Someone with an artist flair gives the White Rock rock a colorful new look at the corner of N.M. 4 and Rover Boulevard. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More
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LAAC September Brown Bag Features Jazz Performance By Dr. Marcos Cavalcante
LAAC News:
The Los Alamos Arts Council announces the opening of the new season of its Brown Bag Performance Series at noon, Sept. 3 at Fuller Lodge.
The first concert of the series features a jazz performance by Dr. Marcos Cavalcante. The LAAC’s Brown Bag concerts showcase local preforming artists and are free and open to the public. Performances are generally the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge.
Cavalcante is a Brazilian from Bahia who lives in Los Alamos. He has lived in New Mexico since 2007. A guitar player, composer and arranger, he developed his Read More
Crowd Packs Art Opening At Convento Gallery
Standing from left, Lori Heimdahl Gibson, Jennifer Heineman and Ann Lumaghi and sitting from left, Sandy Nichols, Kit Keith and Jaye Buros are the artists who comprise Las Mujeres del Valle – Women of the Valley art show, which opened Friday at the Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center Convento Gallery in the Plaza de Española. The exhibition continues through Oct. 3. For information, call 505.500.7126 or director@nnmrac.org or www.nnmrac.org. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center Board Chair Gabriela Silva, bookkeeper Jennifer Heineman Read More
Meet the Cast of Tower of Magic Opening Sept. 5
Katrina Koeler as Sue McFate. Courtesy/LALTLALT News:
Los Alamos Little Theatre presents Tower of Magic Sept. 5-14 at 1670 Nectar St. near downtown Los Alamos.
Sue McFate is finding it difficult to announce her engagement. Her family has never once heard she has a boyfriend. Her fiancé doesn’t even know her real name.
Sue has come home to make the announcement, but finds herself stymied when she realizes that her fiancé, Felix, will be a huge disappointment to her family.
Scott Reynolds as Felix. Courtesy/LALT
Felix pays an unexpected visit to the family and meets his potential Read More
Los Alamos Photographer Phillip Noll’s Work Displayed At Smithsonian Beginning Sept. 3
Phillip Noll’s photograph of Mt Sneffels goes on display at the Smithsonian Sept. 3. Courtesy/Phillip NollBy KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
So far this year, 4.9 million people have walked through the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. While this massive number has viewed flora and fauna from all over the world, starting in September, the crowds will see Los Alamos represented on the museum’s walls.
Phillip Noll during a photo shoot. Courtesy photo
Los Alamos Photographer Phillip Noll of Raven Images earned honorable mention in the Wilderness50 photography Read More
Public Invited To ‘An Artful Celebration’ Sept. 11
COUNTY News:
The Arts in Public Places Board (APPB) will host “An Artful Celebration” Thursday evening, Sept. 11, as part of week-long events planned for Los Alamos ScienceFest.
Beginning at 5 p.m., tours of the public art housed in the Municipal Building in downtown Los Alamos will depart from the lobby. In addition, from 5 to 7 p.m., guests and residents are invited to review art proposals and provide comments to the APPB for outdoor artwork envisioned for installation on the large plaza on the west side of the Municipal Building.
The artists have been invited to be on hand to answer questions Read More
Scenes Around Los Alamos And White Rock
This praying mantis, named for its prominent front legs that are bent and held together at an angle that suggests the position of prayer, came in for his close up during a recent photo shoot in White Rock. Photo by Leah Austin
Here the praying mantis shows off his profile features. Photo by Leah Austin
Clouds hover low looking east from the Anderson Overlook area in Los Alamos. Photo by Leah Austin
Looking east from the Anderson Overlook area in Los Alamos. Photo by Leah Austin
A view from the Los Alamos Cooperative Market. Photo by Leah Austin Read More
Author Paulette Frankl Shares Memories of Marcel Marceau With Rotarians
Paulette Frankl discusses her new book about her relationship with Marcel Marceau. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.comBy KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
Paulette Frankl has done it all. She was a self-described “hippie farmer,” a photojournalist, a courtroom sketch artist, a magician, a mime and an author. Her latest literary work is a memoir titled, “Marcel and Me,” which details another interesting aspect of Frankl’s life; her relationship with Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, which spanned 36 years.
Frankl discussed her memoir with the Rotary Club of Los Alamos during Read More
Museum of New Mexico Staffers Win Major Publications Awards
Promotional materials for ‘Turquoise, Water, Sky.’ Courtesy/ Museum of Indian Arts & CultureSTATE News:
SANTA FE—The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs is proud to announce that members of its staff have won three of four awards in the 2014 Publications Design Competition of the Mountain-Plains Museum Association.
The awards, to be presented at the organization’s Sept. 28–Oct. 2 conference, represent excellence in the design of exhibition catalogues, books and other collateral materials produced for museums within a 10-state region of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Read More
New Mexico Artist Greg Reiche Begins Sculpture Design Process for New Nature Center
Flor del Llano, a public art piece designed by Greg Reiche for the city of Longmont, Colo. Courtes/gregreichdesign.comPEEC News:
Last week, the Arts in Public Places Committee and members of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) met with artist Greg Reiche to formally kick off the design process for the sculpture to adorn the outside of the new Los Alamos County Nature Center.
The group toured the construction site where the new facility is well under construction, giving the artist a chance to better understand PEEC, its mission, and the role the new center will play in the community. Read More