Virtual 2020 Chamber Music Festival Continues July 22
The Taos School of Music Virtual Chamber Music Festival continues through Aug.9. Courtesy/TSM
Taos School of Music News:
TAOS — The Taos School of Music Virtual Chamber Music Festival continues in late July with a faculty seminar by the Shanghai Quartet, a faculty performance by Shanghai Quartet, a piano recital by pianist Robert McDonald, and two concerts by the school’s young artists.
All programs begin at 7 p.m. and are broadcast with live hosting by Taos School of Music Director Elizabeth Baker from the school’s website at taosschoolofmusic.com, as well as on Facebook and YouTube. The Read More
Daily Postcard: Double Rainbow Frames Metal Sculpture
Daily Postcard: A double rainbow fills the sky Saturday evening and provides a dramatic backdrop for a metal sculpture created by local artist Richard Swenson. The sculpture decorates the patio of the Los Alamos home of Ann and Steve Greene. Photo by Ann GreeneDaily Postcard: Abert’s Squirrel Breakfasts On Pine Cone
After a long time this Abert’s squirrel picked up a ponderosa pine cone from the yard of a residence in Barranca Mesa. It chose an adjacent pinion tree on which to settle down and have its breakfast. Photo by Selvi Viswanathan Los Alamos Arts Council And Fuller Lodge Art Center Join Forces And Merge Together
Los Alamos Arts Council Assistant Director Ken Nebel and Executive Director Chris Monteith discuss the merger between Fuller Lodge Art Center and Los Alamos Arts Council. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
Los Alamos Arts Council and Fuller Lodge Art Center have joined forces and merged to form one organization.
The merger was announced earlier this month.
To the public, the meshing of these two organizations is nearly unperceivable; the Fuller Lodge Art Center’s gallery shop and exhibit space are still open and operating Read More
Western Bluebird Chicks Lifting Spirits In Los Alamos
Western Bluebird chicks are lifting spirits around Los Alamos including this one preparing to venture out into the world Tuesday from its home in the backyard of a residence in Los Alamos. Possibly 3-4 chicks fledged later in the day. Photo by Geoff Reeves Read More
Daily Postcard: Comet NEOWISE Above Caballo Mountain
Daily Postcard: Comet NEOWISE is visible in the evenings now, depending on the clouds. The sky cleared up just enough Thursday night shown here at approximately 9:50 p.m. looking northwest from Los Alamos with the comet above and to the right of Caballo Mountain. Photo by Marc Bailey Read More
Painted Tree Stump Lifting Spirits Around Los Alamos
Someone with creative talent turns a sawed off tree stump into a work of art that is lifting spirits around Los Alamos and today here on Navajo Road. Photo by Kelly Stewart Read More
Escape On A Horse Performs Virtually For Los Alamos Summer Concert Series Friday Night
Escape On A Horse performs virtually Friday for the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series. Courtesy photo
SUMMER CONCERT News:
The Los Alamos Summer Virtual Concert Series Presented by Toyota of Santa Fe is proud to present Escape on a Horse performing at 6 p.m., Friday July 17, on the Los Alamos Summer Concert Series Facebook page.
Drawing from the musical styles of rock and roll, country, bluegrass, and alternative, Escape on a Horse has established themselves as unique musical- storytellers in northern New Mexico. A veritable bridge of the music of the present mixed with timeless stories of the Read More
Daily Postcard: Redneck Hummingbird In Flight
Daily Postcard: A redneck hummingbird spotted in flight Wednesday in Quemazon. Photo by Trisha Ancell Read More
New Mexico Film Industry Soars To No. 3 In Favorability
Annual survey finds broad support for New Mexico film and television. Courtesy/NMFO
NMFO News:
ALBUQUERQUE — The film and television industry has a 70 percent favorability rating across New Mexico, making it the third highest rated industry of the 17 surveyed, according to an analysis released Monday by the Garrity Group Public Relations.
The Garrity Group has commissioned Research and Polling, Inc. to do its Perception Survey since 2011, but 2020 marks the first time that the film and motion picture industry was included in the analysis. Of the 17 industries, film tied with community colleges Read More
Painted Rocks Lifting Spirits In English And French
Painted rocks spotted near Navajo and Los Pueblos are lifting spirits in English and French all over Los Alamos. Courtesy photoSF Opera Guild Online Interview With Sam Ramey Aug. 14
Samuel Ramey
SFOG News:
The Santa Fe Opera Guild’s Annual Meet the Artist Program SAM I AM: A Visit with Opera Bass Samuel Ramey moderated by Cori Ellison is 5-6 p.m., Friday, Aug. 14
The event is free for Guild members, $10 for non-members
Zoom Webinar Format – Check in begins at 4:45 p.m. Register at HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/SAMIAM2020
The conversation is a live streamed event with opera legend Samuel Ramey including photos, video clips and recorded excerpts of some of Ramey’s most famous roles.
