Stacey Huddleston AKA Radhika - This Spring a marvelous fine art show took place in early May. Stacey Huddleston debuted many pieces of sculpture and painting that she had been creating in her studio on Ledoux Street (now located on Bent Street. In Taos, Stacey's friends call her Radhika, a name she was given by a saint in India some years ago, and she uses that name to sign some of her pieces.

When Stacey Huddleston A.K.A. Radhika, left Paris, Texas in 1984, she had no idea why she had picked Santa Fe as a destination.

"I kind of pulled it out of a hat." She says now, laughing.

With her toddler in tow, a U-Haul trailer packed to the hilt with (mostly) paintings and art supplies, the intrepid traveler arrived in Northern New Mexico, only to discover she could not find what she was looking for in Santa Fe.

"I came up to Taos to think about making a choice from the rentals that I didn't want to live in. I looked in the local paper and found the perfect house in Taos and moved the following day. I didn't know anything about Santa Fe and really didn't know about Taos either." she recalls.

"Only after I moved here, did I discover that this had been my grandfather's favorite place in the world during the '30's and '40's," she says. "He, like so many who came here back then, was also struck by the light and the magic of the land."