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DEC. 21:

OPEN SPACE SPIN

Thanks SFR for the mention of the theft of the South Meadows Open Space by the County Commission. (Tenacious #20) Spin has been rampant by the developer because he knows that the county broke every ethics rule in the book by offering to sell him the land for development.

This deal was done secretly in the summer of 2020. Mike Loftin lusted after this gorgeous land. The county wanted more money. So they all met up in private. This is the most unethical land deal I’ve ever seen. Greg Shaffer helped, by ignoring the intent of public hearings prior to any agreement.

If the city approves developing this land, then the city is approving secret deals by elected officials without end. Goodbye Democracy. And that’s just the beginning of the story.

The remedy for this fiasco is clear. The county must buy the land back from the developer. The city should halt any further hearings on this

case. The city and county could locate alternate parcels for the developer. The approved application I authored for this open space dictates very little improvement at minimal cost. Let’s name it for a man we loved: Javier Gonzales.

HELEN WUNNICKE LAKEWOOD, COLORADO

PRECIOUS PARKLAND

City Council has rescheduled the hearing to rezone open space/parkland on South Meadows to build more housing to Feb. 1. In the last couple of decades the Southside (Zip code 87507) has already seen increasingly dense Homewise building projects and high COVID-19 cases. Now they want to take 23 acres of scarce open space (Santa Fe County had promised surrounding residents/taxpayers that it would remain parkland) in this crowded area and cram more people into the area.

At previous hearings none of the adjacent property owners testified in favor of this change of use. Why haven’t our councilors spoken in support of their community on this? Leave this precious “breathing space” as parkland/open space. There will always be more people seeking to live in Santa Fe, but open space is finite.

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At this point, is there somewhere he didn’t leave these things lying around?

Finally someone says it. Maybe it’s better without the obelisk.

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PROPERTY ON OLD PECOS TRAIL REZONED TO ALLOW FOR SUBDIVISION

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REAL WINTER SEEMS TO HAVE ARRIVED, AT LEAST FOR NOW

And it sucks despite everyone you know who insists, “We sure need the snow and moisture, though!” Our house is cold, bro, let us wallow.

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A state District Court judge has found that a Santa Fe woman accused of murder with a sword is mentally competent, so the case can proceed.

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While You Were Sleeping

BY ANDREW OXFORD oxford@sfreporter.com

Santa Fe City Hall has been open later than most bars in this town recently.

The governing body’s last two regular meetings ran past 11 pm as members mulled a proposal to rezone about 10 acres along Old Pecos Trail for the construction of 25 new homes. And those were relatively early nights.

While 25 new homes are not all that many in a city where thousands more are needed to address an acute housing crisis that’s pricing out working folks, the mere suggestion the City Council would allow anything more than one home per acre along the busy thoroughfare whipped up neighborhood opposition. To hear out the project’s opponents, council members postponed other city business on their agenda to make room for the case and after two inconclusive late-night meetings, scheduled a special hearing on Saturday to deal with the matter once and for all.

After all that hemming and hawing, they voted 6-3 to approve the rezoning— with District 2 councilors Carol RomeroWirth and Michael Garcia opposed, along with District 3 Councilor Lee Garcia.

The late nights have not only left some councilors fatigued but also asking: Is there another way?

Santa Fe’s governing body usually meets on the second and last Wednesday each month at 5 pm. Long agendas can push meetings into the next day and delay city business that councilors run out of time to address.

“We’ve got to do something different,” Mayor Alan Webber tells SFR before Saturday’s meeting.

Webber said he’s interested in convening councilors more regularly, or considering the Las Cruces City Council’s practice of convening in the early afternoon.

Other local governments may be instructive.

Just down the street from City Hall, the Santa Fe Board of County Commissioners convenes its regular meetings at 2 pm. The El Paso City Council meets at 9 am.

Holding meetings after business hours is supposed to make the meetings more accessible to working Santa Feans who can’t duck out of their day jobs to spend hours following a zoning debate.

But District 1 Councilor Signe Lindell says postponing discussion of some issues

to accommodate hours of discussion on others can also dissuade residents from participating.

“The more times you put things off, the harder it is to get people to come and give public comments,” she tells SFR.

No one wants to get downtown after work only to hear the issue they’d been preparing to speak on won’t be heard by the council for another couple weeks, Lindell argues. For example, the council has already delayed a vote on a measure she’s backing to increase fines for loud vehicles.

“Some of these things that have been put off for months could have been heard and done,” she says.

The evening sessions don’t necessarily accommodate councilors who have to hold down second jobs, either. Earning a little more than $39,000 a year for their official duties, several councilors have day jobs or run businesses.

District 2 Councilor Michael Garcia says he starts work early each day, making late-night meetings difficult.

“I’m in favor of anything that allows the council to function and the public to participate,” Garcia tells SFR, adding that

deciding on weighty and controversial policy issues after 11 pm isn’t ideal.

Lindell concedes that there may not be much appetite for changing meeting times.

The problem is longstanding: The City Council’s own rules are ostensibly designed to keep the governing body from legislating in the middle of the night. They state that matters not heard before 11:30 pm must be postponed, requiring councilors to waive the rules to take up any items later. They have waived them with alarming regularity in recent years, often to the chagrin of those tracking votes and debates. Veterans of the food fight over building a Walmart in town and the ill-fated soda tax have all burned the midnight oil.

There may be other ways of making the council more efficient, or not.

The city’s Charter Review Commission is considering whether the job of councilor should be a full-time gig.

Romero-Wirth, District 1 Councilor Renee Villarreal and District 4’s Jamie Cassutt also introduced legislation earlier this month to let councilors hire staff, if the city budgets money for the purpose. Councilors do not currently have aides, unlike county commissioners, leaving them to manage constituent complaints and research policy on their own.

Moving the final vote on the Old Pecos Trail rezoning to Saturday might have allowed many to attend—a standing room-only crowd packed into the council chambers that morning even after a snowy night—but the attempt at accommodation may be missing the point.

“These meetings would end a lot quicker if they’d just make a fucking decision,” argues Daniel Werwath, executive director of New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing and a longtime council watcher.

Werwath has his own criticisms of the Old Pecos Trail project. At about three houses per acre, it’s not dense enough, he says. But the governing body’s slow pace in dealing with the issue bodes poorly for the rest of the city.

It’s a problem of the council’s own making if meetings are running long and other business is postponed for the sake of hourslong debate over 10 acres on Old Pecos Trail, Werwath argues.

If the council were more proactive on zoning and community planning, a debate over 10 acres—25 homes, all told—wouldn’t have even landed in front of members, he contends. As for the late nights and postponed legislation, Werwath says: “The way to end this is to hold a vote.”

A special governing body meeting Saturday was the third to deal with the proposed rezoning of about 10 acres on Old Pecos Trail.

ANDREW OXFORD

Late City Council meetings raise a question: Why are Santa Fe’s leaders meeting in the middle of the night?

Show and Tell

artist Tony Abeyta talks treasures as a new appraiser on Antiques Roadshow

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

Spoiler alert: In an upcoming episode of Antiques Roadshow, appraiser and New Mexico artist Tony Abeyta informs a woman she owns a painting by Taos Society of Artists founder and painter Joseph Henry Sharp. And the dollar value he assigns to that painting brings tears to her eyes. The first installment of the show’s three Santa Fe episodes that filmed last June on Museum Hill premiered Jan. 23; Episodes 2 and 3 will begin airing on Jan. 30 and Feb. 6 on New Mexico PBS (with free streaming thereafter on the PBS Video App).

While Antiques Roadshow had visited Albuquerque three prior times, last June marked its first foray in Santa Fe. Show officials say 3,356 people attended, delivering Santa Fe the highest turnout of the 2022 tour. Top finds included a Plains Indian child’s beaded shirt; a 1969 Alexander Calder sculpture; and a 1977 Keith Haring Bean Salad lithograph. Approximately 70 appraisers worked the event, including Abeyta, who made his debut this season. Abeyta, a contemporary Diné (Navajo) mixed-media painter from Gallup, works in both Santa Fe and Berkeley, California and is represented by Owings Gallery in Santa Fe. Abeyta also has had work in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, among numerous other institutions, and he and his family were the focus of a Wheelwright Museum exhibition that ended earlier this month: Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é. SFR spoke with Abeyta this week about his new gig; the interview has been edited for style, clarity and concision.

Antiques Roadshow?

Tony Abeyta: The show is trying to promote diversity and they wanted to get some people who could represent people of color, and also to look at the diaspora of ages and interests because each one of us comes with expertise and interests. My focus is with American Indian, Spanish

Colonial and painting and art, especially in the Southwest. There were a few recommendations from other appraisers who said, ‘Maybe Tony would be a good fit’… and it was something I was interested in, of course.

The appraisers are all volunteers; you pay for your travel. What are you getting out of it?

I make my income doing my art. I’m putting this in the category of a pretty hardcore hobby. I don’t think anybody does it because they’re going to get rich off television. But you get experiences and you get stories and you learn; not only from other fellow experts; you learn from the people who have these things. They’ll tell you where it came from—its journey and the emotional connection they have. It’s not always the appraiser who gets to dictate value. Often it’s the people that have these things and will say, ‘There’s something about this that has been animated and it’s got the juice inside of it. It’s just something that I can’t explain.’ And then you begin to see it and you recognize it. And you say, ‘You’re right.’ Since I was a kid, I’ve always been a treasure hunter. I collected marbles; I’m a record collector…I collect art, American Indian pottery. It’s also challenging me to do more research and to follow up with the things that I don’t know about that are really interesting to me.

What was the moment like when you told that woman she owns a Joseph Henry Sharp painting?

It was really fun. I’m learning along the way as it goes. They want an authentic experience; they don’t want you to lead somebody into any kind of narrative. You don’t want to inform them in the preliminary. So, you have to sort of keep a straight face and tell them you’re looking into it… you’re doing some research. But I knew exactly what it was and [had to wait] to see if [the producers] were willing to take it on camera. And I thought they would because it had an interesting story. But you don’t want to undermine the impact; you want to make sure that people are having real emotional reactions to the appraisal… There’s sort of an art to that.

Was it exciting personally for you to see a painting from such a well known

artist of this area show up like that?

You know, my gallery in Santa Fe handles all of the Taos founders, American modernists. They’re very well versed in that period of painting. So, I see a lot of the art, but what I don’t get to see is where it comes from—somebody walking into the room who didn’t know what it is and only knew that there was a story about it. She had it in a basement and then recently brought it out, sort of stimulated by the fact that the Roadshow was coming to town. It could have sat there for another 15 years. It could have been sold in an estate sale. Somebody could have come in and offered them $1,000. So, it’s knowing that it not only has real value, but you recognize that there’s something really amazing out there that’s fresh, that nobody’s ever seen…Discovery is the thrill of being

able to recognize something with intrinsic value and historical significance, and then inform people so that they’re prepared. We’re trying to not only discover treasures; we’re also trying to discover truth.

As an artist, and as an artist who’s from a storied art family, what is it like encountering valuable art that’s ending up in people’s basements and closets?

