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DECEMBER 2001
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• I believe there is a big difference in intellectual responsibility in exhibiting "anywhichway" depictions of La Virgen in a private gallery or home and in a publicly-funded cultural institution, especially of a state that is home to many educated Raza and cultural traditions, and not just art-neanderthals and witchhunters as characterized by Ms. Lopez--Pedro Romero Sedeno (12/04/01)

•I think there was a condemnation of the art (electronic collage, which fits the category in my opinion) in Santa Fe because of the view the local people held toward the museum and what they choose to exhibit, which a lot of them considered offended their sensibilities in terms of their religious beliefs.--Cecelia (12/05/01)

•If urrutia finds Lopez´s poster relevant, fine, to each his own. I personally thought it was stupid. At issue for me was that the Museum of New Mexico was validating this as relevant and significant and I chose to differ with this cultural gatekeeper´s (the curator´s) notions. --Pedro Romero Sedeño MFA (12/05/01)

•If any of Romero's work had been included in the exhibit, would he have been so willing to call the curator a gatekeeper? --urrutia (12/06/01) 

•Romero's revisionist and selective memory regarding his participation in nihilist protest would have a reader believe Romero and his henchfolk were engaged in aesthetic debate set against a cultural landscape.--mvsedano (12/07/01)

•On your website, I read Jose Villegas' email to you, and I was sorry that he had the nerve to speak for all of Northern New Mexico. --Yolanda Rael (12/11/01)

•Being a woman of color, and a lesbian at that, seeing your work was greatly inspiring to me.--Aisha Domingue (12/15/01)

•(To Jose Villegas): Your "generation" does not speak for mine, nor for the future. Que viva LA IDEA libre, la liberacion de nuestra raza!-- Sara Martinez, California (12/16/01)

•I opposed your exhibit in New Mexico because I truly believed that the administratrors of the Museum were using you as a tool to further their own idological and political views.--Octavio Romano (12/19/01)

•The New Mexico issue is complex at different levels. At my level, I will always protect my right to create work.--Alma Lopez (12/19/01)

•I love the earthiness of your guadalupe; my understanding of liberation theology IS its earthiness. god/dess is with us, here and now, enfleshed and all that! --una ni riain, MDiv, oakland CA (12/31/01)