2021 Chamber Music Festival
Taos School of Music announced the reopening of its school and its 58th annual Chamber Music Festival for the 2021 summer season. The 19 students participating this summer come from major music schools from across the United States. Most of the students were invited to attend last year’s school, which was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Concerts will take place Saturdays and Sundays in June, July and August. Returning faculty are the Borromeo String Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, Brentano String Quartet, violinist Ara Gregorian and pianists Robert McDonald and Thomas Sauer. Taos School of Music students and faculty will be following strict COVID-19 safety protocol for the duration of their program. See taosschoolofmusic.com.
calls artists working in all recycled mediums: cloth, paper, wood, metal, glass, plastic etc. for the 21st annual juried, recycled art show. Entry deadline Aug. 2, 5 p.m. View prospectus at whollyrags.org or send SASE to: Wholly Rags PO Box 1051 Ranchos de Taos, NM 87557, or stop by Wholly Rags, 1337 Gusdorf Road, Suite L in Taos. For more information, call Melissa 575-7519862.
• PAPNM (Plein Air Painters of New Mexico) offers socially-distanced painting in Jemez Springs April 17-22, ending in a free-admission show at Jemez Fine Art Gallery, 17346 State Road 4 in Jemez Springs, from April 24-May 7, 2021. The “en plein air” paint-out areas include Fenton Lake, Battleship Rock, Soda Dam, Bandelier National Monument, Gilman Tunnels, the Jemez Historic site, numerous fishing and picnic areas along the Jemez river, the Valles Caldera and Jemez Falls. The public is invited to see the artists work from a socially responsible distance. All can join as an artist member ($40 annual membership fee) and register to papnm.org; bit.ly/papnm.
• Call for Window installations. The Paseo Project is seeking proposals for future Window Installations at 107 Civic Plaza Drive (”the old PD”). All themes welcome; $500 stipends provided. Entry deadline is April 1. Learn more at paseoproject.org/annex-installations/. Email proposals to paseo@paseoproject.org.
• $5,000 Taos Onstage-Award call for entries to free Playwriting Contest, open to any resident of Colfax, Mora, Río Arriba and Taos counties. Deadline is midnight MDT April 30. Made possible by contributions from the Taos Onstage supporters. See taosonstage.com/contest.
• Ammann Gallery, a well-established gallery in business for 17 years in the John Dunn Shops, has an opening for a new member artist/craftsman. Membership involves one-day-a-week commitment to work the gallery and “we are certified in COVID-Safe Practices. Applications along with samples or photos of your work can be accepted on any Friday, 120 Bent Street. Call 575-758-7450.
• TFAF volunteers sought: Taos Fall Arts Festival, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, in its 47th year, dedicated to the celebration of all arts’ expression, seeks volunteers for its committees, Board of Directors and annual 10-day fall event. To contribute time, energy and skills to Taos’ largest art show please contact president Paul Figueroa, 575779-8579 or paulcfigueroa@gmail.com.
COVID-safety practices in place for capacity, masks and distancing. • ‘Early Modern-Contemporary Taos’ exhibit is at 203 Fine Art presents an exhibition which brings together modern and contemporary artists of Taos, in a celebratory show for the springtime.
For more contact director Sylvie Mayer, art@203fineart.com 575-751-1262.
• Textile artist Julie Cloutman’s freshoff-the loom creations, reflecting her recent focus in natural building are featured in ‘Creative Taos’ March display, at Moxie Fair Trade & Handmade display window, 216 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, a block north of Taos Plaza. For more, see taosmoxie.com or call 575-758-1256.
• Taos Pueblo artist Harriette Tsosie’s “Journals and Diaries” of cold wax and oil-on-panel works are on view in “The Art of Quarantine,” in-gallery and online at Gallery With A Cause in New Mexico Cancer Center of Albuquerque, at 4901 Lang Avenue NE. Forty percent of proceeds support the foundation and help defray uncovered insurance expenses. To view by appointment, call Gallery Director Regina Held at 505-803-3345 or view online at gallerywithacause.org.
• Harwood’s ‘In the Sliver of the Sun,’ features Bosnian-Herzgovinian artist Maja Ruznic’s paintings through Sept. 26. Ruznic uses thin stains and washes of acrylic and oil to create the initial compositions for these works of scumbling, layering and sanding. Ruznic lives and works in Roswell.
• Millicent Rogers Museum: Vista Grande High School art teacher Dawning Pollen Shorty’s museum studies class in MRM galleries; students receive materials and guest speakers series, including MRM Board of Trustees member David Anderson. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Museum admission free for members and children under 10; $1 (one dollar) for SNAP cardholders up to 5 guests; $10 for non-member adults. See millicentrogers. org or call 575-758-2462.
• Taos Historic Museums (The Blumenschein Home and Museum and Hacienda de los Martínez) hours are Friday-Monday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. To make donations, become a member or make a purchase, call 575-758-0505 or see taoshistoricmuseums.org.
– Compiled by Virginia Clark