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Diné artist Everton Tsosie won the prestigious SWAIA 2020 Virtual Indian Market 2D Award for his painting “Last of the Pure.” From his studio, Tsosie shares how this raw, expressionist painting is about the Navajo Nation’s struggle for clean water.

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Santa Fe Food Historian and Chef, Lois Ellen Frank

Santa Fe Food Historian and Chef, Lois Ellen Frank with Walter Whitewater prepare delicious meals made with the Magic Eight ingredients - all originating in the Americas. Recipes at our @nmpbs Facebook page.
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Today on ¡COLORES!
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#taste #foodie #nutrition #nativeamerican #cuisine #delicious #history #place

Susano Madril survived the Bataan Death March duri

Susano Madril survived the Bataan Death March during WWII and came back home to New Mexico. His niece Elaine Prickett shares stories she has learned about his experience on ¡COLORES! Saturday, April 4th.
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With @thehumanbeastbox @nmpbs
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#bataandeathmarch #newmexico #veteran #history #prisonerofwar #neverforget

Living a family tradition going back hundreds of y

Living a family tradition going back hundreds of years, Robert Patricio takes the art of Acoma pottery forward.
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¡COLORES! Sat, March 21st
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📷 @chunkfu
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#acomapottery #acoma #newmexico #robertpatrico #nativeamerican #pottery #clay #waterislife #rain #tradition #spirit #nmpbscolores #kinggalleries

In the Wild West of New Mexico Territory, the myth

In the Wild West of New Mexico Territory, the myth of Billy the Kid obscures who he really was.
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Historian Paul Hutton shares insight into the life and times of the Lincoln County Wars and “The Kids” involvement and fame.
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¡COLORES! today March 14th 4pm on @nmpbs
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#history #lincolncounty #newmexico #wildwest #backintheday #riders #news #interview #reallife

In September 1903, thirteen black men led by Isaac

In September 1903, thirteen black men led by Isaac W Jones and Francis M. Boyer signed the Articles of Incorporation to establish the Blackdom Townsite Company to build the town of Blackdom, New Mexico. Based on the research of Dr. Maisha Baton “Blackdom” is a story of the dream to create the first all-black settlement in New Mexico Territory.
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¡COLORES! Feb 29th at 4p
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#classiccolores #blackdom #newmexico #blackhistorymonth #dream #spirit #soveriegnty #wildwest #nmpbscolores #pbs #history

In 1969, the @abqmuseum commissioned Walter McDona

In 1969, the @abqmuseum commissioned Walter McDonald to do a sweeping portrait of a city in transition.
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Walter McDonald shares stories from his photographic experience on ¡COLORES! Sat the 22nd of February at 4p.
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#albuquerque #1969 #urbanrenewal #newmexico #retro #classic #throwback #nmpbscolores #albuquerquemuseum #blastfromthepast

Dr. Timothy E. Nelson shares insight into African

Dr. Timothy E. Nelson shares insight into African American history and how Blackdom, New Mexico was connected to the larger intellectual movements of the time.
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On ¡COLORES! Today, Feb 15 at 4p.
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#afrofrontierists #history #newmexico #blackdom #philosophy #harlemrenaissance #newnegromovement #nmpbscolores

Passionate about the significance of the Afro-Fron

Passionate about the significance of the Afro-Frontier in American history, Dr. Timothy E. Nelson uncovers the forgotten history of New Mexico’s Blackdom.
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With @blackdom_clothingco and @gwynethdoland
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On ¡COLORES! Saturday!
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#newmexico #frontier #blackhistorymonth #blackdomthesis #blackdom #homestead #life #spirit #culture #harlemrenaissance #newnegromovement

“Culture is the mother of art.” ~Gwen Triay Sa

“Culture is the mother of art.” ~Gwen Triay Samuels
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On ¡COLORES! Saturday, February 8th, 4p
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#quilting #afrikandiaspora #culture #art #fiberart #spirit #newmexico #nmpbscolores

Saturday the 1st of February on ¡COLORES! a movin

Saturday the 1st of February on ¡COLORES! a moving performance of “Amazing Grace” with pianist John Rangel, Cathryn McGill shares how the inspirational song helps overcome unconscious bias.
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With @cathrynmcgill and @megankamerick
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#blackhistorymonth #amazinggrace #song #singing #spirit #art #newmexico #albuquerque #nmpbscolores #pbs

