Arts

Author/Photographer Don Usner Featured At Authors Speak Thursday

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Don Usner

MPL News:

Author and photographer Don Usner is the featured speaker at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at Mesa Public Library.

Book cover for ‘Chasing Dichos through Chimayo.’ Courtesy photo

Usner’s latest book, published by UNM Press, is called Chasing Dichos through Chimayo. The book is a chronicle of his search for the deep roots contained in old sayings, proverbs and adages from a disappearing culture and language.

Chasing Dichos through Chimayo

The book also is a very personal and moving story of riding in the car with his mother to Chimayo to find those old stories. The stories Read More

Greg Moon Art Gallery Calls For Entries In ‘After Dark IV’ Exhibition

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The Greg Moon Art Gallery in Taos. Courtesy/GMAG
 
Taos News:
 
TAOS — The Greg Moon Art Gallery in Taos is calling for entries from artists across the United States for the gallery’s “After Dark IV” show, celebrating the concept of darkness and the varied reactions, which are emblematic to this concept.
 
The entry deadline is 11:59 p.m., April 15.
Entries are being accepted in the mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, mixed media, fiber arts, glass and assemblage.
 
Jurors who will be judging the entries
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‘Culture Day’ At Roundhouse Offers Best Of State Museums And Historic Sites

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State News:
 
SANTA FE ― The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs will host “Culture Day” 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday at the State Capitol Rotunda.
 
Interactive exhibits featuring New Mexico’s state-run museums and historic sites, as well as arts, historic preservation, archaeology and library programs will be offered to legislators and visitors to the Capitol throughout the day:
  • New Mexico Arts will provide “Oculus Rift Glasses” offering the wearer a cutting edge virtual “Pull of the Moon Experience.”
  • The NM State Library will display the new “Brainfuse” online tutorial
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Smart Design With Suzette: Wall Art

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Courtesy/Suzette Fox
 
Smart Design with Suzette
Wall Art
By SUZETTE FOX

Thomas Merton said, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Indeed, as a society, we are moved by great pieces of art. But has anyone ever tried to hang it?

Have you heard, “Hang art so that the center of the piece or grouping is at eye level?” But eye level is different for everyone. It’s not like we are all the same size!

Hanging Height

There’s no real hard and fast rules about the height you should hang pictures on the wall, but there are some guidelines and starting places that are proven and useful. Read More

Local Author E. E. Giorgi’s New Novel Launches Monday As Part Of Unique Collaboration

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 Cover of ‘Immunity,’ by E. E. Giorgi. Courtesy photo

LITERARY News:

Monday—in an unprecedented publishing event—Wonderment Media, Inc. (WMI), will launch five new novels in its brand world, Apocalypse Weird. One of them is local artist and writer E.E. Giorgi.

This first-of-its-kind collaboration among two dozen authors, editors, graphic designers and marketing professionals is spearheaded by USA Today bestselling author Michael Bunker and Nick Cole, author of The Old Man and the Wasteland and Soda Pop Soldier. Cole’s The Red King—the first AW novel made free to readers Read More

‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ Opens Tonight

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Cast of ‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ Courtesy photo
 
ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT) and Los Alamos Public Schools (LAPS) reprise Willy Wonka, Jr.

Originally presented by ACCT in 2009, this weekend’s production, performed by a talented cast of Los Alamos Middle School students, will leave you singing.

Follow the adventures of five lucky children who win a contest to tour the famous Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. Evelyn Wohlbier plays the eccentric Willy Wonka and leads the tour down the Chocolate River, through the Candy Inventing Room, the Fizzy Lifting Read More

Fuller Lodge Art Center Launches Program For Artists Ages 4-6

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Youngsters create art at Fuller Lodge Art Center class. Courtesy photo

FLAC News:

It is never too early to get artsy and the Fuller Lodge Art Center is offering some new programs for its youngest patrons.

Artist Erin Green leads young artists ages 4-6 on a variety of themed projects every other Monday through the beginning of May. Classes are 10-11:30 a.m. and cover everything from Dr. Suess and Earth Day projects to mosaics, stamping and sculpture.

The next class, on Monday, will be geared toward “Helping Hands” during which participants will make and decorate plastered hands.

Green has the knowledge Read More

‘Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry’ Exhibit Closes Friday

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MPL News:

  • Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry Wrap-up

Friday is the final day to see the Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry exhibit in Mesa Public Library’s Upstairs Gallery, before it is packed up and sent off to its next location. 

The Dust Bowl and its human, economic, political and environmental impacts are the topics of the exhibit. More than 2,000 visitors have seen the exhibit in Los Alamos to date, and many of them have commented about the relevance of this historic environmental disaster to today’s situation.

Programs associated with the exhibit have included Read More