Map where power outage has occurred in the area of San Ildefonso Road A power outage has occurred in the area of San Ildefonso Road Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) line crews are actively working to locate the source of the outage there is no estimated time for restoration Copyright © 2012-2025 The Los Alamos Daily Post is the Official Newspaper of Record in Los Alamos County This Site and all information contained here including graphs and graphics is the property of the Los Alamos Daily Post Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted provided that the Los Alamos Daily Post and author/photographer are properly cited columnists and other contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the Los Alamos Daily Post The Los Alamos Daily Post newspaper was founded Feb Every weekend there are unmissable workshops at the Colegio de San Ildefonso in one of them you will make a tunnel book Already have plans for this weekend Take a trip to the Colegio de San Ildefonso to visit its tunnel book workshop You’ll build a book-shaped object that stands out for its 3D scene.It only costs $30 In addition to exhibitions the cultural precinct offers different workshops throughout the year a tunnel book is an article in the form of a book with a three-dimensional image You can choose the image that you will put together; there are two options: an image of the patio of this cultural precinct or the stained glass window called La Bienvenida looks into a collection well in October 2020 at the Pojoaque Basin regional water system construction site Officials provide an update on the mammoth Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System Email notifications are only sent once a day A mammoth water infrastructure project resulting from a decadeslong legal battle over water rights in Northern New Mexico is marching on 502 between San Ildefonso and Pojoaque pueblos Construction of the Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System which will serve communities stretching from Española to Santa Fe is the final step in resolving the nearly six-decade-old Aamodt water rights litigation — among the nation’s longest-running water disputes — which sought to determine how Native American pueblos and other water users should share the basin’s finite supply Congress passed the Aamodt Settlement Act in 2012,” said Dave Angelloz of Stampede Ventures Inc. Bureau of Reclamation during a community meeting Monday night at Tesuque Elementary School While some people have raised concerns about whether construction information about the project presented to community members Monday shows the final phase is still on track for an estimated completion date in fall 2028 storage tanks and roughly 150 miles of pipeline the water system will divert Rio Grande flows treat the water and distribute it to the pueblos of Pojoaque as well as non-pueblo Santa Fe County customers It is intended to supply up to 4,000 acre-feet of drinking water a year — about 1.3 billion gallons — to about 10,000 people in those communities The federal government’s share of the total project cost has risen to a projected $766.5 million a 2013 study estimated the project’s total cost at $320 million The state is contributing $100 million and Santa Fe County is paying $17.5 million under current estimates although that could rise; the presentation showed federal and county funding is “subject to indexing to account for inflation.” while non-Pueblo users have an option to connect to the system “So the county taxpayer is getting this unbelievable system with all of these services for a significantly small portion of the total cost,” said Scott Kaseman Work began more than three years ago on the system aimed at easing the stress on wells and streams when the impacts of climate change are particularly felt It is expected to be completed in 2028 in three phases The county and the Bureau of Reclamation are hosting events this week to discuss progress on the system A second community meeting will be held Wednesday night at Pojoaque Middle School Phase 1 includes an intake facility at the intersection of the Rio Grande and N.M a raw water pipeline connecting these facilities and transmission water lines Those who attended Monday’s meeting learned the county has contracted with SelectROW a corporation that provides land and right-of-way consulting services for the acquisition of “permanent utility easements.” Affected property owners can expect to receive a letter from SelectROW explaining the effects of the project with survey exhibits a waiver valuation estimate and easement agreement documents The minimum compensation being offered is $500 but the easements are of different sizes and carry different values Santa Fe County Commissioner Anna Hansen told The New Mexican in March 2023 she did not believe the project was progressing quickly enough to press the Bureau of Reclamation to pick up the pace highlighting the importance of the project for many Northern New Mexico communities “I’d always like to see it move a little faster,” Hansen said “We’ll see tonight if they are making any real progress who has been a member of the County Commission for eight years said she has worked on the Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System her entire tenure This is an important project for the entire region,” Hansen said noted the massive scale of the project and said he believes it is a necessary one You never know what’s going to happen next year,” Eberl said referring to the incoming Trump administration is concerned about potential effects of the new water system on community-managed acequia systems “Because whenever they do construction and don’t consult with the people who know where the floods happen and we have arroyos that go off into the north that have major amounts of flooding,” said Lyles who aired concerns about some of the pipe designs for the water system near where he lives A second community meeting on the Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System will be held from 6 to 8 p.m Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Receive a list of headlines from the latest edition of The New Mexican in your inbox every morning get a 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Tarana Wireless systems new fixed wireless technology dubbed Next Generation Fixed Wireless (ngFWA) in the San Ildefonso Pueblo and Cochiti Lake areas with grant funds provided by the New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission (NMPRC) NMSurf finalized its deployment of ngFWA in the areas with funds received from the NMPRC in which NMSurf provided 25% of the deployment costs under the Broadband Program from The State Rural Universal Service Fund “We are seeing speeds as high as 500Mbps down and as high as 100Mbps up this technology is quite amazing,” Albert Catanach The new technology employs non-line-of-sight technology beam forming and it can be done for a fraction of the cost as compared to other technologies such as fiber “We are very happy to bring this technology to all the project areas as this will truly be a game changer for many New Mexicans who have been waiting for better broadband for years and years,” Catanach said Have the latest local news delivered every afternoon so you don't miss out on updates Receive our newspaper electronically with the e-Edition email An official website of the United States government Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management's (EM) longest established working group — the State and Tribal Government Working Group (STGWG) — drew the largest number of participants ever for its spring meeting Office of Environmental Management “Great dialogue is an indication of a great meeting There’s no replacement for in-person conversations.” In addition to attending STGWG meetings Avery also traveled to the Pueblo de Cochiti Pueblo of Jemez and Santa Clara Pueblo to deepen his understanding of cultural values and priorities as well as the impacts of the presence of United States federal entities near these communities To receive the latest news and updates about the Office of Environmental Management EL RANCHO — Liz Roybal described feeling shocked to see crews converge on a vacant field where she played ball as a child They began building an unsightly structure that mars El Rancho’s rugged Roybal learned it was a treatment plant San Ildefonso Pueblo is building at the edge of its land as a key part of the massive Pojoaque Basin Regional Water System the plant began materializing without notice She said she understands San Ildefonso is sovereign and can do what it wants on tribal land But the pueblo’s leaders should have called a meeting with area residents to inform them such an unsightly structure would be built at the main entrance of El Rancho “It’s just a monstrous project,” Roybal said I thought we had a better relationship with San Ildefonso.” with heavy equipment and dozens of workers at the site and big trucks going in and out of the entrance on the narrow road Crews have excavated the land and erected walls making her feel as though she’s entering a nuclear facility when she goes into El Rancho which is ruining the community’s rural charm “They have thousands of acres of property Why did they have to put it there?” Roybal said of pueblo officials The treatment plant is deemed a crucial component of the regional water system being built to help settle the decades-old Aamodt litigation — one the country’s longest-running water disputes — by boosting the area’s limited groundwater supply The project will draw and treat water from the Rio Grande said crews would begin building the treatment plant later that year They never stated where exactly the plant would be located Work began about three years ago on the system which is aimed at easing the stress on wells and streams while providing water in an area stretching from Española to Santa Fe The system is slated to be completed in 2028 it will supply up to 4,000 acre-feet of drinking water a year — about 1.3 billion gallons — to about 10,000 people in Nambe San Ildefonso and Pojoaque pueblos as well as to other Santa Fe County customers in the Pojoaque Valley Federal agencies are authorized to spend up to $413 million on the work and Santa Fe County is paying $17.5 million In a 2008 engineering report to an association representing the four pueblos involved in the project the water treatment plant’s proposed location was near the Rio Grande That was the proposed treatment plant site for nearly a decade which made more sense partly because it was in an uninhabited area When the Bureau of Reclamation conducted an environmental impact statement in 2017 the agency eliminated it without explanation and gave San Ildefonso three other options Officials continue to offer no explanation for the change in siting. The Reclamation Bureau didn’t respond to emailed questions about why it scratched the Rio Grande site in favor of one in the middle of a rural community. In an email, San Ildefonso Pueblo Gov. Christopher Moquino wrote the pueblo has limited authority over the federal project and went with what seemed the best option it was given for siting the treatment plant. “The Bureau of Reclamation is the entity ultimately responsible for the design and construction of the system,” Moquino wrote. The public had a chance to review and comment on the system’s design, including the water treatment plant’s location, in a series of meetings in 2016 and 2017, Moquino wrote. The bureau hosted several of the hearings and invited written comments at that time, he added. The Interior Department approved the pueblo’s “preferred alternative” for the treatment plant’s location in 2019, he wrote. Although the system will serve other pueblos and county users, San Ildefonso agreed to house most of the infrastructure, including the treatment plant, on its land to serve the larger area, he added. San Ildefonso, he wrote, “sees this as benefitting not just the pueblo but the entire community in the Pojoaque basin that will benefit from a reliable source of safe and clean drinking water.” Bent said the pueblo took the best of three bad choices. One of the proposed sites would have put the plant near an electrical substation that flooded in the 1950s, and another would’ve been very close to the road, he said. The site where it ended up is only a little better, next to the El Rancho Senior Center, Bent said. The big, drab, intrusive structure is the first thing people will see going through the entrance, and there’s also a question of whether the large volume of chlorine that will be used to treat the water will pose health risks, he said. “I think personally it’s a bad area,” Bent said. “There’s all sorts of other places they could have put it. The closer you put it to the river, the more sense it makes.” Bent said he blames the county more than San Ildefonso for the outcome. As a partner helping to fund the project, the county could have pushed to have the plant built elsewhere. “To me the villain in this is the county, which just did not stick up for us,” he said. But county spokeswoman Olivia Romo in an email echoed Moquino in saying the bureau is in charge of the project. “The County