I think it’s a lesson in appreciation. Often people…don’t really appreciate art or our artists until they know they’re valuable. Many artists are unsung in their lifetimes and they die and maybe 25 or even 50 years later, their work becomes recognized and appreciated. The market changes and often will dictate the values. I get to watch the trends and I also look at myself as an artist. How do I fit into that narrative? I have a full-time professional career in art painting. I love what I do. I’m passionate about it. I’m also a student of art and art appreciation and I learn from each experience; knowing more about the history of art, the trends, the contribution that artists may have had. But I think it’s good for people to know what they have. Wouldn’t it be good to know if you had a Ming vase; if you had a First Phase Navajo Chiefs blanket; or a very early painting by Jackson Pollock? Those things do happen. I think it’s kind of like the lottery ticket. And that’s what Antiques Roadshow is famous for: giving people the opportunity to believe that there still is that lottery ticket, and they have a chance to find something and to have that experience in their lifetime. It’s rare, but it happens. It happens every episode.

SFR: How did you come to be on

Tony Abeyta (left) appraises a Joseph Henry Sharp Oil Portrait, ca. 1900, in Santa Fe. Antiques Roadshow “Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, Hour 2” airs at 7 pm Monday, Jan. 30 at on PBS.

MEREDITH NIERMAN FOR GBH, (C) WGBH 2022.

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We’re trying to not only discover treasures; we’re also trying to discover truth.

-Tony Abetya, Antiques Roadshow appraiser

Combined Communities

it would help the board plan for the future. When the community’s well began drying up and clogging with silt, Gillis sought relief from the state and county. Gillis, a retired occupational therapist, was basically starting from scratch when she wrote grant proposals for state and federal assistance.

But, she adds, it took many phone calls and a lot of research for which she’s not formally trained.

“There’s a staffing issue, there’s an expertise issue, there’s a continuity of knowledge issue,” Gillis says.

have their own well, but even those are slowly becoming unusable. For now, the giant water tank with a big red marker indicating its level serves as a harsh reminder of water scarcity. The day SFR visited, the marker showed about 35,000 gallons left, which Gillis says is nearly 10,000 gallons less than the area’s average monthly use.

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Small, regional water cooperatives might have a chance to pool resources if everything works out according to state Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth’s plan.

Wirth, a Democrat who represents a huge swath of Santa Fe County, is sponsoring a bill in the legislative session that began last week that would make it easier for small communities to formally cooperate. He says Senate Bill 1 would allow—but not require—multiple mutual domestic water systems to come together and form a regional utility authority, not necessarily to share water, but for engineering, auditing and legal staff.

“Right now, if four systems want to form a regional system, they have to come to the Legislature and carry an individualized bill,” Wirth tells SFR.

State Sen. Liz Stefanics, D-Santa Fe, and Rep. Susan Herrera, D-Embudo, are co-sponsoring the measure.

If SB 1 becomes law, communities such as Cañada de los Alamos, which has struggled with water shortages in recent years, could combine forces with other nearby communities.

Chita Gillis, secretary treasurer of Cañada de los Alamos’ community water system, tells SFR the freedom to create a new, shared water authority might not solve shortages, but

In 2020, the community ran dry and began paying to have water hauled up a winding road to stock its tank, which serves 25 houses. Even that proved time-consuming for the five-person board. Increased diesel prices and the number of trips it takes to supply the small community southeast of Santa Fe meant the system had to tap into its $30,000 reserves to cover the cost. Luckily, Gillis says, she secured state funding through the New Mexico Board of Finance.

She’s requested that Santa Fe County extend service to Cañada de los Alamos, but someone with more experience in infrastructure expansion could probably be much more efficient.

“Everyone is so willing to help, they really are,” she says. “But you’ve got to find them first.”

In theory, the community well, which is positioned in a low spot, would pump water to the tank up the hill. From there, gravity takes the water to each house. Some houses

Wirth says if SB 1 passes he hopes communities such as Cañada de los Alamos and Eldorado, which has faced its own shortages, can come together to share labor resources and gain access to capital.

“If you get a number of these systems that are all in the same region and you give them the ability to join together, [there will be] huge economies of scale,” Wirth says. “One lawyer, one hydrologist, one engineer, one auditor and, when you get a bigger entity, the ability to reach out and potentially do some bonding, get money of that nature.”

Gillis says her board has not had explicit conversations about whether it might join another community to create an authority, but she welcomes the idea.

“It’s only the beginning of a long process of us as mutual domestics pooling our resources,” she says. “But at least there’ll be a structure and hopefully some kind of resource task force to help us do that, because we don’t know how to do it.”

The Senate Conservation Committee approved the measure Tuesday morning on a unanimous vote, and its next stop is the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Herrera, one of the three sponsors, represents a district with several mutual domestic water systems. She told the committee the ability for small utilities to pool resources could help make water more affordable.

“Most of our systems are under 100 people and these are not people of wealth, frankly,” Herrera told committee members. “I represent poor communities and the going rate right now is about $50 a month for water for most systems.”

A water tank at a high point of Cañada de los Alamos offers a glimpse of how little there is to go around in the tiny community.

ANDY LYMAN

A legislative proposal from a key Santa Fe lawmaker aims to help small associations form water authorities

Northward Peril

BY LAURA PASKUS lpaskus@nmpbs.org

he young female wolf just up and left her pack.

Mexican wolves will do that; it’s a behavior called dispersal. And in December, she set out from southeastern Arizona, traveling through New Mexico and leaving her Rocky Prairie Pack

Biologists watched her movements, courtesy of a radio collar affixed to her neck, like the necks of many of her species. And for a while, we all waited as she tested the anxious equilibrium of Mexican wolf recovery—until, that is, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish employees tracked her via helicopter and captured her on private land not far from Angel Fire.

I’m certain we’ll learn more about her in the coming weeks. And what happens next is still up in the air. But sometimes, it’s the journey that awes us.

Late last year, the nearly 2-year-old wild wolf traversed the Gila National Forest, snubbing or avoiding prospective mates living in New Mexico. By mid-December, she’d made her way clear to where Interstate 25 bisects Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge north of Socorro. She crossed the highway and cut into the Manzano Mountains, then returned to the interstate. After some back and forth in the area, in early January she crossed Interstate 40 near Moriarty. There, she hopped back over the highway and trotted east toward Santa Rosa.

Then on Jan. 9, she crossed I-40 again and headed, definitively, northward.

At that point, she was walking 20 to 30 miles a day. “She probably covered close to 60 miles in two days and her last location was 20 miles from Las Vegas, New Mexico,” Brady McGee, Mexican Wolf recovery coordinator for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, told me on Jan. 11. “She’s

in the wide-open plains in the middle of nowhere...That’s not her territory. She needs to head toward mountains.”

Even if she had quietly ducked into national forest lands full of tasty elk—or, if she had been able to navigate another 600 miles to Yellowstone and mate with a northern gray wolf—unknowingly, the intrepid wolf sealed her fate when she crossed I-40.

Dispersal, when wolves seek new territories in the early winter, is natural, intrinsic, even. What happens when they travel outside the domain humans have designated for them is anything but.

Mexican wolves are only allowed to live within the “Mexican wolf experimental population area,” in southern and central Arizona and New Mexico. It spans a landscape almost 20 times larger than the original recovery area for Mexican wolves. But under the government’s management plan, this subspecies of wolf isn’t supposed to cross I-40.

South of the highway, ranchers can legally harass or haze Mexican wolves away from their livestock, McGee says. North of I-40, where wolves enjoy full protection under the Endangered Species Act, ranchers can’t fire rubber-coated buckshot, rubber-coated bullets or beanbags at wolves; they also can’t chase them off with ATVs or noisemakers.

That means in the north, Canis lupus baileyi, the rarest subspecies in North America, is at increased risk of being killed, McGee explains.

“The less that ranchers can do to protect their livestock, the more intolerance there is for predators like wolves,” he says. “South of I-40, where there are less protections for the wolf but more flexibility for ranchers and others to harass that wolf, there is more tolerance because there’s more they can do to protect their livestock.”

But the boundary isn’t just about cows. In a legal complaint the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife filed Oct. 11 against the US government, plaintiffs write of the I-40 dividing line: “FWS has maintained this geographical limitation largely at the behest of state game officials who wish to avoid wolf predation on local elk and deer populations that generate hunting-related activity providing revenue to state coffers.” That arbitrary line of demarcation, they assert, has prevented Mexican wolves from establishing new packs in the Grand Canyon and the southern Rockies.

Lone Mexican wolf’s unprecedented journey from Arizona to Northern New Mexico spotlights fraught balance of reintroduction program

THE JOURNEY

The

1 December

2 Mid-December:

“The Fish and Wildlife Service is legally obligated to remove a wolf from north of I-40... which precludes the creation of a metapopulation in the southern Rockies, where they could thrive and where a study has shown [Mexican wolves] would need [another] population in order to recover,” says Michael Robinson, senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “No other endangered species is required to stay within a boundary.”

I first heard about the female wolf on Jan. 9 when the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish issued a news release about her travels—a release in which she’s repeatedly referred to as an “it,” by the way. I thought of The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. I’d re-read the book, a favorite, over the holiday. And I’ve loved these lines since first reading them almost 20 years ago:

“He stood down in the snow and dropped the reins and squatted and thumbed back the brim of his hat. In the floors of the little wells she’d stoven in the snow lay her perfect prints. The broad forefoot. The narrow hind. The sometime dragmark of her dugs or the place where she’d put her nose. He closed his

3 Early January: Crossed I-40 heading north near Moriarty and then back south of the roadway and east toward Santa Rosa

4 Jan. 9: Crossed I-40 again and headed north toward Las Vegas

5 Jan. 18: Reported due east of Angel Fire

6 Jan. 22: Captured on private land

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eyes and tried to see her. Her and others of her kind, wolves and ghosts of wolves running in the whiteness of that high world as perfect to their use as if their counsel had been sought in the devising of it. He rose and walked back to where the horse stood waiting. He looked out across the mountain the way she’d come and then mounted and rode on.”

Hours after reading that Game and Fish release, I lay in bed watching the city-lit clouds above the bare branches of my neighborhood trees, wondering where she might be at that moment. What did she smell, see? What forms did she watch on the landscape? What did she consider as she bedded down for the night, so far beyond the scent of other wolves?

When I talked to McGee two days later, he said wolves will travel at night.

“They’ll keep walking, and keep going,” he said. “Whenever they want to rest, they’ll rest anywhere, under a rock or a bush or a tree. But a lot of times, they just keep going.”

I also asked him what signs she might follow—scents? stars? arroyos?—as she looks for a mate, especially since there aren’t any wolves for hundreds of miles. “Nobody knows

Tracks, like this Mexican wolf paw print, help biologists track wolves during annual ground surveys.

wild-born Mexican wolf biologists refer to as f2754 was on the move for more than a month. In early January, radio collar signals showed the nearly 2-year-old female had crossed out of the area south of Interstate 40 that the US Fish and Wildlife Service considers its “recovery area.” When she started hanging around on private land

near Angel Fire, biologists trapped her and moved her into captivity.

