One hundred and fifty craftspeople from around the world will have an opportunity this month to show their work in a sort of microcosm of the global marketplace. They've been selected from hundreds of applicants to be part of Santa Fe's annual International Folk Art Market , July 12-14 on Museum Hill. To help ensure that this opportunity translates into ongoing success, IFAM , the non-profit behind the Market, provides the artists, many of whom live in developing countries, with training and

Tommy Orange received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in 2016. While there, Tommy worked on something he had conceived years earlier, what he calls "a multi-generational, multi-voiced novel about Native people living in Oakland," Tommy's hometown. There There was published in June -- rapturous reviews and a wave of publicity followed. It's now a national bestseller.

This summer, the New Mexico Museum of Art invites visitors into the colorful and outlandish world of Patrick Nagatani . The Albuquerque-based photographer, a long-time University of New Mexico professor of art who passed away last year, was known for constructing and staging dreamlike tableaux for his camera. The Santa Fe exhibit, Invented Realities , runs through the summer. "Patrick was someone who really did invent worlds for us to visit and enjoy," says Katherine Ware, the Museum's Curator

Parked this month in Santa Fe's Railyard Park is a 1970 aluminum stepvan and inside it is Iris . The van is a gallery on wheels, Axle Contemporary , and Iris is its latest exhibit, a multi-sensory experience created by Santa Fe artist Stephen Auger . The five-minute journey of light, color and sound is part of this month's Currents New Media Festival 2018 .

Writer Dan Darling grew up in Albuquerque, a city that he says is "part desert, part floodplains, part mountains and all contradiction." Those contradictions, which he observed first as a boy and later when he returned to his hometown for an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico, inform his fiction. Albuquerque is the setting for his first novel, Archaeopteryx , a page-turning blend of detective story, science fiction and homage to what Dan calls the "sacred dry places." How

A new concert series taking place at Dialogue Brewing in Albuquerque features contemporary classical music selections that become increasingly dense as the weeks go by. Likewise, the surrounding artwork escalates week by week in visual complexity. The Discourse series , which evolves over three consecutive Tuesday nights beginning May 22, is a collaboration between artists from Santa Fe's Meow Wolf and musicians of Albuquerque's Chatter .

In 1838, the U.S. Government relocated thousands of Cherokee people from their homeland in the southeastern U.S. west to the newly designated Indian Territory. During this brutal removal to present-day Oklahoma one-third of the evacuees died. Cherokee actress DeLanna Studi has retraced this journey along the infamous Trail of Tears and documented it in her one-person show, And So We Walked , which she brings to the Lensic Center in Santa Fe on May 23 .

It might seem that opera is an art form that only grown-ups can tackle. Surely, years of training are necessary to create an opera or even to appreciate one. Well, the Santa Fe Opera disagrees. This summer, for the third year in a row, the company is giving kids, third through eighth graders, the chance to write, compose, design, and perform their own opera. The Opera Storytellers Camp is June 4 - 15.

Photographer Graciela Iturbide has spent her career documenting what she calls the "Mexican Tempo" -- a world that's at once ancient and modern, realistic and otherworldly. A major collector of Iturbide's work, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, has just published a biography of the artist. Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide is a collaboration between writer Isabel Quintero and cartoonist Zeke Peña .

He doesn't work on paper as most artists do, rather he works with it -- cutting it, folding it and then reassembling these numerous and meticulous geometric forms into dimensional paper sculptures. Matt Shlian has been artist-in-residence this past year at UNM's Tamarind Institute , and he will figure prominently in Tamarind's weekend-long exploration of the intersection between art and science, Albuquerque Wonder Cabinet , April 20-22.