appreciates the concerns of residents,” Romo wrote. “Ultimately, however, the County did not control the location of the water treatment plant.” Questions about the plant’s location and the variety of factors that went into the decision should be addressed to the bureau, she added. Roybal said it’s an unwelcome addition to the community, and no one would have accepted it if they’d had a choice. There are also safety concerns such as what could happen if the plant springs a leak, she said. She’s aware that no amount of complaining will make it go away, but says it’s important to object to a project that’s poorly handled. “This could have been better thought out,” she said. “We could have had better communication. It’s just disappointing. They’re going to do what they want to do.” By Santa Fe New MexicanNorthern New Mexico's best source for news and information. Will you support our work?All of our content is free And we have hired more Native journalists in the past year than any news organization ─ and with your help we will continue to grow and create career paths for our people Support Indian Country Today for as little as $10 'Something went wrong,' the message on the cellphone said 'Please check your internet connection and try again.' Such messages are not uncommon on the San Ildefonso Pueblo just 25 minutes north of Santa Fe assistant commerce secretary and head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration looks at a map of Santa Clara Pueblo with the pueblo’s Lt during a meeting in their tribal office Wednesday SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO - The message on a cellphone came up shortly after trying to pull up Google maps on the San Ildefonso Pueblo Wednesday evening "Please check your internet connection and try again." Such messages are not uncommon on the pueblo just 25 minutes north of Santa Fe Despite being a short distance from both the state Capitol and Los Alamos National Laboratory the roughly 1,200 people who live on the pueblo are worlds away when it comes to connectivity About 60% of the residents have no internet services at all a director of planning and economic development for the pueblo The other 40% have slow and unreliable internet And the bandwidth was just not there," Peña said We could not get into Google Meet." On Wednesday the head of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration which has plans to ramp up connectivity with the help of a nearly $5 million grant have received a total of $14 million from the NTIA to expand internet capabilities That's just a small fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars that could flow into New Mexico in the coming years from federal grants that were included in a massive infrastructure law passed in 2021 New Mexico has also recently announced tens of millions worth of grants to expand broadband from the U.S "Being sheltered and having to be remote - we have a very disengaged society "There are opportunities that can develop with infrastructure that we don't have right now." Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content Plateau Telecommunications will receive a $49 million grant to expand internet access in Santa Fe Stay informed with the latest top headlines from your trusted local source the Albuquerque Journal—delivered to your inbox every day it provides narrative coverage of local trends going beyond the headlines to keep you informed Stay in the loop with the top stories of the week delivered straight to your inbox every Saturday Sign up to see what’s trending and get the latest on the stories that matter most to our readers Get breaking news and important alerts sent straight to your inbox as they happen Stay up-to-date with the latest sports headlines and highlights from the Albuquerque Journal Get the latest on local happenings delivered straight to your inbox Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Stampede Ventures-Bering Straits Native Corporation Disponible en Español we have a deep reverence for the past—both its material remnants archaeology and anthropology haven’t been practiced in a way that respects the deep meaning that the past has for descendant communities I believe that if archaeology is done appropriately—through partnerships with Indigenous people taking into account Indigenous perspectives—research can provide a more meaningful look into our present and future My own research highlights Pueblo resistance movements in a new way my work uses noninvasive means of investigating the archaeological record I used remote sensing and drones to create precise aerial maps of a site known as Tunyo or Black Mesa (north of where San Ildefonso Pueblo is today) Tunyo is a place where at least nine Tewa pueblos sought refuge during the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico twelve years or so after they were expelled by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 Very little is known about the Mesa from Spanish historical documents but my work uses both archaeology and oral histories to provide a more holistic view of this important era our Pueblo is finding ways to continue this work collecting oral histories about the site to preserve them and working to develop a database for our own community to learn about the history of Black Mesa." overlooking San Ildefonso Pueblo in northern New Mexico Download video transcription Henderson Building15th and Broadway, Boulder, CO 80309Directions and Parking   303-492-6892   cumuseum@colorado.edu Tuesday – Friday: 9am – 5pmSaturday – Sunday: 10am – 4pmClosed Mondays Join us today and support the Museum’s ongoing mission of research, education, and stewardship of the largest collection of natural and human history artifacts in the Rocky Mountain Region. Learn more about becoming a Museum Insider! and EntomologyBruce Curtis Building265 UCB HerbariumClare Small Arts and Sciences Building382 UCB   303-492-6892   303-492-4195  cumuseum@colorado.edu University of Colorado Boulder Privacy • Legal & Trademarks • Campus Map University of Colorado Boulder Your browser is not supported for this experience.We recommend using Chrome  Stay up-to-date with what's happening in New Mexico through our weekly newsletter.  San Ildefonso’s María Martínez makes one of her distinctive pots in the story's featured black-and-white image by Laura Gilpin I went out to San Ildefonso Pueblo Santa Fe the great potter and my friend of long standing I took with me a large photogravure of a picture taken by Edward S Its subject was a corn dance there.   I was making a gift of the Curtis print to the pueblo I  wanted to see how many people María could identify of perhaps 40 shown she named at least eight among the dancers and chorus from that long ago.   There were “oohs!” at the sight of the small cottonwood that today is a great tree in the pueblo’s north plaza María and I sat under the portal of her son’s house no wind ... only the rush of children running toward the tree in a field day event on this Santiago Day.  We dropped in to reminiscence about persons known to both of us Chapman “was the one to encourage Julian and me in our early pottery-making.” María was shaping the pots and her husband decorating them with sure This was the beginning of their lifelong achievement.   Chapman’s interest in the variety of design (He expressed this admiration in his book The Pottery of San Ildefonso Pueblo.)   Art director John Vaughn and assistant art director Daniel Martinez incorporated a February 1933 cover which features The Navajo Shepherdess by Gerald Cassidy first director of the School of American Research, who superintended early excavation at what is now Bandelier National Monument She visited there when Julian worked with the archaeologists She also visited them at nearby ruins of Tsankawi Hewett became not only a good friend of ours,” María said “He was a firm friend of all our Indian people.” Similarly were such other noted anthropologists as Dr wife of Santa Fe’s famed painter Gerald and an art critic in her own right who operated a celebrated teahouse near Otowi Bridge where scientists congregated during the war-time years of secret nuclear development at Los Alamos who helped many Indians sell pottery during years of association with the Santa Fe Art Museum that María and Julian first sold their now coveted black-on-black pottery.   “[Photographer Harvey Caplin] was as much at home on a horse as he was with his camera his many ‘working cowboy’ photographs were taken from atop a horse while he lived the daily life of the cowboy—gathering cattle These photographs reflect the tremendous energy and rugged work that was the cowboy lifestyle yet they capture the vivid majesty of the cowboy and his horse—his working partner—in mastering the job at hand.” —from “Focus on Harvey Caplin,” by Debbie Tissot María told me laughingly of a youngster who asked: “Grandma how could you get those degrees when you never went to college?” The grandchild was referring to honors conferred by the University of Colorado and New Mexico State University.   “How could I answer?”   The answer is that María’s education came with the beauty she brought to her art ... an education at which she stands at the highest level as attested by many medals and trips all over the country to demonstrate her skills.   San Ildefonso still lies quietly beside the Río Grande its people resting on a dignity born of generations and an acceptance of life as it comes As María had accepted Julian’s passing in 1943 I was refreshed from her presence and newly aware of the deep richness of her life Read more: All aboard for a trip back to the heyday of narrow-gauge railroads. Laura Gilpin photographed the Southwest and its people for more than 60 years She originally wrote this profile on potter María Martinez for the January 1974 issue of New Mexico Magazine They don’t call her a lady painter anymore And though her work is saturated with feeling for the Southwest Yet she’s probably one of New Mexico’s least-known residents Georgia O’Keeffe prefers it that way They’ve labeled her an abstractionist who is all of these things and none of these things to carry on her love affair with the land that is New Mexico The unreliable winds of public favor have never changed her view of herself or her work It was in 1917 that Georgia O’Keeffe first saw New Mexico on a three-day detour through Santa Fe with a younger sister “From then on I was always on my way back,” she says now with that fleeting originally titled “My time … my world,” first appeared in the January 1973 issue of the magazine and was reprinted in May 1986 following artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s death It was reprinted again in the July 1997 issue to coincide with the opening of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Subscribe for monthly deliveries filled with the best of New Mexico Subscribe to our free eNewsletter to gain exclusive access to unique content © 2025 New Mexico Magazine.All Rights Reserved Sign Up Now to stay connected with what's happening in New Mexico Explore New Mexico with exclusive event updates and stunning photography—straight to your inbox A former governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo will be the next secretary of the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department Michelle Lujan Grisham's office announced Friday she was appointing James Mountain to the job which has been vacant since Lynn Trujillo announced her departure in November "Governor Mountain has an impressive history as a leader in his own community of Pueblo de San Ildefonso Tribes and Pueblos in our state,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement “His expertise in state and tribal relations will be a valuable asset in continuing our work to foster productive and respectful relationships and support Indigenous communities throughout New Mexico.” Mountain was pueblo governor from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2017 He also served on the pueblo's Supreme Court and Tribal Council and he has owned the state/tribal affairs consulting firm Mountain+Associates LLC since 2018 “I am honored to serve in this role under Gov Lujan Grisham to continue building strong government-to-government relationships that truly respect the sovereignty of New Mexico’s Nations “I commit to uphold the traditional values of the first inhabitants of New Mexico as we work together to improve the quality of life for everyone who calls this land home.” USS Santa Fe Commander Timothy Poe receives gifts from Deborah and Elmer Torres during Saturday’s Pueblo visit Butterfly and Rain dances for Commander Timothy Poe in the San Ildefonso Pueblo living room of Doborah and Elmer Torres a member of the Red Turtle Dancers has been dancing since he was 2 years old SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO – USS Santa Fe Commander Timothy Poe and Chief of the Boat Juan Gonzalez visited their vessel’s namesake for the first time last week The Navy officers were invited to make the trip from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii to Northern New Mexico after Deborah Torres of the San Ildefonso Pueblo learned about them from Rick Carver She invited Poe and Gonzalez to her Pueblo home