2022: Left the Rocky Prairie Pack in southeastern Arizona, then bypassed packs in the Gila National Forest in southern New Mexico

Reached Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge on the east side of I-25

SUITABLE WOLF HABITAT INTERSTATE 40 WOLF LOCATION

the answer to that,” he replied. “Wolves will do this, whether Mexican or northern gray wolves. When they want to disperse, they just get up and go. It could be any direction, at any time.”

In the history of the Mexican wolf reintroduction program, McGee said, no wolf has traveled into Northern New Mexico.

Many New Mexicans already know the story of wolf reintroductions and recovery in the United States.

Wolves were trapped, poisoned and hunted to extinction here in the early to mid-20th century. In the 1970s, the US Fish and Wildlife Service listed them for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act and, in the 1990s, in partnership with states and tribes, the federal government started releasing captive-bred wolves, including Mexican wolves into

Arizona and New Mexico and northern gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park.

In the Southwest, the recovery program has been fraught, in the kindest of terms. Political winds on the federal and state levels have stymied efforts in stumbling, alternating four- and eight-year increments. Many say the government’s submission to a small number of ranchers has denied wolves the opportunity to thrive; wolves who prey on cattle can be killed or removed from the wild. And there’s the problem of genetics: All of the captive and wild Mexican wolves in the United States today are descendants of just seven animals, including two kept caged in a roadside zoo in Abiquiu in the 1980s.

After years of planning, breeding and political battles, the recovery team first released Mexican wolves from pens into

the Apache National Forest in Arizona on March 29, 1998. More than a decade ago, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s former wolf coordinator, Dave Parsons, recalled the experience to me: “I can remember heading out that next morning and finding wolf tracks in the snow outside the pen for the first time in oh, probably 50 years in that country. And then we got out our radio tracking gear and set about to see just where they’d gone.”

For a quarter-century, biologists have tracked the wolves’ movements. That’s why McGee could tell me so much about the female wolf identified as f2754. (Some people call her Asha after seventh grade student Maesen Whiteside named her in a contest.)

McGee says f2754’s dispersal was a sign of the program’s success, evidence that the population is growing and expanding.

The agency is about to perform its annual count, so the numbers are a little out of date. But McGee says there are about 350 in captivity, about 200 in the wild in the United States, and 40 in Mexico. All are descended from the original seven.

“It’s fascinating to watch them move into new areas, but at the same time, we’re concerned about her well-being: Moving into new areas means increased risk of dying,” he said in early January.

Road crossings are dangerous, obviously. And this time of year, as ranchers on private lands kill coyotes, f2754 is vulnerable to traps. Or she could have been shot, mistaken for a coyote.

When she moved into Northern New Mexico, the recovery program notified local ranchers and continued monitoring her. McGee said in early January: “Right now, she has not been involved in any livestock depredations or situations or shown up...Right now, this time of year is breeding season, so there are concerns she’d show up at a ranch’s headquarters and interact with ranch dogs.”

If she were to prey on cattle or interact with people, McGee said, the government “will take more aggressive or immediate actions.” But even if she stayed safe or out of trouble, even if she just kept seeking a mate, howling to signal another wolf anywhere nearby, she wasn’t going to be allowed to roam.

“We’re working with Game and Fish, and probably won’t let her stay up in this area,” he said, referring to Northern New Mexico specifically, but outside the experimental population area as a whole. “She’s not contributing to recovery, so the management options are to move her back to the core area or put her in captivity or translocate her to Mexico.”

According to McGee, the recovery team isn’t ready for Mexican wolves to interbreed with northern gray wolves, because

ARIZONA Northward Peril

they’re trying to protect the genetics of Mexican wolves.

But Robinson doesn’t buy that. He says the program has “largely destroyed” the genetic diversity of Mexican wolves. From the founding seven animals, their genetic equivalent has dropped down to two founding animals. That’s due in part, he says, to low release rates of captive-bred wolves into the wild and to the widespread killing and removal of wild wolves who preyed on livestock.

If the US government had done a better job with reintroductions across the West, Robinson said in early January that the female wolf would have had choices while trying to chart a new territory. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if [the] Fish and Wildlife Service a decade ago had heeded scientific suggestions and introduced them to the southern Rockies? They didn’t do so, and if Asha makes it to that ideal habitat, there will be no other Mexican wolves. And if she goes to the northwest reaches of Colorado, she wouldn’t find any wolves at all.”

In 2020, Colorado voters passed Proposition 114, a ballot initiative directing the Parks and Wildlife Commission to develop a plan to reintroduce and manage wolves in the western part of the state by the end of 2023.

Speaking when the wolf was still roaming, Robinson believed if f2754 had been given time, she could have found a northern gray wolf to breed with—and her potential pups “could have tremendously valuable genetics that at some point in the future could be imparted to Mexican wolves further south.”

All that said, Robinson, too, has mixed feelings: “She’s potentially going to get to great habitat, but what is there for her?…A

lot of roads, a lot of people with guns.”

She didn’t get shot. Or hit by a car. But she’s no longer in Northern New Mexico.

There’s no doubt that wolves, and wolf reintroduction efforts, elicit strong feelings in people. Love and hate. Affection and fear. But can we all just share awe for a moment?

Imagine her journey across the Southwest—and across landscapes entirely different from her natal lands. Imagine seeing semi-trucks for the first time, feeling their rumbles and squeals in your haunches and still deciding to dart across the highway. Repeatedly. Even from the Manzanos, the pulse of Albuquerque is palpable. Did she growl or whimper as she watched truck lights flash or the city flicker in the distance? Would she only howl when absolutely sure another wolf might hear?

Now raise your hand if you’ve ever felt restless or found yourself dwelling in unsuitable territory, physically or mentally. Raise your hand if you follow signs, seeking something that might not be out there, or if you yearn for something that’s so far away you only know it exists because restless cells beneath bone and skin spur you on. Raise your hand if best laid plans and real life contradict themselves.

Raise your hand if you keep going.

In The Crossing, McCarthy’s wolf meets a terrible end. It’s terrible for the end itself and terrible for how her confusion and suffering are prolonged by the cruelties of men—and by a knuckleheaded kid who sets traps with his dad and then, when he catches the wolf, releases her, only to lead her by horse south into Mexico. He thought he’d free her there and she’d live beyond that arbitrarily drawn border.

“He squatted over the wolf and touched

her fur,” McCarthy wrote. “He touched the cold and perfect teeth. The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wet and the sun’s coming as yet had not undone the rich matrix of creatures passed in the night before her. Deer and hare and dove and groundvole all richly empaneled on the air for her delight, all nations of the possible world ordained by God of which she was one among and not separate from. Where she ran the cries of the coyotes clapped shut as if a door had closed upon them and all was fear and marvel.”

But of course, real life is complicated. And even more complex than one of McCarthy’s novels, if you can believe that.

On Jan. 18, the young female wolf from Arizona was due east of Angel Fire. Storms had dumped snow onto the mountains. Temperatures during the day hardly rose above 30 degrees; in darkness, they fell to the single digits. And when the clouds did part at night, a waning crescent moon didn’t rise until close to dawn.

Four days later, on Sunday, Jan. 22, state Game and Fish located f2754 via helicopter. She had lingered too long on private lands near Angel Fire. The landowner wanted her gone. And, anyway, her time was up: McGee says the agency monitors wolves that cross I-40 and gives them 14 days to travel back south on their own.

Speaking on the morning after her capture, McGee says she’s now in a pen on the

.

-Brady McGee, Mexican wolf recovery coordinator, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. Her genetics are poor, he says: “She’s pretty inbred.” So the program will look for an acceptable captive mate for her, “one that would give her the best genetics, and the best contribution in the wild.”

Then, in April, she’ll be released back into the wild. Maybe in Arizona. Maybe in New Mexico. But probably in Mexico.

After weeks of witnessing a rare, wild creature seek something so far beyond her reach, we should marvel to live in a world with wolves. And fear the empty banality of one without them. But beyond that, it’s time to peer into the gap between wild and managed, between the world we imagine and the one we’ve created—and decide where we want to go.

This story was produced in cooperation with New Mexico PBS.

A captive Mexican wolf stands in the snow at Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility. Wolf f2754 faced similar conditions this winter.

I t’s fascinating to watch them move into new areas, but at the same time, we’re concerned about her well-being: Moving into new areas means increased risk of dying

The City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department’s Community Gallery invites you to participate in Santa Fe MONOTHON 2023.

Santa Fe MONOTHON 2023 is a community based fundraising event to benefit the local youth arts non-profit, Partners in Education, through the sale of one-of-a-kind monoprint artworks by local artists and the generosity of the community. Help support this great cause (and the local creative economy) for MONOTHON Print Week, April 1-8, 2023 to be held in up to 7 print shops throughout Santa Fe.

IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN’T GOT THE THING

Within the pantheon of horror classics lies any number of real creeper movies, yet there is perhaps none more universally adored than John Carpenter’s celebrated 1982 masterpiece The Thing. Yeah—masterpiece. No spoilers (though how could anyone have missed seeing this one?), but the long and short of it is that a research team doing research stuff in Antarctica runs afoul of, well, some alien thing, which can take on the form of literally anyone/any animal it kills. No one knows whom to trust thanks to that shape-shifty bastard, but Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley and all the rest sure try to work it out. Terror ensues and leads to one of the most iconic endings in cinema history. If you’ve never seen it, fix that immediately. (ADV)

The Thing: 9 pm Thursday, Jan. 26. $13-$26. Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528

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CINEMA SIETE

Speaking of cool movies, you might want to get hip to Santa Fe-based/Mexico-born filmmaker Armando Hernandez, a creator who has been making notable shorts over the last two years while acting in productions at Midtown bastion, Teatro Paraguas. Hernandez has a few new ones under his belt, too, including Asesino, a reportedly action-packed number inspired by the excellent Assassin’s Creed series of video games. There are six more where that comes from, plus viewers get the pride of learning about an upand-comer before the rest of the masses. The world needs more young filmmakers, and those filmmakers need bigger audiences. Do it. Viewer discretion is advised for this one, which is like code for, “it’s cool.” (ADV)

Seven Short Films by Armando Hernandez: 7:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. Suggested donation Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601

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CANVAS CLAPBACKS

New Mexico School for the Arts is no stranger to cross-disciplinary pollination. Those of us who were around for its stint at the old Cathedral School have fond memories of the winter the visual arts students covered all the street-facing windows in student-composed poems about snow (and that was before the creative writing program was even officialized). But the upcoming exhibit Convergences reunites the school’s visual and literary talent in perhaps their most formalized collaboration yet, giving both mediums equal primacy through a combined gallery show and call-and-response catalog of poems and fine art pieces. And while those catalogs will be available post-opening, we have a feeling it’s worth it to see this one with the artists present. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

NMSA Presents: Convergences (opening): 5-7 pm Friday, Jan. 27. Free. New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Ave., Ste. 200, (505) 310-4194

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Soupy Sales

The Food Depot brings back the Souper Bowl for its 27th iteration

The last time Santa Fe’s Food Depot hosted its usually annual Souper Bowl event, the world was roughly one month away from the kickoff of COVID-19 madness. This year, after two sad years without any major soup gatherings, the event will return with more than a dozen chefs crafting a wide gamut of soupy creations and, thanks to the community, a staggering impact for the organization through ticket sales and potential donations.

