Author Interview: Ashley Biggers Writer’s Work Provides A Roadmap To New Mexico Writer and New Mexico native Ashley Biggers knows her stuff. She’s a seasoned travel journalist with the bylines to prove it—she’s even the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 21, 2017 Read More
Found Objects Bed Time BEDtalks—Albuquerque’s best lecture series, wherein presenters deliver their address from the comfort of bed—is back for the eighth time on Thursday, Sept. 21. [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 21, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Bead By Bead Etkie Firmly Plants Its Feet In Downtown Albuquerque Behind an unassuming cement wall and across a gravel parking lot on Fourth Street, a workshop-turned-showroom-turned-art-space is quietly taking shape. Inside the building [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 21, 2017 Read More (Etkie)
Culture Shock: Somos Albuquerque New Celebration Gathers Community Downtown To Annunciate All That We Are “We’ve all lived the Albuquerque narrative, we live it everyday,” Julia Mandeville said as we sat outside of Deep Space Coffee with Stephen [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 14, 2017 Read More A preview of an installation created by local artist Reyes Padilla (Beth Ashley)
Wonder Women: Liza Bley And Becki Jones Sex Educators By Day And Playing Shows At Night, Becki Jones And Liza Bley Live Their Convictions Becki Jones and Liza Bley were stationed in their office, intermittently laughing and pecking away at their keyboards, when I arrived and settled [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 14, 2017 Read More (Eric Williams Photography)
Culture Shock: Ships Not At Sea The Work Of Nyc Artist Alex Branch's Residency At Sanitary Tortilla Factory Lined up in long-necked Tabasco bottles or stout jam jars, Alex Branch‘s water collection sits on a weathered white shelf in her New [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 07, 2017 Read More Some of Alex Branch's water collection at home in New York City. (Alex Branch)
Bikes Headed To Adventure On The Great Divide Trail “A couple things that I learned early on is that it takes a long time to get there, and its always uphill and [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 07, 2017 Read More A vista in the far northern reaches of the trail. (Jim Chavez)
Culture Shock: Fly By Night The “Moth Migration Project” Lands In Downtown Albuquerque A grizzly bear can eat as many as 40,000 moths everyday. That detail is a small one, but one that lingered in artist [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 31, 2017 Read More (Suzanna Sbarge / 516 ARTS)
Culture Shock: Frida Kahlo Through The Lens Her “Battlefield Of Suffering” Illumined In 241 Photos From Her Private Collection Tucked beyond the galleries, corridors and the vast stage of Popejoy Hall are the offices of the staff of the UNM Museum of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 24, 2017 Read More Frida Kahlo ca. 1944 (by Lola Alvarez Bravo, courtesy of Frida Kahlo Museum)
Culture Shock: Something For The Makers Spoiler Alert: We're All Makers Once a year for the past six, science dressed up as a raucous party comes to Albuquerque to celebrate art and invention. What [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 17, 2017 Read More 3-D printing is hands-on at the Mini Maker Faire (Craig Goldsmith)