New Mexico's Palace of the Governors Highlights from the Collections Local Folk art in not a

Folk art in not a static form but

And in boarding school at Fort Defiance

although all agree they were exceptional in Southwestern prehistory

Katherine "Peach" Mayer

After a long day tending to the lavender fields

New Mexico's Palace of the Governors Highlights from the Collections Local Folk art in not aThe Palace of the Governors, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, was originally constructed in the early seventeenth century as Spains seat of government at the terminus of El Camino Real (the Royal Road) that connected Mexico City with Spains northernmost colony in the New World. Continuously inhabited for four hundred years, the Palace of the Governorsencompassing the Photo Archives, Fray Anglico Chvez Library, and Palace Pressis today