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Fresh from the oops desk: Senior Center Grand Opening was prematurely announced. Originally set for May 3, it has been rescheduled for June 25 to accommodate dignitaries from Santa Fe and all that jazz. Election year ya know even there won't be babies to kiss at this venue. I also missed announcing the May Gymkhana Rodeo (thinking it a week later than it actually was). Another in June plus a

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About ARTISTADAY Artistaday.com’s goal is simple. We feel artists are under-valued, under-exposed, and generally under-appreciated. We want to bring attention to artists that otherwise don’t get the attention they deserve. If we can bring their art to one person that would have otherwise missed the opportunity to see it, we feel like we have made a contribution to the art community. If you

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Keep this in mind for June -and take a nice drive down to visit our neighbors in Los Lunas! Maria Rodriguez-Pope . . . a retrospective On Exhibit June 3rd - 28th, 2008 Opening reception: June 7, 2008 Also featuring Aztec Dancers, Native American Flutist and Guest Poets Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm Location: Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Arts, 251 Main St. SE, Los Lunas, New Mexico For more

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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

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ETHNIC EVENTS THIS WEEKEND

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I'm very excited to have a chance to do some visual art again, it has been a while! Hope you can come see the show.  Thanks, Dale P.S. Apologies if you are getting this more than once. Written In Sand, Genesis in Pictographs & Petroglyphs a Collaboration on Lost Cultures by Three Contemporary Artists  June 5 - 26 in the North Gallery of the Harwood Art Center, located at 114 7th St. NW

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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,

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'RubberMade : Sculpture by Chakaia Booker' Kansas City, MO - Since the early 1990s, Chakaia Booker has worked almost exclusively with recycled tires. Through a physically demanding process of twisting, slicing, and weaving found rubber tires, she forms dynamic, whimsical sculptures that fuse ecological concerns with questions about racial and economic differences, globalization, and

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Detour Atlas ("outsider art, discoveries along the backroads") carries 3 listings for Mountainair, The New Mexico section is fascinating and quite large. Gordon McMath (artist) Shaffer Hotel (site) Rancho Bonito (site) From the National Register of Historical Places document nominating Rancho Bonito and the Shaffer: "Like other artists The Folk Art Environmentalist seems to be driven by

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Paul's Mountainair NM album on Picasa - 10 pictures, street scenes - main street with motorcycles parked in front of Uncle Walter's & 55/60 intersection showing Wana Beth's mural at Abo Trading and the corner of Gypsy Treasures, Shaffer ceiling (best I've seen so far), Rancho Bonito   http://picasaweb.google.com/blueeasterner/MountainairNM Enjoy

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ACEQUIAS Y MERCEDES: LAND, WATER, and CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF NM DOCUMENTARY FIELD SCHOOL 2008 Special Summer Session / June 2-27 / 9-12 MTWRF UNM Main Campus-Week 1,2,4 / Mora Valley-Week 3 Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies CHMS Southwest Hispanic Research Institute Center for Regional Studies PROFESSORS: From UNM - Enrique Lamadrid, Miguel Gandert with special guest lectures and field

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Splingo? Splingo = "Spring Fling Bingo." Splingo is shorter to type. But would "Green Spring Fling Bingo" = Gringo? Perhaps but too easily confused with gringo as derived from "green grow the rushes ho." I did not bingo, splingo or gringo - having grown up in Francophone (and Catholic) south Louisiana, a hotbed of church bingo, you might say I am bingo-ed out. I missed the Senior Center Open

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Late to be sure - but with pictures. Thanks to Kristine for pictures and report: Helping out with clean up day: Ed's wife Whitney; Scott Remmich; Kevin Turner; Frank Lucero; Town Council member Steve Sanchez; Judy Reynolds; Pam Pettingill; Anita Soluna; Craig Lockwood (ag teacher at high school); me; Girl Scout Troop #? and troop leader. Red Kingston and his kids were there helping too. I (

