Jemez Historic Site Farolitos

Piece description from the artist

Jemez Historic Site in Jemez Springs, New Mexico is a Spanish mission built on the stone remnants of the 700-year-old ancestral puebloan village of Guisewa. San José de los Jémez church was built in 1621-22. Each December leading up to Christmas, the site is decorated with farolitos, small lanterns made from paper bags with sand and a candle in them, and is open to public tours.

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About Theodore Greer

Jemez Springs, NM

Theodore Greer was born in Gallup, New Mexico, where his parents and grandparents ran trading posts on the Navajo and Zuni Indian reservations.

He studied photography and printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute and at the University of New Mexico. He has degrees in archeology and education, and has worked at innumerable jobs over the years. He has traveled and photographed throughout the western U.S., and in Mexico, South America and Europe. He has shown in Jemez Springs, Taos, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Seattle, Oakland and San Francisco.

He uses photography to share his vision of the natural world that forms the basis for all life on Earth. He is fortunate to live in the midst of nature, and hopes that through his photographs, others who may not be as fortunate can gain a positive mental and physical effect through his images. Currently he has hundreds of his photographs hanging in hospitals in the Albuquerque area, that provide a soothing, hopeful environment for both patients and healthcare providers alike.

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