Santa Fe Events Calendar

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There are 25 events for May 23, 2013

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Thu., May 23, 2013

Thu, May 23
Mon, Sep 30

Pequeño Home and Garden Tours

Location: Various Venues
Event Type: Featured Events

WHEN: Through September 2013 The Santa Fe Garden Club invites small groups of visitors to tour three beautiful homes and high-desert gardens. By reservation; group size limited to 24 ppl. Santa Fe Garden Club.
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Thu, May 23
Mon, Jul 29

Santa Fe Fuego Baseball Season

Location: 320 Artist Road
Event Type: Featured Events

WHEN: May 17 - July 29, 2013 The Santa Fe Fuego are a professional baseball team that play in Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe New Mexico. Check website for schedule.
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Thu, May 23 4 PM - 5 PM

Little Chefs

Location: Santa Fe Children's Museum (505) 989-8359
Event Type: family, nonprofit, on going events

Come explore the science of cooking. We'll get to taste our creations.
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Thu, May 23 4 PM - 7 PM

Agave Lounge Happy Hour

Location: Agave Lounge at Eldorado Hotel 505/995.4530
Event Type: entertainment and nightlife, on going events

Enjoy Happy Hour at the Agave Lounge! Join us daily for great Happy Hour Specials including $3 Draft Beer and $5 House Wine and House Brand Drinks!
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Thu, May 23 5:30 PM - 7 PM

Santa Fe Art Institute Open Studios

Location: Santa Fe Art Institute (505) 424 5050
Event Type: art markets and galleries, community, culture, entertainment and nightlife, local news and sports, nonpro

Residency readings and studio tours of the Santa Fe Art Institute's resident artists!
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Thu, May 23 6 PM - 8 PM

Zoe Evans

Location: Second Street Brewery @ the Railyard (505) 982-8309
Event Type: entertainment and nightlife, todays events

Blues/Folk Singer/Songwriter
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Thu, May 23 6 PM - 9 PM

Meet the Artist Featuring Amy Ringholz

Location: Nidah at Eldorado Hotel & Spa 505-995-4535
Event Type: art markets and galleries, community, food, todays events

Beals and Abbate Gallery are celebrating the work of Amy Ringholz with a reception and four-course dinner paired with wines from Santa Fe Winery. Please call505.995.4502 to make reservations.
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Thu, May 23 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Tim Valentine

Location: BODY 505-986-0362
Event Type: Other

Valentine has performed with various blues bands, and as a solo artist in Santa Fe and the surrounding area. Tim has released two CDs, the first, "Where I've Been", and his most recent, "Songs in the Silence".
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Thu, May 23 7 PM - 8:30 PM

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The French Connection

Location: Saint Francis Auditorium, NM Museum of Art (505) 476-5072
Event Type: Local Entertainment, Performing Arts

A newly orchestrated version of John Donald Robb’s Requiem will be performed by the New Mexico Bach Society. The rarely performed St. Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod also will be on the program. The performances will be presented by the New Mexico Performing Arts Society and will feature top-tier professional musicians now living in New Mexico. Franz Vote, a celebrated conductor who spent years with the Metropolitan Opera, will be conducting both pieces.

The Requiem was completed in 1985 when Robb, former dean of the UNM College of Fine Arts and a prolific composer, was 93. It was his last major composition and was written, “In Memory of Mother, Father, and Eight Brothers & Sisters”. It originally had been scored for a large orchestra and chorus, but for the Santa Fe concert has been re-scored for a smaller orchestra. Gounod, a French composer, completed the highly acclaimed St. Cecilia Mass in 1854, when he was 36. The piece established him as a noteworthy composer.
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Thu, May 23 7 PM - 9 PM

Cheaper by the Dozen

Location: Santa Fe Performing Arts 505/984-1370
Event Type: entertainment and nightlife, family, performing arts, todays events

