White Rock’s Artist Market: Call for Exhibitors
LACDC News:
The Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation is seeking Artists or Artisans to participate in its outdoor Art Market, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 at the White Rock Visitors Center.
The fee is $15 to participate and exhibitors must provide their own tables, chairs and tents.
Direct questions to Melanie Peña at 505-661-4807 or melanie@losalamos.org. Register online here. Read More
Nine Weekends of Taos Grand Fall Arts Begins
A season of color in Taos. Photos by Jill Caven and Janet BurnsStaff Report
TAOS—Fall colors in Taos include not only the vivid changing leaves in Carson National Forest but a multi-colored palette of festivals that take place throughout September and October.
The 2013 Taos Grand Fall Arts season includes many art, music, literary, and culinary events and several major festivals – Taos Fall Arts Festival, Taos Wool Festival, and SOMOS Storytelling Festival are among the most popular.
This year, the roster of events features a number of colorful personalities:
Aug. 17-Sept.1 Grammy-winner
Hey, Mozart! New Mexico Selects 9-year-old’s Composition for Orchestration
Karin Ebey
MUSIC News:
Hey, Mozart! New Mexico has chosen Coelophysis on the Rio Grande by 9-year-old Karin Ebey of Los Alamos as one of the compositions to be orchestrated for the 2013 Child Composer Project.
“I like music because it lets me express my ideas using beautiful sounds, and because it challenges me,” Ebey said.
Ebey’s melody will be arranged for orchestra by Christian Newman. The Albuquerque Youth Orchestra of the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program will perform the works for orchestra at the concert.
Ebey will perform her piece on piano at the Hey, Mozart! New Mexico concert at 7 p.m. Read More
Atomic City Children’s Theater Plans Busy Year
Students in the Atomic City Children’s Theater February production of ‘Disney The Little Mermaid Jr.’ take well deserved bows. Courtesy photoACCT News:
Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), Los Alamos Public Schools’ award winning after-school theater program announces its events for the upcoming year.
Auditions for Disney Aladdin Jr., this year’s Elementary School production, a two-act musical play based on the smash Broadway hit. Auditions are 2-5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, and open to fifth and sixth grade students in the Los Alamos area. Registration Read More
SFI’s Science on Screen Presents ‘Zardoz’
Doyne Farmer
SFI News:
The popular Science on Screen series continues at 7 p.m. today, Aug. 20 at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Institute External Professor Doyne Farmer will illuminate John Boorman’s 1974 sci-fi cult classic Zardoz from his unique perspective as a physicist, complexity theorist, and “rogue economist.”
Sean Connery stars as Exterminator Zed in a postapocalyptic future featuring a flying stone head, revered as a god but with murderous intent, and two classes of inhabitants leading very different lives. Read More
A Collective Work of Art
Katy Korkos, Annie Rose, Kimber Wallwork-Heineman, Johanna Feliz Boudreau, Deb Freado Chapman, Corina Logghe, Joan Logghe, Paula Reid, Lyssa Elder, Deborah Gordon, Dana Abrums-Hughes and Russ and Deb Gordon and Robin Reider got together at a residence Saturday and together created a colorful quilt. Photo by Katy Korkos‘The Disappearing Art Show:’ Check it Out Before it’s Gone
‘Cooke’s Peak’ by Benjamin Harry. Courtesy photoLIBRARY News:
Los Alamos County Library presents “The Disappearing Art Show,” featuring more than 175 framed prints, paintings and photographs, all free to borrow from your library. The show will be on display Aug. 30 to Sept. 25, or until there is no art left. Visit the Mesa Public Library Art Gallery on the second floor to see the show.
‘Cholla and Saguaro’ by Gustave Baumann. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos County Library System has collections in many different formats: magazines, large print books, foreign Read More
Bring on the Clowns: ‘Trickster’ Exhibit Opening Tonight
Tricksters cavort in the new show at Fuller Lodge Art Center. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
‘Madame Belle Reveals All’ by Los Alamos artist Wendy Dunn and her father, Frank Miller of Spring Lake, Mich. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Tricksters come in all shapes and sizes and exist in every culture. A trickster is a prankster, a wise fool, a crafty schemer and often the butt of his own joke.
A trickster disrupts the social norms and sets the world spinning in a new direction.
The latest show at Fuller Lodge Art Center Read More
Singer-Songwriter Lisa Morales Plays the Pond Friday
Lisa Morales on the cover of her album, ‘Beautiful Mistake.’ Courtesy photo
By RUSS GORDON
The Los Alamos Summer Concert Series continues at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16 at Ashley Pond with the wonderful singer-songwriter and rocker, Lisa Morales and her new band. Morales sings rock and blues, honkytonk and, by request, some of her traditional Mexican-Arizona music.
Morales has played here a number of times with her sister Roberta and their band, Sisters Morales. They have presented some of the best concerts the Series has had in its 24 years. The ladies went through some personally tough Read More
Live Music Under the Stars at Opera on the Rocks
Opera on the Rocks in 2012 at Bandelier National Monument. Courtesy/LAOG
LAOG News:
Enjoy an exciting night of opera at Bandelier National Monument during the second annual Opera on the Rocks event, Saturday Sept. 21.
Opera Alta will perform Amahl and the Night Visitors at 6:15 p.m. at the Juniper Campground Amphitheater. This opera was originally created by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti for NBC making it the first opera written entirely for television. The event is an opportunity for those not familiar with opera, as well as for opera enthusiasts to enjoy listening in a special venue.
