¡Colores!; Violinista de Nuevo México: Cleofes Ortiz; Kate Krasin

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · March 21, 1990

Fiddle player, Cleofes Ortiz, is a well-known and loved artist of northern New Mexico. The Violinista is the star this week as ¡Colores! attends an "old time" dance at the San Ysidro church in Corrales. Cleo, as he's best known likes to tell the stories of how he first learned to play the fiddle as a youngster in Mexico at the turn of the century. He often tells the tale of losing his sixth finger to a fiddle whose strings were made from a barbed wire fence. Accompanied by Bayou Seco's Ken Keppler and Jeanie McLerie, Ortiz can be found playing in the traditional Mexican style at "bailes" around New Mexico. Ortiz is interviewed by Rachel Maurer. Profile: Serigraph printmaker Kate Krasin specializes in an uncommon but very specific art... silk-screen printing. Her art encompasses the many landscapes of our state in a way that is unique to serigraphy. She develops the image through a pattern that is stained and re-stained to form the different hues that make the final product beautiful. Host: Ester Reyes.