“We’re super excited, though we didn’t change a lot this year—we just wanted to come back and make it happen,” says Food Depot deputy director Jill Dixon. “We have 19 chefs, which is pretty good considering the stress that’s been put on the restaurant industry, plus the cost of food; it’s been a real commitment to sign on to a benefit event.”

This year’s lineup is a banger, too, with soups created by teams from Jambo Café, Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen, El Nido, Escondido (being chef Fernando Ruiz’s soon-to-open taco joint), Poki Tako, Tibet Kitchen and many more. Dixon can’t pick a favorite to win she says, but does note she’s heard some enticing rumors.

“What I’m most excited about is there are cuisines from around the world, a real diverse range,” she explains. “But I also heard there’s going to be a biscochito soup, which I have to say I’m dying for already.”

Ditto, but the real draw is helping community. While Dixon doesn’t have specific dollar numbers for an average Souper Bowl intake, she says that, at $35, every ticket sold translates to something like 120 meals for those in need.

“Roughly speaking, every dollar can provide four meals,” she tells SFR, “so it’s pretty awesome.”

Awesome indeed. In 2022, for example, The Food Depot distributed about 10 million pounds of food, or 8.8 million meals, according to Dixon, and a hiatus on food donations sort of trained the community to think about donating money rather than food itself, thus maximizing the possibilities.

“Don’t go to Smith’s and spend $20,” Dixon says, noting that The Food Depot has partnerships and distribution channels that stretch every donation further. As for the Souper Bowl—the 27th, for those keeping track—VIP tickets are already sold out, and though it’s possible there might be some general admission slots left at the door come Saturday, folks who also want biscochito soup should get it together ASAP.

(Alex De Vore)

SOUPER BOWL XXVII 12-2:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 28. $35 ($10 for kids) Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., thefooddepot.org

THE CALENDAR

DAVID SIMPSON | JOHN BEECH: COAST TO COAST

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688

A former teacher and student join forces to present extraordinary abstract creations made from ordinary materials.

10 am-5:30 pm, Tues-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

DIANNA SHOMAKER: A RETROSPECTIVE

Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355

Abstract and figurative paintings ranging from oils to encaustics. 10 am-5 pm, Weds, Thurs, Sat; 10 am-7 pm, Tues; 1-4 pm, Sun, free

ENCHANTED LAND

ONGOING

ART 9TH ANNUAL GUADALUPE GROUP ART SHOW

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 222 Delgado St. (928) 308-0319

A multi-media celebration of all things Guadalupe.  11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery 103 E Water St., Second Floor (505) 983-9340

Carved figures, photos, watercolors and more.

10 am-5 pm, free

FOTO CUBA

Artes de Cuba 1700 A Lena St. (505) 303-3138

Nine contemporary Cuban photographers documenting life on the island.

10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, free

LIVING DESERT: NEW WORK BY

SEAN HUDSON

Smoke the Moon 616 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Local landscapes as geometric color gradients.

12-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free

MAGIC OF THE HIGH DESERT AND MOUNTAINS

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Jessi Cross presents local landscapes with a mystical touch.

10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs;

10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, free

MARLA LIPKIN & SALLY HAYDEN VON CONTA JOINT

EXHIBITION:

CHASING THE LIGHT

El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

Two former New Yorkers present their perspectives on the New Mexico landscape. 9 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri, free

MICHAEL ROQUE COLLINS: BLUR

LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Unsettling landscapes of oil paint applied to black-and-white photographs.

ART

FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE

Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Straddling the line between seriousness and whimsy.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

CABALLOS DE FUERZA

Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Paintings and drawings responding to photos of border patrol. 10 am-5 pm, free

CALL FOR ENTRY: EPHEMERALITY Online bit.ly/3wbylli

Submit up to six pieces exploring the idea of ephemerality.  $35-$65

CARRIED IMPRESSIONS: LITHOGRAPHS AND MONOPRINTS FROM THE 1960S

Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700

An archival examination of Phyllis Sloane and Garo Antreasian’s print work.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

FRAGMENTS JURIED EXHIBITION

Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Forty-one artists from 16 states present takes on fragmentation.  10 am-5 pm, free

INTERPLAY

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Interactive digital art by Robert Rauschenberg and others. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, free

INTRODUCING: GARY GOLDBERG

Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

Mexican textiles with patterns appropriated from photographs of aging Oaxacan walls.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

JOAN FENICLE: DOWN TO THE BONE

Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450

Memories of a day spent outdoors, rendered in acrylic media and construction materials.

10 am-5 pm, Weds, Thurs, Sat; 10 am-7 pm, Tues; 1-4 pm, Sun, free

CATEGORIES

FACES: Expressive, engaged people and animals. Get permission from subjects when applicable.

PLACES: Outdoors and the built environment. Enough with the churches and the statues already. What else do you see?

MOVEMENT: Candid shots of action. Machines, dancers, atoms?

ODD: Weird, genre defying, not Photoshopped but funky. This is the wild card category.

SFREPORTER.COM/CONTESTS ENTER BY FEB. 1!

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

OUTRIDERS:

LEGACY OF THE BLACK

COWBOY

Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826

Images of bronc busters with African heritage.   11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

PRESENT

| EVOKE GROUP ARTIST EXHIBITION

Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902

Compact pieces deliver Immense impact in small packages.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free

REGALOS

Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

A juried show of local artists. 10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat, free SANTA FE 2023

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD CALL FOR ENTRIES Online

fotoforumsantafe.com/award Share your best snaps by March 5 to win a solo exhibition.  $25-$45

Bloom, from Pyara Ingersoll’s symbol-drenched new series Urban Goddess, opening at Alberto Zalma Art Shop this Friday.

COURTESY ALBERTO ZALMA ART SHOP

SHARING THE PROCESS: HELP US TITLE THE UNTITLED

ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

Exploring the relationship between artist and audience.  10 am-5 pm, free

THE NEW VANGUARD: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NEW CONTEMPORARY IV

Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574

A juried exhibition pushing the boundaries of genre. 11 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat; Noon-5 pm, Sun, free

THE THREE OF US Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Paintings and photographs from Marcy Snow, Lee Manning and C. A. Crossman. 10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs; 10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, free

WHO LIVE FOR A DAY AND

EXPIRE

5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417

Restrained and angular paintings, photographs and more. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

WINTER SELECTIONS

Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road (505) 988-3888

A group show celebrating the constrained palette of winter.  10 am-5 pm, free

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BOOKS/LECTURES

THE CAJA DEL RIO: A VISION OF THE FUTURE

Pecos Trail Cafe 2239 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9444

Envisioning an accessible future for the Caja del Rio.  7 pm, free

HORTICULTURE

HAPPENINGS: PONDS AND FOUNTAINS

Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, (505) 983-6155

Tips on using water features to attract local wildlife.  Noon-1 pm, $15-$25

PAINTER REFLECTIONS: POTTERY DEMONSTRATION

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1250

Taos/Cochiti/Santa Ana potter Santiago Romero demonstrates his ceramic techniques.  1-3 pm, free

EVENTS

ALL THINGS YARN

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Work on knitting projects with other fiber-inclined folks.  5:30-7:30 pm, free

BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Music and song improve little ones’ language acquisition.  10-10:30 am, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage weekly. Better make 'em laugh.  8-10 pm, free

TEEN LOUNGE

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

An after-school oasis with art supplies, laptops, board games, tea and snacks on offer.

1:30-3:30 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Story time and play centered around fun weekly themes. This week it's the night sky.  10:30-11:30 am, free

YOUTH CHESS CLUB

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Develop some Queen's Gambit skills to dunk on your friends.  5:45-7:45 pm, free

FILM

ROMAN HOLIDAY

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Givenchy queen Audrey Hepburn at her frothy, bubbly best in some of Edith Head's most iconic costumes.  7 pm, $13-$15

THE THING

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Celebrate John Carpenter’s birthday with one of his genre-defining early films. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 6 pm, 9 pm, $13-$26

MUSIC

HALF BROKE HORSES

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

Honky tonk and Americana.  6-9 pm, free

INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ JAM

Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Bring your own instruments to join the jam.  6-9 pm, free

JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR CLARES

El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Acoustic storytelling songs.  8-10:30 pm, free

JUSTIN NUÑEZ

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Latin Americana.  4-6 pm, free

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ART OPENINGS

IMMORTAL (OPENING)

Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000

Honoring the work of seven recently deceased ceramic artists, including Juliet Calabi, Eddie Tironaka and Donna Thompson.  2-5 pm, free

EVENTS

OPEN MIC POETRY AND MUSIC

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Bring your best rhymes and be a modern-day bard. 8-10 pm, free

PAJAMA STORYTIME

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Cozy storytime with parenting experts. For families with children ages 5 and under.  6:30-7:30 pm, free

SEEDS AND SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Young ones learn to make jam using winter berries and spices. 10:30-11:30 am, free

WATER RALLY AT THE LEGISLATURE

State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 235-6511

A rally organized by the MIddle Rio Grande Water Advocates urging the Legislature to protect New Mexico’s water future. 11 am-1 pm, free

FILM

'90S MOVIE NIGHTS

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

A family-friendly monthly screening. On tonight is The Mighty Ducks 5:30 pm, free

22ND ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

The animation extravaganza returns from its COVID hiatus.  7 pm, $13-$15

THE THING

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Early John Carpenter with a kick of Cronenberg-y body horror. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 6 pm, 9pm, $13-$26

A graduate of

Fe University

it, you can turn out several copies of that object. The same thing is happening, we’re sort of making this mold of the light, and when you shine light on it again, what you’re seeing is the actuality of the light that was coming off of that object in that moment. It’s like looking at the object without the object being there.

There’s verbiage on the form & concept site about how your pieces react to light the way a photograph might. What does that mean?

Design,

C.

Clark took a love of photography and upped the ante into holography (that’s holograms, y’all) following a chance encounter with holographic artist August Muth in 2014 at the CURRENTS New Media Festival. This week, Clark presents a sort of retrospective of their last five years’ worth of creation. At the upcoming Inventory of Reflection (5 pm Friday, Jan. 27. Free. form & concept, (505) 780-8312), find sculptural work, wearable work, framable work and many points between—all showcasing Clark’s love of the hologram. This interview has been edited for space and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

Can you explain what holography is and how it works for those who might know the word but not quite understand? There’s a lot of stuff out there that has the word hologram on it that isn’t even close. So, there are a few different kinds in the realm of actual holograms. To differentiate it, and I’m gonna drop a big science term: nonlinear diffraction grating wavefront reconstruction. You know those rainbow stickers? That’s a linear diffraction grating. Nonlinear is doing the same thing, except for instead of splitting the light into a spectrum, like a prism, it’s actually splitting the light into more complex shapes and three-dimensional forms. A wavefront reconstruction is saying that when you make the hologram, there’s wavefronts of light that are captured, and when you view the hologram, the light is reconstructed. Essentially what’s happening is that you’re making a sort of mold of the form of light that’s coming off an object. In everyday life, we don’t actually see things, we see the light bouncing off of things. Sort of the same thing happens when you’re making the hologram. We shoot a laser at an object, and...that is captured by an emulsion, and that lets us have a broader range of colors. It’s...making a light fossil, or a mold of the light. If you have an object and pour silicon over it, make a mold of

They’re both methods of capturing an image, but the metaphor I like to use is: If you think about looking at a black and white photo, it’s like looking at a window with the blinds drawn—a 2D representation of the three-dimensional world. Your mind is putting together those patterns of light and dark into a dimensional image. A hologram is like pulling up the blinds and you’re seeing all of the depths and the complexity of the world; you can look around the corner of something. But my real goal with holography is to get it off the wall. Throughout the history of holography, it’s been, ‘Look at the hologram I spent six months making! We’re going to put it in a black metal frame!’ I’m thinking about how to incorporate objects that are more relatable to people—making it more fantastic, but more accessible. When people see holograms, it sort of goes over their heads; not like they’re dumb, but it takes a minute to learn how to perceive the thing. My goal is to find these ways to make it a little more intimate so you want to spend time with it, get to know the thing, see the hologram.

