Katherine Gauntt has a show hanging at the East Mountain Public Library through the end of October.

She will have a reception (no food or sales, it is a public library) on Saturday October 11 from noon to 3pm.

She has about 43 paintings, mostly watercolor paintings, in this venue. Come and enjoy during business hours;

Tues, Wed. Friday and Saturday from 10-6 and Thursday from 11-7. 

Our very own Natasha Isenhour was the judge for the AUGUST 2025 competition! Click on the link below for more information. Natasha wrote detailed descriptions of why the top three paintings won (well worth reading):

https://pleinairsalon.com/

Awards and Finalists: August 2025:

Congratulations to the PAPNM artist Top Finalists and the Award Winning Paintings in August:

Barbara Coleman, Best Landscape

Kath Reilly, Best Building

Jane Hunt, Honorable Mention, Clouds and Sky

Donna Barnhill: Finalist Figure & Portrait

Finalists: June 2025:

Congratulations to Peggy Immel and Natasha Isenhour for their paintings that were chosen in the top 100 finalists this month

Awards: May 2025

See all May 2025 awards here.

The judge for the May competition was award-winning artist Dave tulationsSantillanes.

Congratulations to Jane Hunt, PAPNM Master Artist, for awards:  Headed Home (May 2025 Best Nocturne), Ablaze (May 2025 Clouds and Sky Honorable Mention). She also placed two additional top 100 finalist paintings. 

https://www.janehuntart.com

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Awards: April 2025.

Congratulations to John Misner for his Category Award for Best Western and to Jane Hunt for her Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category:

See all April 2025 awards here 

Give the Gift of Creativity This Holiday Season

The holidays are just around the corner, and I'm excited to share a quick 21-second video that might spark your next gift idea for the little artists in your life.

Corrected link!

This special coloring book is filled with the magic of New Mexico-historic sites, plants, animals, and fun facts-making it both playful and meaningful. At just $14.95, it's an affordable way to give kids (and even grown-up artists!) the gift of creativity. Reserve your copy by calling ahead:

Collected Works Bookstore: 505-988-4226,  Garcia Street Books: (505) 986-0151,  Artisan Santa Fe: (505) 954-4179

Art is one of the most lasting gifts we can share-it brings joy, imagination, and memories that last far beyond the season. Warmly, Stephanie West text or call: 505-470-8844 stephaniewestart@gmail.com

Top Three Awards for PAPNM Members!

Congratulations to Paul Murray, Rachel Pearson and Mike Mahon for their top awards in the Pastel Society of NM Sense of Place Show at the Legends of the West Gallery in Santa Fe through Sept 27.

https://legendsofthewestfineart.com

FROM SURFACE TO SOUL

Eclipse A solo exhibit of transcendent paintings The Gallery ABQ Hoffmantown Shopping Center 8210 Menaul Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 4 pm Reception: October 3, 5 - 8 pm Exhibit: October 2 - 28 MORE INFO

In this digital world, we have grown accustomed to flat images without three-dimensional form. Carla Forrest creates a dynamic, tactical quality in her paintings that appeals to the viewer's sense of touch and feel. From thin to the thick and from transparent to opaque, the unusually rich surfaces of her paintings immerse the viewer into a multi-dimensional world where they experience the soul of creativity. The Renaissance occurred after the crises of the late Middle Ages, which halted European stability and transitioned humanity to Modernity with great social change - including recovery from the Great Famine, Black Death, demographic collapse, political instabilities, and religious upheavals. The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was humanism, a new thinking that became manifest in art, architecture, literature, science, and politics. Forrest believes that we are now emerging into the New Renaissance, birthing a new society with elevated respect and compassion for all sentient beings and our Mother Earth. During this transition, humanity will move beyond cognitive and emotional intelligence into the higher level of spiritual intelligence. So, the intellectual basis of the New Renaissance is transcendence, which will bring a new level thinking that will become manifest in art, architecture, politics, science, and literature, and move us toward a multi-dimensional world where we can experience the soul of creativity.

