Ania Hull

Hong Kong, New Mexico, United States

Journalist, Writer, Editor at Freelance

Staff Writer and Reporter at Santa Fe New Mexican

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Juneteenth in a Cultural Context

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

In a TEDx Talk she gave in Albuquerque in 2016, Christina Foster — an educator, an activist, and a Black woman who grew up in Albuquerque — spoke of how the fact that New Mexico is defined as a “tricultural” state downplays the existence or importance of other underrepresented communities in our state. Communities, Foster says, like her own. The sentiment echoed, too, between speeches within the Rotunda this past February during African American Day at the Legislature.
Alphonse Mucha's Flair for the Nouveau

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

Alphonse, who? You may perhaps not know his name (yet), but you have no doubt seen Alphonse Mucha’s work, or even works by other artists and designers influenced by Mucha, a gazillion times in your life. You’ve seen it on fancy soap packaging, Grateful Dead posters, psychedelic record jackets, and in Japanese Mangas as well as on tea biscuit cans, chocolate bars, and bottles of European beers made by monks.
Find fun and educational ways to fill summer days

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

Summer is here, school is out, it’s scorching outside, everyone’s bouncing off the walls — and there’s only so much you can do to unplug the young ones from their screens. Enter Explora, a science center and children’s museum in Albuquerque’s Old Town that offers more than 250 interactive exhibit activities.
The Fabric of Our Lives

2 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

Jacob Torres of Santo Nino in Española considers himself lucky: Cottonwood trees in New Mexico live to be between 70 and 100 years old. But occasionally, a champion cottonwood will push past 100, like the one that stands on land that belongs to the maternal side of Torres’ family — the Valencias — and which must be at least 100 and still going strong.
Editor's Note: 'Pillar of Shame'

2 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

There used to be an orange 26-foot-tall statue on the campus of Hong Kong University. It was made of bronze, copper, and concrete. To see it, you’d have to either hike up a very steep hill or climb a ridiculous number of steps, or take a series of elevators from Pok Fu Lam Road by the MTR subway station, then cross a bridge that overlooks a ravine. The statue was called Pillar of Shame, and it was one in a series of four. The others were in the Czech Republic, Brazil, and Mexico.
The Kiffness is a Meowsical Musician

3 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

Even if you don’t follow The Kiffness’ work, you may still have seen one or more of his videos online, like the one The Kiffness (whose real name is David Scott) collaborated on, from South Africa, in early March 2022 with Andriy Khlyvnyuk, the leader of the Ukrainian band BoomBox (Бумбокс). It was one of Scott’s most socially (and politically) engaged works and he released it March 4, a little more than a week after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Poetry Books Bring Rhyme and Reason to Children’s Day

3 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National Children’s Day in the U.S. Although the origins of a national children’s day go back to the 19th century, we owe the tradition of celebrating it on the second Sunday of June to President George W. Bush, who proclaimed it a national holiday in 2001.
A New Photography Show at CENTER Brings our Atomic History into Focus

4 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

Friday, May 30, is a big day at CENTER as the nonprofit, photography-centric gallery celebrates two significant happenings at once: the opening of a new educational space that has been a long time coming, and within that space, the launch of an inaugural exhibition titled From the Field: Nuclear Legacy.
A New Englander's Works Cast a Different Light for the Southwest

4 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

“This is the first time, I think, where my paintings might come off a little bit exotic,” says Jeremy Miranda. He’s only half joking, but laughs regardless. Miranda is an artist in his mid-40s who’s lived in New England his entire life — in Rhode Island, in Boston, and now New Hampshire, in a town with just one or two small galleries. He studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Chris Rainier Focuses on Cultures on the Brink

1 month ago | santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull

Chris Rainier is in a race against the clock. The documentary and former war photographer has had some extraordinary experiences in his life: He worked with Ansel Adams and hung out with some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century; lived in and trekked through New Guinea six months a year for 10 years; documented and witnessed for Time magazine, NPR, and National Geographic conflicts and wars in Sarajevo, Somalia, and Rwanda; and embedded with the Yakuza in Japan.