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Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Festival of the Cranes at Socorro

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:30:00 -0700

The 22nd Annual Festival of the Cranes celebrating the return of the Sandhill Cranes and snowgeese to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge south of Socorro will take place Tuesday, November 17, through Sunday, November 22. Lecturs, tours, hikes, exhibits and hands-on workshops are offered in Socorro and at the Refuge. For more information, see our website at www.festivalofthecranes.com

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Touch of the Orient Show Las Cruces

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0700

The LCAA 'Touch of the Orient' show at the Terrace Gallery will be from November 8 to November 27 at the Branigan Library on the second floor. All pictures are $200 or less for this show. The hours are the same as those of the library.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Native American Elders Day, Albuquerque

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

A community celebration of our Native American Elders.

Stories - Cake Walk - Games - Dances - Food - Art.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Season's Trade ShowTis the Season to go SHOPPING, Rio Rancho

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

2009 SEASON'S TRADE SHOW
~~TIS THE SEASON TO GO SHOPPIN
LOCATION: INN Rio Rancho Hotel 1465 Rio Rancho Dr
87124, Nov 20th & 21st 9am-6pm

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. SHOPPING Arts & Craft, Music, Face Painting, Jumpers and so much more!

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Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Socorro Festival of the Cranes Arts and Crafts Fair

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Stop at the Historic Garcia Opera House for the Annual Festival of the Cranes Arts and Crafts Fair. There are over 23 artists selling their handcrafted items, including Native American jewelry and ceramics, wood work, quilts, stained glass, paintings and much much more. Local musicians will perform on the stage, so plan on staying a while while you visit with friends.

Shopping hours are Friday and Saturday from 9 am - 6 pm and Sunday 10 am - 2 pm. The Historic Garcia Opera House is located on the corner of California and Abeyta Streets.

Posole will be served both evenings. For more information call the Socorro Heritage and Visitors Center (575) 835-8927.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Jane Shoenfeld's Art Adventures in the SW/Sketching and Painting Santa Fe

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Join with family and friends for a half day art experience designed to be fun and educational. Connect to your creativity and each other or go solo! Chose an outdoors or a studio class. Classes are held on Friday mornings for three hours or by appointment. You can participate in a small group class or arrange a private session for yourself or your family. All levels are welcome and art materials are supplied. Just Bring Yourself! Focus is on the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Santa Fe landscape and architecture. Day trips to Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch can be arranged. Inquire about special holdiay and children's classes. The instructor , Jane Shoenfeld, is a widely exhibited landscape painter, well known as a teacher and as a creative group facilitator.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Albuquerque Art From The Vine

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0700

The New Mexico Gourd Society announces its second juried gourd art show. This is a unique opportunity to see the enchanting world of gourd art at its finest, including figures, masks, jewlery, musical instruments, bowls and vessels.

Gallery hours Mon-Fri 11:00am-5:00pm, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm. Reception to be held Friday, Nov. 20th 5:00-8:30pm.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Mesilla Mercado

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0700

The Mesilla Mercado – an arts, crafts and seasonal produce market held on the Mesilla Plaza – is held Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 12 to 4 p.m.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Season's Trade ShowTis the Season to go SHOPPING, Rio Rancho

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0700

2009 SEASON'S TRADE SHOW
~~TIS THE SEASON TO GO SHOPPIN
LOCATION: INN Rio Rancho Hotel 1465 Rio Rancho Dr
87124, Nov 20th & 21st 9am-6pm

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!!! Arts & Crafts, Music Face Painting and Jumpers
www.seasonstradeshow.com
www.myspace.com/seasonspromotions

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Land Grant Research - Free Lecture, Santa Fe

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0700

Malcolm Ebright, historian/lawyer and president of the Center for Land Grant Studies and Richard Salazar, former State Archivist, will give a talk on land grant research in New Mexico. Examples will be given, research tools identified, and research assistance provided by the Southwest Librarian. Lecture Location: State Library, 1209 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe, Southwest Room (ground floor). Call 476-9790 for more information. Future lectures are being planned for 2010.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - White Sands National Monument Sunset Stroll Nature Walk

