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Millicent Rogers Museum

Millicent Rogers Museum

The Millicent Rogers Museum’s newest exhibition, Community Matriarchs as Artists, is now open to the public. The museum dedicates this exhibition to Lydia Garcia (1936-2023), beloved santera of Taos. This celebration of women artists of the Southwest is also a gesture of support of the new Historical Women of…

What’s Old Is New

What’s Old Is New

Strong Foundations Taos Ski Valley was founded on a dream and today you can sleep soundly knowing its foundations stand strong… in the walls in the historic hotels around you! While the Village of Taos Ski Valley’s early beginnings in the 1600s stem from Spanish mining operations and later domestic…

Raven Chacon: Three Songs

Raven Chacon: Three Songs

February 24, 2024 – July 7, 2024 Raven Chacon: Three Songs brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects at the Harwood Museum of Art, that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual work. In the series For Zitkála-Šá (2018), Chacon created musical arrangements dedicated to different contemporary Indigenous,…

Riding the Bootfitting Wave

Riding the Bootfitting Wave

Never Summer “Summer?” For freeskier Robbie Forbes, a Taos local born and raised, it’s “Non-existent!” In 2023, Forbes went down to Australia to spend his second summer there. One of his boot fitting mentors Charlie Bradley was like, “If you’re sick of landscaping, this might be something you want to…

Special Collections at the Harwood Museum of Art

Special Collections at the Harwood Museum of Art

The Harwood Museum of Art Special Collections: Taos Municipal School Historic Collection The Taos Municipal School Historic Collection is on long-term loan to the Harwood Museum of Art that includes works by numerous Taos artists including, Joseph Henry Sharp, John Ward Lockwood, Joseph Fleck, Ila McAfee, Gene Kloss, Emil…

2023 Winter Gear Preview

2023 Winter Gear Preview

BOOT UP! Have you made the rounds at local outfitters to see what’s new and where the early season deals are? We did! Here’s our winter gear preview for 2023-24’s hardware and softwear highlights.   Cottam’s Ski Shop All season rentals. These are the key words at…

How Aspens are Being Affected by Climate Change and What You Can Do to Help

How Aspens are Being Affected by Climate Change and What You Can Do to Help

A Walk in the Woods When you’re strolling our trails this fall enjoy the golden leaves, their telltale shhhhhh-shimmer and take note of what’s below. A Favorite of Lovers & Teens Walking through an aspen stand you’re likely to find initials carved on aspen trunks with date of…

Embrace Nature’s Flavors Al Fresco

Embrace Nature’s Flavors Al Fresco

Imagine… Picture this. You’re sitting outside under the shade of a cottonwood tree. The air is warm, an agreeable 83 degrees. Above you the sky is a deep cobalt blue and an armada of puffy white clouds sail overhead. A double peaked mountain looks down on you from the horizon.

Cutthroat but Not Ruthless

Cutthroat but Not Ruthless

Go Fish We learned on a recent outing that when it comes to fly fishing, the skill lies in taking your time and letting the fish come to you. It was a gorgeous blue sky late spring morning as Steve Morris of Cutthroat Fly Fishing and his two pals…

What’s New Is Old for Taos Architecture

What’s New Is Old for Taos Architecture

Henry Architects Find A Sense of Place When it comes to what makes a place, history is important.  One must always look deeper to the layers underneath that form the foundation to see clearly. Here in Northern New Mexico, the ground literally unearths itself. Tectonics, geology and time work passively…