Where We Meet: Conversations from New Mexico and Beyond

Tierra, Agua y la Gente is a Taoseño movie series exploring the land, water, and people of Northern New Mexico, curated in collaboration with Alianza Agri-Cultura de Taos, Taos Valley Acequia Association, the NMSU Taos County Extension, and Taos Center for the Arts.  Bless Me, Última was the third film in this series. Based on Rudolfo Anay's 1972 novel, Bless Me Última is a coming-of-age film...

Tierra, Agua y la Gente is a Taoseño movie series. It showcases films and conversations about the land, water, and people of Northern New Mexico, curated in collaboration with Alianza Agri-Cultura de Taos, Taos Valley Acequia Association, the NMSU Taos County Extension, and Taos Center for the Arts.  The Milagro Beanfield War was the second film in this series: a tale of how one man’s decision to...

Tierra, Agua y la Gente is a Taoseño movie series. It showcases films and conversations about the land, water, and people of Northern New Mexico, curated in collaboration with Alianza Agri-Cultura de Taos, Taos Valley Acequia Association, the NMSU Taos County Extension, and Taos Center for the Arts.  The Milagro Beanfield War was the second film in this series: a tale of how one man’s decision to...

Patricio Tlacaelel Trujillo y Fuentes is a visual and performance artist and he is the co-curator of CHICANAO! Caminos Distintos, at the Millicent Rogers Museum, on display until November 2nd, 2025. He states, “I am proud of my CHICANAO heritage, growing up in the American southwest.”  In this conversation with Alice Morillon, he reflects on his work as a Chicano artist, his heritage and his polit...

This show centers on the production of the play Flor and the Gift of the Blue Eagle by Grupo Sangre de Cristo. The play will be presented 6 times between July 10th and July 19th 2025 and is directed by Dr Theresa Còrdova. Enriqueta Vasquez is the writer of the play. Vasquez is a lifelong activist, coming to northern New Mexico from Denver, CO in the 1960s. Amongst other notable actions, Vasquez pa...

Tierra, Agua y la Gente is a Taoseño movie series: films and conversations about land, water, and people of Northern New Mexico are curated in collaboration with Alianza Agri-Cultura de Taos, Taos Valley Acequia Association, the NMSU Taos County Extension and Taos Center for the Arts. And Now Miguel was the first film presented as part of this series. Filmed in Taos in the village of Los Cordovas...

Tierra, Agua y la Gente is a Taoseño movie series: films and conversations about land, water, and people of Northern New Mexico are curated in collaboration with Alianza Agri-Cultura de Taos, Taos Valley Acequia Association, the NMSU Taos County Extension and Taos Center for the Arts. And Now Miguel was the first film presented as part of this series. Filmed in Taos in the village of Los Cordovas...

In March and April of 2025, many spring events happened under the banner of the Big Read - a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, set to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections. Organizations around Taos took part in the programming, from Earth Day at Rio Fernando Park, to the Storyti...

In March and April of 2025, many spring events happened under the banner of the Big Read - a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, set to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections. Organizations around Taos took part in the programming, from Earth Day at Rio Fernando Park, to the Storyti...

In March and April of 2025, many spring events happened under the banner of the Big Read - a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, set to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections. Organizations around Taos took part in the programming, from Earth Day at Rio Fernando Park, to the Storyti...

Alice Morillon's guest is Robert Quijano , who was one of the  Community Arts Fellows over the past 8 months with his project “JUST PLAY”. Robert is a musician, song writer and educator in Taos. In this conversation, Robert shares insights on his relationship to music. He touches on traditions, innovation and education, and how one can relate and contribute to the ecosystem one exists in.  Thi...

Alice Morillon's guest is Robert Quijano , who was one of the  Community Arts Fellows over the past 8 months with his project “JUST PLAY”. Robert is a musician, song writer and educator in Taos. In this conversation, Robert shares insights on his relationship to music, and as he puts it, the world of sounds that surrounds us. He touches on traditions, innovation and education, and how one can...

