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FALL 2020 Meeting the Moment

The pandemic, distance learning and the ongoing closure of many vital local resources are forcing Santa Fe families into whole new ways of coping. Local organizations, program directors, teachers, parents, children and our public school district are responding with creativity, resourcefulness and compassion. Art institutions like ARTsmart and ArtWorks; nature organizations including the New Mexico Wildlife Center and the Pajarito Environmental Education Center; the Santa Fe Alliance for Science; CASA First Judicial District; the Santa Fe Public Schools; and even the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, sponsors of the annual burning of Zozobra, are meeting the challenges of 2020 in inspiring ways. Read on.​

​Cover kids: Nico is 8, and Natalie just turned 5. Nico loves reading, history and spending every possible moment skiing during the winter. Natalie prefers playing, dancing and most of all doing art. Both attend Journey Montessori School. They are back in school and thrilled to be outside learning with their friends! Photo ©  Carolyn Bauer
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​​Artwork in this issue is by seventh and eighth graders in Megan Bowers-Avina's classes at Santa Fe's Milagro Middle School (found at the bottom of this page) and by Carol Schrader's middle-grade students at El Camino Real Academy, created with visiting artist Israel Haros Lopez.

Tumbleweeds, after 25 years in print, is now the online resource for Santa Fe Families, full of news, views and to-dos for families living in or visiting Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.

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Fall 2020 ARTICLES

WHAT DOES FEELING ISOLATED LOOK LIKE?

This was the question Megan Avina posed as a sketching prompt to her Milagro Middle School seventh and eighth graders during their first week back at school. They used whatever materials they had at home to draw. Many of the students' drawings and writings were projected onto the school building on Sept. 25, 2020, for passing cars and online viewers, kicking off a year of social justice projection events planned by teachers Grace Mayer and Megan Bowers-Avina.