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A Santa Fe resident for the past two decades, Lorraine Schechter has led a full and varied life as an artist, arts administrator, and teacher of fine arts and yoga. A native of New York City and a rabid Yankee fan, Lorraine lived in the south of France and Northwest Connecticut prior to moving to Santa Fe in 1988. Lorraine first visited Santa Fe in 1969 when she was teaching at Swarthmore College and had just established her first gallery. During that first visit, Lorraine made a promise to herself that took her two decades to fulfill: “I would live and work in Santa Fe some day because...

As the winds of March blow through town, local galleries are putting up fresh shows.

Geoff Gorman, local artist and entrepreneur, exhibits his constructed animals at this Canyon Road gallery best known for fiber-arts. Gorman uses and reuses materials to create objects that evoke hunting decoys and model – airplanes. The expression inherent in these pieces, like Papio, engages the spectator into a physical dialogue.

“A broken bent tree branch, bleached from sun and rain, makes me think of weathered bones: fingers, legs, backbone, and hip bone. Old stained strips of cloth act like...

Happy Valentine’s Day in Northern New Mexico! Site Santa Fe opens an exhibit of one of those local yet ‘global’ artists that fill our town, belying those who still insist on an absurd, archaic regional/ international split in the art world. Steina: 1970 - 2000, is a retrospective of a new media trailblazer.

“Long considered,” write the show’s curators, “a pioneer in the field of new media art by artists and curators alike, Steina has been making art for over three decades that has expanded the boundaries of video technology and electronic imaging. Through an ongoing process of...

Now in its 11th season, ARTfeast is heralded as one of the most inspired reasons for a getaway. The weekend of festivities celebrates the City Different’s world-class chefs and restaurants, an international array of vintners, original designer fashions and unique homes, along with nationally and regionally prominent artists represented by members of the Santa Fe Gallery Association.

All of this fun and food helps young people develop the skills needed to creatively respond to life.

The use of the color red is never an accident, according to Santa Fe Clay gallery assistant Rod Lambert. That’s why the ceramics gallery is opening a national invitational show today that is centered on that color.

“Studies indicate that the color red can have physical effects ranging from increased respiration to raised blood pressure,” Lambert said. “Animals from bulls to birds to fish to bugs are agitated and/or excited by red. Red is symbolically the color for passion, love, sex and excitement. Historically, commoners forbidden from wearing the red textiles of the rich and powerful...

Two new museum shows that juxtapose the seemingly innocent or beautiful with deeper chords of meaning will be on exhibit in early February.

Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for American Modernism opens January 25th at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Organized by Heather Hole, O’Keeffe’s assistant curator, the exhibition repositions Hartley’s work in New Mexico as pivotal in his career and in the development of American Modernism.

Hartley painted New Mexico repeatedly from 1918 – 1924, first living in Taos and Santa Fe, then returning from New York and, once again, Europe. Hartley’s...

The early Spaniards were drawn to the Canyon Road area by the Santa Fe River bottom, which offered irrigable land for their crops and pasture for their flocks; by a centuries-old Pueblo Indian trail, which provided a convenient passageway for mule trains and ox-drawn carretas; and by the community’s nearby main plaza and governmental offices, which offered protection from Indian attacks.

They established Canyon Road, about three quarters of a mile in length, from the most humble of beginnings—a prehistoric path of dirt and tiny houses of adobe but they imbued it with an enduring quality...

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) is a nonprofit organization, established and run by gardeners, botanists and environmentally oriented volunteers. Santa Fe Botanical Garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of Northern New Mexico through community service and education on environmentally responsible garden design, including plant selection and care, as well as conservation techniques for water catchment and harvesting. Santa Fe Botanical Garden manages two properties as natural preserves: the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve and the...

Step through an unassuming doorway from Cathedral Place and you enter the Lamy Garden. This small oasis is a remnant of the four acre garden established by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy in the 1860's. Pass through the garden to the entrance to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Museum, established in 1993. This museum is an outgrowth of the Archdiocese Office of Historic Patrimony and Archives and displays some of the history of the Catholic Church in Northern New Mexico.

The museum displays historic artifacts and religious artworks including painted altar screens (reredos), wooden statues...

New Mexico “celebrates” its three dominant cultures, and in fact, there was a time when race, religion and economic status played no part in the lives of men so desperate they sought only the comfort of one of their own. I am speaking of the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery Anti-aircraft units of the New Mexico National Guard who were sent to the Philippines three months prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were young men, some just boys who had lied about their age. They were Anglos, Hispanos, Mexicans, Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache. The 200th and 515th would become what is believed to...