Searching for a wild place, New Mexico photographe

Searching for a wild place, New Mexico photographer Michael Berman found the understated Sierra San Luis Mountains along the Mexico border.
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Saturday, Jan 11th on ¡COLORES!
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#blackandwhitephotography #wilderness #seeingthingsdifferently #notice #life #photography #michaelberman #newmexico #coloresnmpbs

Las Maravillas de Navidad is a Christmas tour of s

Las Maravillas de Navidad is a Christmas tour of some of Northern New Mexico’s beautiful and ancient adobe churches and chapels. Maintained with a deep devotion, they hold stories of great love and even miracles.
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Saturday, Dec 21st on ¡COLORES! At 4pm.
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#church #adobe #tradition #heart #spirit #christmas #winter #solstice #ritual #newmexico #santafe #taos #highroadtotaos #nmpbscolores #pbs

This is father and daughter duo Ray and Angela Pé

This is father and daughter duo Ray and Angela Pérez. They are sharing Las Posadas with us on ¡COLORES! Ray is the choir director at San José Parish and they bring a dash of history, a handful of community and a lot of spirit to the holidays. They even let us record their wonderful renditions of this ages old tradition. The story will be on ¡COLORES! Saturday the 14th at 4pm.
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#lasposadas #sanjose #christmas #refuge #spirit #community #lights #music #tradition #guitar #violin #songs #nmpbscolores #colores #pbs #art

Mabel Dodge Luhan is celebrated for her role in bu

Mabel Dodge Luhan is celebrated for her role in building artistic community in Taos, New Mexico, for supporting artists and generating interest in modern art forms. She also had a life-long struggle with Bipolar Depression (then called manic depression). Through her memoirs she discovered who she was through her writing and wanted to share her struggle to help others understand what it was.
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Lois Rudnick spent years studying Mabel’s letters and her life.
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¡COLORES! Saturday the 7th at 4pm @megankamerick talks with Lois Rudnick about Mabel’s memoirs.
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#taos #mabeldodgeluhanhouse #art #society #struggle #depression #spirit #creativity #newmexico #painter #writing #memoirs

Creating a character, a puppet, an actor in a dram

Creating a character, a puppet, an actor in a drama from raw materials is a magical and intensive process where story and ingenuity meet. Michael McCormick, who is here working on building a Skeksis for the original Dark Crystal at the Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is immersed in the process.
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On ¡COLORES! Saturday, Nov 23rd @megankamerick sits down with McCormick who shares his love for puppetry and what brings it to life.
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Also, the @abqmuseum exhibition Jim Henson-Imagination Unlimited features some of McCormick’s work.
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#puppetry #punchandjudy #michaelmccormick #newmexico #art #performance #pbs #nmpbscolores #albuquerque #santafe

Ann Burgund worked on Sesame Street right at the b

Ann Burgund worked on Sesame Street right at the beginning, in 1969. She worked on films about nature that fit into the curriculum, like flying and bunny. Here she is at the steenbeck with Margaret Murphy. The second photo was taken at the ASCAP Building on Columbus Circle in the film office.
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She shares stories of what it was like being a part of Sesame Street’s beginnings and seeing so much fun and creative energy turn into a lasting program. On ¡COLORES! Saturday the 16th 4p.
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#sesamestreet #opensesame #learning #pbs #bigbird #kermit #ernieandbert #jimhenson #nmpbscolores

Sesame Street began 50 years ago. I have been watc

Sesame Street began 50 years ago. I have been watching classic vignettes like Kermits lecture on the letter W and his reporting on Jack Be Nimble who is supposed to jump over the candlestick. So we were excited to interview Ann Burgund who worked on the first 5 years, starting in 1969. She shares some wonderful insight into the creativity and learning that came with the show.
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Saturday, Nov 16th at 4p on ¡COLORES! With @megankamerick
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#sesamestreet #jimhenson #frankoz #kermit #bigbird #pbs #learning #curriculum #friends #nmpbscolores

This week on ¡COLORES! experience a special #Vete

This week on ¡COLORES! experience a special #VeteransDay program devoted to helping veterans heal from traumatic brain injury. Suffering from #PTSD, veteran James Eby uses mask making to heal. And, art therapist Dana Tsyconyea Simmons and James Eby discuss connections between brain research and art therapy to find breakthroughs in healing. For more on Art Therapy visit: newmexicoarttherapy.com Watch Saturday at 4pm, and for more ¡COLORES! visit: https://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/colores/ •
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# veteran #veterans #soldier #soldiers #healing #recovery #life #family #arttherapy #art #NewMexico

