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Chamisa Elementary School Student Yan Kaa Martinez Wins State Youth Art Month Flag/Poster Contest

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Chamisa Elementary School sixth grader Yan Kaa Martinez wins New Mexico’s Elementary Youth Art Month Flag/Poster Contest. Courtesy photo

CHAMISA News:

Chamisa Elementary School proudly announces the State of New Mexico’s Elementary Winner for the Youth Art Month Flag/Poster Contest is Yan Kaa Martinez. 

The school celebrates the efforts of all sixth grade creative problem solvers who worked diligently to create posters that exemplified the theme: “Your Art, Your Story.”

Martinez will receive $100 in art supplies and the Chamisa art program will receive $300 in art supplies Read More

Daily Postcard: Cedar Waxwings Dine At Pond

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Daily Postcard: A small flock of Cedar Waxwings is spotted feasting on berries (even upside down) Thursday at Ashley Pond Park in downtown Los Alamos. According to the Audubon Society, these birds are sociable at all seasons, and it is rare to see just one waxwing. Occasionally a line of waxwings perched on a branch will pass a berry back and forth, from bill to bill, until one of them swallows it. Photo by Lynn Wysocki-Smith

A Waxwing takes a break from munching berries to sip water from a shallow puddle Thursday at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Lynn Wysocki-Smith

A Waxwing turns his most becoming side Read More

Los Alamos Children’s Dentistry Donates $1,800 To Art Council Kite Festival

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Christine Monteith with Los Alamos Arts Council and Dr. Bill Nichols, owner of Los Alamos Children’s Dentistry, hold up a $1,800 check Tuesday at Nichol’s office, 751 Trinity Dr. The money will be used to purchase t-shirts for the arts council’s Kite Festival. The festival is May 18-19 at Overlook Park in White Rock. Nichols has supported the Kite Festival for three years. ‘We enjoy how it’s an event for all the little kids in the community …. it’s just a really fun, cool event,’ he said. Monteith said the arts council appreciates his longtime Read More

Senior Centers To Host Dramatic Reading For ‘Of Butterflies And Roses’ March 27 And April 4

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Mandy Marksteiner, left, and Cassandra Bowman will perform a dramatic reading for ‘Of Butterflies and Roses’ at the senior centers. Courtesy photo 

COMMUNITY News: 

A dramatic reading of  “Of Butterflies and Roses,” by Claudia I. Haas will take place at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. A reading also will be held at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the White Rock Senior Center.

‘Of Butterflies and Roses,’ takes place after a memorial service for Clara and Laurel’s mother is done, and the last guest has left.

Laurel and Clara are now picking up the Read More

Marc Hudson Exhibition At Karen Wray Gallery In April

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Artist Marc Hudson. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
 
Cabinet handles by Marc Hudson. Photo by Mandy Marksteiner
 
By MANDY MARKSTEINER
Los Alamos

The community is invited to a reception, 5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at the Karen Wray Gallery, for artist Marc Hudson whose solo exhibition runs April 25 through May 23.

Ashed Glazed Vase with Cholla by Marc Hudson. Photo by Marc Hudson

A master of glazes

One of the things that make Hudson’s art stand out is the beauty and variety of the glazes that he uses. His deep knowledge of glazes is the result of years of mixing and testing the glazes in a systematic Read More

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