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Independent Artists
LocalMotion: Northern New Mexico’s November Art & Studio Tours
Painted fish swim across a ceramic celandon sea. The spout has a jaunty arc and the clever lid has recessed wells for easy grasping. It’s a marvelous teapot, bought over 25 years ago: a happy reminder of the rich vein of artistic talent that lies along and near the High Road from Santa Fe to […]
This Week on Santa Fe’s Creative Scene, October 1, 2010
The aspens are changing, the days’ temps swinging in wide arcs from cool to hot. And the light, the fabulous Santa Fe light, is in its soft, pellucid glory. I love Fall. It may be the twilight of the year’s cycle, but it feels like a Spring of possibilities. Is it my perennial optimism or […]
The Care & Feeding of Santa Fe’s Creative Class
Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don’t. –Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class A thriving music and nightlife scene is critical to attracting and retaining the young, brilliant, awesome people that Santa Fe needs. –After Hours Alliance Last Wednesday, Joshua and I sat in on […]
Past as Presence: Joanne Lefrak at Box Gallery
Joanne Lefrak is lovely and charming, with a warmth and gentle spontaneity that disarms. Given the potent mystique of the brooding artist, you might think niceness would be an occupational detriment, or at the least, irrelevant. But if you’re in the business of brokering relationships and gathering stories, it helps to be the sort of […]