3.2K views · 74 reactions | Congratulations to the Pride of the Pecos Valley, the Artesia Band, on their Division I rating at last night's Southeast New Mexico Music Educators Association district marching festival at Bulldog Bowl! If you weren't able to make it (or just want a rerun!), enjoy a few highlights featuring the AHS band, NMMI, Goddard, Portales, Lovington, Roswell High, Carlsbad, and Hobbs. | The Artesia Public Schools | Facebook

Maya Pino (Cochiti and Zia) is a third-generation silversmith and vendor with the New Mexico History Museum's Native American Portal Artisans Program. "I was taught by my grandmother which she learned from her father, so my techniques that I learned are more of the traditional ways of doing silversmithing, which is everything done by hand from start to finish." Support Native artists like Maya during SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market weekend Sat., & Sun., Aug. 16 & 17, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in the Palace