When people encounter Angela Babby’s work from a distance, they often think they’re viewing oil paintings. But, as they draw closer, they discover the vibrant images are intricate, enameled glass mosaics. “Glass contains light,” the artist explains from her home in Billings, Montana. “When I...
There was a moment this past August at the 101st annual Santa Fe Indian Market when textile artist Melissa Cody, who served as the textile classification manager for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, paused and thought about her career’s influence on other Diné (Navajo)...
Snugged into the hillside in Montana’s Spanish Peaks Mountain Club, this home melds contemporary architecture with the adventure of a ski-in, ski-out getaway. “They wanted that alpine anchor,” says architect Reid Smith, “but they also liked the cleaner lines of contemporary Scandinavian design.” The 6,400-square-foot house...
In my home office, hanging square in the middle of a wall crowded with beloved paintings and photographs, is a poster from the 1994 Telluride Bluegrass Festival. I first saw this poster when I was a little girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, inside...
Whenever Alexandra Karram looks into the reflecting pool outside the house she shares with her husband, she sees “a sky mirror that reflects what’s above.” And then, when she goes back inside, she often admires the long, shimmering, rectangular chandelier that hovers over her dining...
As much as the West has always been defined by its landscapes, Native American tribes, pioneers, and ranchers in the imaginations of people across the nation and around the world, the region’s wild animals may well be the subjects that most excite artists, collectors, and...
Painter and sculptor Bruce Greene has spent periods of his life on a horse. In his time, he has rodeoed, worked cattle, taken miles-long trail rides, and sought out moments in which the astringent aroma of sage mixed with the spicy scent of mesquite spoke...
Chuck Roberts had always been interested in architecture, and when he had the chance to study design in college he found that it was the work of Modernists including Mies van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Le Corbusier that resonated most with...
There was nothing particularly wrong with the home that was built in 1999 just a short stroll away from town in Crested Butte, Colorado. Soaring timbered ceilings swept from the entry and foyer through a great room and out to a back terrace, matching the...
“Dream Yet Again” is the title of a talk that painter Jerry Jordan of Taos, New Mexico, will make to attendees at his upcoming one-man show, “Together Always Our Spirit,” opening at Legacy Gallery in Santa Fe on October 7. The title expresses a thread...