The 2013 Class of Santa Fe Waldorf School presents "Cheaper by the Dozen" on Thursday, May 23rd at 7pm. Great entertainment for the entire family!
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Thu, May 23 7 PM

Pato Banton

Location: Sol @ Santa Fe Brewing Company (505) 424-9637
Event Type: entertainment and nightlife, todays events

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Thu, May 23 8 PM - 11 PM

Tony B. & Little Leroy - Songs in The Key of Life

Location: The Cowgirl (505) 982-2565
Event Type: entertainment and nightlife, todays events

Hi y'all! My name is Tony B. (Buford). I was born in Chicago Il, November 14th...hello Scorpio. I love all kinds of music, but I prefer music made with live musicians. I think we all do, it's just not always expedient huh. My influences are all the great ones...by great, I mean, great to me...Sam Cooke, Johnny Taylor, Nat King Cole etc. I like R&B, funk and jazz. I like Wagner and Stravinsky as well! I perform with a funk band called Soulstatic and with a jazz duo as well...one must stay busy. If you have a project and need a singer check me out. Keep rockin...I'll see you around! This event features Little LeRoy and Me Tony B. It features song that have in someway influenced my life and includes blues jazz and all genres in between.

Website:http://www.reverbnation.com/tonybuford
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Thu, May 23 all day

Art Show: Nancy Frost Begin

Location: Marigold Arts
Event Type: Other Events

Marigold Arts is pleased to present a solo exhibition of woodcut prints, watercolors and sculpture by Nancy Frost Begin, opening May 3. Begin's work has an old world narrative quality, a contemporary aesthetic, and a strong affinity for animals, nature, and folk archetypes. Nancy Frost Begin Affectionately Observed New Woodcut Prints, Watercolors, and Sculpture
May 3 - June 5
Opening Reception with the Artist: Friday, May 3, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
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Thu, May 23 all day

Peter Millett: Wall Sculpture

Location: Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 505-992-0711
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

Millett has spent the majority of his career making large scale metal sculptures that explore the abstraction of both figurative movement and geometry. However, many of these complex creations start from ideas hashed out in wood, small scale, with vibrant monochromatic color schemes. This exhibition presents a collection of these small wooden sculptures for the wall and pedestal. Each piece has a dynamic compositional element that inspires visual interest and translates to the monumental, yet was made for an intimate view.

Based in Seattle WA, Millett has exhibited widely over the past 30 plus years. With family in Santa Fe, Chiaroscuro has become his home-away-from-home gallery and has helped develop a significant local following. This is Millett's second solo exhibition at Chiaroscuro.
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Thu, May 23 all day

European Perspectives: The Radiant Line

Location: Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 505 982 8111
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

Paintings, prints, photographs, and neon sculpture by Francois Morellet, Gregoire Cheneau, Diana Blok and Pieter Bijwaard, Olivier Mosset, Ruth Gschwendtner‐Wölfe, Miguel Mont, and Tony Soulie.
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Thu, May 23 all day

Marco Petrus: Bella Citta

Location: LewAllen Galleries at the Railyard (505) 988-3255
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

On view from April 26–June 9 at its Railyard location, LewAllen Galleries premieres the first solo exhibition in the United States of the celebrated urban landscape painter and Venice Biennale artist, Marco Petrus, who lives and works in Milan, Italy. Over a career that has spanned more than 20 years, Petrus has been acclaimed for his singular decontextualized use of geometric urban architectural forms presented with a purity of radiant color, unconventional perspective, and reductive essentiality.
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Thu, May 23 all day

Changing Seasons, Landscapes of the West

Location: Silver Sun 505-983-8743
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

Lee has been working on a series of paintings that capture the effect of the seasons on the landscape. While predominately New Mexican landscapes, the show will also include work from California and Colorado.
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Thu, May 23 all day

Clark Walding: flux

Location: Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 505-989-8688
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is proud to present an exhibition of new works,flux, by Clark Walding, running from May 3 to June 3. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Friday, May 3 from 5–7 pm. The gallery is located in the Railyard Arts District at 554 South Guadalupe Street.
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Thu, May 23 all day

