Bright colors and nature inform the work of artist Dianne Doan
After completing a rewarding career as an educator in 2000, Dianne Doan began her adventure into...
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Artrageous: Art-making as a performance
An East Mountain performing arts group called Artrageous Artreach will take the stage at the...
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Mural taking shape at Edgewood CommunityLibrary
A community-painted mural at the Edgewood library, the brainchild of librarians Andrea Corvin and...
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Lust For Dead Oddities: Offbeat artwork that inspires questions
A name like Lust for Dead Oddities inspires questions, so before talking about art, let’s...
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Art show will be like ‘nothing the town of Mountainair has ever experienced’
I first met Ruthie Ballen (aka The Wayward Elf) in 2012 at Alpine Alley Coffee Shop in...
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Celebrating sunflowers through art
Every year Mountainair hosts the Sunflower Festival, an art festival showcasing the local love of...
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Artist with Mountainair connection returns with show
Gayle Van Horn began his art career apprenticing as a teenager with Carl Von Hassler, a highly...
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Art exhibit and panel rocks Wildlife West’s Bean Barn
Often when you live in the country in a small town, you only get to see expressive art on...
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Make some art and join Route 66 Arts Alliance contest
Last summer, instead of the regular kid’s arts camp, and because of the pandemic, the Route 66...
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When the far East meets the Southwest: Edgewood painter Ming Franz
At the foot of South Mountain in Edgewood, you may find a little bit of China. Packaged in the...
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Who wants to go on a Road Trip!?
“I quit my job and packed up my car and moved to New Mexico in 1994—without a plan or a job, just...
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Summer arts program rides again—virtually
Last year the Route 66 Arts Alliance held its annual Summer Arts Program in Edgewood. I got to be...
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Marilyn Conway: Portraits of New Mexico in the 90s
Today, St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Punta de Agua presents a stark face to travelers on...
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Artists working in diverse media in Mountainair and Edgewood
As we approach the gift giving time of year, The Independent looked at original work by artists...
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Close to Home: Spanish Colonial show is a piece of New Mexico history
This week we really wanted to hit some of our favorite hiking spots, but we got snowed out. My son...
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Close to Home: Exploring Mountainair art scene
The idea of this travel feature is to go in any direction one hour from Edgewood. We’ve...
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Manzano Mountain Arts Council gets grant
Two organizations got placemaking grants from New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of...
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Show features sunflowers in time for annual festival
If it’s August in Mountainair, it’s sunflower time, and at Cibola Arts Gallery, sunflowers in all...
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Arts alliance offers camp and sponsors mural design contest
The town of Edgewood, Santa Fe County and the Route 66 Arts Alliance are offering a summer arts...
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Two robots graced the fashion stage at the Recycled Fashion Show at Mountainair Elementary School...
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