Riding Wooden Horses at Saturday’s Art Show
This children couldn’t resist taking a ride on the wooden horses created by Taos artist Juan Rivera during Saturday’s Art and Crafts show at Fuller Lodge … and of course their parents ended up buying them. Photo by Sandra Quintana
Rodeo royalty having fun from left, Princess Maria Gibson, Queen Rachel Larson and Sweetheart Maria Macginnes. Photo by Sandra Quintana
Pink Clouds Float Above Walnut Street
Colorfully illuminated clouds float above Walnut Street Monday. Photo by Bob Beberniss Read More
Art Goes Outdoors with PEEC’s ‘Plein Air’ Class
PEEC News:
Whether you consider yourself an artist, or you’ve never picked up a paint brush, the upcoming Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) “Plein Air” class will allow you to explore outdoor surroundings through art.
Dorothy Hoard will lead the “Plein Air” (outdoor) art session on Friday, Aug. 23. Participants should meet at 9:30 a.m. at PEEC to carpool, or at 10 a.m. at the Cerro Grande Trailhead on N.M. 4.
The area that the group will visit is an open forest with aspen and ponderosa trees and a nice collection of wildflowers. Hoard will give instructions on how to draw flowers, or Read More
Hannemann’s Music Corner: Beginning Music – Continuing Music
Hannemann’s Music Corner: Beginning Music – Continuing MusicSummer has near flown and lo and behold the school year is upon us. For many students that means “do I start band or orchestra?” and/or “do I continue with band or orchestra?” It turns out the answer to one is the answer to the other.
After lo these many years I’ve figured out that if you live long enough, you will use everything you ever learned about anything. There comes a time when one can look at where one is and, looking back a bit, ask, “Wow, who knew?” It Read More
Award Winning Teen Filmmaker Speaks to Rotary Club
Award-winning filmmaker, 17-year-old Samantha Filer speaks to a meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos on Aug. 6. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comROTARY NEWS:
Samantha Filer, a 17-year-old homeschooled home school student from Jemez Springs, received the Best of Festival Award in the statewide Desert Light Film Festival. She was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos Tuesday, Aug. 6
Filer produced, edited and directed “The Sword of Arundel,” a 56 minute drama with a Lord of the Rings feel. The Rotary Club saw a seven minute version Tuesday, which Read More
‘Salt and Pepper’ on Stage in Taos
Brandon Santos and Silvana Neal perform in ‘Warm Ashes,’ one of seven one-acts that make up ‘Salt and Pepper.’ Courtesy photoStaff Report
“Salt and Pepper,” written by local playwright, Robert F. Benjamin and directed by Jayne Aylesand Kay Peters Johnson, is a collection of short plays that celebrate aging with grace, courage and humor.
The play is on stage this weekend in Taos.
The play had its world premiere June 7 at the Toolshed Theatre in Dixon. The Taos production features the same cast and crew. It will take place at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Read More
Evelyn Campbell Wins Tapestry Excellence Award
‘Sandhill Cranes over Pajarito Acres,’ a tapestry by local fiber artist Evelyn Campbell, won the American Tapestry Alliance Award of Excellence. Courtesy photoStaff Report
The American Tapestry Alliance has announced that Evelyn Campbell from Los Alamos received the ATA Award for Excellence in Tapestry for her piece, “Sandhill Cranes over Pajarito Acres.”
Her tapestry was displayed July 26-28 at the “Celebration of Fiber” sponsored by Intermountain Weavers Conference at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo. Campbell’s Read More
Austin Singer-Songwriter James Hyland at Pond Friday
Singer-songwriter James Hyland. Courtesy photoBy RUSS GORDON
Last week I caught a part of an early 1940s movie with Tommy Dorsey playing a jive talking bandleader.
He was talking about “cool cats” and “daddy-os” and described some music as being “far out.” Whenever I say something is far out, I get looks like I’m John Denver’s unholy ghost. Have you seen the new stage area at Ashley Pond? It’s looking so cool! Far out! I love the Ashley Pond remodel. As my grandpa used to say, “yeah, it’s expensive but what the heck?” Granddaddio! I wonder what my grandkids are gonna say about me?
By the way, my daughter Read More
Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery Closing Doors Oct. 1
ART News:
Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery at 1475 Central Ave. has announced it’s closing its doors Oct. 1.
Most of its artists will keep their work in the gallery until Sept. 20 and owner Karen Wray encourages community members to start their holiday shopping early this year.
The gallery is open noon to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Wray intends to move to a studio space on East Gate Drive in Los Alamos. She plans to start oil painting classes again soon and also offer classes in other media.
Visit https:////www.karenwrayfineart.com/, for her class schedule or Read More
Arts and Crafts Fair Offers Something for Every Taste and Budget
Browsers at 2012 Arts and Crafts Fair. Courtesy photoMonkey sock toys by Sandra Frentzel of Albuquerque. Courtesy photo
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Arts and crafts fairs come in abundance. The one that will be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Fuller Lodge lawn, however, is distinct.
The Fuller Lodge Art Center, established to celebrate artists, is running the show. The proceeds from booth sales go to help ensure the Center’s doors remain open. Everything else goes to the painters, sculptures, jewelers, weavers and other artists. It truly is all about the art.
Art Center Marketing Director Nancy Coombs Read More