Ramey’s resume reads like the Who’s Who of opera. He has sung leading roles in all the major Read More
Art Exhibitions Examine Atomic Legacies As 75th Anniversary Of First Nuclear Detonation Approaches
Art by Mary Kavanagh. Courtesy/University of Lethbridge
Professor and artist Mary Kavanagh. Courtesy/University of Lethbridge
University of Lethbridge News:
University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) professor and artist Mary Kavanagh explores the atomic bomb and its legacies in a series of art exhibitions presented across Canada and the United States: the multi-faceted Daughters of Uranium and Trinity3, a two-channel video project.
Trinity Site in New Mexico anchors the exhibitions which build connections between nuclear technologies and their lived effects, the nuclear site Read More
Daily Postcard: Hazy Sunrise Over Sangre De Cristos
Daily Postcard: A hazy sunrise over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains viewed Monday morning from White Rock. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs Read More
Hummingbirds Lifting Spirits Around Los Alamos
A hummingbird flying around after the rain today in Quemazon is lifting spirits all over Los Alamos. Photo by Trisha Ancell Read More
Gifted Los Alamos Pianists Perform Graduating Recital
From left, Sonya Svyatskaya, Dr. Madeline Williamson and Sruthi Garimella. Courtesy photo
MUSIC News:
Before heading off to college, 2020 Los Alamos High School graduates Sruthi Garimella and Sonya Svyatskaya achieved yet another significant life goal. The recent grads performed a shared, solo piano recital that was truly a capstone moment to their piano study.
Originally scheduled to be a public recital at Fuller Lodge, due to the Covid-19 virus, the concert was subsequently hosted in Albuquerque through the generosity of PianoWerkes. Owner Neal Hickson provided the young artists with Read More
Statewide Window-Art Project: Paradox Incubators Opens
Courtesy/TGOT
ART News:
SANTA FE — Velarde-based, inter-generational art collective “The Eyes of Time” will be debuting their project Paradox Incubators in the storefront of Zoomies Dog Daycare at 513 Camino De Los Marquez, in Santa Fe.
The project is part of a month-long Windows on the Future series presented by Vital Spaces, 516 ARTS, and The Paseo Project featuring more than 50 storefront installations across Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos. See more at vitalspaces.org.
This project involves four oil painted boxes, each suspended from the ceiling, spewing colorful tendrils. These tendrils Read More
LAAC Announces 20X20 ScienceFest Art Challenge Winners
The 20X20 ScienceFest Art Challenge first place winner in the teen category created by Elektra Caffrey. Courtesy/LAAC
The 20X20 ScienceFest Art Challenge first place winner in the adult category created by Renae Mitchell. Courtesy/LAAC
LAAC News:
Ten pieces of art lined the sidewalk July 7 through July 12 at Fuller Lodge Art Center.
The pieces were part of the Los Alamos Arts Council’s and Fuller Lodge Art Center’s 20X20 ScienceFest Art Challenge. The Los Alamos Creative District also contributed to the event.
Winners were selected in three categories:
- Teen 1st Place- Elektra Caffrey, Teen
Snyder: Taos Artist Pop Chalee Recalls Manhattan Project
Pop Chalee’s Blue Horse in the company of Jemez pottery by Mary Small. Photo by Sharon Snyder
Pop Chalee giving an interview to the Los Alamos Historical Society in 1992. Courtesy/Los Alamos Historical Society Archive
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
When we think of the famous people who have been associated with Los Alamos, those who have come here for visits or consultations or lived here for decades, we generally think of scientists, but some have left their mark in other ways.
During the Manhattan Project years, Merina Lujan Hopkins came with her husband, Otis, when he was recruited Read More
Green Grasshoppers Lifting Spirits Around Los Alamos
A green grasshopper is lifting spirits Sunday around Los Alamos and in this garden in White Rock. Photo by Joanne Kozuchowski
A cheerful green grasshopper lifting spirits Sunday around Los Alamos and in this garden in White Rock. Photo by Joanne Kozuchowski
A green grasshopper lifting spirits Sunday around Los Alamos and on a bright yellow flower in this garden in White Rock. Photo by Joanne Kozuchowski
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