Arts

Do You Have a Great Idea You Want to Share?

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Grandmother’s Joy by Fritz White. Courtesy photo

APPB News:

The Art in Public Places Board (APPB) has developed an “Open Call for Art/Ideas” to provide Los Alamos citizens the opportunity to suggest ideas or artwork that they would like added to the public art collection.

This can include any suggestion that involves public art to beautify the community.

Artists and citizens are asked to recommend artwork, either existing or conceptual, for a specific public location in Los Alamos County. The purpose of this “Call for Art” is to gather public input for a varied and well-positioned public Read More

Karen Wray Fine Art Introduces New Artists at Opening Reception

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Guests browse and mingle at the ‘Living Things’ opening reception Friday evening at Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery on 15th Street near Central Avenue. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Owner and artist Karen Wray, center, talks with visitors and artists at Friday’s ‘Living Things’ opening reception. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
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LA Piecemakers Quilt Trunk Show April 23

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LA PIECEMAKERS News:

The Art Study Group of the LA Piecemakers will be doing a trunk show of quilts the members have made at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at the United Church. 

The group of about 10 quilters has been together for a number of years.

After taking a class together, they decided to form a group to continue to learn about art quilts. 

They meet on the second Sunday of each month at the White Rock library. They have worked together on a group art quilt challenge-Hot Flash that was shown at the Knoxville AQS show. 

They will also show some of their Farmer’s Market quilts, Quilter’s Read More

Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery Now Represents Artist Becky Steritz

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“Rebirth” by Becky Steritz. Courtesy photo

By MANDY MARKSTEINER

Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery is welcoming a new artist, Becky Steritz.

Meet Steritz and see her work at the “Living Things” exhibit opening reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, April 19.

When Steritz was getting her Master’s Degree in Ceramics in the 80s, one of her professors asked her whether her artwork was “personal.”

At the time she was learning a lot of useful techniques, and working with wonderful materials, but she knew that her work wasn’t personal.

Over the years her work has evolved to be deeply personal, she said.

“My Read More

Novels Being Accepted For Tony Hillerman Prize

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Staff Report

Debut mystery novels set in the southwest are now being accepted for consideration for the Tony Hillerman Prize.

Sponsored by St. Martin’s Press and WORDHARVEST, the prize includes a $10,000 advance and publication by St. Martin’s Press for the best mystery set in the southwest submitted by an author who has not been published in the mystery genre before.

Deadline for submissions is June 1. For complete guidelines visit https:////www.wordharvest.com/contest.php

Named after New Mexico’s best known mystery author, the Tony Hillerman Prize competition Read More

Fiesta Primavera Brings Flamenco to Fuller Lodge

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‘Sevillanas’ from Fiesta Primavera 2012. Courtesy photo

Albuquerque dancer Sara de Luz. Courtesy photo

Staff report

Pajarito Spanish Dance Alliance will present the third annual Fiesta Primavera at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21 in the Pajarito Room of historic Fuller Lodge. 

This year’s theme, “La Poesía del Baile” or “The Poetry of the Dance” focuses on the poetry of flamenco music and how it is interpreted by the dance. 

Ellen Walton, “Elena” is the founder of the organization and directs this year’s show in which she and eight of her local students will perform along with Read More

Reel Deal to Screen ‘War Witch’

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Staff report

The Reel Deal theatre will screen a not-to-be-missed film beginning Friday.

French-Canadian director Kim Nguyen’s “War Witch,” originally titled “Rebelle” swept the Canadian Film Awards (10 wins) and was nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

A 12-year-old girl is caught up in a civil war. After her village is burned down by rebels and her parents are killed, Komona is forced into the jungle as a child soldier. Her brutal commander not only trains her in the use of arms but also orders her to sleep with him.

Searching for shelter amidst the horror, she Read More

Tierra Wools Spring Harvest Festival Celebrates Traditional Crafts

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Hand-dyed wool at a previous Spring Harvest Festival. Courtesy/Dave Thomson

Sheep shearing at Tierra Wools Spring Harvest Festival. Courtesy/Dave Thomson
 
Staff report:

The Tierra Wools Spring Harvest Festival will take place Saturday, April 27 in Los Ojos.

The Festival will feature sheep shearing, spinning, dying and weaving demonstrations. Music and refreshments will be part of the celebration.

Tierra Wools is a spinning, hand dyeing, and hand weaving workshop and a retail store. Tierra Wools buys local yarn to weave into beautiful weavings which are sold from its workshop in Read More

Script Analysis Workshop at LALT Sunday

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LALT News:

Los Alamos Little Theatre will host a Script Analysis Workshop on Sunday, April 14. The workshop will be taught by Shep Sobel.

“The workshop is based on the premise that a great play is built on a strong skeleton – or structure – and that examining the play with a mind to articulating the details of that structure can inform the choices of the playwright, director, design team, and actor,” said John Gustafson, president of the LALT Board of Directors.

“We will endeavor to ‘take the x-ray,’ if you will, of Arthur Miller’s  “All My Sons” as an example of the process, but what we’re really Read More

Experience Santa Fe Landscapes by Artist Bonnie Binkert in Portal Gallery at Fuller Lodge Art Center

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June Equinox by Bonnie Binkert

Staff Report

Mixed media work by Santa Fe artist Bonnie Binkert is on display through April 20 in the Portal Gallery at Fuller Lodge Art Center. 

The Santa Fe landscapes in “Celebrating the Seasons “ compliment “We Who Are Clay” in the main gallery.

“In these latest mixed media works – all done in 2012-13 – I’ve tried to capture the land’s rhythmic and dynamic qualities,” Binkert said. “I’ve incorporated watercolor washes and accents of gouache and acrylic to create a series of atmospheric landscapes celebrating the seasons and senses of New Mexico.”  Read More