Arts

Taos National Society of Watercolorists Group Exhibition Opens Aug. 30

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Wheeler Peak by Linda Henderson is one of the pieces in the show.
 

TNSW News:

The Taos National Society of Watercolorists is staging a group exhibition at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos. The exhibition will be on display from Aug. 30-Sept. 29.

The Opening Reception will take place from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30 and will feature a “meet and greet” with the 22 artist members of the National Society of Watercolorists. Admission is free for the reception and there will be refreshments served.

All work in this exhibition is for sale. All works remain on exhibit for the duration Read More

White Rock’s Artist Market: Call for Exhibitors

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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

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A season of color in Taos. Photos by Jill Caven and Janet Burns

Staff 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

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Atomic City Children’s Theater Plans Busy Year

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Students in the Atomic City Children’s Theater February production of ‘Disney The Little Mermaid Jr.’ take well deserved bows. Courtesy photo

ACCT 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’

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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

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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
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‘The Disappearing Art Show:’ Check it Out Before it’s Gone

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‘Cooke’s Peak’ by Benjamin Harry. Courtesy photo

LIBRARY 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

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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

 

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

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

Riding Wooden Horses at Saturday’s Art Show

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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

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