EL RITO STUDIO TOUR

https://www.elritoartassociation.org/studio-tour/

Michele Byrne will be participating in the El Rito Studio Tour on:

September 27 and 28th

10 AM to 5 PM each day.

Michele will be exhibiting her landscapes and miscellaneous paintings along with Elaine Lockard, who now resides in the General Store in El Rito.

They will both be at stop #12 on the map.(General Store Studio)

Michele will be painting and explaining her process on Saturday morning.

Come visit this most interesting village, just north of Abiquiu, with beautiful vistas all around.

PAPNM members Diane Stoffel and Katy Korkos, who manage Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, announce the opening of the exhibit “Projection and Confession: Self-Portraits,” September 18-October 18. 

Please come see the show which includes self-portraits by PAPNM members: Wendy Ahlm, Phyllis Gunderson, Marcia Williams, Lee Ann Costello, Rachel Pearson, Diane Stoffel, and Katy Korkos. Visitors are encouraged to vote for their favorite self-portrait. People’s Choice Awards will be presented at the closing reception at 2:00-3:30pm on Saturday, October 18 at Step Up Gallery, 2400 Central Ave., Los Alamos. 

     

Step Up Gallery Managers

Here’s a link to the September 19th edition of Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo Magazine: 

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/exhibition-at-los-alamos-gallery-exhorts-artists-to-look-within/article_25fca914-b33d-4837-afac-e47195bb4f57.html

Congratulations on the article.

Article beginning:

Step Up Gallery manager Diane Stoffel conceived of Projection and Confession: Self-Portraits as a way to inspire artists to gaze within during an era of stress-intensifying overstimulation.

“It goes along with the political climate right now, because I wanted people to look at themselves and discover their own courage,” she says. “I think it’s necessary for us to put the brakes on what’s going on politically and find our own morals, find our own strengths, and eventually find the courage to do something about it, to speak out. I was thinking of reality TV and how people are sort of voyeurs, and that’s how they entertain themselves. I don’t know how much introspection goes on anymore.”

Stoffel didn’t seek to showcase works specifically by female artists, but it certainly worked out that way: Only three of the 51 featured artists are men. As a result, Projection and Confession serves as a glimpse into a collective New Mexico female psyche, reflected not just in standard portraits but in fiber arts and even a gargoyle head. Stoffel aims to offer a different slate of exhibitions each summer; this is the first featuring self-portraits."

LIVING CREATURES, LIVING COLORS

ARTIST DEMOS, SEPTEMBER 13, 11am - 4pm 

Sage Creek Gallery presents Living Creatures, Living Colors, a vibrant exhibition showcasing the work of four artists: Ken Rowe, Charles Iarrobino, and Bill Gallen, Cecilia Robertson. This show features exceptional wildlife bronze sculptures, and captivating Southwestern and European landscapes. 

Visit: https://sagecreekgallery.com/ for more information.

The music and dancers at the opening reception on Sept 5 made for a very entertaining event. The paintings are spectacular and well displayed.

From Carole: "A huge Thank You to Underwood Gallery, Santa Fe for hosting my exhibition "Fiesta in the High Desert" with paintings of the Ballet de Folklorico de Santa Fe, the enthusiastic dancers that entertained the crowd in spite of the rain storms, and the friends that braved the weather to come see the show. Thanks to all that took and sent photos of the occasion! For those that could not attend the exhibition of the charming Nina paintings and my new studio landscape works, they will be up through September. Please come to see them. It was truly a night of Fiesta at 225 Canyon Road!"

Visit: https://www.underwoodgallerynm.com/. and

https://www.carolebelliveau.com/

for more information.

Congratulations to PAPNM Members, Michele Z. Farrier (Third Place), Kath Reilly (Artist Choice) and Virginia Unseld (Award of Merit) for their awards in the

28th Annual National Juried Fine Art Exhibition and Sale

Visit: https://showsubmit.com/gallery/paac-28th-annual-national-juried-fine-art-exhibition-and-sale to see all the juried entries.