Emily Trujillo and Layne Jackson Hubbard led FUTUROS ANCESTRAL as part of the TCA Community Arts Fellowship in the past 8 months. It included conducting online workshops, recording videos of weaving patterns and creating cohorts of weavers across Northern New Mexico.  In this conversation with Alice Morillon, Emily and Layne reflect on the work they have led. They generously share thoughts on nuan...

UNBOUND is a performance ritual and community-powered project that honors the Genízaro people and uplifts their legacies. Genízaros were Native people of many tribes, often women and children, who were captured and forced into slave labor during the Spanish colonization of present-day New Mexico. Our guests today are the director Sarah Hogland-Gurulé and collaborating artists Lupita Salazar and Ga...

UNBOUND is a performance ritual and community-powered project that honors the Genízaro people and uplifts their legacies. Genízaros were Native people of many tribes, often women and children, who were captured and forced into slave labor during the Spanish colonization of present-day New Mexico. Our guests today are the director Sarah Hogland-Gurulé and collaborating artists Lupita Salazar and Ga...

Santero Joseph Ascensión López is the Artist in Residence for the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area. In this conversation with Alice Morillon, López reflects on the cultural and spiritual role of Santos in Northern New Mexico and in his own art practice. He shares the importance of our region's traditions and how his artist in residence role creates a space in which he teaches, holds...

The four members of Lone Piñon, Jordan Wax, Santiago Romero, Tanya Nuñez and Karina Wilson share their work in uncovering, learning and performing traditional Northern New Mexico music. In this conversation with Anna Forster-Smith, they talk about two free events that will take place in Taos on June 2nd, 2024.

In 2019, the Cerro Negro Forest Council was established to remove excess heavy fuels on National Forest land, while strengthening the connection with local communities and the stewardship of the land. In this live conversation with Alice Morillon, JR Logan reflects on the uniqueness of the program - not such what it did, but how , and who . He shares the role played by community members in caring...

Our guest today is Yvonne Montoya . Montoya is a New Mexican choreographer whose current work, Stories from Home, is grounded in her identity and her family’s stories. With her company, Safos, they presented workshops at the Wildflower Playhouse and will present their dance performance on TCA’s stage, on Sunday, April 21st, 2024. Stories From Home premiered in Washington DC, at the Kennedy Center....

Estelle Laure is the author of ten published and/or forthcoming picture books and young adult novels, including acclaimed novel This Raging Light and Disney's City of Villains trilogy. Laure was raised in Taos where she still lives and works today. She is an english language arts teacher at Taos Academy and is the young writers program curator at SOMOS and runs a youth writer group. In convers...

Our guest today is writer Miriam Sagan. Sagan has written over 30 books of poetry, novels and essays. She has been a writer in residence in many places around the world. Since 1984, Sagan lives in Santa Fe, where she created and taught the creative writing program at the Santa Fe Community College. Her latest work, Commune of the Golden Sun, came out in January 2024. In this conversation with Alic...

Ray Archuleta is a soil scientist and farmer, who lives in Seymour, MO and grew up in Espanola, NM. For 30 years, Archuleta worked for the Natural Resources Conservation Service before retiring in 2017. He then focused on teaching Biomimicry strategies and Agroecology principles for improving soil function on a national scale. In this conversation with Alice Morillon, he discusses the principles o...

Carlos Hernandez is a multimedia artist that has worked out of Taos since 2019. He holds an MFA in Video and Performance Art, and has pursued many fields of art including, sculpture, sound, film, painting and drawing. His exhibition, Eros in the Ether: Figurative Architecture, will be shown at the Encore Gallery March 1st - April 14th 2024. It showcases a series of oil paintings that focus on perc...

Francisco El Comanche Gonzales is a community activist and educator whose practices center on the heritage of the Comanches. With his community, he leads dancing, singing and traditional customs. Los Comanches de la Serna are located in Ranchos de Taos. This radio program is supported by the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area.

Sydney Cline grew up in Taos and her experience informed her desire to start Common Grounds. Common Grounds is a safe space for youth in Taos, whether they need to take a shower, need someone to talk to, or if they just want a space to hangout in. Cline, along with other youth in the Taos community began developing the concept in 2017. In our conversation Cline takes us through what led her to beg...