During the 2000 presidential race, a behind-the-scenes graphic designer at CNN arbitrarily assigned red as the color of the Republican Party. Overnight, phrases like “red states” entered our language, and political associations have overtaken many of the rich symbolic...
June 29, 2018
To most of us, indigo is just blue jeans, a commonplace commodity of global fashion. But to devotees of organic indigo like Aboubakar Fofana, a veteran of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, it is an evocative color whose handmade variations are evidence of ancient dyeing traditions worthy of a lifetime of study [...]
July 01, 2017