along with some 50 special guests including Mayor David Coss of Santa Fe and Executive Director Kurt Steinhaus of the Community Programs Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory Torres’ husband Elmer Torres was governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo in the 1990s and worked at LANL for nearly 40 years serving as the Lab’s tribal liaison to the Northern New Mexico Pueblos His father served in the Navy during World War II The Torres invited the Pojoaque Pueblos’ Red Turtle Dancers to perform traditional dances in the living room of their home Saturday for Poe and Gonzalez Dancing indoors is rare but Saturday’s strong winds forced the performance inside The Torres served the Navel officers and guests a traditional Native American lunch “This is a special honor for us,” Deborah said I love our country and I love these men who protect us.” Poe spoke about the long history of women in the military not having the opportunity to serve on submarines He explained that the older submarines did not have segregated sleeping areas or restrooms to accommodate women but said submarines are now being designed with women in mind “For so long we didn’t allow women on submarines and we were ignoring such a talent pool,” Poe said the first three women qualified and got their Dolphins Poe and Gonzalez visited the University of New Mexico Naval ROTC and the ROTC group at Santa Fe High School They were not able to visit the Los Alamos High School NJROTC but plan to return over Memorial Day with about 10 sailors to perform community service projects in the area and intend to visit the local community at that time See the history of the USS Santa Fe at www.usssantafe763.net watches the Red Turtle Dancers including Alyssa Spanarkel Red Turtle Dancers’ singer and drummer David Trujillo helps dancer Mike Gallegos attach feathers to his wrists before they perform presents Elmer Torres and his wife Deborah a bronze plaque bearing the USS Santa Fe seal  Contact NMHUFaculty and Staff DirectoryFaculty and Staff OpeningsNMHU Administrative OfficesStudent JobsUniversity Relations James Mountain in his office Tuesday at San Ildefonso Pueblo SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO—James Mountain has completed his three-year term as governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo He sat down with the Los Alamos Daily Post Tuesday afternoon to recap that experience and share his plans “It has been my great honor to serve the people of this community … that has been the best part as well as the most challenging part of my job … working to meet the needs of a proud and capable community now facing social ills,” Mountain said “My goal coming into office was to position San Ildefonso to be the best regional partner in Northern New Mexico and I believe we’ve done that and as a result have been able to push forward the Aamodt water settlement and to come to ‘principle of agreement’ with Santa Fe County on historical trespass issues.” Mountain signed the monumental “principles of agreement” Tuesday and sent it to Santa Fe County Commissioner Henry Roybal “This has been a long outstanding and overdue priority that we felt needed resolution and I anticipate that the Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners will pass the agreement at its Jan The chromium plume is another issue that Mountain flagged as a priority for the Pueblo “We’ve developed a stronger relationship and understanding with DOE and can point to the chromium plume issue as an area in which we’ve garnered greater discussion and knowledge He also spoke about the rebranding of the tribe’s convenience stores which are now more successful and giving a bit of revenue back to the Pueblo adding that lower gas prices also now help keep some dollars in Northern New Mexican families’ pockets “That’s a snapshot of what we’ve been able to accomplish,” Mountain said The population of San Ildefonso Pueblo is nearly 800 people and about half live in the Pueblo “During my term I wanted to help our neighbors to better understand us and I hope we continue a true and mutual respect and understanding of one another,” Mountain said “It’s important to break down those barriers and that is done through openness and collective ideals in economic development protection of our greatest resource – our children and in empowering women and children to succeed These are the gifts and core values handed down from our elders for generations The lines that divide us should only be the lines defined on paper … I have had the privilege to grow up in Los Alamos and to serve here in the Pueblo and that has been a true privilege.”  To continue the work he started as governor a political and commerce consulting company specializing in tribal issues at the local “I think it’s an area that has been underserved and I think there are opportunities right here in Northern New Mexico,” Mountain said “It’s going to be interesting to see what the Management and Operating contract for the Laboratory will do outside of Los Alamos I have had the opportunity to sit down with UC and some of the other bidders and with the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities and these relationships are very important to me personally and what has given me the direction to carve out this niche.” Mountain said he has worked closely with the Eight Northern Pueblos Los Alamos and Santa Fe counties and many other entities important to the region “I believe that it the kind of experience and leadership that this region desperately needs and I hope to fill that gap through my new company,” he said Mountain can be reached at 505.412.3974 or james@mountain.associates James Mountain in his office at San Ildefonso Pueblo and Councilman Tim Martinez await the discussion of rights of way on Pueblo lands Tuesday at the Santa Fe County Commission meeting Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com Residents of El Rancho gather at Tuesday evening’s Santa Fe County Commission meeting Santa Fe County Commission and the Pueblos of San Ildefonso Nambe and Tesuque have reached agreements in principle on road rights of way and hope to sign four individual settlement agreements next month Residents of the community of El Rancho attended the Commission meeting Tuesday evening along with representatives of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and San Ildefonso Pueblo Christopher Moquino called the occasion “momentous” because the proposed settlement agreement finally puts to rest the longstanding issue of roads in the Pueblo which the Pueblo has been dealing with for decades “There have been several attempts in the past to reach resolution The success of this most recent attempt is a reflection of the good faith of each of the parties,” Moquino said He said the solution is truly a compromise and that San Ildefonso Pueblo fully supports the agreement “What this means is that not all parties got what they wanted but they got what they needed By putting the existing identified roads in the BIA inventory and granting the BIA rights of way for two 99-year terms this ensures that the roads are public with open access,” Moquino said San Ildefonso Pueblo and the County will grant the BOA rights of way for County-maintained roads 84 CR84B and CR101D (north of CR84 and south of CR84D and these rights of way will be placed in the BIA’s Tribal Transportation Program The Pueblo will over time rename the public roads County-maintained roads located entirely on private land will remain and continue to be maintained by the County the road of convenience located on Pueblo land just south of the Rio Pojoaque and west of CR101 D which is not a County-maintained right of way will no longer be accessible Property owners will be required to begin using a surveyed legal access point which are cases where Pueblo land is located between an existing right of way and a non-Pueblo parcel with the “gap” in ownership preventing lawful ingress and egress to a parcel the settlement agreements will establish a process whereby the non-Pueblo landowner may obtain insurable access across Pueblo land San Ildefonso has agreed to provide legal access to all private lots through a legislative grant of temporary access from identified rights of way The County will construct entirely on Pueblo lands Yellowbird Loop (formerly portions of CR84C CR84D and Sandy Lane) and Blue Dove Road (which will serve properties between CR84 and CR84B) within five years of the agreement County Manager Catherine Miller thanked all the entities involved for being “incredibly professional polite and respectful” in some very difficult times of negotiation “I think everyone came into this with their own conditions not necessarily wanting to enter into negotiations at this time And I cannot say how much I feel the people put aside personal feelings or any kind of personal position or governmental position they were hanging on to too tightly in order to find a resolution,” Miller said costly and divisive and would not have brought us to this point today.” James Mountain was on travel and unable to attend Tuesday’s meeting but addressed its positive outcome during a telephone interview Wednesday with the Los Alamos Daily Post “I’d like to congratulate and commend the professionalism and commitment of the Santa Fe County Commission and more importantly our staff and Pueblo leadership,” Gov “I am personally looking forward to a strong path forward for the committee.” Deputy County Manager Tony Flores said the goal up to Jan 2018 is to convene small townhall type meetings with small groups within all four Pueblos in the northern part of the County to start going through the dialog and receive feedback and comments from those communities  Commission Chairman Henry Roybal and Rep Carl Trujillo are expected to oversee those meetings The issue with the El Rancho land goes back to 1701 when the Spanish governor gave land grants to Spanish families of land the Pueblo claimed it had owned for centuries Ownership disputes continued until 1868 although land patents held by the Pueblo had been recognized by the governments of Spain Mexico and the United States during that time The 1924 Pueblo Lands Act required both Pueblo and non-Pueblo people to prove their claims and it was thought that the issue of trespassing was settled but it was far from settled In 1933 the Act was amended allowing Pueblos to file complaints for trespass boundary survey errors and the development of private points of egress onto County roads have been documented by the Pueblo the Pueblo and Santa Fe County signed an agreement which the County believed gave them the right of way on the roads in question the Pueblo and the BIA believed the County read the agreement too broadly and the County does not have the legal authority to occupy all the roads in question The BIA called that agreement “poorly drafted” and says it contained a number of ambiguities concerning the intent and scope of the easements granted It claimed it is not clear if it granted easements for access to private homes and businesses in exchange for paving and maintenance of CR 84 as alleged by the County which has maintained the road for more than 100 years The BIA disagrees that there were provisions in the agreement for perpetual easements for non-tribal residents or agreements for all arterials on CR 84 superintendent of Northern New Mexico Pueblos Agency of the BIA sent a letter to Santa Fe County saying it lacked easement to use County Roads 84 Tension increased between the residents of El Rancho and the Pueblo because the letter gave the County 30 days to negotiate a rights of way easement with the Pueblo for the roads or face fines and possible eviction El Rancho residents were afraid that the Pueblo was going to deny people access to their property some of which had been in their families for hundreds of years the Pueblo claims it attempted to negotiate with the County and paid for surveying of all the lands in question a group called Northern New Mexico Protect filed a lawsuit claiming that the rights of way had been public-vested property since as far back as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1948 and the Mining Act of 1866 with their status confirmed by the Pueblo Lands Act of 1924 Northern New Mexico Protect maintained that homeowners are unable to refinance their homes and that buyers can’t get loans to purchase homes in the area Santa Fe County passed a resolution requiring the legal status of Santa County roads within the exterior boundaries of the Pueblos of Nambe Pojoaque and Tesuque to be resolved before the County appropriates funds for construction of a regional water system as outlined by the Aamodt Settlement Linking the land issue with the water issue caused a whole new scenario The Aamodt water rights case was filed in April 1966 by the state engineer against some 1,000 defendants and was the third-longest federal case in U.S Johnson handed down the water rights adjudication which allows the four Pueblos 2,500-acre feet annually and non-Pueblo users 1,500-acre feet per year One condition of the Settlement is construction of a $253 million water system which will divert water from the Rio Grande River and bring it to nearby