Kevin Tolman: Recent Works

Location: Karan Ruhlen Gallery 505-820-0807
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

Albuquerque artist Kevin Tolman builds his rich mixed-media abstractions with gestural sheets of vibrant acrylic colors through an application of scratching, scraping and drawing along the way. Many aspects from these under-paintings are revealed or obscured as the piece progresses. It is, he admits, a pursuit of serendipity. “I see our world as being very cyclical, random patterned, and profuse in nature. It is also an incredibly layered and thickly complex place that I find interesting and exquisitely beautiful. My visual experience is something I obviously can't help but bring to my work.”
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Thu, May 23 all day

SEAN CHEETHAM

Location: Evoke Contemporary 505 995 9902
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

EVOKE Contemporary, 130 Lincoln Avenue, Suite F, Santa Fe introduces new artist, SEAN CHEETHAM on Friday, May 3rd from 5-7pm through May 31. Primarily a figurative painter, Sean is known for his technical prowess in achieving accuracy and harmony in his alla prima paintings which he credits to a deep understanding of drawing and his own system of mixing colors which he uses adeptly to govern shadows, midtones and highlights. In addition to having an exceptional ability to understand, draw, and paint the human form, Cheetham's selection of subjects typically in familiar urban scenes contributes a truthful and often raw spirit that make his work distinctive and contemporary testimonies of our time.
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Thu, May 23 all day

Selections

Location: William Siegal Gallery 505 820 3300
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

William Siegal Gallery is pleased to presentSelections, an exhibition of unseen works by many of our gallery artists. The show will open April 26, 2013 with a reception from 5–7 pm, and runs through May 25, 2013. To begin the summer exhibition schedule with fresh energy, the gallery artists were asked to select an un-shown or atypical work from their oeuvre to be presented in a group show. The “selections” include a huge (110 x 118”) painted canvas by Paula Roland who is well known for her small to medium scale works in encaustic and a large “life-scale” photograph by Peter Ogilvie from his recent series of Nudes. These and other selected contemporary works will be shown in conjunction with several exciting new Pre-Columbian acquisitions!
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Thu, May 23 all day

Maggie Taylor + Henrieke Strecker

Location: VERVE Gallery of Photography 505-982-5009
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

Henrieke I. Streckerhas her roots in the Black Forest of southwestern Germany. Her formative and creative years were spent there, and later in Berlin and Frankfurt. In 2008 she relocated to the United States and currently resides and works in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. She has spent her lifetime in photography and alternative photographic techniques. Henrieke's work appears in photographic journals, catalogues, blogs and in books on photographic practices. She teaches The Art of Photography (analog photography)&Historic Photographic Processes at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.

Henrieke Strecker's photogravures and mixed media images rarely have titles. It is her goal to entice the viewer to become an active observer, to respond to the image so as to find his or her own meaning---presumably a new and very personal tale. Thus, she doesn't document an isolated moment as a documentary photographer would nor does she paint a realistic picture, for Henrieke, this type of photographic rendition is too much like a report. Instead, she gives an account of small movements and atmospheres thereby sharing her experience with the viewer. Her technique requires her to remain still, in her own yard, in one place, and quietly allow her perceptions to emerge --- "to go deeper - unearthing, layer after layer, exposing the fields of vision hidden well beneath the surface." The core of her work is both visual and graphic, simplicity derived from her natural surroundings.

