Bill and Athena Steen
Bill Steen is from Tucson, Arizona and has a background in community development and photography.
Athena Swentzell Steen is from Santa Fe, New Mexico and comes from an artistic family background of Native American potters, sculptors and educators.
The inclusion of contributions from other cultures in our work is of great importance to us. Our combined Native American, Mexican and European backgrounds enable us to interact with a wide variety of people from different contexts and cultures.
We explore ways of living that connect us to others and the natural world. We seek to balance the wisdom and skills of the past with those things which have value today.
We combine our efforts with others to create simple, comfortable shelter using local and natural materials with handcrafted care. We
cultivate and actively explore the uses of local and beneficial plants like
prickly pear, agaves and bamboo.
We integrate into daily life, traditions that bring enjoyment such as building and baking in wood-fired ovens, cooking with native foods or hosting multi-cultural exchanges and informal musical gatherings.
"It was our love for the place we live, along with the things we enjoy doing - natural building, working with plants, artistic design, photography and writing, that led us to create The Canelo Project."
- Bill & Athena Steen
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