residents of Santa Fe County who will have the option to continue to pump from the wells from which they already get their water The Settlement set a 2024 deadline for substantial completion Santa Fe County’s contribution to the water system project is $11.7 million now and some $9 million later but the County’s 2015 resolution to withhold funding until the land issue has been resolved has the potential to put the brakes on the project who was called “the man in the middle” during Tuesday’s meeting He said the agreements are not quite done yet but are solid and designed to resolve the roads dispute “They will allow the parties to return their focus to developing a regional water system that can supply clean and reliable water to the people living in the Pojoaque Basin,” Mann said supervisory highway engineer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Southwest Regional Office Anna Hamilton and Robert Anaya at Tuesday’s meeting Santa Fe County Commissioneer Anna Hansen and Rep Carl Trujillo chat following Tuesday’s County Commission Meeting Department of the Interior attorney Josh Mann visits with San Ildefonso Council members Glenda Fred-Weahkee Come out and meet me at the Los Alamos Co-op this Saturday That’s where I’ll have some of my beautiful creations for viewing and purchase an artist and painter from San Ildefonso Pueblo I was born and raised in Los Alamos and graduated from LAHS in 1979 My professional career outside of art includes construction Parks and Wildlife at San Ildefonso Pueblo Russell Sanchez of San Ildefonso Pueblo holds up his winning piece titled 100 years in the making! a polychrome jar crafted with clay harvested from San Ildefonso and embedded with roughly 400 turquoise and hematite beads Sanchez inlaid himself Sanchez won the market’s Best of Show award on Friday afternoon at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center Ryan Benally’s handcarved marble and graphite sculpture Bold as Love which won this year’s Best in Show in sculpture Cara Romero stands by her piece The Zenith that won in the Class III Category of Painting TobieMae Patricio’s basket weave polychrome pot that won in the youth category Russell Sanchez’s winning piece 100 years in the making The artwork pays homage to renowned potters of San Ildefonso who participated in the market 100 years ago The pueblo is internationally renowned for its pottery this pot represents the past moving into the now,' Russell Sanchez said of his polychrome jar that won the award The Santa Fe Indian Market kicked off its centennial this week has been there for nearly half of those 100 years He was still in shock Friday when his work won the market’s Best of Show award at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center The winning piece — 100 years in the making — is a polychrome jar crafted with clay harvested from San Ildefonso and embedded with roughly 400 turquoise and hematite beads Sanchez inlaid himself — about eight tiny stones at a time over the course of the year it took him to finish the piece in lieu of silver at sacred ceremonies and dances at San Ildefonso “I wanted to dress her up in beads,” he said — a skill he says the late potter Anita Da The lid of the piece is topped with a bear — a healer and a strength figure keeping watch over the land — who sports a shining jewel of turquoise on his torso a water serpent dappled with turquoise snakes across the body of the pot “He gets really rough and violent sometimes and cleansing the pueblo,” Sanchez said of the serpent is waiting his turn to come down the mountain and bless everyone below The piece was fired outdoors at an extremely high temperature with cedar wood and cow dung — “the old-school way,” Sanchez said pays homage to renowned potters of San Ildefonso who participated in the market 100 years ago It’s a large pool to draw inspiration from in a pueblo internationally renowned for its pottery including the “black-on-black” style popularized by potter Maria Martinez in the 1920s who still lives in the home that belonged to his great-grandparents in San Ildefonso honed his craft by watching and sometimes helping his late aunt Rose Gonzales build moved to San Ildefonso after getting married in 1920 She learned much of her pottery skills from her mother-in-law Ramona Sanchez Gonzales was well-known for her red-on-black and black-on-black pottery and her deep-carving method that etched designs into the body of her pieces “Do it this way; don’t take short cuts,” Russell recalled her often saying when he was young There was no formal training — Sanchez contends this sort of pottery can’t be taught in school you were meant to pick up the skills by watching and give the artform a personal twist The pair attended Indian Market together frequently while Sanchez was growing up this pot represents the past moving into the now,” Sanchez said of his award-winning work But one of our teachings in the tradition is that you don’t stay in past who has made a career out of his pottery work after opting out of law school as a young adult has chipped away at the work for an entire year It will be for sale at the Indian Market this year but he hadn’t decided on a price as of Friday afternoon While he previously won the “best of class” category at the Indian Market for his pottery and received the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2017 the Best of Show win is a first for Sanchez He recently joined the board for Southwest Association for Indian Arts which hosts the market and award ceremony every year Sanchez sees joining the board as an artist as another way to respect those who came before him while helping the next generation get a foothold in the art world He’s optimistic about the future of his craft — and is already helping other artists as young as 6 years old learn to coil and polish pots “This organization is very important to me “It’s a good stepping stone for a lot of younger artists.” SWAIA recognized several other artists with best of class and other special awards in a plethora of art mediums ranging from graphics and painting to figurative carvings and textiles The winners also included 17-year-old Santa Fe Indian School senior TobieMae Patricio who won the best of class youth category for her pot featuring a painted basket weave polychrome design which she said was inspired by the work of her father She will be selling several of her original works at a booth on Lincoln Avenue at the Indian Market this weekend All 2022 SWAIA winners will be selling their art throughout downtown alongside hundreds of other Indigenous artists from across the U.S. A directory of artists and a map of the market are available at swaia.org/map keep pushing yourself in the things you like to do,” TobieMae Patricio said during the ceremony Best of Show: Russell Sanchez (San Ildefonso Pueblo) Pottery (Best of Show): Russell Sanchez (San Ildefonso Pueblo) Graphics & Photography: Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) The Zenith Wooden Pueblo Figurative Carving & Sculpture: Manuel Chavarria (Hopi) Diverse Arts: Glenda McKay (Ingalik Athabascan) Beadwork & Quillwork: Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (Assiniboine Sioux) Youth (Artists aged 17 and under): TobieMae Patricio (Acoma Pueblo) The Los Alamos Daily Post visited San Ildefonso Pueblo Gov Mountain, a 1990 graduate of Los Alamos High School Mountain was elected in December to serve a three year term and took office Jan He spoke Thursday about his initiative to promote the culture and history of his pueblo and his desire to be a good regional partner with his neighbors throughout Northern New Mexico The San Ildefonso Pueblo comprises approximately 28,000 acres and has approximately 860 registered tribal members adding that 17 pueblo students are currently attending college Mountain will visit the Rotary Club of Los Alamos noon meeting Aug 11 at the Los Alamos Golf Course Community Building A new snow blower machine is busy this morning vacuumimg up snow on San Ildefonso Road and  blowing it into dump trucks that hauled it off to the Los Alamos County Fair Grounds in conjunction with one of its private contractors unveiled the machine Monday evening on North Mesa It is capable of quickly and efficiently loading several large dump trucks used to haul snow away Best in Travel is here! Discover 2025’s destinations The 30 best countries, cities and regions to visit in 2025 Plan your trip with Elsewhere, by Lonely Planet See where a 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City than elsewhere in the world is constantly evolving while simultaneously reaching back into its tumultuous history architecture and cuisine are all inextricably linked to the country’s indigenous roots At the center of this is pop-culture icon and prolific artist whose work portrays her most intimate self as a symbol of this uniquely Mexican identity Discovering the many places in CDMX that formed Frida Kahlo takes the traveler on a journey into the heart of Mexico’s wonderful contradictions and intensely vivid art world and how her legacy continues today Kahlo would have walked through this plaza almost daily on her way to school Hernán Cortés tried his best to pick apart the Aztec temples and create New Spain from the bricks, but Templo Mayor electric workers unearthed a stone disk over 10 feet in diameter carved with the image of Mexica goddess Coyolxauhqui The discovery of the relief prompted interest in ongoing excavations and from 1978 to 1982 specialists excavated all of Templo Mayor and recovered over 7,000 Mexica artifacts stand next to various iterations of the temple and see first hand the largesse of a culture that once was and the attempts of another to destroy it The Catedral Metropolitana is also not to be missed the building was started in 1573 and remained a work in progress during the entire colonial period The sheer number of architectural styles is impressive not to mention imagining generations of builders dedicating their lives to creating the most innovative tribute to Catholicism of its day With some 82 percent of the population in Mexico claiming Catholicism as a religion the Templo Mayor and Catedral Metropolitana set the stage for a culture both steeped in indigenous history and practices while remaining dedicated to its colonial influence Frida Kahlo started secondary school in 1922, not far from the Zócalo. The Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso was once home to the National Preparatory School and is just a short walk north of Templo Mayor Kahlo was one of only 35 girls at a school of 2,000 painted his first mural and launched what was to become Mexico’s world-renown muralist movement in which Kahlo’s body was laid in state after her death has fantastic examples from Rivera as well as Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros Kahlo was involved in a horrific trolley accident that left her in a body cast the young Kahlo hung a mirror above her bed and started painting Once Kahlo was able to walk again and had been painting for some time, she brought her paintings to Rivera to ask his opinion of her art. In 1928, he was working on a mural at the Secretaría de Educación Pública which is just a block north of San Ildefonso Kahlo was 21 when she marched into the master’s workplace to demand a critique of her paintings The encounter sparked a romantic relationship and the two were married a year later in Coyoacán Her parents referred to the union as a "marriage between an elephant and a dove." Frida Kahlo spent most of her life living in the Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacan. Casa Azul, where she was born, grew up and eventually died, is now a museum dedicated to her life and work, Museo Frida Kahlo A sprawling hacienda painted electric blue Casa Azul houses everything from Kahlo’s amazing wardrobe to her father’s photography the deeply religious Matilde Calderon y González Kahlo’s choice of dress was a highly curated part of her creative expression and not typical for women of her station The Tehuana (traditional dress from the Tehuantepec region in southern Oaxaca) she wore worked to hide her broken body but also connected her to the indigenous people of Oaxaca It was a matriarchal society and thus their traditional dress is considered a symbol of female power and independence After getting married, Kahlo and Rivera moved for a brief time to the US. On their return in 1931, the two settled nearby in San Angel at what is now the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo which was connected by a rooftop bridge to Frida’s room and studio A third small structure housed O’Gorman’s home Across the street from the museum is the San Angel Inn Now home to an elegant restaurant that serves classic Mexican cuisine it was the place where Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata agreed to divide control of the country in 1914 It is well worth a stop for mole and a margarita Kahlo eventually moved from the home she shared with Rivera back to Casa Azul after their tumultuous relationship grew out of control They lived in Casa Azul for the remainder of Kahlo's life Go to Coyoacan on a Saturday so you can explore some of the best boutiques in the city. Here