Exhibits obviously don’t need connecting tissue, but have patterns emerged in looking over your work?

I’m more interested in the spectral quality of the hologram, but I think it’s going to be interesting to see everything up, and to see how I’m coming back to the representation of the image. In the past, most of what I’d been making was all about rainbows and light, but I guess it being such a technical medium, it’s sometimes hard to know how to incorporate artistic self-expression. I think over the last two years, I’ve definitely been leaning into how holograms can be part of expressing my queer identity. How do I incorporate queer theory? The obvious is ‘rainbows are gay,’ but one thing I find really beautiful is we can make these really specific colors with the hologram that you can’t reproduce with any other medium— specifically magenta or fuchsia, which is a perceptual color; it only exists when you put blue on top of red. Starting to shift the thinking from the spectrum as a linear thing, thinking about gender, sexuality; we’re trapped in this linear thinking of...but now the spectrum is like a circle, a sphere, a spiral. A third totally different thing that’s not even on the spectrum.

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of Art and

artist and holographist

Alex

With Holographist C. Alex Clark

SHALYA BLATCHFORD

FOOD

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

2791 Agua Fría St.

(505) 303-3808

Brent Jung brings you seafood fresh off the plane.  4-8 pm, free

MUSIC

ADRIAN AND MEREDITH

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St.

(505) 982-2565

Balkan-tinged Americana.  4-6 pm, free

ALEX MURZYN QUINTET

Club Legato

125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

The Bay Area saxophonist and his fellow jazz fiends hold court.  6-9 pm, free

BOB MAUS

Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455

Blues and soul renditions of classic rock hits.  6-9 pm, free

JASON CROSBY

Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St.

(505) 699-4323

The multi-instrumentalist who toured with the likes of Jackson Browne presents a collection of solo piano tracks.  7:30 pm, $20

MIREYA RAMOS

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

The founder, arranger and composer of femme mariachi sensation Flor de Toloache performs solo.

7:30 pm, $20-$25

MONTHLY FOLK JAM

El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Open to all levels and instruments. Hosted by Queen Bee Music Association.

7-8:30 pm, free

OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Come on guys, go perform! It's with Stephen!

6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

GET A MAKE SANTA FE CNC

PLASMA CUTTER BADGE

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road

(505) 819-3502

Learn how to make a robot cut metal for you. Part of a two-day class.

10 am-2 pm, $180

HANDS ON ART-MAKING

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

The library teams up with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum for a children's art workshop.  3:30-4:30 pm, free

YOGA FOR KIDS

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

Kids of all ages (accompanied by an adult) are welcome. Bring a mat if you have one, borrow one on-site if you don’t. 10:30 am, free

FRI/27

ART OPENINGS

CABALLOS DE FUERZA (RECEPTION)

Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

Paintings and drawings from Adrian Aguirre, inspired by photos of the border patrol pursuing Haitian migrants in 2021.  5-7 pm, free

INVENTORY OF REFLECTION:

C ALEX CLARK (OPENING)

form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St. (505) 216-1256

Holograms embedded in glass explore past and future through refracted light. (See 3Qs, page 22) 5 pm, free

NMSA PRESENTS: CONVERGENCE (OPENING)

New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Ave., Ste. 200 (505) 310-4194

Poems and responding artworks crafted by New Mexico School for the Arts students. (See SFR Picks, page 19) 5-7 pm, free

STILL BEAUTY (OPENING)

Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo de Peralta (505) 577-6708

A photographic exhibition exploring the beauty of the cold, quiet days of winter. 5-7 pm, free

URBAN GODDESS (OPENING)

Alberto Zalma Art Shop 407 South Guadalupe St. (505) 670-5179

Pyara Ingersoll presents a series inspired by nature, the feminine and magical symbolism.  5-9 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

UNDERSTANDING, UNDERSTANDING

St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca (505) 984-6000

Musician-in-residence Peter Pesic discusses (in case the title didn’t clear things up for you) the nature of understanding.  7 pm, free

XERCES SOCIETY: PESTICIDE

IMPACT

Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Emily Ruth Spindler discusses pesticide-free alternatives for improving NM’s ecosystem— which is home to about one quarter of US bee species. 1-2 pm, $5-$15

EVENTS

BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

Music and song expose young ones to new language sounds and improve their language acquisition.  10-10:30 am, free

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Karaoke your heart out like you’re starring in Lost in Translation. Seriously though, how many places in Santa Fe let you do anything this late?

9 pm-1 am, free

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

A mystery special guest joins the museum to lead crafts time for the kiddos.  2-4 pm, free

FILM

BILLIE EILISH LIVE AT THE O2: EXTENDED CUT

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

Premiering the new extended edition of Eilish's first concert film.  7 pm, $13-$15

NELSON SULLIVAN'S

VIDEO DIARIES

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

Slice-of-life diaristic shorts from the videographer who document 1980s gay culture and life in a New York City long since lost.

7-9 pm, $5-$15

FOOD

MAS

CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Your favorite wheeled purveyor of capsaicin returns to Tumbleroot.

7-10 pm, free

PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY PIZZA NIGHT

Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 (505) 603-0897

This month’s pop-up topping options include (but aren’t limited to) broccolini, tempeh bacon and artichoke. First come, first served.

5-7 pm, free

MUSIC

A NIGHT WITH ERIC HENDERSON

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Andres Segovia's former student performs classical arrangements on guitar.

7:30 pm, $35-$80

Best way to start

day!

BOB MAUS

Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455

Blues and soul.  6-9 pm, free

EL SHOW WITH NOSOTROS

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Norteño fave Nosotros joins Nohe & Sus Santos. 8 pm, $15

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHANCEL CHOIR

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544

Soloists Travis Bregier, Nancy Maret and Tim Willson perform Faure's Requiem.  5:30 pm, free

HALF PINT AND THE GROWLERS

Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Twang and Latin swing. 6 pm, free

WMORNING RD!

LADIES NIGHT FEAT. B.A.B.E.S COLLECTIVE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

The local DJ collective is joined by Siren Lux, Dirty Diamond, Lady Lascivious and more.  9 pm, $20

RESONANT ROGUES

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Dark Appalachian folk. 8 pm, free

RUSS SCANLON CELEBRATES

THE MUSIC OF JIM HALL

Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

The Austin guitarist and friends perform in honor of the late jazz guitar maestro.  6 pm, $25-$30

STRANGERS FROM AFAR

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Psychedelic folk rock.  5 pm, free

TROY BROWNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Dextrous Americana.  4-6 pm, free

THEATER

KING HENRY IV, PART I

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, 4663533

Local youngsters (ages 10-18) present Prince Hal’s antics.   6:30 pm, $20

NEW PLAY READING SERIES

Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

Staged readings of eight plays from local playwrights, centered on the theme of water. Bring $1 bills if you want to vote for audience favorites.  7:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP

MEDITATION 101

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road (505) 490-6152

Techniques including analytical meditation and visualization—a specialty of Tibetan Buddhism. 7-8:30 pm, free

SAT/28

ART OPENINGS

CONFLUENCE: BEN DALLAS AND JONATHAN PARKER (OPENING)

Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St. (505) 372-7681

Parker and Dallas present angular, abstract 2D pieces.  2-4 pm, free

EVENTS

FOOD

SOUPER BOWL XXVII

Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590

The popular soup competition/ fundraiser returns from its twoyear hiatus. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

Noon-2:30 pm, $25-$100

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Brent Jung brings you seafood fresh off the plane.  7-9 pm, free

MUSIC

A

NIGHT WITH ERIC HENDERSON

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

BILINGUAL

BOOKS AND BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Bilingual jams teach tots new language sounds. 10-10:30 am, free

COMEDY NIGHT

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Stand-up hosted by Tripp Stelnicki.  8:30 pm, $10

EL MUSEO CULTURAL

MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

An eclectic collection of art and antiques.  8 am-4 pm, free

FAIRY HAIR FUN!

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Fly on over for shimmery, non-toxic hair extensions. 11 am-1 pm, free

MEET CORNELIUS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

SF’s most famous cornsnake comes out to meet the fans.

1-2 pm, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

The Reptile and Bug Museum pays a visit.  2-4 pm, free

FILM

7 SHORT FILMS BY ARMANDO HERNANDEZ

Teatro Paraguas

3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601

Collected shorts from the locally-based Chihuahuan filmmaker. Viewer discretion advised. (See SFR Picks, page 19)

7:30 pm, tickets by donation

Andres Segovia's former student plucks the guitar.  7:30 pm, $35-$80

BOB MAUS Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 988-5531

Blues and soul covers ranging from Marvin Gaye to Carole King.  6-9 pm, free

CANDY BOMBER

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Father-son blues guitar duo.  1-3 pm, free

CHANGO Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474 Classic rock covers. 9 pm-1 am, free

CHATTER (IN)SITE: ALVIN SINGLETON PREMIERE + MORE

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

New Alvin Singleton compositions and more. Plus a reading by poet Christopher J. Johnson and free coffee provided by Ohori's.

10:30 am, $5-$20

MADRID PROM: THROUGH THE DECADES

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Break out the puffy-sleeved dresses and pastel suits: DJ 808 is taking you back in time.  7 pm, free

ROBERT FOX TRIO

Club Legato 125 E Palace Ave. (505) 988-9232

Hot jazz for frigid New Mexico nights.  6-9 pm, free

RON ROUGEAU

Pink Adobe 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712

Acoustic tunes from the '60s and '70s.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

TAOS CHAMBER MUSIC GROUP PRESENTS HUB NEW MUSIC

Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826

The grammy-nominated quartet plays a world premiere by 17-year-old Sage Shurman.  5:30 pm, $12-$30

TRINITY SOUL

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Classic rock.  2 pm, free

WILL SHEFF/OKKERVIL RIVER Meow Wolf

1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

The indie rock icon tours under his own name for the first time.

8 pm, $20-$22

WINTER ORCHESTRA

CONCERT

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Works by Manuel de Falla, Mozart and more.

7 pm, $22-$92

THEATER

KING HENRY IV, PART I: GALA NIGHT

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

This special gala performance includes refreshments and a talk-back with the young performers from Upstart Crows.  5:45 pm, $50

NEW PLAY READING SERIES

Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

Staged readings of local plays addressing the theme of water.  7:30 pm, free

ZIRCUS EROTIQUE PRESENTS

FIRE & ICE

The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place (505) 557-6182

Burlesque, drag, bellydance and more. For 21+ eyes only.

