Arts

Artist Market in White Rock Saturday Sept. 7

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LACDC News:

Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation is hosting an Artist Market 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday Sept. 7 at the White Rock Visitors Center, 115 N.M. 4.

The market will feature local artists selling gemstone and wirework jewelry also jewelry made with real roses. Natural soaps, lotions, facial scrubs, spritzers, lip balms, lotion bars, salves, chile rubs and other body products. Handmade hand polished stones for jewelry and wearable stone art plus mineral specimens, paintings and wool accessories. 

For more information about the Artist Market, contact Melanie Peña Read More

Atomic City Children’s Theater to Hold Auditions

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Los Alamos students at the Junior Theatre Festival 2012. Courtesy photo

ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), the Los Alamos Public Schools’ award winning after-school theater program, announces auditions for their Junior Theater Festival (JTF) field trip to Atlanta, Ga.

Auditions are 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 and open to all students in the Los Alamos or White Rock area. Students wishing to participate in the field trip should come to the Mountain Elementary School gym. Registration begins at noon.

JTF activities begin with an adjudicated performance. Afterwards, students Read More

‘Blue Jasmine’ is Humorous and Heartwrenching

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Movie Review by KIRSTEN LASKEY

“Blue Jasmine” might make you feel blue. This doesn’t mean the movie is not good, but rather that it stirs up a mixture of emotions. You could be chuckling, yet feel pings of sympathy all in one moment.

Woody Allen’s movie is set in the present, but feels like it could have jumped out of  a Tennessee Williams play. “A Street Car Named Desire,” has a similar plot.

Like Blanche DuBois, Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is a woman who is unraveling. Her upscale lifestyle vanishes after her husband, Hal (Alec Baldwin) is imprisoned for his many white-collar crimes, then Hal Read More

Pottery By Mei-Li Shih Milonni on Display at Library

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Pottery by Mei-Li Shih Milonni is on display at Mesa Public Library. Courtesy photo

LAPL News:

After retiring as a theoretical physicist 15 years ago, Dr. Mei-Li Shih Milonni now finds beauty and expression in pottery.

Working at UNM-Los Alamos ceramics studio, she began creating her vibrantly colored and elegantly formed vessels about ten years ago. Sometimes whimsical, such as her ceramic handbag and shoes in bright green, and sometimes subtle with simple, functional forms and earth toned, graded glazes, Shih’s pottery is expressive of a gamut of creative impulse.

While she doesn’t have Read More

White Rock’s Artist Market: Support Local Artists Saturday

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LACDC News:

Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation will host an Artist Market featuring both local and surrounding Northern New Mexico artists 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 at the White Rock Visitors Center at 115 N.M. 4.

The Artist Market will include Native American pottery from San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santo Domingo Pueblo, photography, handmade jewelry and body products, vintage inspired accessories such as aprons and cosmetic bags, recycled paper art, acrylic paintings, crochet items and so many other wonderful items. 

For more information about the Artist Market Read More

‘Deep into the Darkness Peering’ Call for Artists

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FLAC News:

The Fuller Lodge Art Center has issued a call for artists for the show “Deep into the Darkness Peering.”

According to Art Center spokesmen, they want artists to “dare to dream, to fear, to doubt, to take on the darkness described in the immortal words from Edgar Allen Poes’ The Raven. Dare to show us where the darkness leads.”

Application Deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 3. The show will open with a reception Oct. 4 and end Nov. 16.

Click here to download the application. If you have any questions about showing in Fuller Lodge Art Center, call Ken or Amy at 505-662-1635. Visit the Center online Read More

Public Art Installation,’The Power of Code,’ Unveiled at UNM-LA

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UNM-LA faculty, staff and community members gather before the ribbon cutting ceremony for ‘The Power of Code,’ the new public art project on the UNM-LA campus. Photo by Vint Miller
 
Santa Fe artist Nicolas Gadbois cuts the ribbon on his new public art piece, ‘The Power of Code’ at the UNM-LA campus Tuesday. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon
 

By VINT MILLER

It’s been nearly eight years in the making, but The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) finally dedicated the new public art piece, The Power of Code, Tuesday at a gathering of students, staff and community Read More

Atomic City Children’s Theater Holding Auditions for Disney Aladdin Jr.

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Los Alamos students perform in last year’s production of Disney The Little Mermaid Jr. Courtesy/ACCT

ACCT News:

Atomic City Children’s Theater (ACCT), the Los Alamos Public Schools’ after-school theater program, is excited to announce auditions for their Elementary School production of Disney Aladdin Jr., a two-act musical play based on the smash Broadway hit.

Auditions will be 2-5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, and are open to 5th or 6th grade students in the Los Alamos or White Rock area. Registration begins at 1 p.m. and students wishing to participate in the cast should come to the Mountain Read More

UNM-LA Unveils New Public Art Piece

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The Power of Code, a new public art installation on the UNM-LA campus. Photo by Vint Miller
 
Santa Fe artist Nicolas Gadbois installs his piece, The Power of Code, at UNM-LA. Photo by Vint Miller

UNM-LA News:

The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) invites the public to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony for The Power of Code, a new public art installation on campus.

The event is 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, outside of Jeannette O. Wallace Hall.

The commissioned work, by Santa Fe artist Nicolas Gadbois, is a bas-relief set in a floating wall, surrounded by windows, on the Read More

FUZE.SW 2013 Explores Food of the New World

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Foods of the New World on display in’New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más.’ Courtesy photo

MIFA News:

SANTA FE—An exploration of the dawn of world cuisine as we know—and consume it— today, opened last year at the Museum of International Folk Art with “New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más,” on view through Jan. 5, 2014.

Digging deeper into the topics covered in New World Cuisine will be FUZE.SW 2013. Santa Fe’s first-ever food conference of its kind takes place at the Museum of International Folk Art the weekend of Nov. 8-10.

James Beard Award-winning Read More