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Folk Art in the news Fashion and fiber come to the Folk Art Center Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA ASHEVILLE – The Folk Art Center’s Mother’s Day fashion show will feature felted handbags, woven jackets and wraps, and painted and marbled silk scarves and ... Friend's slaying inspires `Sacred Stones' art series The Associated Press - "I would categorize it as being spiritual, almost in a

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There is May Day and then there is Mayday. One is May 1st (with various meanings, some indubitably less culturally palatable than others). The other is the international radio distress call, from "m'aidez." Considering the Trigo fire jump and resurgence, today is both May Day and a Mayday day. News Alerts tell me a Type 1 incident team is on its way. Winds in force again tomorrow but expected to

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Santa Fe Council for the Arts, Inc. PO Box 8921 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504 New Mexico Arts Markets May 31 to June 1, 2008 announces a new deadline for entries - As Soon As Humanly Possible in May Spaces are still available for the "New Mexico Arts Market" at Cathedral Park. The date of the show is May 31 to June 1, 2008. For an application, email request to artscounsf@aol.com or snail

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Check out "Cool Urban Harvesting Video..." on Duke City Fix !A project like this does not have to be *urban* either. We could do it right here in Mountainair or any other community trucking in foodstuffs.To view this Blog Post, visit: http://www.dukecityfix.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1233957%3ABlogPost%3A81822&xgs=1

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Ha! And there you thought I might be apologizing for past snarkiness. Maybe I could issue a blanket apology quarterly. Any apologies tendered are for neglecting Mountainair Arts. Temporary only. This, my "flagship blog," runs no risk of turning into the stepchild blog. I've not been totally idle. I've been posting daily - sometimes twice daily - Trigo Fire updates to Mountainair Announcements,

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Jude (Straw Mountain Studio) forwarded this item, commenting, "An easy cut/paste item and another way to get our name out there." (PS catch Jude's brand new blog, Notes from Straw Mountain) I hope you will be inspired to participate in this year's "POSTMARKED" an annual mail art exhibition and silent auction fundraiser for The Claremont Forum's Prison Library Project. We have already begun

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Procrastination leads to.... more of the same. The information backlog keeps growing, so it's procrastinate more or blog the monster post that ate... what would a monster post eat anyway? Maybe a tower. That could explain, if not well, the blue screen of death, techno crisis ne plus ultra. Running on back-up tower, bereft of files but operational. Here UPDATE on Spring Cleanup Day, April 26

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Tomorrow is the first of the Arts Etc series of workshops sponsored by the Manzano Mountain Arts Council - as noted in April happenings post. So drop by Mountainair U. Methodist Church annex hall tomorrow at 9:30 am for coffee and visiting before Shirley Simmons opens the series at 10 am with a lecture/demonstration on Oil Painting Basics and Color Mixing. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to

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Following is a selection of Albuquerque and other non-local exhibits, performances, calls, etc. These won't be in Mountainair Announcements, which is only for local announcements (albeit extending beyond town limits), although linked event calendars cover out of town events and other happenings I think might be of interest. The listings below are all from the Albuquerque Arts Alliance newsletter,

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More detail to come along with expanded descriptions for many of the following (providing the usual suspects get them to me in a timely manner). Most if not all appear in various event event calendars. Kindly excuse cross posting to other Mountainair blogs. April is National Poetry Month, all month. Check out the poetry and poetry news at the Poets and Writers Picnic blog. Don't think though

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Beyond YouTube: Video options for every taste http://johngushue.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/beyond-youtube.htmlWho Tubes? Who doesn't (excepting of course those of us still on dial up). Social bookmarking and sharing sites like this blog post is part of the same phenomenon. Ditto for using it to blog the sharing. Maybe someone somewhere is doing the same to us.... or not. -- Sent via a FeedFlare

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UNM'S INSTITUTE for Medieval Studies hosts its 23rd Spring Lecture Series, "Medieval New Mexico: A Celebration of Tradition and Cultural Interaction in the Land of Enchantment," Monday, March 31-Thursday, April 3. The series includes six lectures and a concert. All sessions will take place in Woodward Hall room 101 on the main UNM campus. The event, supported by a grant from the New Mexico

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