Each year the Santa Fe Indian Market includes 1,200 artists from about 100 tribes who show their work in over 600 booths. Make your lodging reservations now while the selection is good; Santa Fe "books out" during Indian Market week! The event attracts an estimated 100,000 visitors to Santa Fe from all over the world. Buyers, collectors and gallery owners come to Indian Market to take advantage of the opportunity to buy directly from the artists.

For many visitors, this is a rare opportunity to meet the artists and learn about contemporary Indian arts and cultures. Quality is the hallmark of the Santa Fe Indian Market.

A destination event for residents and visitors alike, Spanish Market features handcrafted traditional arts by 250 local Hispanic artists, continuous music, art demonstrations and regional foods, and provides a unique opportunity for visitors to enjoy a taste of New Mexico's vibrant Spanish culture, both past and present. Admission is free to the public. Santa Fe "books out" in the summer so reserve your vacation home now.

In 1608 the Castillian-born adventurer Juan Martinez de Montoya, a man described as "tall, of good feature, blackbearded," reported that he had "made a settlement at Santa Fe." The place he called Santa Fe was a beautiful little valley with a small river flowing through it, beneath the mountains a few miles east of the river named the Rio Grande. It grew into the capital of the province of New Mexico, and for more than one hundred and sixty years, until Monterey was established in California in the late eighteenth century, Santa Fe was the northernmost capital of a Spanish province in the New World.

Please join us at Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, Santa Fe's only museum-quality Indian art show. Presented by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Native Treasures features over 130 Native American artists, who are specially invited by the Museum to represent the best and brightest of the Indian art world. In fact, many of the artists at Native Treasures are included in the Museum's permanent collection.

Santa-Fe based screenwriter Kirk Ellis teamed up with executive produce Tom Hanks in the making of the HBO miniseries now airing through April 20. Ellis adapted the Pulitzer-prize winning biography by David McCullough. Previously, Ellis contributed to the 2005 miniseries "Into the West" that was in part filmed in Santa Fe.

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For over five decades Allan Houser's work was featured in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 1992, the same year he received the National Medal for the Arts, a major retrospective exhibition was organized by the Museum of New Mexico and toured throughout the United States. While Allan Houser passed into the spirit world in 1994, his work lives on and has since been featured at the White House Sculpture Gardens and in international museum exhibitions.

Marsden Hartley and The West: The Search for an American Modernism ... January 25th through May 11, 2008. (Image credits: Marsden Hartley, "Pueblo Mountain", 1918. Pastel on paper. Collection of Lee and Judy Dirks.)

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