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Christian Ristow and Christina Sporrong both share a passion for industrial inspired artwork and have produced countless pieces through their appreciation of mechanical symbolism.
“I have been building robotic and kinetic sculpture for almost two decades. Mechanisms are fascinating to me, but they must serve the larger narrative of the work. I firmly believe that the true strength of any artwork lies in its ability to incite strong feelings or thoughts in the viewer. I have recently become interested in artwork that is audience controlled, as this seems to me an even more literal way of encouraging involvement. My most recent large work, "The Hand of Man," exemplifies this goal. It is my strong aspiration to get people engaged, whether through thought or action, with my work!” said Ristow.
Sporrong appreciates the performance aspect of kinetic expression. “I have been working with metal since college, and was always drawn to kinetic and robotic work. I am inspired by large fiery art, performance, and sound, and have tried to merge these elements,” said Sporrong.
Ristow studied architecture at Columbia University and continued his education by working with San Francisco-based Survival Research Laboratories. Ristow’s robots play a leading role in the brave and expanding world of mechanical art.
Sporrong has a BFA from Parson School of Design in NYC and since 1998 has operated a metal fabrication shop in Taos called Spitfire Forge.
Encore Gallery Hours: 11 AM to 3 PM Tuesday – Friday and by appointment.
For further information please contact Dancer Dearing, dancer@tcataos.org or 575-758-2052.

The Harwood Museum of Art and the University of New Mexico present New Mexorado: an upcoming exhibition showcasing artists working and living in the Albuquerque-Denver corridor. Entries are now open and will be accepted until November 1, 2010. For more information or to submit artwork, go to harwoodmuseum.org.

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Tickets only $50
Tickets available through August 20, 2010, 6 PM. Odds are 1 in 500 of winning one of the six prizes depending on sales of all 500 tickets. Ticket outlets: TCA Office, call 575-758-2052, Sleep Sanctuary & Toto Home, Taos Mountain Electronics and the TCA Board of Directors. Drawing held on August 20th, 2010 at 6 PM live on KTAO, 101.9 FM. You need not be present to win. Winner is responsible for all applicable taxes. Raffle is void where prohibited by law. All proceeds support the Taos Center for the Arts located at 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM, 87571.
 

Mark Asmus will feature oil paintings celebrating the Native American and Hispanic cultures of Taos. Scenes and individual dancers from the pueblo feast days, Powwow activities and everyday life in the pueblo are captured with Asmus' palette knife. Mudding buildings, farm landscapes, moradas and animals dominate Taos' Hispanic culture.

The 3rd Annual Taos Art Glass Invitational is a juried exhibition that showcases some of the most talented artists working in glass today. This year's invitational theme is "Alchemy -- the Sacred Art of Transformation". Visitors can explore a diverse range of glass creations, illustrating techniques and forms that capture the world of fire and ice. The premier exhibition will be hosted by Hulse-Warman Gallery from July 9th through August 15th. This exhibition is sponsored by the Taos Institute for Glass Arts and Glass Alliance -- New Mexico.

Taos celebrates glass with the annual Walking on Glass Tour. Participating Taos art galleries host accomplished glass artists and showcase their exceptional work as part of the juried Taos Art Glass Invitational. For over a month, Taos is the place to experience contemporary art glass with artist receptions, free lectures and demonstrations. There will be opening and closing celebrations as well as travel discount packages for visitors. Join the Taos Institute for Glass Arts, the Taos Gallery Association and participating galleries in this festival of glass.

Directed by Ronald J. Usherwood, the cast includes Kristian Moore, Susan Nuss, Damon Klassen and Ronald J. Usherwood
July 30 & 31, August 4, 5, 6, 13, 14 & 15 2010 at 8 PM

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Taos Center for the Arts offices, FX 18 on Bent Street in Taos or by calling 575-758-2052.

