Arts

All Student Art Show On Display At Step Up Gallery

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STEP UP GALLERY News:

The Los Alamos Public Schools celebrate student art month and the New Mexico Year of Arts in Education with a colorful display of hundreds of artworks made by students from Pre-K through high school seniors. Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library hosts this annual show, which opened today.

The district’s art team goes above and beyond to prepare the show for hanging. The teachers are collecting and labeling the art works, planning how work will be displayed, choosing representative pieces and boxing things up to transport them to the gallery. The art show team is led by middle Read More

Dorothy Browdy Kushner ‘A Force Of Nature’ On View March 13 – April 18, 2026

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Purple Flowers (diptych), circa 1964, oil on board, 47.75 x 49 in

Moon Over The Pines, 1955, casein on board, 28 x 20 in

ART News:

SANTA FE — LewAllen Galleries is honored to present Dorothy Browdy Kushner: A Force of Nature, an exhibition of abstract and landscape paintings by the dedicated California and New York Mid-20th Century Modernist painter Dorothy Browdy Kushner (1909–2000). Opening Friday, March 13, 2026, the exhibition highlights Kushner’s evocative synthesis of color, light, and place, showcasing a rigorous body of work that pushed her subjects, particularly landscapes and Read More

SFIS & MIAC Form New Partnership

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EDUCATION News:

AstroTour [AR]: Indigenous Cosmologies Through Code is a 6-week transdisciplinary youth workshop that fuses augmented reality, coding, and sky observation.

This powerful new collaboration brings together cultural perspectives, space science, and creative technology in partnership with the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) and the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS).

Students from SFIS’s Advanced Computer Science class visited the Makowa exhibit at the museum for inspiration.

Bethany Rivera and the STEMarts team with Dr. Julia Blue Bird, Lakota Astrophysicist Read More

Sweet Charity Exhibit At Village Arts Ends Feb. 28

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Courtesy photo

Courtesy photo

ART News:

What do hats knitted by Melissa Alexander, a watercolor pencil portrait of Bubo the Great Horned Owl by Lydia Marshall, and abstracted collages by Jacci Gruninger have in common?  Each of these artists care! 

The common theme of the current exhibit at Village Arts follows the title “Sweet Charity”, where artists were invited to submit artwork that, if sold, would go to the charities of their choice. Nearly 2 dozen artists submitted over 40 pieces to the exhibition in the hopes of giving back to potentially over different 20 causes that are close to their Read More

‘From Calcutta With Love: The World War II Letters Of Richard And Reva Beard’ Author To Host Book Signing

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Santa Fe Author Elaine Pinkerton

COMMUNITY News:

Pajarito Press LLC announces the release of a new edition of “From Calcutta with Love: The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard,” compiled and edited by Santa Fean Elaine Pinkerton, formerly of Los Alamos.

This collection revives an important primary source documenting the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater—a critical yet often-overlooked front of World War II.

From 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, Pinkerton will sign copies and discuss her beautifully redesigned book at a special event at Barnes & Noble, Santa Fe Place Mall.

The CBI Read More

Review: Olion’s ‘Mean Girls’ Is So Fetch!

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Isabella Gietsos, Mattea Clarkson, and Gyasi Atta-Fynn will win your heart as Janice, Cady, and Damian in the Olions’ musical Mean Girls. Photo by Timothy Talley

Mattea Clarkson and Sumner Tholen shine as Cady Heron and her crush Aaron in the Olion’s production of Mean Girls, which runs for one more weekend. Photo by Timothy Talley

Review by Kelly Dolejsi
Los Alamos 

There is nothing more fetch than Los Alamos High School Olions’ production of Mean Girls. You have one more weekend to laugh, cringe, and join in on all your favorite quotes from the movie — or to experience the classic tale of high school Read More

Los Alamos Makers Launches Creative Workforce Development Program

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3D-printed ice cream cone and Oreo cookie storage boxes, laser-cut wood carving and personalized laser-engraved cutting board are a few of the many fabricated products showcased by Los Alamos Makers at last year’s Science Fest. Courtesy photo

Los Alamos Makers News:

  • Sponsored by New Mexico Creative Industries Division to strengthen creative industry clusters and diversify the state economy

Los Alamos Makers launched today, Feb. 23, its new Creative Workforce Development Program, a hands-on training initiative designed to expand economic opportunity within New Mexico’s creative Read More

NM History Museum: Cultivating The Next Generation Of Historians At National History Day Youth Competition

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New Mexico History Museum at 113 Lincoln Ave. in Santa Fe. Courtesy/NMHM

New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs News:

SANTA FE – Critical thinking, research, and creative expression will be spotlighted by students at the National History Day 2026 New Mexico Regionals contest on Wednesday, March 4, at the New Mexico History Museum.

This annual event, supported by the Historical Society of New Mexico, brings hundreds of students, teachers, and judges to the museum for a juried competition of student projects on a range of historical topics.

This year’s theme, “Revolution, Reaction, Reform Read More