7:30 pm, $25-$30

WORKSHOP

RECORDING AT HOME FOR MUSICIANS

The Candyman Strings & Things 851 St Michael’s Drive (505) 983-5906

Jose Antonio Ponce and Kito Peters share tips on capturing high quality recordings at home.  2-3 pm, free

SUN/29

ART OPENINGS

LA CARTONERÍA MEXICANA/ THE MEXICAN ART OF PAPER AND PASTE (OPENING)

Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

MOIFA celebrates its new exhibition with performances from Nacha Mendez and more.

1:30-4 pm, free

RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726

Buy directly from local artisans and crafters.

10 am-3 pm, free

EVENTS

EL MUSEO CULTURAL MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

An eclectic collection of art and antiques. 10 am-4 pm, free

OPEN MIC

Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Local talent and hard kombucha. What more do you need? 6 pm, free

OPEN MIC JAZZ

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Bring your Billie Holiday or Chet Baker dreams to life for an audience of fellow jazz lovers. 5-7 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist Montgomery performs in the President's Room. 6-9 pm, free

LIVE

THEATER

KING HENRY IV, PART I

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

What’ll become of Prince Hal? Will Falstaff ever get sober? Find out on this episode of the Henriad, presented by Upstart Crows.  6:30 pm, $20

NEW PLAY READING SERIES: ENCORES

Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262

An encore performance for the local plays that received the most audience votes over the past two days of readings.

2 pm, free

WORKSHOP

GET A MAKE SANTA FE LASER CUTTER BADGE

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn how to personalize anything by etching and cutting: wood, ceramic, paper, glass— you name it, they can show you how to mark it.

10 am-2 pm, $90

MON/30

BOOKS/LECTURES

EVOLUTION OF MEXICAN CARTELS

TUE/31

BOOKS/LECTURES

SENSORY STORYTIME

Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Ideal for kids with autism and sensory processing disorders.  3:15 pm, free

THE HISTORIC SANTA FE FOUNDATION: A PRESERVATION FUTURE

Renesan Institute St. John’s United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

A discussion about preserving history through architecture.  10 am-12 pm, $20

EVENTS

AFTER SCHOOL ART

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Creative sessions for the kiddos.  3:30-4:30 pm, free

MUSEUMS

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM

217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000

Making a Life. Radical Abstraction. Spotlight on Spring.

JULESWORK FOLLIES: END OF MONTHLY #24 Online

bit.ly/3PDWARW

A virtual Vaudeville variety show, celebrating surviving another month. (Hey, we could all use the encouragement, right?) 5 pm, free

SENSORY SENSITIVE DAY Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369 Experience the multiverse you already know and (probably) love—but with less sound and lower lights.  12 pm, $20-$35

MUSIC

ALISA WEILERSTEIN, CELLO

St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

The MacArthur Fellow and passionate interpreter of Bach’s solo cello repertoire makes her Santa Fe debut.  7:30 pm, $45-$95

SILVER SKY BLUES BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Blues—in case the name didn’t tip you off.  4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

DEVELOPING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF GIRLS AND YOUTH IN OUR WORLD

Renesan Institute

St. John’s United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-9274

Kim Brown and Madonna Hernandez of Girls Inc. explore how to support modern girls as they navigate growing up. 1-3 pm, $20

MODERN BUDDHISM: MEDITATION CLASS

Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail

Guided meditations can dissolve stress, anxiety, anger and disappointment while increasing your potential for compassion and wisdom. 6 pm, $10

ACCORDION MUSIC

Native Wings Coffee House 7 Avenida Vista Grande, B8 Eldorado (505) 577-1693

Covering all the usual accordion-adjacent suspects, from Edith Piaf to Aster Piazolla. 1 pm, free

NORTH VALLEY TUNE

TANGLERS

Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Old-fashioned country and Americana, with sources ranging from Appalachia to New Mexico. 2 pm, free

SUGAR MOUNTAIN

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Paying tribute to Neil Young.  12-3 pm, free

TAOS CHAMBER MUSIC

GROUP PRESENTS HUB NEW MUSIC

Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826

The grammy-nominated quartet performs James Diaz, Dai Wei, Efrain Amaya and more.  5:30 pm, $12-$30

WINTER ORCHESTRA

CONCERT

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

Manuel de Falla, Mozart and more, plus a new composition by Aaron Jay Kernis. 3 pm, $22-$92

Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail Mike Vigil (formerly the chief of international relations for the DEA) presents on the history of organized drug trafficking in Mexico.

6 pm, $20-$75

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

A legend of the early Austin music scene, known for his work alongside the likes of Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris. 4-6 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Hear the pianist who performed for everyone from Oscar de la Renta to Bob Hope.

6-9 pm, free

WORKSHOP

ELEMENTS OF SACRED SPACE: ACTING FOR FILM WITH EB LOTTIMER

Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 310-0871

Bring your vulnerability—and an SD card to record your work on camera. $40 per class or $220 for the six-week block.

6:30-9:30 pm, $40-$220

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 (under 18 free)

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers. The Stories we Carry. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Grounded in Clay: the Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. Here, Now and Always. Painted Reflections. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Fashioning Identities. La Cartonería Mexicana. Multiple Visions. Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200

Honoring Tradition and Innovation. The First World War. The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. The Palace Seen and Unseen. Setting the Standard. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART

750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226

Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: the Director’s Residence. Trails, Rails, and Highways.

1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063

Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Western Eyes: 20th Century Art Here and Now.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12

POEH CULTURAL CENTER

78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041

Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path. 9 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIA3N

704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636

Medicinal Healer, an Artist to Remember. The Mary Morez Style. Peoples, Places, and Perspectives. Rooted: Samples of Southwest Baskets. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

From the exhibition La Cartonería Mexicana / The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste at the Museum of International Folk Art.

ADDISON DOTY

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Having vowed to dine on the Southside more often, I put the plan into action post-film screening alongside a reluctant buddy who almost had me convinced that, given the cold and snow, the drive was just a little too far. Once I’d vanquished his nay-saying nonsense, though, we found a new favorite restaurant well worth any drive, not to mention a worthy addition in Santa Fe’s weirdly myriad options for seafood.

I speak of Puerto Peñasco, that Airport Road mecca for fish and such founded 15 years ago by one Ruben Rodriguez and named for an unforgettable family vacation. In the before times, when we’d all gather freely to sit right next to other humans, SFR even hosted a Secret Supper event at Rodriguez’s spot; in the now times, it remains an affordable destination with a staggering menu of delights. We took our time in scanning the options and wished we’d invited more diners to tag along—this one has so many choices and chances to share, it’s a real pity we couldn’t order more. No matter, though, because I know I’ll return again. After all, who doesn’t love a restaurant that includes fries with pretty much everything?

Right off the bat, Puerto Peñasco’s decor is so much nicer than its exterior implies. No, I don’t believe restaurants must inhab it standalone buildings built ages ago, nor do I believe every place I ever eat requires minimalist white walls and the staid air of a mausoleum. Even in the midst of last weekend’s frigid temps, we found a warm and bright space enlivened by numerous tables full of other patrons also braving the stubborn ice and snow that just won’t melt. The walls are a pleasing blue with various art pieces hung at intervals; the staff greeted us quickly and kindly—no wait, it turned out, and a comfortable booth to boot.

Scanning the menu proved the most difficult task of the experience, as Rodriguez’s nearly countless Mexican dishes pretty much all sound enticing. An array of soups, for example ($10.45-$14.95), promised to warm our cores, and the massive list of appetizers looked to be meals unto themselves, from a tostada with shrimp, fish or octopus ($5.25) to the shareable plate of fish chicharrones ($11.95). Puerto Peñasco offers up free chips with salsa and a delicious avocado/sour cream sauce, though, and filling up on food before the main course seemed unwise. As I say, next time we’ll go in smarter with more mouths and more wallets; next time, we dine like kings!

We did make the tough decision, though, in selecting our entrees: tilapia fish tacos ($12.95) for me, the filete crema chipotle for my companion ($13.95). My own dish was an explosion of colors served across four tacos (most places only give you three!), fluffy rice with corn and the aforementioned fries. Before I ever took a bite, I was already in love. Digging in, however, proved that some things are even better than you imagine. The fish in each taco was crisp on the outside while tender yet firm on the inside, and the included lettuce, tomato and avocado slice came to-

gether to produce the most enjoyable combination of textures. Tossing a couple fries into the mix happily added more salt and fat between bites, plus a little bit of crunch.

I chose to share a taco, but I secretly resented my companion for it. Still, the sacrifice was worth the trade-off to sample his entree—whitefish smothered in a chipotle salsa cream sauce with similar side accoutrements to my own plate. Again, Puerto Peñasco’s kitchen clearly understands how best to cook fish, an especially challenging task given the potentially overpowering flavor of its chipotle sauce. The plate hit the mark, though, and the flavor and spice of the sauce never interfered with the flavor or mouthfeel of the fish. If anything, the richness of flavor recalled a more edgy Alfredo sauce, though with obvious Mexican cooking influence. I’m not sure I’ve seen this dish on another menu in Santa Fe, or anywhere, and one wonders if Rodriguez would share the recipe.

Puerto Peñasco serves up drinks, too, of course, and my companion’s michelada was reportedly the stuff of legend. Negro Modelo

beer can taste just right at times; ditto the massive chilled goblet in which it came replete with a salted rim and just the right amount of hot sauce. I’ve always been vexed by micheladas, if I’m being real, but had I not been driving, I’d likely have had one or two myself. As it stands, we were so full by the time we completed our entrees that we couldn’t sample dessert. I’m coming back for you, though, flan (said in Carly Rae Jepsen voice)! Honestly, if I’d just listened to the people I know who swear by Puerto Peñasco, this whole dining more often on the Southside thing would’ve been a breeze. It’ll be hard to top, but I’ll just have to suck it up and try.

Filete crema chipotle (left) and tilapia tacos at Puerto Peñasco. It’s pretty much all we can think about anymore. There’s debris in our hair, we haven’t slept—we want more tacos.

Natachee Momaday Gray’s poetry chapbook debuts in February

BY ANNABELLA FARMER @boeinbrief

Natachee Momaday Gray’s upcoming book of poetry, Silver Box (Finishing Line Press, 2023), is a kaleidoscopic tour through time and place.

The Kiowa Apache poet and artist has seen her work published piecemeal before in publications like the Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art, (RE) An Ideas Journal; she has appeared at local venues including Teatro Paraguas and Collected Works Bookstore; she has read on the Richard Eeds radio show and participated as a SOMOS reader through Taos’ Harwood Museum of Art—a literary program that offers salons for like-minded word fans. Silver Box, however, is her first officially published collection.

And it’s a doozy. Momaday Gray’s poems bring reverent, sensual specificity to the mundane moments of life, melding mythic patterns with everyday rituals like cooking, eating and tending the home. They also serve as mementos of significant events in the writer’s life, and are held in the vessel that is Silver Box

The title, she says, comes from an actual, tiny sterling box a friend brought her from Afghanistan.

