New on the podcast: "A Conversation with Guest Editor RoseMary Diaz"
Our guest editor talks about growing up "half-Indian" in Northern New Mexico, and the story behind the stories of our first issue focused on Native American craft.
Dear Friends,
Our first issue on Native American craft, which wraps up today, would not have been possible without the deep cultural knowledge and community ties developed by our guest editor, RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo). RoseMary, who is of mixed Tewa heritage, is a longtime freelance writer and an anthologized poet who has been immersed in the Native art world for most of her life. Her experience allowed her to bring unusual vision and authenticity to this issue, along with a determination to do things right. From start to finish, she has impressed us all with her dedication, as well as with her unflagging patience.
Our core team has so enjoyed talking with RoseMary and learning from her over the past year that we decided to record one of those conversations and share it with all of you. I hope you’ll enjoy listening to, “A Conversation with Guest Editor RoseMary Diaz,” the latest installment of our Artisan Interview series. As with all of our podcast episodes, it is available to download or listen to from our site, as well as on popular streaming channels like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.
In other news, our Holiday Artisan Spotlight is now open for submissions, and you’re all invited! This is a chance to have your handmade work featured on our primary social media channels during the holiday shopping season, at no charge to you—a gift from us to our growing Craftsmanship community. Details can be found on the submission form, also linked below.
This week concludes our Fall issue on “Native American Craft: The Southwest." We’ll be taking our usual hiatus from weekly publishing until early January, when we’ll be back with a new issue focused on stonework, past and present. Until then, keep an eye on our podcast channel, where we’ll continue releasing new audio versions of your favorite Craftsmanship stories as they become available.
While we’re away, I hope you'll always find something intriguing to read, watch, or listen to within our pages—currently free of charge, and free of ads. We welcome your thoughts via email, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Thank you for reading and sharing our stories, for donating to our cause when you can, and for being such a loyal part of the Craftsmanship community.
Sincerely,
Todd Oppenheimer
Editor & Publisher, Craftsmanship Quarterly
As a gift to our growing Craftsmanship community, and to promote #shophandmade for the holidays (a value close to our hearts), we invite you, our members, to submit your own handmade work for our second annual Holiday Artisan Spotlight.
The chosen entries will be featured on our primary social media channels: Instagram; Twitter; and, most prominently, Facebook, where we have almost 120k followers. We will run as many of these posts as we can throughout the holiday shopping season. There is no charge to you—just complete the form linked above, and we’ll take it from there!
Native American Craft: The Southwest
In our first issue focused on Native American craft, which we hope will be joined by others in the coming years, we look at the unusually rich and varied craft traditions of some of the Southwest’s Indian tribes. These communities rarely let outsiders see much of their cultural practices, but thanks to the tireless work of a few New Mexico writers and others, who have spent years developing relationships with members of the region’s tribes, we can offer you a glimpse into the work of some remarkable Indigenous artists and artisans.