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Santa Fe, New Mexico “Meet our Local Artists, "Schedule for March 22 - 26, 2010
Added: (Fri Mar 19 2010)
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Media Release
Date: March 16, 2010
Contact: Brent Hanifl, Senior Planner, (505) 955-6215
“Meet our Local Artists,” Schedule for March 22 - 26, 2010
Presented by Santa Fe Creative Tourism and Heritage Hotels
This series offers a window into the varied talents and resources of New Mexico’s artists. Artists will showcase current and future workshops available to visitors and residents.
All demonstrations are free and open to the public.
Hotel Plaza Real
125 Washington Avenue, ½ block off the Plaza
Monday – Friday
March 15th – April 9th
10:00 a.m.
March 22 – Photography
Dave Robinson
(505) 983-6021
Dave@Shutterandbrushfineart.com
http://shutterandbrushfineart.com/
Seeing and photographing Santa Fe including lighting at 7,000 ft, composition and storytelling with photographs.
Statement: With roots in photo journalism and large format photography, I’m finding new challenges that come with the new freedom of working artistically and creatively with today’s photo imaging techniques. My concepts become real when I close my eyes and let my imagination run wild. My work is an expression of that imagination.
March 23 – Encaustic Painting
Teena Robinson
(505) 983-6021
teena@shutterandbrushfineart.com
http://shutterandbrushfineart.com/
Introduction to painting with wax along with a demonstration on encaustic techniques detailing flexibility and creativity in the medium.
Statement: I strive to interpret the world around me and create a feeling, rather than a realistic representation of my subject matter. My recent move to Santa Fe has opened up a new exciting world of inspiration. I enjoy the adventure of life and creating. Every day something is added to my being that affects my mood, my psyche, and my state of mind. The sum total of all my parts keeps changing. I keep growing.
March 24 – Watercolor Demo
Sandy Culler
(505) 821-4143
(505) 710-4143
slcnm@yahoo.com
www.nmwatercolorsociety.org
Southwestern Watercolor Demo (to include sketches, photos & step by step procedure from initial idea to finished painting).
March 25 – Sculpture Modeling
John Houser
505 - 982-9077
jsartist@msn.com
johnsherrillhouser.com
John Sherrill Houser is a nationally known artist equally recognized for his paintings and sculptures. He was trained both in the US and Europe. He has been featured in the national and international press (including the New York Times) and in two PBS documentaries.
Houser is the featured sculptor of an hour-long PBS documentary, The Last Conquistador, by acclaimed filmmakers John Valdez and Cristina Ybarra. This film documents the artist’s decade long struggle to create the world’s largest equestrian bronze for El Paso, Texas.
March 26 Camp Obscura – Camera Obscura
Jackie Mathey
505-231-3758
campobscura@gmail.com
http://www.campobscura.com/index.html
As we experience the camera obscura first hand we gain an intimate understanding of the way light moves and images are revealed. Come see this artist turn a room into a walk-in camera.
Jackie Mathey is a portrait and fine art photographer. Trained in the fine arts at Ringling Brother’s school of art and design, she is a self taught photographer, specializing in using oils paints on black and white prints. In addition to private portraiture, Jackie has exhibited her work, been published in a variety of books and magazines, as well as a bit of advertising and illustration. She received an Addy Award for her work in the "Children's Fantasy Garden" a brochure for the Albuquerque Biological Park. Her passion for photography has been inspired through her rediscovery of the pinhole, seemingly a window for nature to enter the photographic process. It is this passion that she wishes to share through "camp obscura," a week long workshop designed to explore the art of pinhole photography and the camera obscura.
The City of Santa Fe is continuing to work with artists and arts businesses to further develop the organization and promotion of workshops that allow visitors to experience Santa Fe in a hands-on fashion. Partnerships and collaborations with the hospitality industry and other entities are welcomed. This initiative was created as a result of the City of Santa Fe’s 2005 appointment to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and builds upon the successful 2008 International Conference on Creative Tourism held in Santa Fe.
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The City of Santa Fe Arts Commission (SFAC), an agency within the municipal government of the City of Santa Fe, provides leadership by and for City government in supporting arts and cultural affairs. The SFAC also recommends programs and policies that develop, sustain and promote artistic excellence in the community. For more information contact SFAC at (505) 955-6707, email artscommission@santafenm.gov or fax (505) 955-6671