“It became such an important relic to me,” Momaday Gray tells SFR. “I would put little remnants in there, like a rose petal, or holy dirt. The significance of Silver Box is that all of these poems, all of this experience, all of my life, fits into this little relic box that is so important to me.”

The chapbook thus becomes an impressionistic collection and gathering of Momaday Gray’s experiences—the culmination of a manuscript that had been in the works for over 10 years before it was finally accepted by Kentucky’s Finishing Line Press.

“I’ve always written for myself, primarily,” she says, “so it came out sort of like journaling—writing little entries just to get it on paper. After a while it became a part of my life that I always carried around and added to.”

Silver Box was thus an evolving work, and its current form ended someplace very different from the initial manuscript. Still, it stays true to Momaday Gray’s vision, and Finishing Line Press accepted it as-is.

“I think they really understood and aligned with my work and how I envisioned it,” she explains.

Even so, the book had been rejected many times before its ultimate publication. Momaday Gray sees those delays as necessary for the book to reach its best possible completion. The final poem, for example, dubbed “Muerte,” honors her hus band’s younger brother who died in 2019.

“That was such a sig nificant happening,” she says, “and I knew that that needed to be in the book and I needed to honor him.”

Much of her work is influenced by her fam ily and its deep roots in New Mexico. Her grandfather is Pulitzer Prize-winning author

N. Scott Momaday, and her parents are abstract expressionist artist and musician Darren Vigil Gray and actress, writer and filmmaker Jill Momaday.

“There’s so much spirit here, and since my family has been here for so long, I just feel like this is where I belong,” she says. “So it does influence my writing, maybe more than anything. There’s a lot of that sentiment in my book, too—the call home, and this reverence for a place you have such a deep connection to.” Silver even came to be is a minor miracle. Momaday Gray says she never set out to become a poet, but her family’s history in the arts led her down the path. Her book even begins with an epigraph from her grandfather, whom, she says, has been a wellspring of inspiration when it comes to her own creative practice.

“He’s known primarily for his fiction and for his memoir, but he’s a beautiful, brilliant poet as well,” she notes. “[In the epigraph], he speaks about the Earth in a way that really brings tears to my eyes. That quote in particular just really shook me—we’re at such a pinnacle point right now in so much uncertainty and so much fear, and I think that my grandpa really makes sense of what we’re all feeling in the collective unconscious—weeping for our earth and needing to heal.”

Momaday Gray’s own poetic practice is as much a performance art as it is a static text. The way she arranges and presents words on the page are informed, she says, by how she imagines herself reading them aloud—and she loves giving readings that incorporate multimedia elements like accompanying songs, videos and other visuals.

“To me, that’s part of the poetry itself,” she says.

To that end, Momaday Gray’s husband, musician Kyle Thomas Perkins, now accompanies her at select readings, including at the official launch at Collected Works on April 7.

“We’ve created this dual experience,” the writer says. “He puts music to my words, and he’s totally able to put more dimension to my words.”

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BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Celebrated fast-talking actor Jesse Eisenberg enters a new career era with When You Finish Saving the World, an adaptation of his 2020 audio drama for Audible wherein disparate generational perspectives inform challenges across a wide spectrum of life’s hurdles.

Eisenberg penned and directed the film version of his story, trading out his own vocal performance from the Audible release—and that of Booksmart actress Kaitlyn Dever—for a more grounded take on the mother/son quagmire. Julianne Moore plays the humorless mother Evelyn; Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard tackles son Ziggy, a powder keg of growing pains, online validation and run-ofthe-mill teen bullshit.

In World, Wolfhard’s Ziggy finds support and acknowledgement when livestreaming folk-rock songs to a listener base of 20,000—a number he casually drops into conversation far too often. Aurally, the songs sound like old Beck—super-early, One Foot in the Grave Beck. Lyrically, they’re a painfully spot-on glimpse at teenage emotions that strike a believable balance between silly little nothings and moments of genuine insight and talent.

Ziggy’s parents just don’t understand, though, and while his explosive reactions to his mother and father (Jay O. Sanders) seem over the top, Eisenberg’s script shows deft understanding of just how hard we feel when we’re young.

Moore’s Evelyn is the founder of an abused women’s shelter, and though she freely shows support for her patients, she struggles to connect with her own son. Here, World is at its best with a character steeped in relatable flaws who thinks she’s helping but kind of just goes on hurting. Moore expertly phases from work mom to home mom, and we might hate her for the glib manner in which she questions Ziggy’s motivations if we didn’t remember how tired we can be at the end of the day—or just how tough teens can be. Wolfhard mostly keeps up with her, too, and proves to be a capable performer. It is doubtful, however, this will be remembered as his best work.

When Evelyn forms a bond with a new patient’s son, things get tricky. Seeing in him the things she most wants in a son, her misguided jabs at a motherhood redo become ever more frantic. Ziggy, meanwhile, tries to infiltrate a friend group of woke-lite kids at his school, all the while misunderstanding why his passions don’t carry weight similar to his classmate’s pseudo-politicking. Ultimately, though, his earnestness saves him. Moore’s Evelyn comes to understand this, just as Ziggy comes to understand how his mother’s efforts, though not flashy, are wildly impressive. Gee, it’s almost like everyone has their own story or something.

WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD

+ KILLER WRITING

- PACKED WITH NEEDLESS SCENES THAT DO VERY LITTLE FOR PLOT

Korean writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda comes out swinging with Broker, a sort of examination of economics, given vs. chosen family and the choices we make while backed into a corner. And though Koreeda’s tale lacks the sharp sting of films like Parasite, it does wend its way through the beauty of South Korea, landing upon a moral that’s something like: You can’t always get what you want, but you might find you get what you need; if you’re open to it.

We mainly follow Sang-hyeon (now-legendary Parasite star Song Kang-Ho) and Dong-soo (Dongwon Gang), a pair of lower-class worker types who, through Dong-soo’s job at a church orphanage, sometimes sell the babies surrendered at the doorstep. When one such baby’s mother returns to claim her child, however, their plan seems doomed—right up until it turns out she’s on board with selling the kid so long as she gets a cut. That mother (a magnetic Ji-eun Lee) seemingly cares very little for the child, but once the trio picks up a stowaway orphan (Seung-soo Im), lessons on relationships abound, leading each of the ragtag family members to examine their choices, their agency and their place in society. With a pair of cops hot on their tail and no shortage of would-be parents clamoring for the

infant, our heroes travel the breadth of their country deprogramming from their traumas both shared and not. Bonds form and tensions ease. You’d almost root for them if it weren’t for the whole selling babies thing.

Kang-ho has certainly proven a powerful performer in recent years, and one with an endless reservoir of charm. Here he gets the opportunity to stretch out across a stirring variety of motivations and emotional storytelling moments. We go so quickly from distrust to devout respect that it hardly seems possible. He particularly shines in scenes with the young Im. Gang’s performance is life-affirming, too, and sometimes a harsh reminder that ambivalence doesn’t look good on anyone. Lee might be the true standout, though, particularly in her ability to convey so much while saying so little. The baby is just plain cute.

Cut to no shortage of environmental storytelling, gorgeous coastal backgrounds and cities swelling with too many people; find a different kind of love story. The most shocking surprises, though, hit slowly and unfold across the film, be it the cop who secretly loves very deeply or the young son of a neighborhood merchant who went down the dark path. Broker is like a masterclass in character development, and though slow, feels more than worth it once its bittersweet conclusion rolls around.(ADV)

Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 129 min.

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

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+ GORGEOUS VISUALS; 3D ACTUALLY COOL - REPETITIVE AND PAINFULLY LONG; RECYCLED EVERYTHING

Director James Cameron has been plenty clear about his newest Avatar film being incredibly expensive, but he kind of failed to mention it’s basically a narrative clone of his 2009 original. Oh, sure, it’s jaw-droppingly gorgeous and a technical marvel and all that, but he recycles plot, characters and story beats in a way that feels more exhausting than satisfying—and viewers can easily predict what’s up next because it’s painfully obvious. This is tech over story all the way. And you know what? That’s fine.

In The Way of Water, we catch up with Jake (Sam Worthington, who we forgot was a person until just now) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), a pair of Na’vi— people native to the planet Pandora. Last time out, the pair Fern Gully’d their way to victory over an evil mining corporation that was sucking the planet dry, and our heroes now live peacefully amongst the trees with kids the’ve sired and some sort of teenage Na’vi replica of Sigourney Weaver’s character from the first movie, whom they adopt. Life’s good in the forest until the bad guy military jerks from the first movie all get cloned as Na’vi (complete with their memories, the movie explains in a two-second science dump) and set out at the behest of Earth general Ardmore (Edie Falco) to do...whatever. Thing is, though, the squad’s

leader, Colonel Quatrich, (the big bad from the first movie; Stephen Lang) turns it more into a personal vendetta. Violence ensues.

So Jake and the fam flee to the coast, where a neighboring tribe who have evolved flipper-like extremities and the ability to hold their breath for a super-long time take them in and teach them the way of water. At best, The Way of Water is a reductive take on Indigenous ideologies; at worst, it’s pretty racist. Either way, Jake and Neytiri’s kids are all about it, especially the younger brother, Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), who befriends a space whale and really embraces the sea and stuff. Wouldn’t you know it, though, Quatrich and his goons take up with some space poachers, and they do evil poacher stuff to flush Jake and the family out. Worthington, weirdly, does pretty OK as a father struggling with his family’s safety and his own desire for doing what’s right. Saldaña, though, is underused. The kids are the focus here, even if Weaver’s take on teenager is mostly about talking like a goofball and magically controlling sea beasts with no real explanation. The rest goes down just like you think. Still, the water effects are stunning and even those who don’t like 3D might wanna check it out. Just don’t expect a good movie so much as a pretty one. Know there’s no ultimate resolution, though, and given the 13 years it took to get a second film, who knows when the third will arrive? The blockbuster film is dying, friends, and that’s OK. (ADV)

Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 192 min.

AND CHARACTERS

Directed by Eisenberg With Moore and Wolfhard Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 88 min.

