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Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
The fallout from Ruby Ridge
Disillusionment pushes Jess Walter’s characters to the brink in his new novel ‘So Far Gone.’
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The first film made in Idaho was headed back to the big screen. Then DOGE intervened
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
Posted inNovember 2025: Precious Metalheads
What inspires Indigenous ballet dancer Jock Soto
The dancer seeks to preserve his legacy while educating others about his time on the biggest ballet stage.
Posted inDecember 2025: Wild Harvest
He makes bows — and bow makers
Joshua Hood is decolonizing traditional bow-making and archery education from his Portland backyard.
Posted inSeptember 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
Acknowledging the hands that feed us
Narsiso Martinez aims to dignify farmworkers through his artwork
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
Chicken buckets, baked beans, liters of coke: the final meals of death row inmates
Julie Green painted the last meals served to people sentenced to die in an attempt to humanize capital punishment.
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Finding your ancestors in the archives
Author Joseph Lee explores Wampanoag family history in a new book of memoir and reportage.
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Indigenous filmmakers get support from Sundance
Santa Fe’s Sundance Native Lab has evolved to embrace the multihyphenate artists of today.
Posted inJune 2025: The Promised Land
The promised land remains elusive for asylum seekers
Some people stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border are forced to risk their lives attempting to cross the desert.
Posted inJune 2025: The Promised Land
The enduring appeal of nude desert self-portraits
Posing as rocks and trees, photographer Laura Aguilar influenced others by becoming one with the landscape.
Posted inJune 2025: The Promised Land
How to preserve a glacier’s legacy
Artists are called to document the existence, and disappearance, of glacier.
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
An intimate look at New Mexico’s lowrider culture
Photographer Gabriela Campos takes you on a ride showing the scene as poetry in motion.