The Mojave Desert, a ramshackle motel – stranded in a mythic landscape, May and Eddie inhabit their past while striving between passion and betrayal. Fleeing from their on-again-off-again relationship, May has come to another dead end, pursued by her erstwhile cowboy lover, Eddie. As seductive and irresistible as their ties may be, a desperate secret keeps them from being together. As the specter of the Old Man watches, May and Eddie square off for another round of psychic and physical combat, while May’s new beau, the trusting and credulous Martin, is thrust between them, a foil for their ongoing explosions of deep and abiding love. As Frank Rich wrote in the New York Times, ‘‘Fool for Love is a western for our time. We watch a pair of figurative gunslingers fight to the finish—not with bullets, but with piercing words that give ballast to the weight of a nation’s buried dreams.’’

Habitat for Humanity Taos is holding our 5th annual “A Taos Experience” on Saturday, July 31st from 2-5p.m. at the Taos Center for the Arts Stables Gallery. This event enables local individuals and tourists to meet with Taos artists as they create and display their works. Gourmet hors d'oeuvres from local restaurants and Black Mesa wine will round out the palate for the event. Thus everyone gets to enjoy “A Taos Experience” while helping to promote our local artists, businesses, restaurants and Habitat for Humanity of Taos. If you would like more information about the event or to buy tickets please call 575-758-7827.

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Taos School of Music presents the Brenatano String Quartet, pianist and violist Paul Hersh and guest violist Michael Tree. The performance will include Leclair's Viola Duet, Haydn's String Quartet in F Major, Arnold Bax's Viola Sonata and Mendelssohn's Viola Quintet in A Major. Tickets are $20 for adults and under 16 $10. Tickets can be purchased in advance at FX-18 Gifts and Jewelry at 103-C Bent street or the evening of the performance at the box office. For more informations visit www.TaosSchoolofMusic.com or call 575-776-2388.

KING ARTHUR’S QUEST Audition
An audition will be held for the Missoula Children's Theatre production of KING ARTHUR’S QUEST Monday August 2, 2010 from 8:45 AM to 11:00 AM. Those auditioning should arrive promptly and plan to stay for the full two hours. Some of the cast members will be asked to stay for a rehearsal immediately following the audition.
Approximately 50 roles are available for local students. All students,1st grade through 12th grade are encouraged to audition. No advance preparation is necessary. Most students rehearse approximately 4 ½ hours each day, Monday through Friday. Performances are scheduled forSaturday, August 7th at 3:00 and 7:00 PM.
For more information call 758-2052
KING ARTHUR’S QUEST is part of the Missoula Children's Theatre's unique international touring project and is presented in Taos by The Taos Center for the Arts and the Town of Taos Youth and Family Center.

Made possible with the help of these underwriters:

First Community Bank, KKIT/KVOT,
KTAO, LUNA and Five Magazine,
El Monte Sagrado, The Historic Taos Inn,
Indian Hills Inn,
Business Brokers of Taos, The Taos News, William Schackel DDS, James Day DDS,
Sleep Sanctuary, Toto Home,
Taos Physical Therapy, Cid’s Food Market,
John Dunn Shops, Peoples Bank,
5 Star Burgers, Webb Design, Taos Net,
New Mexico Educators Credit Union,
The UPS Store, Taos Horse Fly

On August 12, Taos will host the Premiere screening of RECLAIMING Their VOICE: The Native American Vote in New Mexico (narration by Peter Coyote) a new film by OSCAR-nominated, EMMY Award-winning filmmaker, Dorothy Fadiman (STEALING AMERICA: Vote By Vote). A panel of interviewees who appear in the film will speak and answer questions after the showing. The filmmaker will also be present at the screening. Taos, the first of three KUNM sponsored events, will be followed by screenings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The Taos panel includes: Linda Yardley – Tribal member, Red Willow people, Taos Pueblo Billy J. Knight - Taos Community Foundation Board Santiago Juarez – Attorney, Former Executive Director of NM PACE GloJean Todacheene - San Juan County Commissioner Arcie Chapa, host of KUNM’s Call-in show, will be the moderator for this panel. RECLAIMING Their VOICE follows people moving from disenfranchisement to becoming politically active. Interviewees include voices from Taos, Ohkay Owingeh, the Navajo Nation, Laguna, Acoma, plus Chicano/a voices and more. For more about the film please go to www.concentric.org/reclaiming  The public is warmly invited to the screenings. Admission $5. Free admission for KUNM members includes 2 free tickets per member household and requires an RSVP stating which screening (Taos, ABQ, or Santa Fe) at membersfree@kunm.org or 505-277-3968. For details regarding the Albuquerque (Aug. 13) and Santa Fe (Aug. 15) screenings

