Corrales Art Studio Tour August 27 & 28 The 24th annual Corrales Art Studio Tour showcases 80 artists, four galleries, and more than 50 elementary-school artists at 35 artist studios, Corrales…
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SOME OF THE ARTWORKS SIT BEHIND museum glass or gallery doors, but murals demand to be noticed. Whether designed for a local business, to commemorate an event, or to tell a story, murals often explore…
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ON DECEMBER 22, 2021, a fire ripped through the warehouse where artist Jesse Littlebird kept his painting studio in Albuquerque’s Barelas neighborhood. Some $500,000 worth of works succumbed to the…
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ONETIME TAOS RESIDENT AND AUTHOR D.H. Lawrence also loved to paint. He just wasn’t as good at representing his mostly biblical or mythical—and often nude—subjects as he was at writing novels. In 1929…
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BY THE 1930S, artists from the East Coast had logged three decades painting, sketching, and drawing the landscapes and people of New Mexico. With few hotels, and even fewer places for them to sell…
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IN TERRI ROLLAND'S PAINTINGS, familiar features are pared back to their essential elements. A pale green shape resembles an adobe wall against a black background, while a blue rectangle cutout becomes…
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Above: Artist Susan Contreras is among this year's recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Photograph by Kate Russell. WHAT'S THE SMALLEST DEGREE of separation between N…
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If you walk into Susan Contreras’s home and studio in Santa Fe, prepare to don a mask—and not the pandemic kind. “Look at these masks,” the painter enthuses, carrying a box to the porch. “They’re…
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Above: A re-creation of Gustave Baumann’s studio inside the Palace Print Shop at the New Mexico History Museum. Courtesy of the Palace Press (NMHM/DCA), Photo by Blair Clark. ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12…
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Every year, New Mexico Magazine produces two calendars—one featuring local artists and one featuring iconic photographs of New Mexico from our annual photo contest. Visit our online store to purchase…
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