you will see modern examples of how designers are using traditional styles to create bold and challenging new fashions just as Kahlo did with her style choices all those years ago. Also make a stop at the Bazaar Sábado. Located in Plaza San Jacinto and the adjacent Plaza Tenanitla Find textiles from Oaxaca along with other regions of Mexico mixed with stunning carvings incredible jewelry and other wares from artists and artisans throughout the country at this weekly market Frida Kahlo’s art combined indigenous symbols with Catholic icons and explored self and country in a way that sought to define a Mexican identity Her self-portraits mimic those popular in the colonial era but subvert the form by including surreal elements and making herself less attractive She was influenced both by classically trained artists and Mexican folk artists creating a piece of Mexicanidad (romantic nationalism movement) that persists to this day Fast forward 64 years since Kahlo’s death and her hometown is booming with art pay homage to Mexico’s confusing and complicated history while keeping a firm eye on shaping the future https://shop.lonelyplanet.com/products/lonely-planets-best-in-travel-paperback-2019 — The third highest auction price ever paid for a San Ildefonso inlay jar by Tony Da (1940-2008) capped Santa Fe Art Auction’s three-day sale on February 11 The turquoise inlay jar with silver lid was studded with Da’s trademark turquoise It came out of a private Pennsylvania collection and was 12 inches high whose life was cut short in a motorcycle accident was called a “rock star” of his craft by King Galleries breaking cultural barriers as a “modern Indian,” steeped in San Ildefonso Pueblo tradition but living in a contemporary world A grandson of Maria Martinez and the son of Popovi Da his precision designs and techniques revolutionized Pueblo pottery and created a new vocabulary for the art The first sale of the year for Santa Fe Art Auction focused on one of the house’s most renowned areas of expertise comprising more than 600 lots and totaling nearly $1 million with a 96 percent sell-through by lot was highlighted by Charles King at an educational talk during our Friday night reception,” said Gillian Blitch chief executive officer at Santa Fe Art Auction “King co-authored with Richard Spivey the outstanding book featuring Da’s classic blackware with sienna tones was one of only two such pots Da ever made The other is in the Philbrook Museum.” Watch for more highlights from this sale in a later review Tiffany Flatware Service Sets Table For Success At Nye Estate-Fresh Dzubas-Signed Painting Leads At Ralph Fontaine’s McInnis Gets Nearly $10K For Black Folk Art Doll Amid renewed interest in the atomic history of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) EM leadership had the opportunity to discuss and highlight the significant progress underway in the legacy cleanup mission at LANL during a visit last week attended a tour with representatives from Los Alamos County to discuss several cleanup sites especially important to the county including the chromium project area in Mortandad Canyon From left: Sarah (Ellie) Elizabeth Gilbertson EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) deputy manager; James Alarid Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities; Brad Smith Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos president and general manager; Michael Mikolanis Los Alamos County; White; and Philo Shelton Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Amid renewed interest in the atomic history of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), EM leadership had the opportunity to discuss and highlight the significant progress underway in the legacy cleanup mission at LANL during a visit last week EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White and other EM officials met and discussed key cleanup projects with leaders from the Pueblo de San Ildefonso and Los Alamos County. The EM officials also discussed cleanup accomplishments at LANL over the past five years, and the plans for the next stage of work, in events with the Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board (NNMCAB) the Environmental Management Cleanup Forum (EMCF) and a public panel discussion hosted by Los Alamos County Robert Oppenheimer oversaw the development of the atomic bomb development of the bomb also created a legacy of waste at sites across the United States that EM is now charged with cleaning up one of the things I have really enjoyed is my ability to focus on what has happened over time as part of history The act of going back and cleaning up the legacy of the past necessarily involves understanding and learning about a lot of that history and why it was important,” White said at the EMCF event As part of last week’s visit, White, EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) Manager Michael Mikolanis and other EM representatives met separately with Pueblo de San Ildefonso Gov and with representatives from Los Alamos County at Mortandad Canyon to discuss progress underway in addressing groundwater contamination is addressing a plume of hexavalent chromium contamination Based on monitoring and sampling through the operation of the chromium interim measures current data indicates that groundwater contamination has not moved beyond LANL’s borders EM and LANL legacy cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) have treated more than 400 million gallons of contaminated groundwater Pueblo de San Ildefonso land borders LANL to the south with a drinking water supply well close to the LANL site boundary EM and Pueblo de San Ildefonso are working to place a second monitoring well on pueblo land to support additional groundwater monitoring efforts “We’re committed to protecting the water,” White told San Ildefonso leaders Mikolanis and N3B President and General Manager Brad Smith also had the opportunity to show Los Alamos County representatives progress at the Middle DP Road site Cleanup of legacy waste is largely completed pending verification of confirmatory sampling results is a primary economic development effort for Los Alamos County ‘Dedicated and Talented People’ Behind Cleanup Progress The legacy cleanup mission at LANL focuses on three primary areas — protecting water supplies cleaning up contaminated soil and continuing to drive down legacy radioactive waste inventories at LANL by preparing and shipping the material off-site for safe disposal EM’s major cleanup accomplishments at LANL to date have included: EM Senior Advisor William “Ike” White met with members of the Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board last week during a trip to New Mexico White expressed appreciation for the board’s service and fielded a variety of questions from members EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) manager; White; and S Mikolanis outlined the progress EM-LA is making in developing a strategic vision to guide the remaining legacy cleanup work at LANL The vision is intended to be built from “the ground up” through “robust engagement” with a variety of representatives around LANL EM-LA is in the process of completing engagement sessions with a variety of officials stakeholders and the public in Los Alamos and surrounding communities centers on the community support that we have and enjoyed here That’s dependent on regularly working with our stakeholders nongovernmental organizations and our regulators to identify their values and priorities,” Mikolanis said “That feedback will guide us in how we make critical decisions and build the vision on how we’re going to complete the work we have in front of us.” “All of the work that is so important to us doesn’t happen without the dedicated and talented people who are willing to devote their careers and their energy to doing a public service that benefits all of us.” “It takes a village,” Smith said at the NNMCAB meeting White also thanked the NNMCAB members for their contributions to EM’s cleanup progress at LANL “I am grateful for the time and commitment the NNMCAB gives to help EM ensure that a rich and diverse community of members participate and provide recommendations on the legacy cleanup projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory,” White said “Stakeholder engagement is the cornerstone of our cleanup programs across the EM complex and the NNMCAB is vital to our efforts in New Mexico.” Philippines: Eagle Cement has shared plans for the installation of a fifth mill at its 7.1Mt/yr integrated cement plant in San Ildefonso Business World News has reported that the upgrade will raise the plant’s capacity to 8.6Mt/yr President and chief executive officer John Paul Ang said “Our strong financial position will allow us to weather this health crisis battering the economy without giving up major components of our expansion plans.” Eagle Cement said that it “ramped up production” following the national coronavirus lockdown in June 2020 in order “to support the government’s push for accomplishing critical infrastructure projects.” It is currently working towards the launch of an online customer portal for placing and tracking cement orders MEXICO CITY (AP) — Across the main entrance of a former Jesuit college in the heart of Mexico City a bright-colored mural depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe represents both the Indigenous religiosity and the Christianity that shaped the culture of post-colonial Mexico The mural was created by Mexican artist Fermín Revueltas between 1922 and 1923 when the walls of Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso became the canvases for the country’s emerging muralist movement who among others led the artistic movement a century ago the baroque building that currently serves as a museum hosts an exhibition that reflects on the significance of their monumental art recently welcomed a contemporary mural created by Mexican craftsmen who were inspired by the old masters and will run through June 12 called “La Muerte de las Culturas” (“The Death of Cultures”) depicts how Mexicans of African descent struggled for freedom and equality and how the community’s identity was forged from that said that muralism arose in a highly politicized context Many of the wall paintings criticize political leaders inequality or the Catholic Church because the young muralists were influenced by revolutionary nationalism and academic scholarship that transformed their ideas about the Indigenous population Some artists expressed their social and political views by painting divine figures or religious references A 1924 fresco that José Clemente Orozco titled “La Alcancía” (“The Piggy Bank”) shows two slender hands depositing coins into a box that is open at the bottom and drops the money into another hand that looks more powerful and represents the Catholic Church For a few other muralists – such as Revueltas and Fernando Leal – the goal was to find new ways to portray what the military and spiritual conquest led by the Spaniards meant “San Ildefonso has that reminiscence where the religious is present because it is part of the cultural identity of the people,” Chávez said It is no coincidence that muralism was born in this place this was the place where the Jesuits led their educational work The Jesuits arrived in the capital half a century after the Spanish conquest and a few years later they founded San Ildefonso Their objective was to educate the descendants of Spaniards – the “criollo” – who were born in the colony Before they were expelled from the Spanish Empire in 1767 these priests visited remote towns and sought to understand the worldview of the “criollo” people whose Indigenous spiritual practices intertwined with new Christian customs and beliefs “They went beyond these branches of spiritual identity or the diffusion of faith,” Chávez said This dynamic allowed the Jesuits to teach the “criollo” arts and crafts but it also strengthened the concept of “criollo” identity throughout the territory a theme that muralists portrayed in the 20th century “Alegoría de la Virgen de Guadalupe” (“Allegory of the Virgin of Guadalupe”) is an example the Catholic image of Virgin Mary is in the top center and her children – men and women with different skin tones – pray around her The painting is not meant to inspire devotion but to portray how Our Lady of Guadalupe unifies people of different races and origins two murals are in dialogue with each other and share a common theme On the right side of the main stairs of San Ildefonso a piece by Jean Charlot illustrates the massacre that the Spaniards led in the most sacred site of the Aztec empire – Templo Mayor – in 1521 Leal portrays what came after the conquest and the imported Christianity of the Spanish: religious festivities where sacred and profane symbols blend In a recent article published in a digital magazine from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México art historians Rita Eder and Renato González explain that these murals praise the country’s ancient cultures while strongly rejecting the violence brought by the Spanish conquest “identify the Conquest as the most significant process in the history of Mexico and its characterization as a struggle