Arts

Making Quilting Cool Again At Los Alamos Makers

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LANL physicist Quinn Marksteiner tackling one of the most underrated pieces of engineering – the sewing machine. Courtesy/Los Alamos Makers

Quilts can make cool custom decorations, not just blankets. Courtesy/Los Alamos Makers

Los Alamos Makers News:

New quilting instructor Jill Ryan at Los Alamos Makers is teaching a free introductory class 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22. Courtesy/Los Alamos Makers

At Los Alamos Makers, 3540 Orange St., it is always exciting to see the lines between art and science blur. Introducing scientists to a craft or getting artists to include a high-tech feature

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Los Alamos National Laboratory Contributes $3 Billion Annually To New Mexico State Economy

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The Laboratory’s NMSBA program helped optimize a new crate for shipping valuable artwork developed by Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Innovations, a for-profit business subsidiary of the world-renowned museum. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Economic development initiatives created or retained nearly 1,500 in-state jobs
  • More than half of goods and services came from New Mexico businesses 

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s average annual total impact on economic output across New Mexico from 2015 to 2017 was $3.1 billion, according to preliminary independent research from the University Read More

LALT: Matinee For ‘Murder At The Lone Elm’ Sunday

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Cast of ‘Murder At The Lone Elm’ perform at 2 p.m. matinee Sunday. Courtesy photo

LALT News:

The Los Alamos Little Theatre has added a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Sunday of “Murder at the Lone Elm”.

LALT canceled its Jan. 13 planned matinee performance because of the weather and bad driving conditions. Persons who purchased tickets for the Jan. 13 show are welcome to use them at any of the remaining performances: 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

“Murder at the Lone Elm” is an interactive mystery in which the audience gets to question the suspects and try to identify the killer.  Read More

New Mexico & Arizona 2019 Book Awards Officially Opens For Entries Jan. 25

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NMBC News:
 
The 13th Annual New Mexico & Arizona Book Awards will be open for entries starting Friday, Jan. 25, 2019.
 
The Awards celebrate the best books published, authored, or about New Mexico and Arizona. The winners of the 2019 Best Books in the NM & AZ Book Awards were New Mexico Historical Chronology by Don Bullis, published by Rio Grande Books and Paul Pletka: Imagined Wests by Amy Scott and published by University of Oklahoma Press.
 
Over 1,000 books were entered in 56 categories: children’s, Young adult, cooking, travel, romance, art, sci-fi, novels, covers,
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Three Community Museums To Continue Borderlands Of Southern Colorado Speaker Series

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MUSEUM News:
 
PUEBLO, Colo. ― El Pueblo History Museum, Fort Garland Museum and Trinidad History Museum, three Community Museums of History Colorado, will host scholars, artists, writers, and activists from around the world for a Borderlands of Southern Colorado lecture series in the spring of 2019.
 
Each lecture will expand the understanding of the topics in the Borderlands of Southern Colorado exhibit that opened at El Pueblo History Museum in May 2018, and the exhibits opening at Trinidad History Museum in May 2019 and Fort Garland Museum in June 2019.
 
Topics for the
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Award-Winning Irish Poet To Visit Albuquerque

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Annemarie Ní Churreáin
 
TEATRO PARAGUAS News:
 
As part of an international book tour, Irish poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin will visit New Mexico in February 2019 to deliver a series of readings from her much-acclaimed debut collection Bloodroot (Doire Press 2017) Sunday, Feb. 24, at Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie. Information at teatroparaguas.org or call 505.424.1601.
 
Shortlisted for The Shine Strong Award for best first collection in Ireland and for the 2018 Julie Suk Award in the U.S.A, Bloodroot explores the theme of landscape in the context of the author’s own ancestry,
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