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Enjoy this special performance by world class Festival artists Anne-Marie McDermott, Ida Kavafian and Paul Neubauer, followed by a wine and hors d'oeuvre reception at the elegant El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa™ This event is a special pre-Season benefit for the Festival AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! THANK YOU SINCERELY FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Cash Bar 5:30 pm Performance 6:00 pm Meet and Greet Reception 7:00 pm

TIckets: $10.00, $7.50 for TCA Members, charge by phone 575-758-2052 or visit FX 18 Gifts and Jewelry on Bent St.

Presented by the Taos Center for the Arts in association with:
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Center for Contemporary Arts, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts and the Taos Historic Taos Inn

Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to today, only to find the future of Native cinema in the unlikeliest of places – Canada’s North.It’s a loving look at cinema through the eyes of the people who appeared in its very first flickering images and have survived to tell their stories their own way.

Diamond meets with Clint Eastwood (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, Unforgiven) at his studios in Burbank, California, where the film legend discusses the evolution of the image of Indians in Westerns and what cowboy-and-Indian myths mean to America. Reel Injun also hears from legendary Native American activists John Trudell, Russell Means and Sacheen Littlefeather.

Celebrities featured in Reel Injun include Robbie Robertson, the half-Jewish, half-Mohawk musician andsoundtrack composer (Raging Bull, Casino, Gangs of New York), Cherokee actor Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans, Geronimo), filmmakers Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man) and Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) and acclaimed Native actors Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves, Thunderheart) and Adam Beach (Smoke Signals, Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers). Diamond also travels North to the remote Nunavut town of Igloolik (population: 1500) to interview Zacharias Kunuk, director of the Caméra d’Or-winning Atanarjuat The Fast Runner.

One of Canada’s foremost Aboriginal filmmakers, Neil Diamond hails from the Cree community of Waskaganish, on the coast of James Bay. His recent credits include The Last Explorer (2009), a featurelength docudrama for APTN retracing the steps of Diamond’s own great uncle, Aboriginal guide George Elson, on an ill-fated voyage into the heart of uncharted Labrador.

Made possible with the help of these underwriters:

First Community Bank, KKIT/KVOT,
KTAO, LUNA and Five Magazine,
El Monte Sagrado, The Historic Taos Inn,
Indian Hills Inn,
Business Brokers of Taos, The Taos News, William Schackel DDS, James Day DDS,
Sleep Sanctuary, Toto Home,
Taos Physical Therapy, Cid’s Food Market,
John Dunn Shops, Peoples Bank,
5 Star Burgers, Webb Design, Taos Net,
New Mexico Educators Credit Union,
The UPS Store, Taos Horse Fly

Join Music from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival for this Taos performance. Music from Angel Fire celebrates its 27th Season August 20 - September 5, 2010. World-class chamber music is performed in the beautiful New Mexico mountain communities of Angel Fire, Taos, Raton and Las Vegas by more than 35 international artists including pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, violinists Ida and Ani Kavafian, cellist Peter Wiley and The Miami String Quartet. Festival Tickets $20 - $35. For information call (888)377-3300 or visit www.musicfromangelfire.org.

Join Music from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival for this Taos performance. Music from Angel Fire celebrates its 27th Season August 20 - September 5, 2010. World-class chamber music is performed in the beautiful New Mexico mountain communities of Angel Fire, Taos, Raton and Las Vegas by more than 35 international artists including pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, violinists Ida and Ani Kavafian, cellist Peter Wiley and The Miami String Quartet. Festival Tickets $20 - $35. For information call (888)377-3300 or visit www.musicfromangelfire.org.

