Arts

Local Authors To Host Book Reading At Samizdat March 6

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Local authors Kelly Dolejsi, left, and Tara Downing will read from their books Friday, March 6, at Samizdat.  Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Ever wonder what the cows would think of a bull dancing in glitter? Or whether the small brown birds bobbing in the pines are actually cinnamon-feathered sonnets?

Find out this week, when Samizdat hosts local authors Tara Downing and Kelly Dolejsi for a reading at 6 p.m. Friday, March 6, at the bookstore, 174 Central Park Square. A book signing will follow the reading, which will include new material as well as excerpts from their published work. Books will Read More

Daily Postcard: Strange Trio & Waxing Gibbous Moon

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Daily Postcard: Strange Trio sculpture at Overlook Park in White Rock with a waxing gibbous moon shown at just the right angle. This astrophotography image was achieved with post-processing and blending in Affinity Photo 2. A waxing gibbous moon is visible between a first quarter moon and full moon. People often see a waxing gibbous moon in the afternoon, shortly after moonrise, while it is ascending in the east as the sun is descending in the west. The word gibbous comes from a root word that means hump-backed. Source: earthsky.org. Photo by Steve Bublitz Read More

The Maupin Group’s Isaiah Garcia Partners With LA Cares Volunteers To Bring Joy To Community

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Isaiah Garcia of The Maupin Group at RE/MAX First, left, and LA Cares volunteers partnered to create something joyful for the community. Courtesy/The Maupin Group

By RYAN MAUPIN 
The Maupin Group
RE/MAX First

A new community tradition was lighting up Los Alamos and White Rock this past holiday season. The Los Alamos Christmas Lights Map was alive, inviting families to experience the simple joy of driving through town, admiring all the holiday displays.

The idea for the Los Alamos Christmas Lights Map began with Isaiah Garcia of The Maupin Group at RE/MAX First, who partnered with LA Cares, a Read More

SWAIA Native Fashion Week Returns May 8–9

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SWAIA News:

SANTA FE — The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) announces the return of SWAIA Native Fashion Week, taking place May 8–9, 2026, at the Eldorado Hotel & Spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

The 2026 program introduces a refined, curated format designed to deepen engagement, strengthen designer visibility, and create a more intimate, storytelling-driven experience for guests.

Participating designers include Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo), Himikalas Pamela Baker (Squamish/Kwakiutl/Tlingit/Haida), Lauren Good Day (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara Nation), Jamie Read More

All Student Art Show On Display At Step Up Gallery

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STEP UP GALLERY News:

The Los Alamos Public Schools celebrate student art month and the New Mexico Year of Arts in Education with a colorful display of hundreds of artworks made by students from Pre-K through high school seniors. Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library hosts this annual show, which opened today.

The district’s art team goes above and beyond to prepare the show for hanging. The teachers are collecting and labeling the art works, planning how work will be displayed, choosing representative pieces and boxing things up to transport them to the gallery. The art show team is led by middle Read More

Dorothy Browdy Kushner ‘A Force Of Nature’ On View March 13 – April 18, 2026

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Purple Flowers (diptych), circa 1964, oil on board, 47.75 x 49 in

Moon Over The Pines, 1955, casein on board, 28 x 20 in

ART News:

SANTA FE — LewAllen Galleries is honored to present Dorothy Browdy Kushner: A Force of Nature, an exhibition of abstract and landscape paintings by the dedicated California and New York Mid-20th Century Modernist painter Dorothy Browdy Kushner (1909–2000). Opening Friday, March 13, 2026, the exhibition highlights Kushner’s evocative synthesis of color, light, and place, showcasing a rigorous body of work that pushed her subjects, particularly landscapes and Read More

SFIS & MIAC Form New Partnership

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EDUCATION News:

AstroTour [AR]: Indigenous Cosmologies Through Code is a 6-week transdisciplinary youth workshop that fuses augmented reality, coding, and sky observation.

This powerful new collaboration brings together cultural perspectives, space science, and creative technology in partnership with the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) and the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS).

Students from SFIS’s Advanced Computer Science class visited the Makowa exhibit at the museum for inspiration.

Bethany Rivera and the STEMarts team with Dr. Julia Blue Bird, Lakota Astrophysicist Read More

Sweet Charity Exhibit At Village Arts Ends Feb. 28

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Courtesy photo

Courtesy photo

ART News:

What do hats knitted by Melissa Alexander, a watercolor pencil portrait of Bubo the Great Horned Owl by Lydia Marshall, and abstracted collages by Jacci Gruninger have in common?  Each of these artists care! 

The common theme of the current exhibit at Village Arts follows the title “Sweet Charity”, where artists were invited to submit artwork that, if sold, would go to the charities of their choice. Nearly 2 dozen artists submitted over 40 pieces to the exhibition in the hopes of giving back to potentially over different 20 causes that are close to their Read More