Podcast Episodes

Adventure Begins at Your Library: Explore New Mexico Tribal Libraries and Youth Programming

Episode 39

In a large, low-population state like New Mexico, with lots of rural communities, libraries play a vital role in literacy, education, and job skills training—along with the simple joy that comes from…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

From Goatheads to Grand Canyons: A Love Letter to the Landscape with New Mexico State Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp

Episode 38

Poetry is everywhere. Poetry is in the way we speak or sing or the ways we imagine. Poetry offers space and possibility. And poetry is the best kept open secret we have. Because as it turns out, poet…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Protective Threads: Exploring Indigenous Fashion and Advocacy with Bobby Brower and Tara Trudell

Episode 37

Creating art in the face of grief can be complicated and hard to navigate, especially when the grief feels both private and personal—and a part of a much larger epidemic, like the Missing and Murdere…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Star Parties, Rim-Blown Flutes, and Pueblo History at Jemez Historic Site with Marlon Magdalena

Episode 36

Jemez Historic Site, like all of New Mexico's Historic Sites and museums, offers unique historical and cultural perspectives on the deep and wide-ranging communities, languages, and traditions across…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Keeping New Mexico's Spanish Alive: The National Hispanic Cultural Center's Legacy Project

Episode 35

Traveling to some remote parts of Northern New Mexico can feel a little like traveling back in time. There's the slower, rural lifestyle and lack of cell reception, for starters, but in some small po…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Big, Toothy, and Conveniently Dead: Why We Are Obsessed with Dinosaurs, Featuring Anthony Fiorillo, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

Episode 34

If you've ever been to a Sinclair gas station and see the green dinosaur out front, paleontologist Tony Fiorillo says it's a fair approximation of New Mexico's Alamosaurus—which was first discovered …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Look Up! Leo Villareal's Astral Array at New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary

Episode 33

What would it be like to see a symphony? How can you capture the rhythm of waves or a murmuration in constellations of light? If anyone can offer a visual representation of multi-sensory experiences,…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Listen to the Land: Art at Bosque Redondo with Dakota Mace, Daisy Trudell-Mills, and Kéyah Keenan Henry

Episode 32

Indigo, cochineal, red earth, and corn pollen: these are among some of the traditional materials used in the art of Dakota Mace (Diné), Kéyah Keenan Henry (Diné), and Daisy Trudell-Mills (Santee Dako…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Dusty Mesas & Accessible Art: Introducing Our New Host, Emily Withnall

Episode 31

Meet Emily Withnall, the new editor of El Palacio Magazine and your new podcast host of Encounter Culture.

As a journalist and writer—and New Mexican, first of all—Emily is acquainted with all facet…

Published on 2 years ago

Democracy is Indigenous: The Power of the Vote with Laura Harris

Episode 30

When Indigenous people vote, they honor their past and forge a better tomorrow for their communities. The act itself remains a complicated exercise. Indigenous voters must contend with a history of c…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago