The Mountainair on a Mission "Art and More Auction" is today, 2pm-6pm at the Shaffer Hotel, auction, last but not particularly up-to-date notice, has it starting at 3pm. Donated artwork includes original works by local artists Susan Probert, Deb Vetterman, Dee Melargno, Madelein Gutwein, Anne Ravenstone, Mary Schultz, Meg Chobanian, Susan Aulde - all Cibola Arts members. No pictures available for posting but will be available for viewing in the Shaffer Conference Room. Other donations include limited edition signed Douglas Johnson (represented by Parks Gallery, Taos) print.
Late announcing, hopefully not too late for everyone - chalk it up to a combination of computer problems and not getting a reminder about reminding. I can't do much about either but do wish I could have followed the "out of town" notice with a post on local doings.
Also today - the last day of the Torrance county 50+ games, qualifiers for 2008 NM Senior Olympics. That means there will be a team to announce soon. Mountainair Sr Olympians consistently do well at state games.
If you have not been by the renovated Senior Center, drop by and take a look at the new and expanded digs. Wana Beth Fox (our White House artist) writes, "I've been cleaning, re-wiring, hanging art work for them in my spare time... I enjoy it. It's better than doing my own housework. hah!" She is also loaning the original of her "Maud" charcoal to hang in the Center and has offered to conduct classes for a proposed an arts and crafts program.
It's the weekend and a glorious day to boot: don't forget the rest of the town. Joan Page's Out of Tyme Shoppe on Limit and Jackass Junction on US 60 across from Turner Inn are open -"Mountainair originals" worth venturing out of the 2 block Broadway "core" to visiting.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Around town
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Ethnic Events this Weekend in Abqq
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Written in Sand, Art show at Harwood - June 5-26
P.S. Apologies if you are getting this more than once.
Genesis in Pictographs & Petroglyphs
a Collaboration on Lost Cultures
by Three Contemporary Artists
- Peggy Powell Dobbins "...dwelling in tents..." an inhabitable art erection by Atlanta installation & performance artist features Karankawan pictographic sand drawings of Genesis according to Sor Juana's Arabic interpretation.
- Gao Feng "Worship Heaven" illustrations by Kunming, China calligrapher of the Naxi Dongba people's pictographically written Creation sagas.
- Dale Harris "Stories in Stone" scroll paintings by Albuquerque artist and poet, inspired by Southwestern petroglyph rock art.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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Wind
DOE Report: Wind Could Power 20 Percent of US Grid by 2030. Easy to believe on a day like today.... better than dwelling on notorious winds in legend and history, not to mention folklore about wind driving people mad...
Exaggeration? I think not. Famous and infamous winds we have known (windbags too but that's another story). Prairie winds on the Great Plains, the Santa Ana, the Dust Bowl, Provence's mistral (wind of wrath), North Africa's khamsin or sirocco or other regional name for the wind rising in the Sahara and blowing across North Africa and the Mediterranean. The name "khamsin" is derived from the Arabic, khamsun or hamsin, meaning fifty, for the approximate period of days during which it blows. According to Egyptian popular culture, khamsin-blown madness has even been cited for defense in a homicide trial.
I doubt the wind will drive me to such extremes, but I do think that if were to stick beans up my nose, they might sprout.
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