iscover the mystique of Santa Fe at the historic Hotel St. Francis. Renowned for decades as the Southwest’s premier center of the arts, Santa Fe presents a rarefied canvas for every form of artistic expression, painting and sculpture, textiles and pottery, design in jewelry and decor, music, literature, and media, with an array of galleries and markets to showcase its collections. Santa Fe has had a wondrous artistic advantage with Mother Nature as its first and foremost creative artist. Her dramatic palette and impeccable natural landscape design created an impressive backdrop of picturesque Sangre de Cristo mountains, panoramic desertscapes, daunting canyons, and sculpted rock formations that have been the source of inspiration and interpretation from the earliest petroglyphs and pictographs shared by the ancients. All who have a divine claim of origin here or have later conquered and claimed this majestic setting as home, found an aura of reverence in the vibrant colors manifested in the land and its formations; in the sunlight and its dramatic displays at sunrise and sunset; in vivid skies, star filled or punctuated with imaginative clouds: a sacred arena of beauty to be portrayed and captured in every aspect of the arts, from past to present.
300 MODELISTE | AUGUST 2022
