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Sorry, I have not been able to post new posts for fellow artists recently. I have been in and out and upside down. Hopefully things will settle down soon.
Happy Fall Arts. Sooooo much going on.
Be well, Nancy

Drawing group home needed.

If anyone knows of a space that would be suitable for the Thursday drawing group please let me know ASAP. We have been spoiled at Ken's place, he has been a great and generous host. He has let me know that the space will no longer be available and has given me a month to find a new home. This group has been meeting for over 35 years and we can't stop now. Please email me at taosart@gmail.com with any suggestions.

RANCHOS DE TAOS / TALPA ANNUAL STUDIO TOUR;

Michelle Crisman will participating in the studio tour this year visit http://www.ranchosarts.com/ for more information

Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 20 and 21
Saturday 10am to 5pm
and Sunday, noon to 5pm.

One Day Portrait Intensive Workshop with Elizabeth Jose

Join Elizabeth in her studio for a structured day of demonstrations, supported exercises and tips to help improve your portrait painting skills.

Focusing on drawing the head, getting a likeness and realistic skin tones.

Tuesday 30th September – 9.30 – 4 PM
$95 includes model fee, tuition and lunch
$65 discounted fee for TAO members

Spaces are limited so call or e-mail NOW
575-751-0149 – elizjose@gmail.com
In association with the TAO Artist’s Studio Tour

Seamus Berkeley Workshop

Lorrie Bortner at Ranchos Trading Post

Lorrie Bortner and her husband Thomas J. Johnson are showing at the Ranchos Trading Post, middle room, through November 1.
Paintings include Lorrie's Rural Women series, funded in part by a grant from the Puffin Foundation, Ltd.
lorriebortner@yahoo.com
http://www.lorriebortner.com/
(575)751-0493
Lorrie continues to give art lessons and art parties for all ages. And creates murals on commission

TAO General Meeting

Sunday, September 14th at 3:00 pm

Kit Carson Electric, Conference Room

Located on Cruz Alta Rd.

This is an IMPORTANT meeting because it is our last official meeting before the tour. There are items to pick up so please attend. Even if you are not a tour member, you are encouraged to come and participate. Those of you who have your wood board finished, bring it to the meeting. We hope to place them around the room for all to see. Lets talk about what to expect on the tour...any pointers for your fellow artists.If you are one of the few who have not picked up your display board or other materials, this is your chance to pick them up

Sagefarm Contemporary

104 Dona Luz will be exhibiting 'In Progress', a series of seven paintings to be painted live in the gallery during the month of September by Taos artist David Hinske. Hinske is returning to Taos from a critically praised exhibition in Memphis, TN in August. His paintings will also be featured at the re-opening of the Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, MI on October 1st. Please join us at the opening reception for the artist on
Saturday, September 13th
from 5-8pm.
For more information, please call 575-751-3733.

Symmetry, Order, Perfection and Beauty

Seven Paintings at UNM
August 24th to September 13th , 2008
Public Reception: Thursday, September 11th from 4 to 6 pm

Seven large paintings by Cydney Taylor hang in the UNM-Taos Art Lobby. The paintings are from her first body of work, an eighteen year focus on colour as subject. Each painting represents a different series of work, each using a different visual format to explore ideas about symmetry, order, perfection and beauty. The common function of the formats was to hold colour without visual distractions. Motifs of hue, color saturation and tone are used for visual presence. Taylor’s work embodies timeless painting concerns first seen in the sixties and seventies. The show runs until September 13 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the UNM-Taos Klauer Campus.

AUTUMN LANDSCAPE WITH INSTRUCTOR: MICHELLE CHRISMAN

PLEIN AIR PAINTING IN THE SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 & 14 ~ ALBUQUERQUE, NM
In this 2 day course, Michelle will teach the basics of outdoor landscape painting, based on the principles of the French Impressionists and what they taught artists about the visual world and how it works: clarifying light source direction, light/dark patterns, defining beautiful shapes & exciting compositions, assigning correct values, color temperature & how it can work for you; how to mix color with a limited palette, visual pathways & focal point, and how to capture the effects of light, atmosphere and mood with the medium of paint. This class will also help the painter who is well-grounded in the academics of Plein Air Painting, but who wants to clarify & bring forth their own voice & bring excitement & drama to their work. All painting mediums and skill levels are welcome. Michelle is a plein air oil painter residing in Taos, NM. She was featured in the June 2008 issue of Southwest Art Magazine in a special article on Plein Air Painting. She also teaches for the Taos Historic Museum Foundation every summer and is represented by 7 galleries throughout New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. TO REGISTER, CALL HARWOOD ART CENTER: 505-242-6367

the taos gallery events

Sept 26-27: TAO Studio Tour featuring gallery artists at the taos gallery, 103 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

October 3-4: TAO Studio Tour featuring gallery artists at the taos gallery, 103 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

October 4: "the taos gallery Celebrates Fall Arts" Reception, 103 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 5:00pm - 7:00pm.

October 9: DVD Release Party for Seamus Berkeley's new DVD: "The Fundamentals of Painting." the taos gallery, 103 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm.

October 10 - 12: Seamus Berkeley Portrait Painting Workshop. Contact the taos gallery for detailed information: 575.758.3911.

October 15 - November 1: Photography Show: "Continuing the legacy of Mildred Tolbert through the art of Anna Bush and Carol Mell." the taos gallery, 103 Paseo del Pueblo Norte.

October 18: Conversation and reception with Anna Bush, part of the "Continuing the legacy of Mildred Tolbert through the art of Anna Bush and Carol Mell" Photography Show at the taos gallery, 103 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm.

