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images  from la Puerta, Taos  ( bottom left to right): “Phaedra Greenwood” “self portrait” by Jaap Vanderplas, “My    Lowrider Heaven” Anita Rodriguez  (top)  “JFK was here”  by Gail Russell; Lawrence/Waters photo below used w/permission from Taos Historic Museum.
                   
 la Puerta, Taos 
the art of fetching sky
 a collection of art, stories and interviews
two volumes, one bl/white the other...full color

                                              

Art Bachrach · phaedra greenwood · Nita Murphy  
Amalio madueño  · antoinette nora claypoole ·  lyn bleiler

about the project
The interviews, writings and art in these books were collected six years ago by antoinette nora claypoole (recent Oregon Literary Arts Award recipient)  while she lived here in Taos (her “second” home).  Local artists/writers opened up their hearts and art for the project and it is finally in print! A grassroots “homegrown” edition published by Wild Embers Press, la puerta, Taos the art of fetching Sky is “a biography of place” and includes...

                                                    stories about old Taos   from an interview with Art Bachrach
Foreword     by Barbara Waters
a previously unathologized    “lost” work by Frank Waters
tribute to the 1960’s  Lisa Law, Iris Keltz, Pheadra Greenwood
photo/art by contemporary locals   Jaap Vanderplas,  Megan Bowers Avina,  Anita Rodriquez,  Gail Russell
Taos  literary map writers   John Nichols,  Robert Mirabal stories/interviews  Barbara Waters, John LeBleu, John Suazo
                                                 and more...


to find out about contributing artist/writer free copies  
contact antoinette emberspress@gmail.com