Allen Bruce Paquin, from Jemez Pueblo, shows his jewelry on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Native American Artist Laverne Loretto-Tosa, from Jemez Pueblo, shows her pottery to Jennifer Edgley, from Chicago, on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Janine Jablonski, with Marian Jablanski, behind her, buys a bracelet from artist Joseph Chama, from Santo Domingo Pueblo, on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Native American Artist Florence Bailon, left, and Joseph Chama, both from Santo Domingo Pueblo, set up their art on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Native American Artist Laverne Loretto-Tosa, from Jemez Pueblo, shows her pottery to people on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Allen Bruce Paquin, from Jemez Pueblo, first bumps Ron Ferguson, of Santa Fe, after he bought one of his pieces on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. Megan Houston, from Houston, is at right. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
Artists Lorraine Martinez, Santo Domingo Pueblo, right, hugs Patricia Anderson, Cochiti/Navajo, hug on the Palace of the Governors Portal as they and other artists return to sell their art. Anderson has been coming to the Portal for 30 years and Martinez, who is secretary of the Native American Portal Committee, has been coming for 35 years. Behind them Gabriel Aguilar, from Santa Domingo Pueblo, sets up his spot. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
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Native American artists returned to selling their wares beneath the portal at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe on Friday for the first time in more than a year.
The Native American Artisans Portal Program was suspended last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While food vendors and other artists have reappeared at Santa Fe’s historic Plaza in recent weeks, Native American jewelers such as Allen Bruce Paquin of Jemez Pueblo didn’t get the OK to return to the portal until Friday. It was a happy day for the artisans, who have been cut off from a source of income since March 2020. And it was a day when friends, such as Lorraine Martinez of Kewa Pueblo and Patricia Anderson, Cochiti/Navajo, could renew ties.
