Partners
New Mexico’s Center for Cultural Technology (CCT) is an educational, community engagement, and R&D partnership between the Department of Media Arts & Technology at New Mexico Highlands University and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. CCT’s mission is to cultivate a homegrown talent pool of multimedia specialists capable of working with cultural content and committed to serving their communities.
Since 2005, CCT has placed over 200 cultural technology interns in museums, libraries, historic sites, and parks across New Mexico and the southwest, creating well over 300 projects in video/audio, exhibits, graphic design, mobile apps, web sites, and more. CCT’s main headquarters is in the Department of Media Arts & Technology, located in the McCaffrey Historic Trolley Building on the campus of New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, NM.
Since it's founding in 1974, the Menaul Historical Library of the Southwest has become an important repository of the history of the Presbyterian presence in the Southwest.
Over a century ago, Presbyterian Missionaries came to the Southwest from the East. Churches were organized. Presbyterian schools were started. Medical work was begun. Menaul Historical Library was established to preserve this heritage in a way that would make it available to friends and researchers.
The Picuris-Peñasco Community Memory Project is a living collection of historical and creative works by local residents about Northern New Mexico life. Encompassing Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs; 40 year old professional video productions; images and documents from family scrapbooks; and current-day student interviews and media projects, the Picuris-Peñasco Community Memory Project promises to represent the voices of the community. Our intent is by sharing these works and by reflecting on our heritage we can support our cultural, educational and environmentally sustainable way of life. By creating this living-collection, contributors will, in turn, activate new works and community conversations to protect and preserve the natural beauty, viability and well-being of all its members.
The Purpose of Questa Stories ~ Voices of the Northern Rio Grande, is to encourage and celebrate connection to place, culture, history and each other through sharing and archiving lived experiences and stories. As a collection point for these stories we honor those that give them voice; sharing respectfully is important to us. We are creating an audio-visual story archive for North Central New Mexico, particularly for Questa, Cerro and surrounding communities, from Arroyo Hondo and Arroyo Seco to the South, to Costilla and Amalia to the North and just over the border into Colorado, Garcia, San Luis etc.
Taking inspiration from both traditional oral history and ethnographic approaches, as well as more informal events, conversations, the StoryCorps interview model, photography, video and the scanning of precious photographs and documents, the hope is to facilitate the recording and archiving as well as revitalization of local stories and traditions through meaningful conversations that link generations and encourage cross-pollination of ideas, perspectives, experiences and understandings.
The Neighborhood Historians project addresses the imperative need for community-centered history-gathering. In addition to documenting community memory, we hope to foster a sense of belonging and cultural ownership among Santa Feans, providing space for Santa Feans to tell their own stories on their own terms. Through community workshops, storybooths, and skills training, the Neighborhood Historians project seeks to empower Santa Feans to become co- creators of a rich living history, encouraging community dialogue, healing, and the collective determination of where our story goes from here.