The Studio of Roseta Santiago

New Mexico artist Roseta Santiago is a storyteller. She has a seemingly infinite intellectual storehouse of anecdotes and people swirling around in her head that spill out in even the most mundane conversation. The same way that Santiago cultivates emotional connections with people and objects and infuses them into her art, she has also done so in her studio.

In January, Santiago was hard at work preparing for a retrospective at the Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve in Osage County, Oklahoma. One of only 11 artists who will be featured at the show in October, she is thrilled to be one of the two women artists invited to participate. How she got there is a result of her personal and artistic connections. Collectors and friends in Oklahoma insisted that she apply to have her artwork included in the exhibit, which she did. But they didn’t just leave it at that. They showed up at the museum with artworks, marketing materials, and ‘everything Santiago’ they could get their hands on. The group was going to make sure that nothing was left to chance.

Read the full article in the May/June 2023 issue.