Editor: Benjamin Sutton
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Even rain couldn’t keep the Santa Fe Indian Market from springing to life. On 20 August, thousands of visitors—under brightly-coloured coats and with umbrellas in hand—stormed the city’s historic Plaza for the Southwest Association of American Indian Art’s (SWAIA) centennial milestone. In keeping with tradition, the organisation held all of the usual ceremonies, opening the sprawling annual fair for Indigenous art with a morning prayer and proffering this year’s juried “Best-of-Class” awards across ten categories. Russell Sanchez, a San Ildefonso Pueblo potter native to the region, took home the event's “Best-of-Show” prize for his bejewelled polychrome jar, 100 years in the making! (2022).
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