between civilization and barbarism (the latter represented by the armored attackers).” these murals will never lose relevance because they are a way to understand how history triggers a constant redefinition of spaces “Our past is important because it speaks of our present,” he said “These murals tell a lot about who we are and what we are made of.” STATE COLLEGE — South Hills School of Business & Technology is excited to present this year’s edition of .. NEW YORK (AP) — One of Broadway’s more impressive performances this season is by Andrew Durand RENOVO — The Renovo Area Community Choir will be presenting their Spring Concert “Put a Little Love in Your .. Copyright © 2025 Ogden Publications of Pennsylvania Ten LAHS Native American seniors were honored Wednesday evening during a special Sash Ceremony Students received sashes created by Cris Velarde Gabrielle Mowrer and Jeremiah Martinez Herrera Ten Los Alamos High School Native American seniors were presented hand-woven sashes during the Sash Ceremony Wednesday evening hosted by Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) which was attended by more than 85 family members and friends supporting their students Native American Parent Advisory Council (NAPAC) Chair Darren Harvey and Vice Chair Jovita Mowrer were Masters of Ceremony LAPS Superintendent Jennifer Guy and LAHS Principal Renee Dunwoody welcomed guests and shared their pride in the seniors’ accomplishments and future paths Tribal Council Representative Thomas Gonzales Pueblo de San Ildefonso opened the program with a prayer Tribal Council Representative Nichole Summer Martinez Séskwi Michael Adams performed the Lil’wat Honor Song LAPS School Board President Antonio Jaurigue the LAPS Liaison for Native American Students and Families is a traditional belt and rain sash weaver who teaches weaving classes at the Poeh Cultural Center in Pojoaque He has been designing the sashes to be worn for graduation since 2013 Each year he creates a unique design to celebrate the graduates Members of the Class of 2023 who were honored with sashes are Míxalh Katigwa Adams Tunyo (Black Mesa) trail with San Ildefonso Pueblo in background the Reconquista of Santa Fe led by Don Diego de Vargas in 1692 was far from bloodless historians have persisted in calling the retaking of the pueblos a “bloodless reconquest” after the conquistador’s lofty offer of absolution for the 1680 Pueblo Revolt — if Natives agreed to surrender and become Spanish subjects The reality is that few Pueblo Indians agreed to such terms brutal military battles between Spaniard soldiers and Pueblo warriors defined de Vargas’ return to Northern New Mexico after 12 years of exile When Spanish soldiers returned to Northern New Mexico most of the Pueblo peoples had already fled fortifying themselves into three emergency mesatop villages according to new research that has emerged from a handful of archaeologists over the past 20 years de Vargas noted in his journal that Pueblo members amassed large caches of rocks to hurl down at Spanish soldiers whose movements they could see long in advance we’ve kind of always known about these refuges They are all over the place in the Pueblo world and one at San Ildefonso,” said Joseph “Woody” Aguilar a doctoral candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania but we just don’t know the specific histories yet.” Aguilar is both an archaeologist and a San Ildefonso Pueblo tribal member who grew up just miles away from Tunyo (Black Mesa) the ancestral Pueblo refuge site he now studies Tunyo housed as many as 2,000 Pueblo members who hailed from seven different villages the Pueblo members at Tunyo faced off against the Spaniards in a siege that lasted for nine months The archeologist will talk more about these Reconquista-era Pueblo villages in a presentation on Monday entitled “Archaeologies of Resistance: Pueblo Mesatop Refuges and Vargas’ Reconquest” is being held as part of the Southwest Seminars Monday-night lecture series the Pueblo Revolt and its aftermath are increasingly regarded as pivotal points in North American colonial history the Pueblo leader who orchestrated the uprising managed to unite over 20 pueblos that spoke six different languages and were spread out over hundreds of miles of desert mountain ranges The revolt led to a revival of traditional Pueblo spirituality and had the secondary effect of introducing large numbers of captured Spanish horses to Indian tribes throughout the Four Corners region orchestrated what is arguably the most successful indigenous insurrection against a European colonial power in the New World.” Aguilar said the mesatop refuges are a part of the Reconquista history barely known outside of Pueblo communities Though his dissertation focuses heavily on Tunyo it also examines the history of Hanat Kotyiti as well as the refuge village organized on a mesa outside the Jemez Pueblo Especially if you look at the ones in Jemez and Cochití they are physically imposing features of the landscape,” Aguilar said Water had to be hauled up from the valley below And Aguilar mused that any agriculture and game-hunting likely had to take place off the mesa as well the archaeological structures left behind in these quickly assembled villages are scant to nonexistent What has largely endured are the large piles of rocks the Pueblos collected for self-defense “I’ve just come to call them ammunition caches They are caches of river-rolled stones that were piled up to use as ammo against oncoming Spaniards,” Aguilar said I went up there with geologists who explained to me that the top of the mesa was once an ancient riverbed that got preserved up there even though it’s disappeared in the rest of the surrounding landscape.” Aguilar isn’t carrying out digs at the refuge village sites And it’s not just because of the lack of traditional artifacts or ruins he prefers to practice a non-invasive form of archaeology he refers to as “indigenous archaeology.” “I use ethnohistoric records and material culture I did a lot of my fieldwork using drones to make maps A lot of innovative methods are used to circumvent what are the bad practices of archaeology And you can still get sufficient data,” Aguilar said “I work with the communities to be informed by their oral histories and knowledge as much as possible Any indigenous person practicing archaeology is very well aware of the negative legacy it has among Native communities When someone mentions archaeology in a Native community you’re coming to dig up my ancestors.’ So I try to affect change in my discipline.” One of the results of his practice is learning more about the religious significance of mesatop refuges “They were much more than military redoubts People also sought them out as spiritual sanctuaries,” Aguilar said “It’s hard to make someone understand who is not a Pueblo person mesas figure as prominent places in creation stories the mesa refuge of Tunyo is due north of the pueblo you are going back to the place where your ancestors came from.” Aguilar reached these conclusions by incorporating fellow San Ildefonso members directly into his research “What archaeologists call artifacts are just part of the landscape here and it was also just part of growing up here It wasn’t until I got to college and graduate school that I was exposed to a different way of understanding the mesa through archaeology.” ◀ ▼ Joseph “Woody” Aguilar lectures on “Archaeologies of Resistance: Pueblo Mesatop Refuges and Vargas’ Reconquest,” part of the Southwest Seminars: Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories lecture series Get the highlights from Santa Fe's weekly magazine of arts Pasatiempo's most popular online content from the past seven days The Spanish naval ensign is one of the largest objects in the National Maritime Museum's collection Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a flag from the Battle of Trafalgar on display at the National Maritime Museum.   Measuring almost 10 metres high and 14.5 metres wide the 'naval ensign' is one of the largest objects in the Museum’s collection This huge flag once flew from the Spanish warship San Ildefonso but became a poignant symbol of commemoration after it was captured by the Royal Navy in 1805 In 1962 the ensign was briefly suspended from the roof of the Queen's House in Greenwich The Spanish ensign will be on display from Monday 17 October until the morning of Trafalgar Day, an event held on 21 October every year to remember the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson the flag will be unrolled on the Great Map for visitors to view conservation staff will carefully roll it up for long term storage - so don't miss this unique opportunity to see British maritime history in person Visit the National Maritime Museum 17 October: The ensign will be transported and unrolled during the morning and will be open for visitors to see from 3pm 10am-4pm: The ensign will be on display on the Great Map throughout the day the ensign will be covered from 4pm each day the flag may also occasionally need to be covered during the day.  20 October, from 6.30pm: Royal Museums Greenwich Members can enjoy a private viewing with Senior Curator of World and Maritime History Robert Blyth and Senior Textile Conservator Nicky Yates. 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Join now 21 October: The flag will be on display throughout the morning of Trafalgar Day visitors will be able to watch as Museum conservators and collections teams carefully roll the flag back up and prepare it for storage Visitor information: Please ask a member of staff when you arrive for directions to the flag If you are a regular visitor to the Museum some routes you are used to may be unavailable An ensign is a flag or banner that is flown from the stern (rear) of a ship The Spanish ensign is one of the most iconic objects related to Admiral Lord Nelson in the National Maritime Museum’s collection It was captured from the 74-gun warship San Ildefonso during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805 when San Ildefonso surrendered to the Royal Navy ship HMS Defence The ensign later hung in St Paul’s Cathedral during the state funeral of Nelson on 9 January 1806 The ensign entered the National Maritime Museum's collection in 1936 due to its size and fragile condition it has been in storage for decades - until now IN conjunction with Valentine’s Day, the ARTE partylist conducted the opening salvo of its party campaign called ‘Ka-torse ang Ka-pARTE a beauty queen champion and third-runner-up in Miss Universe led the motorcade and political campaign in San Ildefonso The ARTE party list was warmly received by the people of San Ildefonso who also expressed gratitude to Mayor Fernando “Gazo” Galvez and Daisy Duran for their presence With the political tenet – “Boses ng Malikhaing Manggagawang Pilipino sa Kongreso,” the ARTE Party list advocates and promotes the interest of Retail and Fashion Lloyd Lee said the ARTE party supports the welfare of Filipino artists by ensuring that they have access to capital incentives and fair compensation for their services and products To prevent other nations from overtaking local creative industries the ARTE party list chapter in Bicol region composed of several artists from various provinces of the said region participated in the Tinagba Festival in Iriga City as they introduced the party-list list to their townmates People wait for the start of the draw at Madrid's Teatro Real opera house during Spain's bumper Christmas lottery draw known as El Gordo MADRID — People across Spain are tuning into the television radio and internet as children from Madrid's San Ildefonso school Friday began singing out the prize-winning numbers in Spain's huge Christmas lottery The immensely popular lottery will distribute a total of 2.6 billion euros ($2.8 billion) in prizes this year Holders of 20-euro tickets bearing the top-prize number will receive 400,000 euros ($440,000) Street and bar celebrations normally break out with winners uncorking bottles of sparkling wine and singing and dancing The event is televised nationally from Madrid's Teatro Real opera house known in Spanish as "décimos" (tenths) in the run-up to Christmas is a major tradition among families co-workers and in bars and sports and social clubs The winning numbers are called out by children from Madrid's San Ildefonso school The children pick up balls showing ticket numbers and their corresponding prizes from two giant rolling drums They sing out both figures with a rhythmic cadence that is known to everyone in Spain especially those which have sold prize-winning tickets in the past Other lotteries have bigger individual top prizes but Spain's Christmas lottery is ranked as the world's richest for the total prize money involved A workers supervises the moment when lottery balls are filled into a drum before the draw at Madrid's Teatro Real opera house during Spain's bumper Christmas lottery draw known as El Gordo Spain established its national lottery as a charity in 1763 during the reign of King Carlos III Its objective later became to shore up state coffers the San Ildefonso college children have been singing the prizes An earlier version of this story misstated a