Santa Fe, NM, Margarita Paz Pedro: foundations: land and sky, Hecho A Mano. By Kateri Smith (Blackfoot/Métis/Anatolian Greek descent) Hecho A Mano has become a magnet for Santa Fe’s younger art crowd, a place where established and emerging artists meet, with a strong emphasis on printmaking. It’s one of the few spots where you might find a $35 Jason Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo) print near original ledger art by Terran Last Gun (Piikani) at a still-reasonable price. In the front of the gallery is Daniel McCoy: Scenes Along the Rio Grande featuring Daniel McCoy Jr. (Muscogee/Potawatomi) filled with the artist’s…
Author: Kateri Smith
Kateri Smith
Kateri Smith is a historian, artist, and writer based in Santa Fe. She is of Blackfoot, Métis, and Anatolian Greek descent. She is the collections and programming assistant at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and a continuing education teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Santa Fe, Group Exhibition, Blue Rain Gallery By Kateri Smith (Blackfoot/Métis/Anatolian Greek descent) The Railyard District carries a sense of rustic modernity. A new water tower is meant to evoke the old-time charm of Santa Fe, but it is just made to look rustic while being new. In the midst of this is the Blue Rain Gallery, established in 1993. Blue Rain’s Group Exhibition shows off a variety of different media. Glass artists like Raven Skyriver (Tlingit) and Dan Friday (Lummi) mix with printmakers and painters like Chris Pappan (Osage/Kaw/Cheyenne River Lakota) and Helen K. Tindel (Santa Clara Pueblo), featured…
Santa Fe, NM, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Summer Exhibition and Fritz Scholder: Works on Paper, LewAllen Gallery By Kateri Smith (Blackfoot/Métis/Anatolian Greek descent) LewAllen Galleries’ summer exhibition, running July 11 to August 30, 2025, offers a poignant tribute to the late Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai/Métis/Shoshone, 1940–2025), a show planned before her passing earlier this year. The collection spans monoprints to mixed-media paintings with a notable presence of stark black-and-white works. Absent in many pieces are the saturated hues Smith is famed for. Instead, monochrome pieces like the monoprint Blue Jay (1996) pulse with movement and surreal undertones. River Dance (1998), in…
Summer Winter: Margaret Roach Wheeler and The Language of Place By Kateri Smith (Blackfoot/Métis/Anatolian Greek Descent) Santa Fe, NM – With the opening of The Language of Place in July, two shows have already proven themselves to be worth the visit. The first features a veteran of the Native American fashion scene, Margaret Roach Wheeler (Chickasaw/Choctaw), whose show Summer Winter: Margaret Roach Wheeler is in Zane Bennett Gallery’s first floor, while upstairs is A Language in Place featuring Heidi Brandow (Diné/Kānaka Maoli), Shaarbek Amankul (Indigenous Kyrgyz), Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk), and Clementine Bordeaux (Sičáŋǧu Lakótapi). Summer Winter: Margaret Roach Wheeler at Zane…