Arts

Sage Concert Series Presents Pianist Yelena Mealy And Quemazon Brass Quartet

Pianist Yelena Mealy

COMMUNITY News:

The UCLA Sage Concert Series presents a double header for its fall concert. Pianist Yelena Mealy and the Quemazon Brass Quartet will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Unitarian Church at 738 N. Sage St. Admission is free but donations are accepted.

Mealy was born in Kazan, a large Russian city on the Volga River. There she started her musical instruction at age six, attending one of the many Russian Music Schools. That education continued through 8th grade at which time she went to Kazan Secondary Vocational School of Music for four years. Mealy was awarded the Read More

Good Company: Five Artist Communities In New Mexico On Exhibition At NMMA Through March 10, 2019

Ernest L. Blumenschein, Dance at Taos, 1923, oil on canvas. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Florence Dibbell Bartlett, 1947 (97.23P). Photo by Blair Clark
 
NMMA News:
 
SANTA FE The New Mexico Museum of Art is opening a new exhibition celebrating New Mexico’s rich history as a mecca for artists – Good Company: Five Artist Communities in New Mexico. The exhibition opens September 29 and runs through March 10, 2019.
 
An opening reception for the exhibition is from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 5, 2018.
 
Since the end of the nineteenth century, when some of the
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Daily Postcard: Fall Foliage On Jemez Mountain Trail

Daily Postcard: Fall foliage along the Jemez Mountain Trail, which circles Fenton Lake State Park between Bernalillo, Cuba and Los Alamos. It starts at the Coronado Monument in Bernallilo and encompasses the Jemez State Monument, Valles Caldera Preserve and finishes at Bandelier National Monument. It is filled with many opportunities for hiking, fishing, camping, cross-country skiing and visiting a natural hot springs. Courtesy photo Read More

LALT: Auditions For ‘Murder At The Lone Elm’ Oct. 4, 6

LALT News:

Los Alamos Little Theatre announces audition dates for “Murder at the Lone Elm,” an interactive murder mystery written and directed by local playwright Miles Ledoux.

Auditions are 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, and 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. in the Performing Arts Center at 1670 Nectar St. Persons auditioning will be asked to read excerpts from the script and engage in some impromptu dialogue to mimic engagement with an audience trying to determine murderer from among a cast of suspects.

The play will be performed Jan. 4-19 with a special New Year’s Eve performance Dec. 31.

Director Ledoux
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PEEC: Celebrate Of Fiber In New Mexico Oct. 2

Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Celebrate the Season of Arts & Culture by learning about the rich history of fiber in New Mexico at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the Los Alamos Nature Center.
 
April Jouse, Director of Programs at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center (EVFAC), will give this free presentation.
 
The history of fiber in New Mexico spans thousands of years, beginning with Pueblo people’s use of natural fibers, including cotton, to make clothing. It greatly expanded with the arrival of the Spanish, who brought Churro sheep and treadle looms. At this talk, audience
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Daily Postcard: Sunrise Through Trees At Valles Caldera

Daily Postcard: Sunrise through the trees, Valles Caldera National Preserve. The Valles Caldera is in the center and at the top of the Jemez Mountains. The 88,900-acre preserve encompasses almost all of the volcanic caldera created by a spectacular volcanic eruption about 1.25 million years ago. The caldera is dormant, but not extinct, and still displays signs of volcanic life with hot springs and boiling sulphuric acid fumaroles. Source: VCNP. Courtesy/VCNP Read More

Española Valley Arts Festival Takes Place This Weekend

 
EVAF News:
 
ESPAÑOLA — The 33rd Annual Espanola Valley Arts Festival honoring its handmade history takes place this weekend, Sept. 29 and 30 at the Plaza de Espanola Convento.
 
The festival will feature 60 artists that will showcase their work. A wide variety of art mediums and styles such as, woodwork, metal, glass, sculpture, pottery, contemporary clay, weaving, furniture, fabric art, quilts, photography, retables, bultos, tinwork, jewelry, acrylic, watercolor and oil paintings, will be on display.
 
The festival will also have a booth for “youth art” that will
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