For millenia, New Mexico-or more broadly the dessert Southwest-has hosted waves of human habitation, each with its own distinctive material culture. At the western edge of the Great Plains and situated on the north-south trade route between Colorado and Mexico, the region’s diverse populations and topography have inspired numerous visual responses from petroglyphs to photographs, The talk provides an overview of the past 1000 years of art and making in the “Land of Enchantment.”