Centaurs, mermaids and Minotaurs have nothing on imagemaker Fay Ku’s creations.

The career of Santa Fe-based artist Judy Chicago runs the gamut from hissed-at feminist-banner-wielding provocateur to a sacrosanct presence among the modern art world.

Catering to a unique brand of tourist—the kind that makes a pilgrimage for the purportedly miraculous qualities of the dirt...

Tom Leech, curator of the Press at the Palace of the Governors, is a busy man. “I’ve worked here for 11 years, and I’ve never had two days that were the same,” he says.

Karla Slocum is an anthropology professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying the black history of Oklahoma as a local resident scholar at the School for Advanced Research. Think of her as a cross-country vagabond, but with a PhD.

Santa Fean Jacob Johnson’s eyes opened up after moving to Albuquerque, where he earned a BFA from UNM.

So what if we lack lush beaches and have modest adobe buildings instead of skyscrapers? New Mexico has character, dammit and we here at SFR would like to celebrate its quirks, warts and all.

As a side note and perhaps to explain his decision to let his actors use their own voices in the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, director Jerry Ferraccio says t