NICHOLAS HERRERA

Nicholas Herrera (b. 1964) in the process of carving Christo out of cottonwood at his home in El Rito, New Mexico.
(Christo is now in the collection of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles.) Chuck Rosenak christened Herrera the "El Rito Santero," in an article he wrote for the Folk Art Messenger (Summer 1993): 4-5.