conversion from euros to dollars The 2.6 billion in euros in prizes being distributed in Spain's Christmas lottery this year is equivalent to approximately $2.8 billion Become an NPR sponsor For two of the most influential Southwest Native American potters of the past 120 years there was no such thing as proprietary knowledge Each of these two women used her spirit of experimentation and extraordinary artistic talent in ways that revitalized the ancient craft of pottery and lifted it to the level of fine art Yet both also freely and generously encouraged others to create work like theirs as a means of making a living at a time when there were few such options they opened doors for generations of ceramic artists     One was the Hopi/Tewa potter known simply as Nampeyo who lived from around 1860 to 1942 — there is no official record of her birth year The other was Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo but they considered themselves just potters from their communities and wanted to share what they had learned And they were both amazing teachers,” says Shelby J director of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango As a scholar and former director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe Tisdale has studied the legacies and lineages of the two potters and their remarkable accomplishments grew up in the village of Hano on the Hopi Reservation’s First Mesa in northeastern Arizona Married at around age 20 to a Hopi farmer named Lesou she became fascinated with the designs on ancient pottery shards she and Lesou came across many from the ruins of the former village of Sikyatki She began reproducing elements of the old designs on her own pots which she sold at the nearby Keams Canyon trading post was produced from about 1325 to 1630 at Sikyatki and two other Hopi villages It was made with fine local clay that polished to a smooth hard surface and represented a high watermark in known Hopi pottery prior to the turn of the 20th century the predominant style was what is now referred to as Polacca polychrome it required a thin layer of finer clay applied to the surface often cracked over time and was not as aesthetically pleasing as the earlier anthropologist Jesse Fewkes led an archaeological excavation of Sikyatki village unearthing large quantities of pottery shards and whole vessels Fewkes later claimed credit for introducing Nampeyo to Sikyatki pottery shards but Tisdale and other scholars believe the potter was incorporating the ancient designs before meeting Fewkes In 1898 Nampeyo and Lesou traveled to Chicago to exhibit her pottery and in 1905 and 1907 she demonstrated pottery making and sold her vessels at the Fred Harvey-operated Hopi House a tourist attraction on the rim of the Grand Canyon “She was the first Indian artist to be recognized by the American public as an individual artist and by 1903 she was starting to reproduce not only her ancestors’ designs but their methods and materials as well she discovered how these earlier Hopi ancestors produced their beautiful yellow ware Perfecting and sharing her knowledge with her three daughters and other local potters — all of whom would go on to teach these methods to others — Nampeyo became known for initiating a revival of the ancient art form of Sikyatki polychrome they assisted their mother in painting her designs especially after Nampeyo began losing her eyesight in the early 1920s Her daughters passed their mastery of yellow ware down to their own daughters including the exceptionally skilled Daisy Hooee Nampeyo Today the extraordinary quality encouraged by Nampeyo continues even as artists incorporate their own designs and many have moved in contemporary directions known not only for her creations but also for helping open up to men what was traditionally a woman’s art form Among the award-winning male Hopi/Tewa potters today: Dextra’s nephew who learned from Dextra; and contemporary potter Preston Duwyenie “became the hallmark of later Hopi pottery.” perhaps the most famous of all New Mexico Pueblo potters became known around the world during her lifetime — also by a single name Born in 1887 and living her entire life at San Ildefonso Pueblo with reviving the 17th-century San Ildefonso art of highly burnished blackware Maria’s black-on-black pottery became immensely popular beginning in the early 1920s and continues to set the bar for quality and aesthetic standards including top awards at Santa Fe Indian Market (established in 1922) a 1973 National Endowment for the Arts grant and invitations to the White House by four different presidents Yet in the spirit of community sharing that marks traditional Pueblo life Maria continuously taught and encouraged others from San Ildefonso and elsewhere to use the methods she and Julian painstakingly perfected her pueblo’s tradition of polished blackware (also made at Santa Clara Pueblo) had been lost over time Instead San Ildefonso potters were producing polychrome ware She learned to work with clay primarily from her aunt whose high level of skill brought out her niece’s innate talent Maria soon became known for the uncommonly fine quality of her vessels “She was excellent at forming her pottery — whether plates they were all beautifully executed and well-balanced She made wonderfully fine pottery,” Tisdale says Julian Martinez was a San Ildefonso watercolor painter whose talents had been encouraged by Dr founder and director of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe Along with other Anglo-American artists and intellectuals at the time Hewett had a keen interest in helping Pueblo people revive lost arts and improve the quality of their creations he transferred his strong sense of artistic design and steady hand to painting designs on her polychrome pots when shards of black-on-cream biscuit ware were discovered during an archaeological excavation led by Dr who was also an archaeologist and anthropologist the ancestral designs found on the black-on-cream biscuit ware Maria and Julian responded by reproducing the ancient designs on various pottery forms By 1912 the couple had begun making plain polished black pottery by experimenting with a firing technique done in a traditional Pueblo outdoor fire pit or handmade kiln that transformed red clay pots to deep black The method reduces the oxygen during firing by partially smothering the flames with pieces of broken pottery and dried cow or horse dung The resulting cooler firing temperature causes the pots to turn black Maria and Julian also learned to produce black-on-black ware which features matte black designs on polished black pots Yet before Julian decorated and helped fire Maria’s pots she spent weeks or months making them — preparing the clay that she and her family gathered and polishing them through countless precise strokes with a rounded polishing stone Maria achieved by rubbing a stone across the surface of a clay pot is absolutely mind-blowing,” Tisdale says Julian and Maria worked together on her pottery until Julian’s death in 1943 Da was an unusually talented artist who later created his own pottery becoming the first contemporary Pueblo ceramic artist to inlay his vessels with turquoise continued his father’s innovation of adorning pottery with inlay Other San Ildefonso Pueblo potters who carried on Maria’s legacy of exceptional quality included Blue Corn (Crucita Calabaza) who married a San Ildefonso man and became known for introducing deep carved pottery to San Ildefonso Among the Pueblo’s many outstanding present-day clay artists — some working in polychrome and other styles — are Maria’s great-granddaughter Barbara Gonzales; Barbara’s son Cavan Gonzales; and Rose Gonzales’ great-nephew Russell Sanchez Each of these and countless others ultimately owe their place in the pottery world to the groundbreaking efforts of Nampeyo and Maria “They elevated what had been previously perceived as a craft From the August/September 2018 issue aming pintakasi,” was every parishioners’ invocation during the novena to San Ildefonso de Toledo leading to his feast day on the 23rd of January He was part of the Councils of Toledo in 653 and 655 and became the Archbishop of Toledo in 657 until hisdeath on 23 January 667 he did not choose to lead a life marked by socio-political prestige but instead lived in nurtured piety by entering a monastery He is known for his sublime devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary that he passionately propagated through his scholarly writings “De virginitate perpetua Sanctae Mariae adversus tres infideles,” (On the Perpetual Virginity of Mary) is attributed to him and is considered to be the most important Marian monument of Hispanic patristic literature he defended Our Blessed Mother’s Perpetual Virginity and praised her always in reference to her Son The venerated image of San Ildefonso in San Ildefonso Parish (SIP) in Makati City was brought by Spanish Jesuit missionary priests around 1781 when they established a mission station the Jesuits built a chapel and enshrined the image San Ildefonso de Toledo then became the locality’s patron saint established SIP Makati in Barrio Culi-Culi Province of Rizal (now Barangay Pio del Pilar the portions of barangays Pio del Pilar and Bangkal This year’s main theme for the fiesta is “Parokyang Sama-samang Naglalakbay at Nagsisikap Maging Banal Misyonero at Maka-kalikasan,” a reiteration of SIP Makati’s vision statement Daily subthemes for the Novena Masses on 14–22 January 2024 aimed to provide insightful perspectives to enable parishioners to reflect on how each one can be a part of the parish’s synodal journey towards holiness and mission Most of the Novena Mass presiders were once parishioners–fruits of the prayerful support and guidance of SIP Makati’s community of Salesian priests and laity The Holy Mass celebrating the Solemnity of San Ildefonso on 23 January 2024 was presided by Most Rev Bishop of the Diocese of Bacolod with concelebrants Bishop Buzon began his homily mentioning that his diocese has a similar vision to the fiesta’s theme and proceeded to share their synodal journey The vision brought about by their diocesan pastoral assembly was “We envision ourselves to be a listening church journeying together towards holiness.” The Bishop explained that both the hierarchical Church and the synodal Church are dimensions that comprise all of us as one “Body of Christ,” and that each of us having received the Holy Spirit in baptism are empowered to participate and contribute to the life of the 2 Church He mentioned that the Holy Father emphasizes that the clergy should also listen to the laity as the Holy Spirity speaks through all Bishop Buzon reiterated that all parish projects should therefore help us to become holy should not focus solely towards holiness but that participation in the life of the Church should also be towards mission proclaiming the Gospel and sharing the God we have met in the church lay people are called to be missionaries in their own spheres of influence being holy and stewards of creation as they lead their everyday lives The solemn procession in honor of San Ildefonso following the Mass was led by Fr The images of San Ildefonso and parish patrons and Mary Help of Christians were prayerfully accompanied by devotees and parishioners (By Julio Villadolid/ San Ildefonso Parish Makati | Photo from SIP Facebook Page) Copyright © 2025 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila | Powered by RV846-Social Media Team 9 Oct, 2014 | 2 comments The market of San Ildefonso is located in calle Fuencarral and born with the spirit of a Street Market, inspired in other markets as the Borough of London or the Chelsea Market in New York Situated on the axis of the districts of Chueca and Malasaña the market becomes rather than stop for a snack drink a few beers or eat pecking enjoying the variety of their premises that offer a quality product that you can also take home It is not exactly one market in the city as it can be Antón or San Miguel but it goes one step further to gastronomy: Here you will not find stalls of vegetables or fruit boxes but a local relationship where itching It's a market where there are a wide variety of specialized culinary jobs and of very high quality make that one does not know for which decide and although the first intention is that of a mild snacking then choose to stay and enjoy the food testing here and there A cocktail or a gin and tonic at the beverage bar which is on the top floor and has a terrace But mostly the market is an architectural beauty a monument to the recovery of spaces with this fashionable vintage industrial touch that has been applied with skill to this space which make it as if one is walking down the street and the entire market is surrounded by large casement windows overlooking a nice and bright image throughout the building It has three floors dedicated to the market and some more with luxury apartments and features a unique roof that covers everything Interior terraces (I want the one in the second floor want for my home!) are plagued with high tables with seats where you can enjoy your choice The bartenders and waiters are dressed as French garçons in black aprons that complete the look of this fantastic place which I promise to return I wanted to me to take some dessert but nothing seduced me, so I preferred to take a pumpkin with walnuts Pecans pie... as the of! my recipe To my I also love to discover new places when I visit Madrid These sites are the kinds of places that I like to go Don't miss on your next visit because you'll love Thank you very much for being here with me and website in this browser for the next time I comment Ddocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This web site uses cookies so that you have the best user experience. 