Sunday Feature: Savage Pilgrims

Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits New Mexico to discover why so many prominent artists, writers and composers have moved to the American state over the last 100 years. She meets composers Raven Chacon and Meredith Monk, who talk of the peculiar acoustic properties when performing outside, while author Henry Shukman traces the early Anglo artist colonies at Taos, poet Mei Mei Berssenbrugge and artists Richard Tuttle reflect on the nature of spirituality. Artists Lynda Benglis and Tom Joyce talk about a deep connection with the land. Sara also visits the ancient Taos Pueblo, home to a Pueblo Indian community for over 1000 years, to hear how the native communities of the land became the focus of so much artistic interest, and sits quietily at the Harwood Museum of Art to look on some of the last paintings made by minimalist Agnes Martin, another New Mexico resident