TRADICIÓN REVISTA as well as all back issues, a comprehensive index of articles, and information on the book list from LPD Press. 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Palace of the Governors Photo Archives PO Box 23455, Albuquerque, NM 87192 118354. See page 52 for more. 505.296-2749 email [email protected] TRADICIÓN April 2012 7 Jason Salazar Catherine Robles-Shaw Traditional & Contemporary Wood Carving Award-winning Artist 303/258-0544 Special Orders for Altarscreens 505/514-1120 or 505/271-0925 www.catherineroblesshaw.com pensamientos de los editores Publishers’ Message Happy 100th Birthday New Mexico and Arizona!!!!!!!! Winter Traditional Market Santa Fe Mayor David Coss wants to run for Ben Lujan’s We were not there but that didn’t stop collectors and seat in the New Mexico Legislature because Coss is hav- artists from calling us with horror stories. The Santa Fe ing so much fun being Mayor. Just a suggestion: maybe Convention Center FORGOT to turn on the lights. Maybe Coss needs to stop having fun and do the job. it is us but when you rent a space it includes lights? The Winter Pay-Through-The-Nose Preview Party was a flop. Just an idea from two Anglos: why not have BOTH Beside non-traditional foods you had to BUY your own of the Markets — Contemporary and Traditional at the drinks including water. Nice! We are glad the holiday Santa Fe Convention Center? There is plenty of room, the spirit is dead! The tea had 20 elderly ladies attend at moveable wall could separate the two Markets because SCAS President Jim Long’s hotel—nice! The Home Tour we all know they don’t play well together, and they was a bust—nice too. The Home Tour visited one garage. could BOTH take advantage of each other’s marketing No one came to Winter Market and artists didn’t sell. It was promoted that 100 artists would be in attendance to sell but there were really 78. Sad! What REALLY burns us up is thousands of dollars of food for the Preview was gotten and when no one ate the food, mainly because it was cold, instead of giving it to a shelter who could use it, the food was THROWN AWAY!!!!! What are they thinking? For that alone Donna and Maggie need to be fired ASAP. So to recap - artists paid about $300 each for a booth and made no money. What about that doesn’t work for you? The print ad that the Spanish Colonial Arts Society paid for Winter Market had the wrong times. We are thinking about this and wouldn’t SCAS know what time Winter Market was? And didn’t SCAS design and place the ad? This is not the first time a SCAS ad was really wrong — the SCAS Matanza ad had no date. Maybe these are secret events — you have to be a chosen few to know. We may have seen the death of SCAS and Winter Market. If artists don’t demand accountability this is what is going to happen in July. If gas prices stay high, plan- ning is necessary. Contemporary Hispanic Market There were less artists in attendance and less custom- ers. They did have Hispanic Holiday music and it did add to the event. They run a tight but casual show and have a lot of potential. One artist said all the shows in Santa Fe have been poor. Maybe it is Santa Fe? We did notice the Convention Center did not change burned out light bulbs and shovel snow off of walk-ways. We heard the loading dock was a sheet of ice. Do they know about lawsuits? But TRADICIÓN April 2012 9 and visitors. Just a suggestion — it will never happen but wouldn’t it be nice! There is more than enough room for both Markets! Saint Tim NICholas Catherine Robles Shaw made a Tim Tebow retablo for Winter Market. It was tongue-in-cheek and Catherine never called him Saint Tebow though the Albuquerque HERRERA Journal did. She got angry emails for her retablo. Her reply back to angry people was we have lost our sense of hu- mor and she never called him “saint.” Aren’t there more important things to deal with? And imagine hate mail three days before Christmas! Happy Holidays to you too! Goodwill toward men except if you like Tim Tebow! Note: Tebow had moved on to New York City now. Hats off to the Vargas Family of Albu- querque In celebrating their son’s life the Vargas Family gave $1000 of new shoes to the Albuquerque School System. Vargas, who was a budding artist, was killed in Down- town Albuquerque. St. John’s Back on the Radar After a year of not having the St. John’s Spanish Market in February, it came back with joy! There were more artists, more clients, music, and fun! We hope this is a trend. When we were there we saw customers and people buying. Hats off to Charlie Carrillo and Arlene Cisneros Sena, as well at the St. John’s people that made it work! Bizarre Foods Put on your TV calendar Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern on the Travel Channel for the Matanza and other New Mexico foods. The episode is scheduled for July. Award We are honored to receive the Mille Santillanes Edu- cation Award from the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Preservation League. See more on page 73. Put on Your Radar The Southwest Book Fiesta is scheduled for May 10-12, 2013 (Mother’s Day Weekend) at the Albuquerque Con- vention Center. It will be fun and support literacy and libraries. Historical Society of New Mexico PO Box 43 The Historical Society of New Mexico is meeting at El Rito, New Mexico 87530 the Santa Fe Convention Center on May 3-5, 2012. We will debut the third volume of Sunshine and Shadows in New 505.581-4733 Mexico’s Past at the meeting. This volume focuses on the www.nicholasherrera.com Statehood Period from 1912 to present. 10 TRADICIÓN April 2012 editorial Fear This: Proposed Development for the Santuario in Chimayó Few things have aroused such people for local people. The notion The church has published a discussion in Chimayó as the recent of making any part of Chimayó into map of the complex of the grounds proposal to develop a conference a gaudy tourist attraction turns the as they have developed them to date. center and other facilities near the stomach of anyone who lives there or This might be considered a blueprint Santuario in Chimayó. I’ve been loves to visit. The value of the place for the kind of development that speaking with a lot of people there, lies in its lack of pretension. Preser- would unfold if the church is given and the reaction in the community vation of buildings there should be free hand to proceed with its plans.