Painting Demonstration

August 30

4-7 pm

Wilder Nightingale Fine Art

Taos landscape painter, Peggy Immel, will be giving a free oil painting demonstration this Saturday. Everyone is invited to attend.

Catch this show before it's gone! "Reflections & Revelations II:

New Work by Joan Fullerton and Dawn Chandler”

Stables Gallery, Taos Center for the Arts. Taos, New Mexico.

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 9, 2008 5:00 - 7:00

Show runs August 9 - September 3.

Please also join us at the gallery for these events—-

Painting workshops with Joan Fullerton - August 23 - 24-

The Art of Yoga, lead by Aura Garver - Thursdays, August 14 & 28, 6 - 7:30pm-

Poetry readings, curated by Thomas Buckley - Wednesdays, August 13, 20, 27, 7 - 8pm

For more details, please visit http://www.taosdawn.com/

Take this Class!!!

Ed Heffernan is teaching a drawing class at the Chrysalis school, cost for class will be around $200 including model's fees, money will be donated to the Chrysalis Alternative school for field trips. Classes may start next week, Tues and Wed at 3:30-5:30. Contact Adair at adair@taosnet.com for more information or to sign up for the class.

Heffernan studied at The Chicago Art Institute. If you never have taken a class from Ed, now is the time, you will not regret it.

Grande y Pequeno: New Work

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 27th
3 – 6pm
September 27th to October 26th
Farnsworth Gallery
133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571
575-758-0776
Sally Russell features new work from the summer – fabulous pinks, burgundies and flames of the garden. Backed by the deep blues, violets and contrasting greens of the sky and foliage, these larger than life floras fill the room with their essence. She works in Oil, Watercolor and Monoprints. Sally suggests brightening up the walls inside or outside under portals and on garden walls with color to continue the hot summer into cool, cool winter.

In Progress

Sagefarm Contemporary (104 Dona Luz) presents "In Progress" - seven paintings by David Hinske to occur from start to finish in the gallery beginning now and finishing mid-October. Patrons may pre-purchase at a reduced price, which increases each day the paintings progress. Three(Now only Two) still available! 575-751-3733. http://sagefarm.blogspot.com/

"Honoring Betsy's Legacy."

4 to 6 p.m.

Friday August 8th

The Gallery on the Green

Taos Country Club.

This exhibition will feature the playful work of Betsy. In her eight years as Local Color columnist for the Taos News, Betsy Carey showed her love and support for the Taos art community by interviewing over 200 artists, never judging their work but rather exploring each artist’s unique creative process. This exhibit finally offers Taos an opportunity to honor Betsy’s own personal journey as an artist, to experience the qualities in her artwork that reflect both her true nature and her approach to life – direct, honest, bold and playful.

Also showing will be the taos gallery artists' interpretation of Betsy's Taos and will hang through October. Artists include: Leigh Gusterson, David Sprague, Tom Rogers, Nancy Delpero, Carlos Barela, Steven Gootgeld, Bill Hudson, Mark Asmus, David Vedoe, MaryAnn Warner, Michael Protiva, Issa De Nicola, Richard & Tupper Hawley, Seamus Berkeley, Mary Dolph Wood.and other artists.

Call to artists Arts and Crafts event in Lincoln, NM

We are having an arts and crafts event in Lincoln, NM on Sept. 6 & 7th.

The artist fee is only $35.00 for two days and we do not take any commission.

All proceeds benefit our non-profit group called Partners in Preservation of Lincoln State Monument.

We are trying to help preserve the historic buildings that are part of the the New Mexico State Monuments division. Some of the buildings were donated to the state but are in need of dire repairs and the state cannot afford to take care of them all.

So our group was formed to help with this project.

Thanks for your help in this matter.

Sue Harkness Soden 575 937-1441 or email at weaselprods@yahoo.com

Josie Lenwell Exhibit

Rio Costilla Valley Studio Tour

Visit http://www.riocostillastudiotour.org/ for a complete listing of Artists and Photos of their Work – Up to date Map as Well!

Date of 2008 Tour: September 6 and 7th, 2008, 10 to 5 each day.
JAROSO, COLORADO- AMALIA, NEW MEXICO.

This year, on September 6 & 7, they deck the studios with their latest work and welcome the visitors from near and far. Their doors are opened wide. You are invited to see their work, explore their creative process, and purchase these carefully crafted wares. We feature a diverse group, fine art studios and artisan markets to please a wide variety of tastes. Oils, pastels, sculpture, ceramics, furniture, iron work, glass, jewelry and jams, jellies, chutneys, wildflower fields, artisan breads and home baked goods are a few of the items they offer to visitors.

Situated at the confluence of Northern New Mexico, and Southern Colorado, it is the only event of its kind that crosses the line between two states, unites them and bridges cultures. Along the meandering course of the Rio Costilla, weaving its way to the Rio Grande, and melded into the fabric of our work are found long lost European influences, and Native traditions reborn in art. On this tour you will travel along old country roads to scenic flats of high valley sage and chamisal onto mountainous forests. Just the journey is a destination. Sometimes called the Valle Vidal or the Southern End of the San Luis Valley, our tour stretches from Amalia, New Mexico, to Jaroso, Colorado. It is an enchanted tour in an enchanted land.

We are celebrating our 10th year! We thank those of you who keep coming back, and have become our friends and patrons of our work; and we welcome you also, stranger who has yet to find your way here. We invite you to mark those dates on your calendar, get out in the fresh air, and come celebrate the arts. You just might find something special or at least have memories of a day that will bring a smile to your heart when you return to where you live. This tour is free of charge and open to the public.

Jane Kircher 719-672-3063 kircher@fone.net
Michael or Sarah 719 588-4973 mschraud@yahoo.com