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Artist: Te’yana Pugh
Te’yana Pugh is a Santa Fe based visual artist and published author. She paints with acrylics, watercolor and uses mixed media to create vast textures. Her inspiration draws from human connection, expression of fleeting moments, nature and color. In Service of ARTists Vital Spaces supports local, emerging & BIPOC artists and is inclusive of artists […]
Artist: Valentino Romero
Organization Bio Xol Original is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to preserving and revitalizing Indigenous cultural traditions through handcrafted fashion, cultural education, and economic empowerment. The organization collaborates directly with Indigenous artisans around the Americas and beyond to create one-of-a-kind wearable art, specializing in custom footwear made from sustainably sourced and reclaimed materials. Xol Original bridges […]
Artist: Samantha Chavez
Samantha Chavez is an indigenous self-taught artist and muralist born in O’ga P’Ogeh with roots tied to the land pre Devargas colonization. Samantha found her passion for creating after hesitantly submitting a handmade mask to a Día de Los Muertos Group art show. Samantha has been a self taught full-time artist since that show 4 […]
Artist: Ryan Cook
Ryan T Cook is a cartoonist. His series “Pacheco Prairie Dog’s Southwest Almanac” and “Santa Famous” run in the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Santa Fe Reporter, respectively. His “Kickstand Comics” and “Helmet Hair” series, published by RoadRUNNER Magazine, are enjoyed internationally. He recently became the official cartoonist for the official travel guide of […]
Artist: Robert Washinton-Vaughns
Robert Washington-Vaughns is a mixed-media visual artist of African diasporic heritage and the founder of the Black Men Flower Project, an award-winning international nonprofit dedicated to honoring the narratives, complexities, and holistic well-being of Black men. Grounded in the intrinsic imperfection of nature, Washington-Vaughns invites audiences to rediscover themselves and their surroundings through floral-based installations, […]
Artist: Norma A Ortega
Norma A Ortega’s work explores perception through the logic of material and light. She photographs industrial surfaces like metal, glass, coatings, and engineered forms using controlled illumination and precise vantage points. Then she use digital transformation to extend what the camera begins. Reflection, curvature, and structural geometry become the architecture of the image, turning familiar […]
Artist: Monika Guerra
Monika Guerra (she/they) is a latina contemporary artist born in Southern California and raised in Southern New Mexico. Working across painting, photography, and printmaking, their practice explores liminal spaces and internal landscapes through layered visuals. Guerra earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Certificate in Business and Entrepreneurship from the Institute of American Indian […]
Artist: Laura Davidson
Laura Davidson is an artist and educator, inspired by creative reuse of waste materials. Laura grew up and emerged as an artist in DFW, TX, and was a member of 500x gallery, The Cedars Union cohort 3, and Trade Oak Cliff. She relocated to Santa Fe in 2025. Laura has helped manage the Meow Wolf […]
Artist: Ashley Watkins
Herbs and Amor is an herbal practice rooted in ethical wild-harvesting, locally grown organic herbs, and fair-trade, globally sourced ingredients, focused on herbal wellness and botanical bath and body care. Formulated by herbalist Ashley Watkins in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the work includes small-batch herbal honeys, tonics, teas, tinctures, soaps and salves/balms crafted with care […]
Artist: Oriana Lee
ORIANA LEE identifies as a queer, interdisciplinary artist of AfroIndigenous descent, currently living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Brought up in the Southern United States (TN), Lee’s artistic lens is primarily one of Southern American Blackness and Hiphop, often fused with aspects of traditional African culture through patterns, symbols, asemic writing, and storytelling. Lee’s contemporary […]