Arts

Crowd Packs Metal Menagerie Show at Mesa Library

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Community members filled the upstairs gallery at Mesa Public Library for Wednesday’s opening reception of the Metal Menagerie Show. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Scrap Metal Artists Richard Swenson, left, and David Trujillo speak with Marsha Gilford, vice president public affairs for Smith’s Food and Drug Centers. Gilford is in Los Alamos visiting County officials and local business owners. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

By Bonnie J. Gordon

Metal Menagerie, showcasing the work of two Los Alamos metal sculptors, David Trujillo and Richard Swenson, opened Read More

Wednesday’s FAN Club Coincides With Library’s Metal Menagerie Opening Reception

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Scrap metal fish by David Trujillo. Courtesy photo

CHAMBER News:

The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce has a “really fun” FAN (Food and Networking) Club planned for Wednesday evening Jan. 16: it will be held in conjunction with the opening reception for the Metal Menagerie show in Mesa Public Library’s upstairs gallery.

The hosts are the Friends of the Library … the caterer is Peggy Pendergast … the artists are David Trujillo and Richard Swenson who are represented by Karen Wray Gallery … if you don’t know at least some of these people, you need to get Read More

Fuller Lodge Art Show: ‘Show Some Class’

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ART CENTER News:

 

Celebrate Adult Learners – This display of student work includes work from any students who have participated in art classes at Fuller Lodge Art Center over the past year or work from individuals in art groups that meet at the Art Center or Village Arts. The public is invited to meet the artists at a reception from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26.
 
Call for Artists: We Who Are Clay – Working in clay is a tradition in many cultures, and New Mexico has had a long standing relationship with the medium. Join the Art Center in an effort to interpret and reinterpret
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Chairworks and Dunn Quilting Sale/Store Closing Jan. 15-19

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Courtesy/Dunn Quilting

Staff Report

Chairworks and Dunn Quilting, 3801-A Arkansas Ave., will hold an inventory/closing sale Jan. 15–19 with everything in the store marked down 40 percent.

The store is closed from now until Jan. 15 when it will be opened 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through Jan. 19, after which it will close for good.

Dunn Quilting owner Nicole Dunn has moved her longarm quilting business to her home studio where she will continue to finish quilt tops, and make one-of-a-kind custom quilts for the community, as well as create and design her own art quilts.

Chairworks owner Pat Randall Read More

Kathleen Veenstra: Molding Psyches and Clay

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‘Rocky Mountain Christmas’ by Kathleen Veenstra. Courtesy/FLAC
 
Kathleen Veenstra: Molding Psyches and Clay
By Nancy Coombs

Kathleen Veenstra is well known for her many years of work with the Los Alamos Public Schools as a counselor, but fewer people are familiar with her as an artist.

Veenstra is successful as a ceramicist/potter and also as a fine artist, painting landscapes and portraits. When asked about how she was able to develop to a professional level in all three areas, Veenstra explained that her first love was art and the career as a counselor evolved somewhat Read More

Winter Art Classes Begin Jan. 20

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KWFAG&S News:

Registration is underway for the 2013 Winter Art Classes at Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery and Studio.

Community members are invited to join in the fun by participating in one of the classes, all of which will be held at the Gallery’s new location, 1475 Central Ave., Suite 125.

“Creative Color and Dynamic Design,” is a new evening class taught by award-winning local artist Melissa Bartlett.

Bartlett will teach participants how color theory and design are essential elements of painting. Class starts Jan. 28 from 6-8 p.m. and runs six weeks.

The Karen Wray Fine Read More

Mesa Library: Metal Menagerie by Richard Swenson and David Trujillo

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Local artist Richard Swenson with his larger than life ‘running man’ piece at Audobon Park in New Orleans. Courtesy/MPL

LIBRARY News:

Metal Menagerie: Scrap Metal Sculpture by Richard Swenson and David Trujillo

Mesa Public Library Art Gallery Jan. 16-Feb. 27

Public Reception 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16

Metal artisits Richard Swenson and David Trujillo are Los Alamos neighbors, friends and fellow sculptors of fantastic forms.

Their delightful rabbits; prancing, stylized horses; plunging and cavorting wild hogs; giraffes; whales; sinuous dragons; armadillos; porcupines, not to Read More

UNM-LA Students Venture Beyond Classroom

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‘Cloud Dance’ by Pablita Velarde at Golden Dawn Gallery. Courtesy/UNM-LA

By Bonnie J. Gordon

For students in American Studies 252, “The Native American Experience,” the emphasis really was on experience. The class included four all-day field trips as well as film, Internet and printed materials, and classroom discussion.

“Our first field trip was to the Tewa Basin pueblos and was led by Porter Swentzel from Santa Clara Pueblo,” Instructor Carol Noones said.

Carol Noones

The group visited Santa Clara Pueblo, then San Ildefonso Pueblo where they Read More

Kate O’Donnell Transforms Home, Life Through Art

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‘Dancing Poppies’ painting by Kate O’Donnell.

‘Sitting Still’ painting by Kate O’Donnell.

By Mandy Marksteiner

Kate O’Donnell, producer of the Reel Deal Theater preshow, has lived in a beautiful home on Bathtub Row for seven years. She and her husband Jim O’Donnell have restored that home to regain its historic integrity and be an inspiring place to live.

Their guiding principle for the remodel has been “Everything needs to touch you in some way.”

Before World War II, the house was the arts and craft building for the Boy’s ranch. Since then, famous people Read More

Quaking Aspen Fine Art Holiday Artist Reception Friday and Saturday

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Moon Over Mesas. Photo by Leslie Bucklin
 
Fall View From Los Alamos. Photo by Leslie Bucklin
 
Staff Report
 
The community is invited to attend the Quaking Aspen Fine Art Holiday Artist Reception Friday, Dec. 21 and Saturday, Dec. 22 at the Dixie Girl Gallery & Restaurant in downtwn Los Alamos.
 
Chat with photographer Leslie Bucklin and browse her greeting cards, matted prints and gallery images. Goodies will be served!
 
Bucklin grew up in Los Alamos and after a few years in Colorado and California, she has returned to Los Alamos to raise her family in the
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