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0700

Begins one hour before sunset. A leisurely one-hour ranger-guided walk. Experience sunset over the white sands and see the plants and animals of the dune field. A photographer's delight. Starts at sign along the Dunes Drive.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Socorro Social on the Plaza

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0700

Enjoy an evening on the Historic Plaza while enjoying NM tamales and posole, live entertainment and NM Wine and Brews from St. Clair Winery, Abbey Beverage Co., Sierra Blanca Brewery and Socorro Springs Brewing Co. This is a 21 and over event with a $5 entrance fee that includes a souvenir Festival of the Cranes wine or pint glass. The social is scheduled from 4 – 7 pm. Advance tickets can be purchased online www.festivalofthecranes.com or at the entrance to the tent. Tickets and seating is limited to 300 guests.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Sunset Stroll, White Sands National Monument

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0700

Sunset strolls are a great way to end your day. Enjoy a leisurely one-hour ranger-guided walk through sand dunes and learn about the geology, plants, and animals of this unique area. The setting sun is a photographer's delight, and the dunes beckon children of all ages. Program starts at the sign along the dunes drive about five miles from the visitor center. No charge for the program. A $3.00 per person (16 years and older) entrance fee does apply to enter the monument. Programs are offered most days. Call the monument to confirm (575-679-2599).

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby Exhibition, Santa Fe

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Photographs by Craig Varjabedian

October 23-December 31, 2009

At the heart of Northern New Mexico's legendary Ghost Ranch, a semicircular arc of red-orange cliffs catch and transmute the drama of New Mexico's roiling skies in varied, often startling ways. Spreading beyond these Cliffs of Shining Stone in three directions, scrub-spotted plains and scattered remnants of the ranch's fabled past turn dark or brilliant according to movements far above. Now bright, now overtaken by heavy gray thunderheads, now again sun-filled, the earth and sky maintain a constant interplay that seems fundamental to the place's enduring mystique. And for photographer Craig Varjabedian, it is the serendipitous moments in which the potential in these interactions appears fully realized—'when I feel the play of light, shadow, and texture resolve into something wonderful,' he says—that he deftly captures in the silver gelatin photographs comprising Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby. Opening October 23, 2009 at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, this national traveling exhibition of images taken at Ghost Ranch over a period of several years reaches beyond the familiar ideas associated with the place—including its renown as a site of rest and renewal, and as the longtime home of 20th-century painter Georgia O'Keeffe—into the artist's unique vision of his subject's relationship to the surrounding earth and its inhabitants.

In Varjabedian's photographs, the scenery of Ghost Ranch is additionally part of a fusion of time and timelessness. Through the light and form of his compositions, he points to the ephemeral nature of all things and provides a launching pad for larger inquiries: humanity's need for connection with the earth, the West's evolving regional identity, and the power of memory in shaping a sense of place. That Varjabedian's photographs never seem preachy or overwrought, despite their grandeur and hints of the sublime, is a testament to the artist's ability to keep his work firmly rooted in his own deeply personal relationship with one extraordinary place. In nearly every image, the epic and the miniscule expand or contract, conflating ordinary spatial divisions and recalling O'Keeffe's enigmatic phrase: 'the faraway nearby.' Chimney Rock and Clearing Storm, for instance, captures the rounded knobs of one of Ghost Ranch's most recognizable landmarks in stark sunlight, above a plain shaded by unseen clouds—suggesting another, equally epic scene hovering just outside the camera frame. In the extreme close-up composition of Oak Leaf and Cottonwood Leaves, a spray of fallen foliage in crisp detail, spotted with decay, appears larger than life in the way it seems to arc toward the viewer. And in Old Corral and Approaching Storm, time and distance collide where thick nimbus clouds cast broken shadows on an ancient, collapsing corral. Here the present moment still impacts the past—and vice versa.

