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Start: 3:00 pm
Marcia Keegan presents a slideshow of photographs and discusses the reissued Taos Pueblo and Its Sacred Blue Lake (Clearlight, $24.95), which commemorates in words and photos the return of Blue Lake to the Taos People. | 27
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Start: 7:00 pm
Judy Pasternak discusses and signs Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (Free Press, $26.00), a journalistic account of the US government's treatment of the Navajo as it raced to build nuclear weapons.
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Start: 3:00 pm
Slideshow - Sacred Feminine: Images of Women in Santero Art Former Santa Fe resident Judith McLaughlin discusses and signs her award-winning book Sacred Feminine (LPD, $17.95). From the time of the settlement and colonization of New Mexico in the late-1500s, the territory was Spanish Catholic in tradition, laws, art, and culture; therefore, the role that The Blessed Mother and female saints played in New Mexican artwork was significant. Their roles in art and liturgy gave women a model, or ideal, of the perfect woman and motherhood. The saints were, and are, admired and glorified in these roles, and Santero art beautifully portrays the feminine both in nature and spirit. Sacred Feminine examines the roles that culture, religion, sociology, art and gender played in the development of the religious Santero art, and images of women in particular. The book received the National Federation of Press Women 2010 Award, a 2009 New Mexico Book Award, and the New Mexico Press Women's Award in 2010. "A fascinating look at this artistic tradition that both scholars and art fans will appreciate."-New Mexico Magazine |
