Snow

Last Friday evening we got 4 -6 inches of snow. We only get snow here a couple of times each year — just enough to satisfy any longing for the white stuff. We had a house full of guests and a fire in two of our fireplaces - a very cozy evening as we watched the big flakes fall from late afternoon into the evening. Here are some pictures taken the next day.

The Blast

The bits of glued paper, the imitation wood and other elements of the same sort,

which I have employed in some of my designs, are equally valid because of the

simplicity of these compositional facts, and for that reason have been confused with

illusion, of which they are the exact contrary. They too are simple facts, but they

been created by mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of a new

spatial figuration (Braque, “Pensées et réflexions sur la peinture,” Nord-sud).

from: The Art Quarterly (Metropolitan Museum of Art), I, Autumn 1978

sighted on David Baptiste Chirot Blog

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Mimbres Region Arts Council — Artist Events

Rummage/Bake/Craft Sale
Saturday, Feb. 16
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
100 N. Prescott in Santa Clara/Central.
Contact Maria E. Trillo 538-6526 for information.

Golden Artist Colors, Inc.
Acrylic Lecture Demo
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
4:00- 6:00 p.m
Leyba & Ingalls Arts
Instructor: Nancy Reyner
Artists of all levels will come away from this lecture demo with fresh new insights to feed their creative expression. All participants will receive free product samples and a literature packet, including hand-painted color charts.Space is limited, so register today! It’s FREE. 575-388-5725

Book Signing.ACRYLIC REVOLUTION..NANCY REYNER
3-4pm and 6-7pm
February 20 (snow date March 12th)
Leyba & Ingalls Arts

ENCAUSTIC EFFECTS WITH ACRYLIC
10-4pm, 3 days, February 22-24 (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Leyba & Ingalls Arts
Instructor: Nancy Reyner
All acrylic paints and products will be available for free! Additional supply list available upon registration. All levels welcome, however please note that this is a fast-paced professional styled workshop. Some acrylic painting experience is recommended.
COST: $350.

Public Forum: Community Economic Assessment
Silco Theater
Thursday February 21
5:30-8:30 pm

Artist, Tom Holt Landscapes
JW Art Gallery, Hurley.
Fabulous landscapes of the Gila National Forest
Preview images at www.thetown.com/HOLT.html

Poster Contest Call for Artists
GILA, N.M.— Organizers of the fourth annual Gila River Festival are looking for artists to illustrate the 2008 festival’s theme: Celebrating the Gila River as a Source of Inspiration. See attached form.

Call for Galleries
Anyone who would like to participate during the Gila River Festival
Contact: Linda Brewer or John Rohovec at bluedome@zianet.com

Fiber Arts Center - Ongoing Classes
211 D N. Texas Street, Silver City
Operated by SW Women’s Fiber Arts Collective
To register for classes, call The Common Thread at 538-5733
Fabric Book Cover - March 8, Beginning Quilting - Mar 29 and April 4 and 12
Rigid Heddle Weaving - April 19, Inkle weaving - April 20
Basket making - April 26

Ann Simonsen’s Studio Sale
March 7 & 8th (10:00 - 3:00 p.m.)
Over Issac’s Bar - Entrance on Broadway
100s of items, paintings, easels, art books,
supplies, etc.
388-5556

Cliff Dwelling Road Closure
See attached press release.

“The Cowboy Ain’t Dead Yet!”
RJ Vandygriff
March 1
7:30 pm
WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre
SCGC Chamber of Commerce & Western Bank

THE 2ND ANNUAL WNMU SW JAZZ FESTIVAL!
MARCH 13-15, 2008

O’Brien’s Fissures”
Blue Dome Gallery
307 N.Texas Street
Through May 16
O’Brien’s Fissures” reflects Randy O’Brien’s passion for the Southwestern landscape.
He developed a glaze surface composed mostly of volcanic ash and metallic
oxides, a manmade obsidian. Both the individual pieces and the
installations echo the natural lichen formation.

Another Extreme Alphabet

Extreme Alphabet:

Wow a new idea for work and clothes pins.

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Alphabet Macabre

Alphabet Macabre:

“The Alphabet, a short film by David Lynch, examines the simple recitation of the alphabet, a common form of rote learning, the speaking of which has a certain expected cadence. But Lynch plays with our expectations, taking an innocent bit of common experience and transforming it into a spooky investigation of…what? His own mind? The images and sounds that horripilate? The ways in which animation and film can distort the world they supposedly represent?

An amazing amount of experimentation is stuffed into this short: spooky animation techniques, disturbing jump cuts, how the tone of a voice can turn the skin to gooseflesh, blood as polka dots. Although the aphabet appears on the screen, in full or nearly so, twice, and the letter A, the sturdy opener to our alphabet has special billing, this is not a videopoem but a textualized film where the letters popping up on the screen propel us through a story we already know as we learn a story only our bones knew beforehand.” - Geof Huth ,dbqp Blogspot

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The Age Demanded

The age demanded an image

Of its accelerated grimace,

Something for the modern stage,

Not, at any rate, an Attic grace;

Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries

Of the inward gaze;

Better mendacities

Than the classics in paraphrase!

The “age demanded” chiefly a mould in plaster,

Made with no loss of time,

A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster

Or the “sculpture” of rhyme.

from “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly”

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High Art in South Beach // Current - Flash Player Installation

I didn’t get to Miami and Art Basil. But I thought this guys video was a wonderful snapshot of what the scene is during Art Basil.

High Art in South Beach // Current:

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Geomancy almanac from the 16th century

I love these images from Bibliodyssey blog. The come from an manuscript that was written in the around 1552. They deal with the signs of the zodiac. This looks like some of the neo-platonists’ work but I don’t really know the relationship between astrology and neo-platonism. I do know these images are great.