Richard Montoya has been painting traditional retablos since he was a boy, and has become well known through the years. Montoya is a part-time artist and Medical Social Worker who specializes in Geriatrics and in the area of Death and Dying. He has lived in the Santa Cruz and Espanola Valley all his life. 

Montoya paints Hispanic folk art of Christian images painted on wood known as Retablos or tablets. He feels that his art is not a way of giving back to his, culture, because it is vastly rejected by his own people, Hispanics. He says that they are exposed to it all their life and take it for granted . He does this type of art to make people in other cultures aware of the Hispanic culture.

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