Craig Varjabedian is widely acclaimed for his images capturing the people and places of the American West, taken over a photographic career spanning more than 35 years. While his work reveals a deep grasp of the technical aspects of the photographic process, his gift is his intuitive ability to make authentic and compelling images that illuminate the inseparable ties between identity, place, and the act of perceiving—the 'landscape behind the landscape.' Varjabedian achieves this through a patient, painstaking approach that is intentionally receptive rather than constructive: he waits for the elements of a scene to come together to create moments of profound beauty. Or, as he says in the exhibition's companion book, Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, 'I wanted the land to tell me how to photograph it.' Varjabedian is the director of the well-known Eloquent Light Photography Workshops in Santa Fe, with a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from the prestigious Rochester Institute of Technology. Museums nationally have exhibited and collected his photographs, and his work has won an Emmy Award as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the McCune Charitable Foundation, and the New Mexico Humanities Council.

The Gerald Peters Gallery is located at 1011 Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe, just a few blocks from Canyon Road. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday 9-5pm. Call (505) 954-5700 for more information or visit www.gpgallery.com. Visit the artist's website at www.craigvarjabedian.com.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - NE Heights Artscrawl, Albuquerque

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Albuquerque's free NE Heights gallery tour.

Gallery openings, artist receptions, demonstrations and more.

Details for all participating galleries on the artscrawl website.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - EVOKE Contemporary introduces an exhibition of paintings by Haley Hasler on November 6th with an opening reception 5pm – 8pm, Santa Fe

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0700

EVOKE Contemporary introduces an exhibition of paintings by Haley Hasler on November 6^thwith an opening reception 5pm – 8pm. The exhibition runs through November 30. Hasler will be in attendance to unveil her meticulously detailed self-portraits which are elaborately conceived narratives on truth, illusion and identity. Drawing upon Renaissance compositions, Hasler herself is the central figure that presents her audience with all the details of contrived circumstance. Many of Hasler's scenes pose a frenetic level of activity with obsessively detailed scenery and 'set design'. With the artist 'in character,' the scene is set for theatrical illusion in which the heroine is master of her circumstances. In the artist's words, "While the self-portrait implies that the artist is showing us the truth, a representation of the exterior in disguise conveys the impossibility and doubleness of this endeavor."

"Through the seemingly private world of self-portraiture and autobiographical narrative, I hope to present a compelling fictive world, without dictating a precise narrative or relying on a static symbolism. I try to invest the figure with an iconic confrontability – making it operate both a self-portrait and archetypal heroine. At the same time, the narrative aspect of the work is meant to subvert the strictly iconic mode – once again, conveying the questionability of a painting's claim to truth.

The theatrical aspect of my work is deliberate, to emphasize the painting's connection with artifice and enactment. I conceive of a painting as a kind of theatre – a stage set for my characters and protagonists. Through the shallow, receding stage-like space, I wish to emphasize the unreality and illusion of a painting, which contradict its paradoxical appearance of reality." Haley Hasler

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Hypnotic Pulse - Paintings by Susan Reid, Albuquerque

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Reid's abstract acrylic paintings are inspired by Australian Aboriginal design, Byzantine mosaics, bead work and textile design. The laying down of thousands of tiny dots on the canvas is a form of meditation that restores balance to her day to day life. Reid's painting pulsate with so much energy and movement that they have the ability to mesmerize the viewer.

Exhibition dates: November 6 – 28

(Early Bird Preview: November 3 – 6)

First Friday Artscrawl Reception: November 6, 5 – 8:00 PM

Gallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 9 – 6; Tuesday 10 - 4, Closed Monday

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Fusion – Mixed Media Prints by Suzanne Marshall, Albuquerque

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Marshall's bold, semi-abstract etchings and gravures are torn, collaged, scorched and waxed to create visually seductive surfaces. Her images deal with the human proclivity to exploit the natural world with potential consequence of a ravaged environment. However, her point of view is that of an observer rather than of someone who points her finger at others. While Marshall's work is thoughtful and slightly cynical it also infused with quirky elegance and uncommon beauty.

Exhibition dates: November 6 – 28

(Early Bird Preview: November 3 – 6)

First Friday Artscrawl Reception: November 6, 5 – 8:00 PM

Demonstration during the reception: How to create a gravure from a drawing, by Suzanne Marshall from 6:30- 7:00 PM.

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - 'Family Ties' - Albuquerque

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0700

"Family Ties: Top Artists and More!"

Friday, November, 20, 5 - 8:30pm and

Saturday, November 21, 11am - 4pm.

