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Pecos Big Horns, Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico, 1989, 377 degrees by Gus Foster. (Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico Press)
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In 1972, Gus Foster aimed a camera through his car window to capture the rolling landscape in a visual notebook.
Soon, those images transformed into film and, later, panoramic vistas that took him to mountaintops, glaciers and Times Square in a 360-degree carousel of imagery and time.
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The Taos-based photographer recently released “Gus Foster: American Panoramas,” (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2021, $55) a monograph of his 45-year career.
Sunset, Moonrise, Highline Ridge, Taos County, New Mexico, 1986, 403 degrees by Gus Foster. (Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico Press)
As Long as the Waters Flow
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Burning Man
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Self Portrait by William Shuster (1893–1969), 1931. Signed and dated “Self Portrait, 1931/ WillShuster” (backwards) on easel. Oil on canvas, 30 by 24 inches.
Photograph courtesy of Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In 1920 serious health issues brought William Shuster to New Mexico, beginning forty-nine years of creativity, exploration, and community engagement. Though he received some fine-arts training in Philadelphia, it was not until he experienced the inspiration of Santa Fe that he decided to dedicate his life to art. Almost immediately he integrated himself into Santa Fe’s burgeoning bohemian art scene, and made a reputation for himself as an eccentric and passionate member of the community with an unsurpassed lust for life. Shuster embraced the unique beauty of New Mexico, from Carlsbad Caverns to Canyoncito and the Badlands. The artwork he left behind illuminates the natural beauty and rich cultural heritage of the state that gav
No medium captures the dance of color and light more fully than the luminosity of glass.
Archaeological evidence suggests glass-making dates at least back to 3,600 B.C. in Mesopotamia, Egypt or Syria. Stone Age societies used naturally occurring obsidian glass for cutting tools and weapons.
“Raven Steals the Sun,” Preston Singletary (Tlingit), 2017. (Courtesy of the Museum of New Mexico Press))
Venetian glass artists have produced glass from the island of Murano for more than 1,500 years.
Glass gestated in Indian Country in the 1970s. And the legendary glass artist Dale Chihuly played midwife.
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When Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts rose from high school to a two-year college, its co-founder Lloyd Kiva New turned to the Rhode Island School of Design to help develop an art center. RISD sent Chihuly, who had created the glass program there, to New Mexico to set up a glass-making hot shop and to teach for one semester. Faculty member Carl Pon