PSYCHICS

Rob Brezsny Week of January 25th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Noah Webster ((1758–1843) worked for years to create the first definitive American dictionary. It became a cornucopia of revelation for poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). She said that for many years it was her “only companion.” One biographer wrote, “The dictionary was no mere reference book to her; she read it as a priest his breviary—over and over, page by page, with utter absorption.” Now would be a favorable time for you to get intimate with a comparable mother lode, Aries. I would love to see you find or identify a resource that will continually inspire you for the rest of 2023.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.” So declared Taurus philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his book Philosophical Investigations. Luckily for you Tauruses, you have a natural knack for making sure that important things don’t get buried or neglected, no matter how simple and familiar they are. And you’ll be exceptionally skilled at this superpower during the next four weeks. I hope you will be gracious as you wield it to enhance the lives of everyone you care about. All of us non-Bulls will benefit from the nudges you offer as we make our course corrections.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet Carolyn Kizer said the main subject of her work was this: “You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing.” I agree with her. The people we encounter and the influences they exert make it hard to stay fixed in our attitudes and behavior. And the people we know well have even more profound transformative effects. I encourage you to celebrate this truth in the coming weeks. Thrive on it. Be extra hungry for and appreciative of all the prods you get to transcend who you used to be and become who you need to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you have any interest in temporarily impersonating a Scorpio, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around. Encounters with good, spooky magic will be available. More easily than usual, you could enjoy altered states that tickle your soul with provocative insights. Are you curious about the mysteries of intense, almost obsessive passion? Have you wondered if there might be ways to deal creatively and constructively with your personal darkness? All these perks could be yours—and more. Here’s another exotic pleasure you may want to explore: that halfforbidden zone where dazzling heights overlap with the churning depths. You are hereby invited to tap into the erotic pleasures of spiritual experiments and the spiritual pleasures of erotic experiments.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The circle can and will be complete—if you’re willing to let it find its own way of completing itself. But I’m a bit worried that an outdated part of you may cling to the hope of a perfection that’s neither desirable nor possible. To that outdated part of you, I say this: Trust that the Future You will thrive on the seeming imperfections that arise. Trust that the imperfections will be like the lead that the Future You will alchemically transmute into gold. The completed circle can’t be and shouldn’t be immaculate and flawless.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shakespeare’s work has been translated from his native English into many languages. But the books of Virgo detective novelist Agatha Christie have been translated far more than the Bard’s. (More info: tinyurl.com/ChristieTranslations.) Let’s make Christie your inspirational role model for the next four weeks. In my astrological estimation, you will have an extraordinary capacity to communicate with a wide variety of people. Your ability to serve as a mediator and go-between and translator will be at a peak. Use your superpower wisely and with glee!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran musician Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was a prolific and influential genius who created and played music with deep feeling. He was also

physically attractive and charismatic. When he performed, some people in the audience swooned and sighed loudly as they threw their clothes and jewelry on stage. But there was another side of Liszt. He was a generous and attentive teacher for hundreds of piano students, and always offered his lessons free of charge. He also served as a mentor and benefactor for many renowned composers, including Wagner, Chopin, and Berlioz. I propose we make Liszt your inspirational role model for the next 11 months. May he rouse you to express yourself with flair and excellence, even as you shower your blessings on worthy recipients.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This may risk being controversial, but in the coming weeks, I’m giving you cosmic authorization to engage in what might appear to be cultural appropriation. Blame it on the planets! They are telling me that to expand your mind and heart in just the right ways, you should seek inspiration and teaching from an array of cultures and traditions. So I encourage you to listen to West African music and read Chinese poetry in translation and gaze at the art of Indigenous Australians. Sing Kabbalistic songs and say Lakota prayers and intone Buddhist chants. These are just suggestions. I will leave it to your imagination as you absorb a host of fascinating influences that amaze and delight and educate you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare wrote, “and all the men and women merely players.” That’s always true, but it will be even more intensely accurate for you in the coming weeks. High-level pretending and performing will be happening. The plot twists may revolve around clandestine machinations and secret agendas. It will be vital for you to listen for what people are NOT saying as well as the hidden and symbolic meanings behind what they are saying. But beyond all those cautionary reminders, I predict the stories you witness and are part of will often be interesting and fun.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In this horoscope, I offer you wisdom from Capricorn storyteller Michael Meade. It’s a rousing meditation for you in the coming months. Here’s Meade: “The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars; it wants to burn and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius.” For your homework, Capricorn, write a page of ideas about what your genius consists of. Throughout 2023, I believe you will express your unique talents and blessings and gifts more than you ever have before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) was nominated nine times for the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature, but never won. He almost broke through in the last year of his life, but French author Albert Camus beat him by one vote. Camus said Kazantzakis was “a hundred times more” deserving of the award than himself. I will make a wild prediction about you in the coming months, Aquarius. If there has been anything about your destiny that resembles Kazantzakis’s, chances are good that it will finally shift. Are you ready to embrace the gratification and responsibility of prime appreciation?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean educator Parker Palmer has a crucial message for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. Read it tenderly, please. Make it your homing signal. He said, “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one’s self. It is not about the absence of other people—it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others. Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.”

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on January 31, 2023, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. the undersigned Special Master will, at the main entrance of the Judge Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named defendants in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder in cash or certified funds. The property to be sold is located at 6B Calle Martinez, Santa Cruz, New Mexico 87567, and is more particularly described as follows: Parcel B, as shown on plat entitled “Lot Line Adjustment Survey for Ana Martinez and Lillian Martinez, Lying and Being situate within Santa Cruz Grant, in (Projected) Section 4, Township 20 North, Range 9 East, Vicinity of La Puebla …”, filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Santa Fe County, New Mexico on November 14, 2003, in Plat Book 547 at Page 001, Document No. 1301148 (the Property), which is more commonly described as 6B Calle Martinez, Santa Cruz, NM 87567. (hereinafter the “Property”). If there is any discrepancy between the property address or location and the legal description, the legal description shall control. The property will be sold subject to the right of redemption (if any); easements, reservations and restrictions of record; taxes and governmental assessments including unpaid utility bills; any liens or encumbrances not foreclosed in this proceeding; the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property; affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land; deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property; environmental contamination, if any; any homeowners’ association or condominium dues, assessments, declarations, rules, requirements and restrictions; any requirements imposed by city or county ordinance or by state law affecting the property; and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. No representation is made as to the validity of the rights of ingress and egress. Transfer of title to the highest bidder shall be without warranty or representation of any kind.

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Gene C. Fulgenzi and Cynthia A. Romero, Petitioner(s) No. D-101-DM-2022-00584

IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF E.L.L.R., (a) Child, and concerning Jennifer Griego, Respondent.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO Jennifer Griego, Respondent.

Greetings: You are hereby notified that Gene C. Fulgenzi and Cynthia A. Romero, Petitioner(s), filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for Ella L. L. Romero, born 2016 against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before 30 days after 3rd publication, a judgment by default will be entered against you.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT VINCENT A DANIALS AND JUDY DANIELS, Petitioner(s) D-101-DM-2022-00603

IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF AUDIANNA ORTEGA, (a) Child, and concerning EZIEKEL ORTEGA, Respondent.

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Greetings:

You are hereby notified that VINCENT A DANIELS and JUDY DANIELS, Petitioner(s), filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for AO and EO against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before 30 days after 3rd publication, a judgment by default will be entered against you.

Vincent A Daniels and Judy Daniels

2548 Camino Cabestro Santa Fe, NM 87505

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT NO. D-101-CV-2022-01943 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE OF LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METZGER

AMENDED NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME

TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq., the Petitioner LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METZGER will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District, at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:00 AM on the 26th day of January, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METZGER to LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METSON. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this hearing shall be by remote access. All hearings are conducted by Google Meet. The court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at https://meet.google. com/hdc-wqjx-wes. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may participate by calling (US) +1 954-507-7909 PIN: 916 854 445#.

District Court Clerk

By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CASE NO: D-101-CV-2022-01942

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SAMANTHA ROSE THOMPSON NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner, Samantha Rose Thompson will apply to the Honorable MARIA SANCHEZGAGNE, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 10:40 am on the 27th day of February, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from SAMANTHA ROSE THOMPSON to SAMANTHA ROSE METSON.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court clerk

By: Kayla Vigil Deputy Court Clerk

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE JUDICIAL DISTRICT ANGELA MARIE ULIBARRI, JOHN

JEFFREY ULIBARRI, PETITIONERS No. D-101-DM-2022-00491

IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF X.V.O., a Child, and concerning MARIO RUDDY ORTEGA and DEVYN NICOLE ORTEGA Respondents.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

STATE OF NEW MEXICO to MARIO RUDDY ORTEGA Respondent.

Greetings: You are hereby notified that Angela Marie Ulibarri, Petitioners, filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for X.V.O. born 2017 against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before 30 days after 3rd publication (dte), a judgment by default will be entered against you.

Name and Address of Petitioner’s Attorney: ANGELA MARIE ULIBARRI JEFFREY ULIBARRI1723 AGUA FRIA ST SANTA FE, NM 87505

SANTA FE-POJOAQUE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT OPEN MEETINGS RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Section 10-15-1 (B) of the Open Meetings Act (Section 10-15-1 through 10-15-4 NMSA 1978) states that, except as may be otherwise provided in the Constitution or the provisions of the Open Meetings Act, all meetings of a quorum of members of any board, commission, other policy making body of any state agency held for the purpose of formulating public policy, discussing public business or for the purpose of taking any action within the authority of such board, commission or other policy making body are declared to be published meetings open to the public at all times; and WHEREAS, any meeting subject to the Open Meetings Act at which the discussion or adoption of any proposed resolution, rule, regulation or formal action occurs shall be held only after reasonable notice to the public, and WHEREAS, Section 10-15-1 (B) of the Open Meetings Act requires the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District to determine annually what constitutes reasonable notice of its public meetings;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District, on this 14th day of December 2022 that:

1. Regular meetings of the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District shall ordinarily be held at 9:00 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the USDA Service Center Conference Room, 4001 Office Court Drive # 1001, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507. If pandemic meeting restrictions prohibit any meeting from taking place in person, the district website https://sites.google. com/site/santafepojoaqueswcd/ will provide virtual meeting information. An annual Schedule and Proposed Agendas for each regular meeting will be available from the District office, 4001

Office Court Drive, Ste 1001, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507, and may be requested by email at sfpswcd@gmail.com; Proposed Agendas will be posted on the district website at least 72 hours in advance. Notice of regular meetings will be given ten (10) days before the meeting to parties who request it in writing.

2. Special meetings of the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Soil and Water Conservation District may be called by the Chairman or a majority of the members upon a three day notice. Parties who have requested notice of meetings in writing will be notified by telephone.

3. Emergency meetings of the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Soil and Water Conservation District are meetings called by the Board of Supervisors under circumstances which demand immediate action. Although the Board of Supervisors would avoid emergency meetings whenever possible, such circumstances may occasionally arise. Emergency meetings may be called by the Chairman or a majority of the members upon 24 hour notice. Parties who have requested a notice of meetings in writing will be notified by telephone.

4. Pursuant to Section 10-151 (E) NMSA 1978, the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District may close a meeting to the public if the subject matter of such discussion or action is included in Subsection E of the Opening Meetings Act, Section 10-15-1 NMSA 1978. If any Board of Supervisors meeting is closed pursuant to Section 10-15-1 (E) NMSA, such closure:

A. If made in an open meeting, shall be provided by a majority vote of a quorum of the Board of Supervisors and authority for the closure shall be stated in the motion calling for the vote on a closed meeting. The vote on a closed meeting shall be taken in an open meeting and the vote of each individual member is to be recorded in the minutes. Only those subjects announced or voted upon prior to closure by the Board of Supervisors may be discussed in a closed meeting; and

B. If called for when the Board of Supervisors is not in an open meeting, the closed meeting shall not be held until public notice, appropriate under the circumstances, stating the specific provision of law authorizing the closed meeting is given to the members and to the general public.

5. Individuals with a disability who are in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting should contact Shelley Winship, District Administrator, at 505-310-2029. Public documents, including the agenda and minutes, can be acquired in various accessible formats from Shelley Winship, District Administrator, at 505-310-2029.

Alfredo Roybal, Chairman, Board of Supervisors

SANTA FE-POJOAQUE SWCD Date: 12/14/2022