Maggie Tayloris exhibiting both new work and a selection of images from No Ordinary Days, her recent book that is a survey for Maggie's art for the period 1998 through 2012. Maggie continues her characteristic style of scanning and enhancing daguerreotypes, tintypes, figurines, illustrations and photographs for which she then creates surrealistic settings for the featured portrait.
The portraits that Maggie uses for her photomontages, the daguerreotypes and the tintypes, are 19th Century pictures. The technical limitations of the medium at the time, the "film" that captured the subject of the photographs, was slow, not very light sensitive. Often the taking of a picture took several seconds, even minutes. While the lens cap was removed from the camera the photographic subjects were required to sit or stand, perfectly motionless, until the lens cap was replaced on the camera. Photographers used specially made props such as the Brady Stand, a 19th century factory made cast iron side table to act as a prop and to assist the subject to be still. Photographers also learned that a smile was always in motion. Pictures of those who smiled rendered the face blurred and the photo was useless. Hence, the portrait subject was admonished not to move, not to smile, not to blink, and, most importantly, not to change their expression. The subjects dressed for this special occasion presenting themselves for the camera in their best, probably their only formal wear. The clothing was dark, often black, creating a setting that had a funereal air or suggesting the subject was suffering some anguish or discomfort. If the photograph was taken in a studio there would be props, such as a table, sofas, stools, and chair, and perhaps a backdrop, a pastoral setting of trees or the like as the hand painted backdrops found on a stage. Rarely does anyone know the name of the person who was photographed. That identity has long been lost to posterity. Finally, the print made of the subject was totally without color, ashen --- just shades of gray. Consequently, these 19th Century portraits took on a stilted stoic and stiff expression, and worst of all, they were gray. No one ever looked happy; they couldn't smile. In her book, Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams, Maggie shows us four examples of original daguerreotypes and tintypes as she collected them and then how she reconstructs them as her own art.
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Thu, May 23 all day

Photographs by John Delaney&Svjetlana Tepavcevic

Location: photo-eye Gallery 505-988-5152 or 800-227-6941
Event Type: Art Shows& Fairs

photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by John Delaney and Svjetlana Tepavcevic. John Delaney's silver gelatin photographs depict an ancient Kazakh nomad tradition of hunting with golden eagles. His portraits of the birds of prey with their handlers capture a striking relationship between man and animal. Svjetlana Tepavcevic gathers the seedpods of various trees and plant-life and photographs her finds in her studio. By making the small large, Tepavcevic's images illuminate the strange beauty of the natural world.
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Thu, May 23 all day

"Stations of the Cross"

Location: Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 505-982.2226
Event Type: Museum Events

New Upcoming Exhibit "Stations of the Cross” Opens Saturday, March 2, 2013; Also on Saturday, March 2nd there will be a Symposium where Enrique LaMadrid will speak, along with other speakers from Mexico, Spain and the University of New Mexico, who will talk about Holy Week. MEMBERS ONLY OPENING RECEPTION, Friday March 1st, 1:00PM (Reservations required.) The 15 Stations of the Cross are on loan. The following artists collaborated on the 15 piece project: Retablos, by Nicolás Otero; Tinwork by Christine Montaño Carey; Straw Appliqué Crosses by Jimmy Trujillo; Colcha Stitched Numbers, by Julia Gómez. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, NM,10:00 AM-5:00 PM (PLEASE NOTE THE MUSEUM is closed Mondays from Labor Day to Memorial Day) Museum admission free to members of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society; $5 Museum admission to non-members, 505-982-2226 , www.spanishcolonial.org and on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/spanishcolonialarts
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Thu, May 23 all day

It's About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico

Location: New Mexico Museum of Art (505) 476-5072
Event Type: Museum Events

New Mexicans have always made art—we have always made aestheticized objects that reflect our world views. From beautifully made, 14,000-year-old Paleo-Indian tools to contemporary imagery, New Mexico art has reflected our changing technologies, embodied our ways of making a living, and personified our spirituality.
And where else but New Mexico has art reflected everything from the creators of stone tools to the invention of the atomic bomb?

Curated by Joseph Traugott, Ph.D., the museum's curator of twentieth century art, the exhibition begins with the earliest yet-discovered art—Clovis points—and proceeds in an unbroken continuum to the present.

Information: 505-476-5072 or visit www.nmartmuseum.org
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