In October, sculptor Luis Tapia was named one of the 15 inaugural recipients of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, an award for which artists from all over the United States are nominated anonymously by people selected by the Joan Mitchell Foundation. ⁠ ⁠ “Luis is extraordinarily groundbreaking,” says Tey Marianna Nunn, director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative and former chief curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, in Albuquerque. “He was among the first artists to really embrace the Spanish colonial tradition but take it where it needed to go in contemporary times. And he mastered it. He studied the collections. He knows them. He blazed a path for other artists to follow.”⁠ ⁠ 📷@tirawan and @james_hart_photography⁠ 📝@katenelson.nm⁠ 🔗in bio to read more⁠ ⁠ #newmexicotrue #newmexicomagazine #nmtrue #spanishmarket #spanishcolonialart #santero #luistapia #santafe #citydifferent #newmexicoart ⁠