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Nuevo Mexicano Arts
Accordion Restoration
Pueblo Revolt Of 1680
Accordion Music
Arts Education
Virgil Ortiz
Continuum: Blindfall, First Strike
New Mexico Arts Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum
Colombian Cumbia
Traditional New Mexico Music
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Eric Garcia

New Mexico's deep artistic traditions have long engaged with the multifaceted histories and cultures of the state. At Encounter Culture, we talk with artists, historians, scientists, museum curators, and writers who are all a part of New Mexico's centuries' old lineage of helping us understand the places and people who make the Land of Enchantment so unique.

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Cochiti Pueblo artist Virgil Ortiz and collaborator Eric Garcia transform the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 into a visionary story of cultural survival, reconciliation, and Indigenous futurism.

In 1680, Po’pay of Ohkay Owingeh, sent messengers to the Pueblo... more

Some of New Mexico's most prominent artists are passing traditional Nuevo Mexicano art forms like colcha embroidery, retablos and bultos, tinwork, and straw applique down to the next generation. These artists include Jean Anaya Moya, Vanessa Zamora, ... more

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Accordions are woven into New Mexico's soundscape—at fiestas, on plazas, and in the musical storytelling traditions that travel across generations. In this episode of Encounter Culture, host Emily Withnall talks with Tony Tomei and Antonio Maestas, a... more

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Photos can obscure as much as they reveal. When we encounter historic photographs, it can feel like we've entered the past through a portal. But like contemporary photographs, what is left out of the frame is as interesting and puzzling as what we ca... more

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Recent Guests

Virgil Ortiz
Cochiti Pueblo artist working in ceramics, sculpture, fashion, jewelry and film
Pueblo of Cochiti
Episode: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: America's First Revolution with Virgil Ortiz and Eric Garcia
Eric Garcia
New Mexico-born artist, sculptor and advertising agency founder
Episode: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: America's First Revolution with Virgil Ortiz and Eric Garcia
Elena Baca
Education program manager at the National Hispanic Cultural Center
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Episode: Chisme at the Museum: Rebuilding Community and Nurturing Tradition with Elena Baca and Jana Gottshalk
Jana Gottshalk
Curator and museum director at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum
Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum
Episode: Chisme at the Museum: Rebuilding Community and Nurturing Tradition with Elena Baca and Jana Gottshalk
Tony Tomei
Accordion player and repairer who studied with master accordionist and repairer Mario Mosty
Episode: Button Box Dreams & Repair-Shop Flair: Mastering the Art of Accordions with Tony Tomei and Antonio Maestas
Antonio Maestas
Accordion player and repairer who specializes in Colombian cumbia
Episode: Button Box Dreams & Repair-Shop Flair: Mastering the Art of Accordions with Tony Tomei and Antonio Maestas

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    I’ve lived in NM for over a decade but I’m learning so much from this podcast. Thank you for building in me an even deeper love of our state. Thank you to the creators!

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Button Box Dreams & Repair-Shop Flair: Mastering the Art of Accordions with Tony Tomei and Antonio Maestas
Q: Can you describe the styles of music that you play, and how the types of accordion you use play a part?
Maestas plays traditional Colombian cumbia on a three-voice diatonic button accordion. Tomei plays a range of styles, including Italian music, show tunes, and jazz on piano and chromatic accordions.
Button Box Dreams & Repair-Shop Flair: Mastering the Art of Accordions with Tony Tomei and Antonio Maestas
Q: When did you first encounter the accordion, and what drew you to it?
Tomei recalled growing up around accordion music in an ethnically diverse Pennsylvania town and returning to the instrument through international folk dancing in college. Maestas grew up hearing traditional New Mexican music and stories about his accordion-playing great-grandfather, then pursued cumbia accordion as an adult.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: America's First Revolution with Virgil Ortiz and Eric Garcia
Q: How did you approach bringing a Spanish perspective to this story?
Garcia says Ortiz asked him to tell the history from a Spanish perspective. He focused on the resilience and determination of Pueblo people and developed imagery to support Ortiz's narrative, while bringing his own cultural and historical perspective into the collaboration.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: America's First Revolution with Virgil Ortiz and Eric Garcia
Q: Can you give a summary to people who have not somehow heard the Pueblo Revolt?
Ortiz describes the 1680 uprising as a coordinated revolt by Pueblo peoples against Spanish colonial rule, prompted by forced labor, religious suppression, drought, famine, disease and colonial pressure. Po'pay organized communities across more than 40 Pueblos using knotted cords to signal when to rise against the Spanish.
Chisme at the Museum: Rebuilding Community and Nurturing Tradition with Elena Baca and Jana Gottshalk
Q: What does it do beyond making these pretty objects? How do you see it working in the community within families? And what are the art forms too?
Elena Baca says making art builds confidence, encourages storytelling, and helps people connect with family and community. She sees creative practice as valuable even when it is not a traditional art form.

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