This week on ¡COLORES! experience a special #Vete

This week on ¡COLORES! experience a special #VeteransDay program devoted to helping veterans heal from traumatic brain injury. Suffering from #PTSD, veteran James Eby uses mask making to heal. And, art therapist Dana Tsyconyea Simmons and James Eby discuss connections between brain research and art therapy to find breakthroughs in healing. For more on Art Therapy visit: newmexicoarttherapy.com Watch Saturday at 4pm, and for more ¡COLORES! visit: https://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/colores/ •
#art #arttherapy #arttherapylife #pbs #colores🎨 #coloresnm #conversationstarters #healing #soldier #soldiers #veterans

A special ¡COLORES! dedicated to veterans and bre

A special ¡COLORES! dedicated to veterans and breaking the stigma that the unseen injuries to the brain are not as real as a broken arm. They are and can be devastating. Neuroscientists and therapists are breaking new ground in discovering ways to heal.
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Saturday, November 9th at 4pm with @megankamerick
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#veteransday #healing #tbi #ptsd #awareness #buildingneuralpathways #arttherapy

516 ARTS Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande res

516 ARTS Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande responds to the global biological crisis. Part of the exhibition, Agnes Chavez finds inspiration in New Mexico’s unseen environment.
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On ¡COLORES! Saturday, November 2nd at 4pm with @agneschavezstudio @megankamerick @516_arts
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#speciesinperil #extinctionrates #riogrande #newmexico #river #watershed #516arts #nmpbscolores #art #pbs #taos #restoration

Part of 516 ARTS - Species in Peril Along the Rio

Part of 516 ARTS - Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande, Agnes Chavez combines art with science to ‘see’ invisible species and celebrate biodiversity.
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With @516_arts and @megankamerick @agneschavezstudio .
#speciesinperilalongtheriogrande #riogrande #newmexico #watershed #life #biodiversity #516arts #nmpbscolores #river

This week on ¡COLORES! State historian Rob Martin

This week on ¡COLORES! State historian Rob Martinez delves into the background of #NewMexico’s beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery during the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods. Here he shares how New Mexico is so unique culturally and spiritually and a little bit about that fascinating "dance." Watch today at 4pm, and visit: https://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/colores/ •
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#colores🎨 #colores #witch #witchcraft #bruja #brujeria #sorcery #culture #culturalmyths #community #history #halloween

This week on ¡COLORES! State historian Robert Mar

This week on ¡COLORES! State historian Robert Martinez delves into the background of #NewMexico’s beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery during the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods. Here he shares how this impacts our culture. Watch Saturday at 4pm, and visit: https://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/colores/ •
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#witch #witchcraft #sorcery #bruja #culture #spain #mexico #NewMexico #history #belief #colores🎨 #colores #conversation

In recognition that Native Americans were here bef

In recognition that Native Americans were here before Columbus’ expedition, New Mexico adopts Indigenous People’s Day. Melanie Yazzie, UNM Professor in Native American Studies and American Studies shares the roots and importance of this movement.
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With @megankamerick @nmpbs
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#ipd #newmexico #indigenouspeoplesday #albuquerque

Remember that COLORES is online, link in bio. This

Remember that COLORES is online, link in bio. This clip is from last Saturdays show with Diane Bird who share insights into John K Hillers historic photos. #newmexico #photography #history #stories

In collaboration with the Palace of the Governors

In collaboration with the Palace of the Governors Photo Archive we take a journey back in time through one of New Mexico’s first photographic expeditions. Diane Bird from Santo Domingo Pueblo shares her insights into the historical photographs taken by John K. Hillers. This one was taken at Taos Pueblo in 1880.
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With @megankamerick this Saturday, October 5th at 4pm.
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#history #geographical #landscape #environment #newmexico #taos #santafe #albuquerque #pueblo

