READING | SUNDAY, JANUArY 11 | 2–3 PM | FREE
Join us for a reading panel and conversation about four featured articles in the winter issue of El Palacio magazine at FUSION | 708 on Sunday, January 11, at 2 PM.
Featured readings include:
Laura Paskus’s article about bringing respect to the field of archaeology through traditional and community knowledge and guidance at the Pueblo of Acoma.
Myrriah Gómez’s article about the vital roles women and children played in the 1970s Chicano Movement in Las Vegas, NM, as depicted in Adelita M. Medina’s black and white photographs.
Rica Maestas’s article about the SITE SANTA FE Once Within a Time exhibitions at the New Mexico History Museum’s Palace of the Governors that question systems of power and disrupt preconceived ideas about New Mexico history.
Santana Shorty’s poem “Sun Series,” that asks us to pay closer attention to the seemingly small, daily gifts in our lives.
Following the readings, the editor of El Palacio, Emily Withnall, will facilitate a Q&A. Copies of the magazine and the contributors’ books will be available for sale.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Laura Paskus is a longtime writer and producer based in Albuquerque, and author of At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate.
Myrriah Gómez is an associate professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico and the author of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos.
Rica Maestas is a socially engaged artist and writer from Albuquerque whose creative and cultural work elevates lived wisdom and prioritizes mutuality.
Santana Shorty is a writer and poet from New Mexico. She received her BA from Stanford University and MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has been published in New Mexico Magazine, El Palacio, and Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth (Torrey House Press). She is working on her first novel. She is a member of the Navajo Nation and lives in Santa Fe.
Emily Withnall grew up in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and currently resides in Santa Fe where she is the editor in chief of El Palacio magazine. Prior to becoming editor, she wrote for El Palacio for eight years. Her work as also been published in The New York Times, High Country News, Al Jazeera, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and other publications. Emily's essay, "Creating Art in a Burning World," was selected as notable in the 2025 Best American Essays anthology.
ABOUT EL PALACIO MAGAZINE
El Palacio magazine is the oldest museum magazine of its kind, first published in 1913 by the Museum of New Mexico. El Palacio (“the palace”) refers to the first home of the Museum of New Mexico. Now reorganized under the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), the quarterly magazine continues to cover the art, culture, and history of New Mexico and supports the exhibits, public programs, and scholarship of the department’s eight museums: the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the Museum of International Folk Art , the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, the New Mexico History Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and the New Mexico Museum of Space History; its eight state historic sites: Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner, Coronado, Fort Selden, Fort Stanton, Jemez, Lincoln, Los Luceros, and Taylor-Mesilla; and its other divisions: New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies, and the New Mexico State Library.
In addition to supporting DCA’s divisions, the magazine showcases the rich artistic traditions of writing, photography, and illustration that make up the fabric of New Mexico.
El Palacio —the name endures. Where it once recognized the magazine's first home, the magazine itself has become a royal residence, a “house eminently splendid,” for the story that is New Mexico.