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in all the pueblos of Northern New Mexico Maria was the second child in the Montoya family of five daughters all born in the Pueblo of San Ildefonso around the turn of the last century Maria says she first began making pots at the age of eleven while watching her aunt and other women of the pueblo make functional ware for domestic use — bathing and cooking She learned all steps of the pot-making process from digging the clay to the weeks-long preparation process to forming and firing the ware The first incident that introduced Maria to an international audience was the World Fair in St Louis in 1904 were married the same day they boarded the train to St Louis to perform dance and demonstrate pottery making Exactly how the two were chosen to participate in the event is not documented but it surely began their sensibility to the importance of travel in building awareness of San Ildefonso to a global audience a trait that continued throughout their careers A few years later while helping the Museum of New Mexico anthropology crew on an excavation dig on Pajarito Plateau (now the site of Los Alamos National Labs) Hewett was looking for a skilled potter who could imagine and replicate the original form of pot sherds found on the site Maria and Julian began creating many pots using techniques and decorations inspired by the ancients Maria and Julian perfected the technique of black-on-black pottery for which they and their pueblo are now known Ceramic historian Susan Peterson describes the process: “Black pottery making involves six distinct processes each one as important as the other for the finished process The first is finding and collecting the clay; second scraping and sanding the pot to remove surface irregularities; fourth applying the iron-bearing slip and burnishing to a high sheen with a smooth stone; fifth the firing.” This last step uses a reduction firing process where the oxygen is reduced in the fire This pinnacle of the couple’s success in 1918 was also a year of tragedy for San Ildefonso: 20 percent of its people died in the Spanish Flu pandemic San Ildefonso has a population of over 750 people and has an active tourism and pottery-making economy Maria’s extraordinary personal achievement in the realm of pottery-making was balanced by her dedication to the well-being of her community Her personal fame and financial success probably would not have happened but for the intersection of regional national and global events unique to that moment in history visited the White House at the invitation of four presidents (Hoover and received numerous exhibitions and many awards All this brought prosperity to her pueblo and the neighboring New Mexico pueblos The Martinez family descendants continue the tradition of collaboration today Michelle Lanteri sums up the importance of Maria’s work: “The aspect that resonates the most with me is that Maria and Julian created a gift that continues throughout the generations for Pueblo people There is so much wrapped up in each vessel that brings together every aspect of life in one object These makers and their pottery carry Indigenous stories throughout the world through the legacies of innovation I urge you to visit the very informative Maria Martinez Gallery at Millicent Rogers Museum It was built around work donated by the Family of Maria Martinez in 1982 and inaugurated in 2013 with support from R Kirk Landon and Pamela Garrison and Paul Peralta-Ramos Known for: perfection of black-on-black pottery technique This is the first of a series of personal musings about stellar Objets d’Art created by women in Northern New Mexico specifically women in the early 20th century — objets that are currently on view in the museums or galleries of our town The main altarpiece of San Ildefonso is part of an important set of baroque altarpieces that are preserved in the church of the convent of the Barefoot Trinitarias of San Ildefonso this being the only one that had not been restored This great baroque wooden work was settled in 1739 although it was not gilded and polychrome until 1767 In its central street the Imposition of the chasuble to San Ildefonso In the side streets we find the round-shaped sculptures attributed to Manuel Correa de San Juan de Mata y Saint Felix de Valois and in the attic a relief of the Holy Trinity flanked by two great angels Coinciding with the IV anniversary of the death of Cervantes a cleaning and consolidation of the altarpiece was carried out The main altarpiece of the church of the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitaries of San Ildefonso is a large piece The lower part consists of a bench with four shelves on which rests a structured body on three streets separated by giant columns of composite order with attached elements In the central street there is a half-pointed niche where the relief that represents the central theme is the Imposition of the chasuble to San Ildefonso Under this a tabernacle is located as a temple As in much of the altarpieces of the first half of the eighteenth century In the side streets we find on two corbels two sculptures of round shape attributed to Manuel Correa that represent Trinitarian saints founder of the order and Saint Felix de Valois come from the old Mercenarios Descalzos convent in Madrid in the attic is a relief of the Holy Trinity crowned with a large tarja and flanked by two large angels exempt kneeling on the split pediment The decoration is supported by the use of elements of relief such as heads of cherubs plant elements and rockery that give life to a well-underlined architecture that adapts to the space of the head of the temple The elements stand out for their balance and proportion while the different planes contribute to creating dynamism through the gradation of lights and shadows creating a work that follows the line of the altarpieces of the Toledo master Tomé The altarpiece is the work of assembler Manuel Mesa the person in charge of setting it up was Francisco Ruiz master builder of the convent that was being built at that time endowed the work with brightness and color The main altarpiece of San Ildefonso is part of an important set of baroque altarpieces that are conserved in the church of the convent of the Barefoot Trinitarios of San Ildefonso Detail Imposition of the chasuble to San Ildefonso In the central street there is a half-pointed niche where this relief is located from the old convent of Mercenarios Descalzos de Madrid In the attic there is a relief of the Holy Trinity Although the work was not in a very bad state of conservation The use of candles as a means of lighting in the past had caused small deposits of wax and even some burns in the polychrome the movements of contraction and expansion of the wood had caused a lack of consistency of the preparation generating partial losses of the polychrome layer also appreciating volume and fragmentation gaps It was the only altarpiece in the church that had not been intervened Coinciding with the IV centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes in anticipation of a considerable increase in the number of visitors who would go to the burial site of the writer it was considered necessary to restore this piece to achieve the integral recovery of the temple The intervention consisted in the first place in a consolidation of the pictorial layer to avoid greater losses of polychromy and a consolidation of the structure in the damaged points realizing a fixation by means of spikes of fiberglass and adhesives the surface of dirt not adhered with brushes and suction repaints and wax drips of the candles were removed a chromatic reintegration was carried out in the areas of greatest loss that made it difficult to see the whole using watercolor after a leveling of the preparation layer The restoration of the work has allowed the altarpiece to recover its original appearance thanks to these works has been discovered a signature on the auction of the altarpiece "Pedro Bozal / year of 1768" belonging to a teacher who intervened in the altarpiece (1990): "The Monastery of the Discalced Trinitarian Sisters of San Ildefonso de Madrid" (2002): Retablos of the community of Madrid Barbara Gonzales: Black-on-black pot with Avanyu design; courtesy Sunbeam Gallery Barbara Gonzales: Etched black pot inlaid with turquoise; courtesy Sunbeam Gallery Undated photo of Maria Martinez and family (Barbara Gonzales is pictured top right with her son Cavan); courtesy Sunbeam Gallery she learned how to make pottery by observation Gonzales comes from one of the region’s most accomplished and well-known pottery families From when she was about three or four years old until she was in third grade When San Ildefonso potter Barbara Gonzales (whose Indian name is Tahn-Moo-Whé who was known for her distinctive black-on-black wares and the collaborations with her husband But Gonzales took her own work in a different direction from the traditional black on black and polychrome decorative wares inlaid with coral and turquoise Gonzales learned early on that there was not just one way to make a pot and that much of the practice involves trial and error “There’s no formal teaching involved,” she said Inever thought of my great-grandmother as being somebody famous It was very unusual because people at that time They didn’t appreciate people nosing around when they were working But she was always glad to meet different people.” To keep Gonzales occupied and out of trouble her grandmother would give her a piece of clay to play with she was learning to get a feel for the medium “My own children started at about age six or seven when they started school,” she said “It was to keep them busy and so they could earn extra money during the summer months and keep their interest in art and clay pottery alive within themselves.” Gonzales is showing at True West Gallery (130-F Lincoln Ave.) this weekend She also shows her work at Sunbeam Gallery a business she started at San Ildefonso back in the 1970s when she converted a one-room house into a sweet shop for the local children she added pottery and Native artwork made by herself and Brandan also show their wares at Sunbeam and there are some similarities between their works and those of Gonzales particularly in their production of unpainted follows more in the tradition of his great-aunt Blue Corn (Crucita Calabaza) who is credited with reviving San Ildefonso poly-chrome pots Gonzales’ own pots gleam with a metallic sheen which is the result of the stone-polishing The spider is a recurring motif on her ceramics “The evenness of the stone polish causes the rich luster,” she said The spider design came into being in the 1970s when I was trying to think of something as a logo for myself a design that I had not seen elsewhere in my travels So I started putting spiders on my pots and I thought As the etch work came into play — I call it etch work and not sgraffito Sgraffito I define as slightly impressed like a puncture Gonzales began applying some atypical techniques to older pottery forms keeping tradition alive in a spirit of innovation Gonzales started making what she calls “swish pots” — enclosed pots with only a small hole located somewhere on each one in which she would then place a small stone such as turquoise or a small rounded ball of clay The practice of hand-gathering materials is common among Pueblo potters Everything from the clays used to the making and surface decoration is done by hand in a rustic tradition the aspects of which engage whole families of potters the rough-and-tumble wood-firing techniques — for which cedar wood chips stately wares that seem like they were made using more refined studio methods which is a testament to the craftsmanship of artists like Gonzales Hand gathering materials is a seasonal activity It was raining half an hour ago at the pueblo The clay has to dry before you can gather it and if you take the initiative to learn about it you’ll know where to gather your clay and when to do it She changes up the tools used for etching the surface depending on the designs she’s trying to achieve “I could start out with a nail or a darning needle — anything that feels comfortable in my hand because it doesn’t work the same way every time and not every piece is fired at the same temperature Maybe the temperature of the wood makes the cow cakes burn faster I tell my kids and grandkids that our ancestors were scientists They had to come up with a formula on how to fire so you say your prayers and keep your fingers crossed that each firing will come out successfully.” I never thought of my great-grandmother as being somebody famous."