Taos, NM
Taos has drawn artists since D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the Taos Society of Artists arrived in the early twentieth century — drawn by the same thing that still draws them: the light, the landscape, and the living culture of Taos Pueblo, a UNESCO World Heritage site continuously inhabited for over a thousand years. The murals around the Historic Plaza and the Taos Arts District carry that weight — and that beauty — with quiet authority.
Featured Artists
All artists →Ramon Velarde
Taos-born painter and third-generation member of the Taos Pueblo artist community whose work carries the weight of a century of outsider attention — and insists on a local perspective. His Plaza mural captures Taos Mountain at the blue hour before sunrise in a palette that has no precedent in the art-historical record of Taos painting, because it was developed entirely from his own lifelong observation.
Jonathan Warm Day Coming
Enrolled member of Taos Pueblo and one of the most respected Tiwa-language cultural preservationists working today. His Kit Carson Road mural uses the visual system of Pueblo ceremonial art to tell the story of Tiwa-language continuity — a work that functions simultaneously as community affirmation and public education.
Eliza Medina
Northern New Mexico native whose mural practice is rooted in the traditional acequia farming culture of the upper Rio Grande. Medina's Paseo del Pueblo Norte piece documents the seasonal rhythms of an acequia community — the spring cleaning, the summer irrigation rotations, the harvest — in a work that is simultaneously historical record and living tribute.