Fresh from Santa Fe Indian Market, a star-studded cast of major, award winning artists and their equally talented children, spouses, or siblings will be at Wright's Indian Art. Master potter Preston Duwyenie and wife Debra Trujillo-Duwyenie, with her delicate sgrafitto work; Hopi jeweler, singer and dancer Steve LaRance and jeweler wife Marian Denipah; siblings Albert and Alfred Lee and their elegant Navajo jewelry; Hopi pottery star Steve Lucas and partner in pottery, wife Yvonne Lucas; celebrated Taos fashion designer Patricia Michaels and her son, cineaste Gabriel Abeyta, showing his films; ledger artist and winner of the Indian Market 2009 J. Seth Standard Award Darryl Growing Thunder, and his wife Ramey Growing Thunder, award winning bead artist; proud mama Maxine Toya, a 3^rd generation Jemez potter, and Dominique Toya, who won Best of Division for pottery at Indian Market 2009; and Kee Yazzie, Jr with son Cordell Pete, showing their stunning silver and gold jewelry. Demonstrations will be given by Dominique Toya. Refreshments and fabulous artistry for all – just in time for holiday gift-giving.

Wright's Indian Art, Ace Courtyard, Lower Level, 1100 San Mateo Blvd NE Ste 21, at Lomas, 505-266-0120, www.wrightsgallery.com

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - IARC Speaker Series, Nancy Mithlo, Ph.D. - Santa Fe

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:00 -0700

The premise that globalization inherently corrupts indigenous populations frames many of the questions posed in response to the inclusion of American Indian contemporary arts in international settings. Mithlo's research seeks to interrogate the established paradigm of the "West and the Rest" by locating American Indian artists as active producers of globalization in conversation with their artistic peers. The Venice Biennale is then both liberatory and restrictive in its effects, because indigenous artists themselves are conciliatory to the established structure of nationalism, but in addition, wish to avoid dated, preconceived notions of identity. Thus, the biennale platform provides a conventional narrative from which participants structure their aesthetic statements in coherence to, in reaction against, and in negotiation with established mainstream notions of contemporary art aesthetics. This "third space" consideration defies outdated notions of victimhood or oppression by conceptualizing American Indian curatorial practices (including reciprocity, mentorship, and long-term mutually-meaningful relationships) as creative and generative forms of knowledge production enacted simultaneously in local as well as transnational platforms.

This lecture is part of the School for Advanced Research Speaker Series, 'Intersections: Native Collections, Curation, and Museums,' highlighting important topics relevant to current issues and discussions in contemporary Native arts, anthropology of museums, research and Native collections. The Speaker Series take place in the SAR Boardroom (660 Garcia Street, Santa Fe) at 5:30pm and are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit: www.speaker.series.sarweb.org

All Events -

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Festival of the Cranes at Socorro

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Touch of the Orient Show Las Cruces

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Native American Elders Day, Albuquerque

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Season's Trade Show~~Tis the Season to go SHOPPING~~, Rio Rancho

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Socorro Festival of the Cranes Arts and Crafts Fair

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Jane Shoenfeld's Art Adventures in the SW/Sketching and Painting Santa Fe

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Albuquerque Art From The Vine

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Mesilla Mercado

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Season's Trade Show~~Tis the Season to go SHOPPING~~, Rio Rancho

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Land Grant Research - Free Lecture, Santa Fe

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - White Sands National Monument Sunset Stroll Nature Walk

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Socorro Social on the Plaza

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Sunset Stroll, White Sands National Monument

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby Exhibition, Santa Fe

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - NE Heights Artscrawl, Albuquerque

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - EVOKE Contemporary introduces an exhibition of paintings by Haley Hasler on November 6th with an opening reception 5pm – 8pm, Santa Fe

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Hypnotic Pulse - Paintings by Susan Reid, Albuquerque

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Fusion – Mixed Media Prints by Suzanne Marshall, Albuquerque

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - 'Family Ties' - Albuquerque

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - IARC Speaker Series, Nancy Mithlo, Ph.D. - Santa Fe

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Season's Trade ShowTis the Season to go SHOPPING, Rio Rancho

Friday, 20 November, 2009 - Season's Trade ShowTis the Season to go SHOPPING, Rio Rancho