Marcus Amerman is a Choctaw originally from Oklahoma. He is a multi-faceted artist and works in many mediums. He does pointillist-style beadwork and also is a painter and a sculptor. He has ventured into short films, dance, fashion design, acting and street theater. Marcus was instrumental in the early movement against the exploitation of American Indian culture through the use of Native-themed mascots in professional sports. He incorporates social icons and symbols in his work today.

A trained metalsmith and jeweler, Marcus has expanded his art to include stone and wood sculpting. Attention to line, color, and balance are seen in his meticulous miniature wood turnings.

Art and its history has been a part of Sande's life since she can remember growing up in northern California.  Painting and drawing, sewing and design were things she always did in school designing school programs and posters through elementary and high school.  After graduating from high school in Burlingame, she went to San Francisco State University majoring in Art and History.  She graduated with a BA in Art, Painting and Drawing. Wesley Chamberlin, Alexander Napote and Bob Arneson were some of her professors.  She had art summer art classes at the Art Institute of San Francisco and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.  She relocated to Los Angeles and studied briefly at the Otis Art Institute and Laguna Beach School of Art, especially studying life drawing and painting.  Continuing to paint in oil and watercolors, she also began experimenting with paint and dyes on silk, photography and printmaking for years; while she worked in the medical profession.  She returned to graduate school and completed a MA in Art at CSU Sacramento.  She has since taught art and art history for several years at community colleges in Sacramento and Placer county before she moved to Santa Fe in 2006.  Since the years from San Francisco State University, she has participated in many shows, completed commissions and juried several shows involving children; as well as teaching in after school at risk programs, community art programs and serving on the Arts Commission in Roseville, California.

Ron is a third generation folk artist, born and raised in Santa Fe. His grandfather, Felipe Archuleta, and uncle, Leroy Archuleta, were renowned folk artists whose lifesize animals are in collections around the world, including that of the Smithsonian. Ron learned to carve with them in the yard of the ancestral home in Tesuque. While he still carves animals reminiscent of Felipe and Leroy, he has taken the tradition in new directions, carving devils, broken down "viejito" trucks, and creating vehicles out of found objects. His pieces are in collections around the world, including that of the American Folk Art Museum in New York.

Cheryl Arviso is an up and coming young Navajo silversmith. She sets unusual stones into organic sterling silver designs. Cheryl studied Biology at the University of New Mexico and has infused her artwork with her studies to create completely unique jewelry that is her own style and interpretation of nature.

She has been the chairwoman of the Palace of the Governors Museum "Portal Program", where local Native American artists sell their artwork, and is still very active in the program. She is also a part of the Heard Museum Guild.

Cheryl shows at the Native Treasures show over Memorial Day Weekend and showed for the first time this year at the 51st Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market, in Phoenix, AZ.

Keri Ataumbi is a Kiowa artist. She grew up on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. At the age of thirteen, she left home to go to prep school in Boston, Massachusetts. Today she lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Keri is not only an accomplished contemporary painter, she also makes gold and silver jewelry. She is the sister of bead artist Teri Greeves.

Riding out of California and into Santa Fe, in 1999, Ray Audain is a transplant with a new way to view New Mexico. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was given his first set of watercolors when he was eight. Ray attended the Philadelphia College of Art and the Studio School of Art and Design. Although he never took a course in watercolors, that is what he has chosen to do in his free time for over twenty years. During that time he worked in advertising in San Francisco, California.

Inspired by the scenery in New Mexico, Ray's watercolors burst forth in fluid washes and splashes of bright colors to create a delightful composition.

Over the years, Ray has developed a unique collage portrait form with the use of mixed media. He gets to know his subjects well, researching their interests and quirks, then uses the collage technique to view our society.

In 2005, Ray painted for two months in France and Spain with side trips to Morocco and Italy.

Ray has shown in a number of juried shows in Arizona and New Mexico. He was a winner of the Special Recognition Award 2001, from the Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM.

Dunham Aurelius is a well known bronze artist in New Mexico. Some of his inspiration has come when he discovered remains of animals on his grandfather's Texas ranch. Dunham reprises this notion of a trial by fire in choosing to work with the crucible and produce an object reborn. The rich gold tones of pure bronze have been modulated with a patina that the artist applies by using a brush in one hand and a blowtorch in the other, thereby creating a unique chemical fusion of colors.

A full-time silversmith since 1992, Lawrence has won award for his work since the beginning. Influenced by "First Phase" Navajo silversmiths as well as the Spanish Colonial style that is his heritage, Baca_s pieces are highly recognizable and of impeccable quality. He uses turquoise and silver as well as precious metals and semi-precious stones.

Margaret paints two dimensional works on canvas and board panels, as well as three dimensional works of clay.  She has long been known for her use of color, composition and texture.  Her work is an expression of the spirituality that the creation of art is all about for her.  The intricate and detailed multi-compositional aspect of her images reveals the many layers of thought that all of her work contains.  Margarete is the daughter of Helen Hardin and her grandmother was Pablita Velarde.  After living and painting in the Virgin Islands for the last 3 years, she is now back in Santa Fe, New Mexico and has opened the Golden Dawn Gallery named after her grandmother's Indian name "Tse Tsan" (Golden Dawn).

Art thrives in the high desert of Santa Fe. This is where fashion designer Alice Bailey came to redefine herself as a jewelry designer. Alice has always had a commitment to personal elegance, in her own life, and in the lives of those for whom she designs. That's why jewelry is such a wonderful medium for Alice, who carefully selects gems and lampworked glass beads to create her colorful, one of a kind works of art. Her philosophy is one of individual expression through accessories and clothing. Her intention is to empower women to express their uniqueness by adding artful adornments to their wardrobe.

