Village Arts Kicks Off The Year With 'Bucket List' Exhibit

Village Arts Kicks Off The Year With ‘Bucket List’ Exhibit

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on January 23, 2025
- 11:20 am

Bucket List Exhibit at Village Arts, Los Alamos. Courtesy/Village Arts

VILLAGE ARTS News:

Village Arts hosts a brand new exhibit for a brand new year entitled “Bucket List”, which asks artists to look forward and examine hopes and experiences.

Tying artwork to artists’ wishes and dreams allowed for some extremely interesting and varied takes of the theme, and has been a great way for viewers to connect more deeply with the artists in the community. Artwork will remain on display through the end of February, and artists are invited to continue entering the show as they work on their own bucket lists this year!

What’s been on your bucket list this past year? If you’re anything like the artists showing their work currently, there’s a mixture of wishes for the world at large and experiences to expand horizons. Amazingly, Bonnie Binkert, Sue Ellen Hains, and Fran Stovall all looked to the skies, specifically the experience of hot air ballooning over various landscaped from Turkey’s Cappadocia to just down the hill at Black Mesa.

Photographer, Ted Greer, looks toward the horizon in his Northern New Mexican landscape titled “Solstice”

Themes of journey and exploration shone through in several artist’s works. Darla Graff Thompson is looking forward to exploring close to home in her “Dory Trip Down the Colorado River” and “Again to Tuscon” encaustic pieces while pastel painter Phyllisha Hamrick captures a portrait of a tiger in her piece “I Dream of Seeing the Wild Tiger”.

Photographer, John Sarracino, took to the corners of the planet and back on his journey and even reaches for the moon!

Other artists turned to broader concepts, like Peggy Durbin’s stippled portrait of a child seeing herself reflected in an image of a cowgirl.

Jeannie Hope Gibson’s “Eternal Longing” shows a bright figure breaking out of darkness with words signifying “Peace” in different languages and mixed media artist Asia Ginn’s “Going Forward” and “Glitter Girl” both turn inward and toward self expression as ways to advance.

Stop by Village Arts to get to know area artists on a whole new level, be inspired, and show your appreciation by voting for your favorite work! Village Arts is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays. You can find out more about what Village Arts has to offer including current and upcoming exhibits at www.villageartsframing.com.