This complimentary educational and entertaining event is designed for Taos area children. Music from Angel Fire celebrates its 27th Season August 20 - September 5, 2010. World-class chamber music is performed in the beautiful New Mexico mountain communities of Angel Fire, Taos, Raton and Las Vegas by more than 35 international artists including pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, violinists Ida and Ani Kavafian, cellist Peter Wiley and The Miami String Quartet. Festival Tickets $20 - $35 - this particular event is free. For information call (888)377-3300 or visit www.musicfromangelfire.org.

Join Music from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival for this Taos performance. Music from Angel Fire celebrates its 27th Season August 20 - September 5, 2010. World-class chamber music is performed in the beautiful New Mexico mountain communities of Angel Fire, Taos, Raton and Las Vegas by more than 35 international artists including pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, violinists Ida and Ani Kavafian, cellist Peter Wiley and The Miami String Quartet. Festival Tickets $20 - $35. For information call (888)377-3300 or visit www.musicfromangelfire.org.

Come and meet the artists and view a sampling of the work which will be on view at the 3rd Annual county-wide Studio Tour of the Taos Artist Organization.

Mark Asmus' amusing "Police Blotter" paintings will be the feature of his one-man show Labor Day weekend. Each week, the Taos News publishes reports that come into Dispatch, some of which conjure up very funny visuals. Asmus enlarges and pastes the caption onto the surface and paints around it. Also featured will be his wide range of subject matter depicting day-to-day life in Taos, some serious, some lighthearted but guaranteed to portray the quirky, authentic and historic aspects of Taos. Asmus executes his paintings with a palette knife on birch panel, resulting in a highly textured surface imparting depth, impasto, looseness and hard edges. The Community Against Violence receives 25% of all proceeds.

3rd Annual County-wide Studio Tour will take place over two fall weekends.
Open Studios September 4, 5, 6 and September 11, 12
Come and meet the artists and enjoy the diverse studio settings Taos has to offer.

Opening Reception Friday, September 3 at Sagebrush Inn from 6:00-8:00 PM

TAO Art Week
Experiential workshops with creativity experts will be offered between the TAO Studio Tour weekends: September 6 through September 11.

For more information go to www.taosartist.org or call (575) 751-0071

Join Music from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival for this Taos performance. Music from Angel Fire celebrates its 27th Season August 20 - September 5, 2010. World-class chamber music is performed in the beautiful New Mexico mountain communities of Angel Fire, Taos, Raton and Las Vegas by more than 35 international artists including pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, violinists Ida and Ani Kavafian, cellist Peter Wiley and The Miami String Quartet. Festival Tickets $20 - $35. For information call (888)377-3300 or visit www.musicfromangelfire.org.

Quick Draw brings you art by forty artists and master craftspeople including gifted local Taos artists as well as artists from around New Mexico.

Quick Draw and Art Auction is Saturday, September 25th, 2010 from Noon on and is open and free to the public.

Visitors are invited to leisurely walk among the artists as they create; have a conversation and learn what inspires their art; absorb Taos and the Taos Center for the Arts historical grounds; enjoy live entertainment from some of our best local musical performers. Two and three-dimensional art abounds in every medium – oil paintings, watercolors, acrylics, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, jewelry, stone, glass and wood. You'll feel artistic passion all around, and to take some home with you, it's easy.
All artists' works are available to purchase – either at the silent auction or bid for the works that will be auctioned live at 4pm. What a great way to permanently continue your wonderful Taos art experience at home! All you have to do is pick up your free bidder paddle, a complimentary glass of wine and a snack, sit down and enjoy the very special energy of the Quick Draw art auction.

So spend a brilliant afternoon with fine art, colorful people, and beautiful music while supporting one of the oldest non-profit organizations in New Mexico, the Taos Center for the Arts. Make September 25th a Quick Draw day! Please join us. You'll be glad you did.