Aleta Ford Baker taught herself silversmithing in high school. As she says, "I was intrigued with the process from start to finish and read many books". I earned my Gemological Institute of America diamond grading certificate and went on to study colored stones while in college, placing 2nd in the GIA's International Design contest. She also does bead weaving, and for the last 20 years has won awards, published articles and contributed new techniques to the beadwork field. Aleta Ford Baker's years working in jewelry design in Santa Fe gave her an appreciation for the business side. It also allowed her to work with many new gemstones and materials. Of her work, Aleta says, "bead weaving and metalwork allow me to express myself using color, texture and form. I find great joy in working with my hands".

From the Artist's Statement: Becki Banet's alchemical work infuses timeless tools of imagination and fire in the organic qualities of copper textile. This chameleon shape-shifter spreads iridescence along a color continuum, literally spilling beyond conventional expression. Equally at home creating the high drama or quietly echoing in a support role, the architectural sculptures capture shadow and light to translate space into place.

Using underling healing properties of copper as a primary mixed media ingredient, Banet layers in the wisdom from adjacent art forms that include origami, literism, batik, raku, encaustic, silk screen, etching, embossing, calligraphy, tailoring, weaving, relief print, burnishing, assemblage and quilting. The work borrows most lavishly from the universal forms of nature, melding the essence of inspiring light, expansive land and rare air into an expression that imprints the memory of this mystical, timeless place into the memory of the beholder.

Place is also a tool. Banet now lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. Her art form originated in Indianapolis. As an artist/gallery owner in the Historic Theatre/Arts District, her mixed media work became recognizable as a personalized storyteller, evolving into her specialty for individual commissions and public installations that now spread across six continents."

Annette Barnett, a renowned arts educator, has a long been a pioneer in early childhood education. Ms. Barnett has taught at Santa Fe Community College, where she presented her hallmark course, "Anthropology for Kids," and was appointed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to develop standards of excellence for curriculum development and teacher training.

As Vicki Basta says of her work: "My paintings and mixed media art speak to the soul; they are intimate, human and earthy. Intricate layers of paint meld with found objects, creating visual worlds of depth, texture and color. Dried roots, leaves, flowers and seeds reflect the passage of time and mirror ones on transtition of death, renewal and rebirth. Currently I am using bark, branches and roots to explore the theme of being rooted or unrooted in ones life. I am also exploring the use of non-toxic paints and material, for my own health and the health of the environment."

Mitch has been working with fused glass, lampwork glass, wire and metal since 1998. He fuses heavy gauge wire in between sheets of glass allowing him to construct his sculptures, including various metals and foils to create the patina of age in his glass. Every piece presents a unique engineering problem that he solves at various times using copper tube, welded brackets, springs, drilling holes and using bolts and nuts and various wire assemblages. The forms he creates are two and three dimensional sculptures that can either hang by a hook or be mounted on a base. His inspiration comes from the things he finds: machine and car parts, discarded wood, platic, lamp parts, plumbing fittings, beeds, tree seeds, nuts, bolts, toy parts, even rubber tires. The world abounds with sources for discarded and rusting junk. His figures tell stories that poke fun at culture, psychology, politics, relationships and just about anything human!

Maggie Mae Beyeler (Magpie Pottery) is a ceramic artist who has been making pottery since 1987. She received her MA in Fine Art from the University of Colorado. Maggie uses a porcelain/stoneware clay body and creates textural surfaces by using unusual materials, from wood block stamps to embossed wall paper.

Sallie’s work as a writer has produced thirteen published books, including novels, short story collections and a memoir. She has also had six of her plays produced, most recently, “A Dangerous Personality,” based on the life of Madame Blavatsky, off-off-Broadway in 2008. Sarabande Press published her most recent collection of short stories, Red Car, in 2008. She is planning her next collection of short stories and working on a memoir about the women in her mother’s family. The working title is Becoming.

Kathryn Blackmun was born in Chaguaramas, Trinidad, and lived in Washington D.C., Tennessee and Ohio before her parents settled in the Los Angeles area. Interested in art from an early age, Kathryn attended the University of California at Irvine as a Fine Arts major, studying with Ed Moses, John Mason and Vija Celmins. A few years after graduating with honors from UCI, she attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as an illustration major. She made her living as an editorial designer and illustrator for such clients as the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, LA Weekly, California Apparel News, Los Angeles Times and Animation magazine. Kathryn moved to Santa Fe in 2004, where an casual functional pottery class turned into an obsession. She hopes to return to painting and printmaking, while continuing to explore the possibilities of ceramics. She has been featured in numerous ceramics shows in New Mexico.

Born in Southern California and raised in New Zealand, neither Shawn nor her jewelry fit neatly into categories. Working in precious metals with stones from around the world, her jewelry suggests the ancient and the modern.

A resident of Santa Fe since 2004, Margaret Moore Booker divides her time between writing projects and free lance editorial work. Her current projects are a scholarly book on Santa Fe’s historic houses, to be published by Rizzoli in August 2009, and entries for the upcoming Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. In recent months she has completed many editing/indexing jobs for the Museum of New Mexico Press. She has a master’s degree in art history from George Washington University; has held curatorial positions at prominent museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and is the author of numerous articles and books on art, architecture, and women’s history/biography. A book that she co-authored, on the architecture of Nantucket Island, was chosen a “Notable Book of 2003” by the New York Times Book Review. Since moving to the Southwest, the region’s art and architecture has become the main focus of her work.