On today’s ¡COLORES! . Albuquerque author and a

On today’s ¡COLORES!
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Albuquerque author and actor Max Evans recounts his experience on the sets of iconic Hollywood westerns and how his books reflect life as a balance between tragedy and comedy.
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“Isn’t life that way? I think we go around hiding how we are and what we really do and what’s happened to us every single day, maybe every single hour of our life.”
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And...
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A battle of wits… who is most important to American literature, William Shakespeare or Mark Twain?
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“The human dimensions that Shakespeare gives his characters was pretty much a new concept in literature at that time.” ~Jonathan Richards
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“Twain had the courage to create a purely vernacular character who did not speak in the register of college educated people.” ~Lois Rudnick

Recent guest on ¡COLORES! Cultural Historian and

Recent guest on ¡COLORES! Cultural Historian and author Carmella Padilla provides insights into the history and myths of one North America’s earliest neighborhoods, Santa Fe’s Barrio de Analco. “Analco” is a Nahuatl word, meaning “on the other side of the river.” Learn more during the BARRIO DE ANALCO FALL FESTIVAL Saturday, September 28th:
https://www.historicsantafe.org/events/2019/9/28/barrio-de-analco-fall-festival •
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#SantaFe #barriodeanalco #festival #NewMexicoTrue #newmexico #newmexicopbs #newmexicoproud #culture #indigenous #celebrate #celebration

Today on ¡COLORES! at 4pm, Producer Maya Salganek

Today on ¡COLORES! at 4pm, Producer Maya Salganek shares the origins and stories that inspire PBS’s new children’s series, “Molly of Denali.” Maya is from #NewMexico, and we asked her how creative people can get inspired and tell the stories that matter to their communities where ever they live.
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#mollyofdenali #alaska #native #newmexico #newmexicopbs #storiesmatter #stories #storyteller #pbs #animation #culture #family #colores🎨 #colores #coloresnm

Today on ¡COLORES! at 4pm, Historian Charlie Carr

Today on ¡COLORES! at 4pm, Historian Charlie Carrillo shares insights into the complex history and significance of Santa Fe’s historic San Miguel Chapel. Carrillo's interest in archaeology led him to his life's work as a santero, a carver and painter of images of saints. While studying archaeology at the University of New Mexico, he helped with a project in the Spanish village of Abiquiú, made famous by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Learn more at the BARRIO DE ANALCO FALL FESTIVAL Saturday, September 28th:
https://allevents.in/…/barrio-de-analco-fal…/200017908218339 •
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#colores🎨 #colores #coloresnm #santos #santeros #NewMexicoTrue #newmexico #abiquiu #SantaFe #santafe #art #arts #faith #tradition #spanish

Two of the New Mexico PBS ¡COLORES! team, Michael

Two of the New Mexico PBS ¡COLORES! team, Michael Kamins and Tara Walch being honored with 'The Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts' today in #SantaFe. #NewMexico #colores🎨 #colores #nmpbs #arts #art #honor

Just had the chance to talk with TJ Trout on KKOB

Just had the chance to talk with TJ Trout on KKOB about all the great stories on ¡COLORES!

Today on ¡COLORES! Cultural Historian and author

Today on ¡COLORES! Cultural Historian and author Carmella Padilla provides insights into the history and myths of one North America’s earliest neighborhoods, Santa Fe’s Barrio de Analco. Analco” is a Nahuatl word, meaning “on the other side of the river.” Here we ask her why this history is so important.
Learn more at the BARRIO DE ANALCO FALL FESTIVAL Saturday, September 28th:
https://allevents.in/santa%20fe/barrio-de-analco-fall-festival/200017908218339 •
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#newmexicowriters #NewMexico #santafe #history #culture #culturalmyths #barrio

Today on ¡COLORES! authors of 'Nación Genízara'

Today on ¡COLORES! authors of 'Nación Genízara' Enrique Lamadrid and Mosies Gonzalez share their insights into the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people. Learn more about #NewMexico during the Barrio de Analco Fall Festival: https://google.com/amp/s/allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php%3fevent_id=200017908218339 •
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#genizaro #newmexico #colores🎨 #colores #culture #heritage #mexico #indigenous #newmexicowriters #family #history #learn #learning #conversationstarters #conversation

Today on ¡COLORES! watch LOWRIDER SUMMER. Beautif

Today on ¡COLORES! watch LOWRIDER SUMMER. Beautiful low rider cars on parade, poetry, and family are highlighted in the fantastic “Lowrider Summer” event that took place at Santa Fe’s plaza. •
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#colores #colores🎨 #nmpbscolores #lowrider #lowriders #lowridershow #culture #newmexico #newmexicolove #newmexicotrue #santafe

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