Visual arts calendar: What’s happening where
Drive-by art
Vital Spaces, 516 ARTS and The Paseo Project announced the winning installations for “Windows on the Future,” a series of monthlong storefront art installations that will take place across Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Taos this July.
The community is invited to walk and drive by the storefront windows, either temporarily closed or active, transformed by the artists, and view them from the sidewalk and street. The tri-city collaborative effort aims to bring vibrancy and vitality to Northern New Mexico’s commercial districts in these challenging times while also encouraging social distancing. The organizations dispersed $500 stipend payments to the winning 60 artists located throughout Northern New Mexico – 20 per city. Installations will be on display for the month of July in all three cities. For a map and photos of Taos windows, go to paseoproject.org.
Questa Studio Arts Tour becomes auction
The Questa Creative Council is pleased to announce a substitute for the annual studio tour, since we cannot gather in public for this fun event: an online art auction on the revamped Questa Studio Arts Tour website, now renamed northernnewmexicoarts.com. Come view and bid on your favorite local art and craft item(s). A preview will take place the week before. The auction will be held on Aug. 1516, for 36 hours only – support your local arts community. For more information, or if you are an artist and would like to join (you don’t have to have been in the studio tour previously), email the council at questacreativecouncil@gmail.com.
Questa art banners: Round Two
Currently, banner images of Questa history are now showing in Questa’s downtown district and you may recognize some of them as ancestors of local families: five of the 18 were donated by locals through the QuestaStories project, depicting their ancestors and loved ones; the rest are from the national archives in the Library of Congress. Thanks to the Ortiz, Coggins, Ortega, Rael, Vigil and Jaramillo families. The final set of banners for future use, Round Three, will be by local artists.
Michael McCormick and Sons Gallery revs up online
Go to the Michael McCormick Gallery site at mccormickgallery.com and view some of the lively work now available by artists Bill Baker, Michael Archuleta and Miguel Martinez – and introducing that of up-and-coming Tyler Hannigan. Call the gallery at (575) 758-1372.
ONGOING
• Taos Watercolor Society is now showing at the Taos Country Club, Ranchos de Taos, until the end of December. Check out the work of these dedicated professionals. Contact Diane Binder at sybatwing@gmail.com.
• Plein Air Painters of New Mexico are showing at two historic Taos galleries: E. L. Blumenschein Museum, (575) 758-0505, till Aug. 30 (go to PAPNM.org/2020-TaosPlein-Air-Juried-Members-Album); and Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, (575) 7583255, till Aug. 2. For more, contact Dick Wimberly at (505) 934-5432.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
• Arte de Descartes XX is 20th-annual juried recycled art show to be held at Stables Gallery Sept. 26-Oct. 4. Deadline for entries is Sept. 1 at 5 p.m. Work should be made of mostly recycled materials: metal, wood, paper, plastic cloth, etc. Prospectus and entry form can be found at whollyrags.org or email whollyrags@ newmex.com or come by Wholly Rags, 1337 Gusdorf Road #L and pick one up. Call (575) 751-9862 for more information.