Alicia Inez Guzmán
Alicia Inez Guzmán is a critic and award-winning investigative journalist focused on culture and land use. She is a winner of the 2026Rabkin Prize. You can read more about Alicia here.
We invited Alicia to have a conversation about her work and ideas. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait by Kevin J Miyazaki of Alicia at her home with her dog, Frida, in Chimayo, N.M., surrounded by art, including “Questions,” by Monika Guerra; “Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe,” by Vicente Telles; and “The Frenchman’s House, Ojo Sarco, NM,” by Alicia’s father, Richard Guzmán.
The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity.
Mentioned in this episode:
Buried secrets, poisoned bodies by Alicia Inez Guzmán (Searchlight New Mexico, Dec. 20, 2023)
The terrible emptiness of ‘Oppenheimer’ by Alicia Inez Guzmán (Searchlight New Mexico, Aug. 8, 2023)
Artist Joanna Keane Lopez
American Progress by John Gast (1872)
U.S. Homeland Security post (X, July 23, 2025)
Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country exhibit (Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2025- Nov. 1, 2026)
O’Keeffe Country was never O’Keeffe’s to begin with by Alicia Inez Guzmán (High Country News, May 29, 2026)
Artist Jason Garcia on Facebook
Portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe (Alfred Stieglitz Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago)
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz
Artist and filmmaker Tara Najd Ahmadi
Unfinished: Art, Film, and Revolution in Iran, 1979 by Tara Najd Ahmadi (University of Rochester, N.Y., 2021)
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange (Penguin Random House, 2025)
This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The interview was conducted by Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. The portraits were made by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The production team includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer; Johnathon Olsen, editor; with research and copy editing by Danielle Yovino and Nan Williams.
Music is HaHaHa by Ariel Shalom, Present in the Past by Flint, March the Machine (Instrumental) by Envy, and Lakeside Cafe by WOOLFSON. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners.