Arts

Patina Gallery: Betsy Youngquist Art Exhibition

A mixed media sculpture by Betsy Youngquist will be featured in Patina’s new exhibition, Season of the Surreal. Courtesy photo
 
PATINA GALLERY News:
 
SANTA FE Patina Gallery is venturing into the hypnagogic world of Betsy Youngquist. Her mixed media sculpture will be featured in Patina’s new exhibition, Season of the Surreal.
 
The exhibition opens at Patina Friday, Nov. 2. There will be an opening reception and an opportunity to meet the artist 5-7 p.m. at the gallery in Santa Fe.
 
Her figures play within a fantasia of the imaginative and the peculiar, which continuously
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‘Silent Sky’ Reaches For The Stars At LALT

Henrietta Leavitt, left, (Katrina Koehler) shares her work with her sister, Margaret (Jess Cullinan) in ‘Silent Sky’ at the Los Alamos Little Theatre. Photo by Elena E. Giorgi
 
Annie Cannon (Andi Bishoffberger), left, and Williamina Fleming (Kathi Collins). Photo by Elena E. Giorgi
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon623@gmail.com

“Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson is about a subject well-suited to Los Alamos, women in science.

The play opened last weekend at Los Alamos Little Theatre and continues at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, through Sept. 29, with a matinee Read More

Katherine Seluja And Tina Carlson Read Poetry Oct. 21

Katherine DiBella Seluja
 
TEATRO PARAGUAS News:
 
Teatro Paraguas announces a book launch and poetry reading with Katherine DiBella Seluja, reading from her book Gather The Night, published by UNM Press (2018), at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21. Teatro Paraguas is at 3205 Calle Marie in Santa Fe. Admission is free.
 
This debut collection reads like an elegy, not just for the author’s brother Lou, stricken with schizophrenia, but for all families affected by mental illness.
 
Tina Carlson
 
Through multiple personae and a variety of styles, Seluja offers a gritty authenticity
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Opening Reception For ‘Sculpture Vessels’ Wednesday

 
ART News:
 
The opening reception for “Sculptural Vessels,” an exhibit of ceramics by Sharon Brush, is 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the UNM-LA Library.
 
Refreshments will be served.
 
Featured artist Sharon Brush is a new ceramics instructor here at UNM-LA. Her hand built works will be on display Sept. 19 through Nov. 1 in the Library.
 
Come to the opening and talk with the artist!
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Daily Postcard: Dragonfly Emerges From Larva

Daily Postcard: A dragonfly is spotted recently emerging from larva in Los Alamos. There are three stages in the life-cycle of all dragonflies: the egg hatches into the larva, which moults up to 15 times before emerging as an adult. Unlike most other insects, there is no pupal stage and the transition from larva to adult is known as incomplete metamorphosis. Source: british-dragonflies.org.uk/content/biology-ecology. Photo by Claire Swinhoe Read More

LA Piecemakers Quilt Guild Hosts Maggie Ball Sept. 25

Maggie Ball

COMMUNITY News:

Quilt artist, traveling teacher and author Maggie Ball is coming to the Los Alamos Piecemakers to present a free lecture titled, “The Bears Come Out at Night” 7 p.m., Sept. 25 at the United Church of Los Alamos on Canyon Road.

The public is invited.

Ball has more than 20 years of teaching experience for all skill levels throughout the U.S. and overseas. She is author of Traditional Quilts With a Twist where she tweaked traditional patterns to make more than 20 new designs. Check out her website at dragonflyquilts.com. 

Her lecture is in Graves Hall, which Read More