¡Colores!; Benito Martinez, Irvin Trujillo, Marie Romero Cash

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2015

From Albuquerque to Hollywood, actor Benito Martinez – known for roles in The Shield, Bless Me, Ultima, American Crime, House of Cards and more – shares his inspiration. Martinez's mother started La Compañia de Teatro de Alburquerque and is interviewed by Hakim Bellamy. “Storytelling is everything. It is examining the human condition in its many different forms.” Seventh-generation Chimayó, New Mexico, weaver Irvin Trujillo shares his vision. “I really feel that in my career as a weaver I was entrusted with the tradition to put our culture into the new millennium.” Santa Fe santera Marie Romero Cash shares how she needed to push the boundaries of folk art. “Once I started going beyond the rules, it just became a matter of one-upmanship. And I wasn’t competing with everyone else in the market, I was competing with myself.”