Have you noticed the exceptional art that has been exhibited on the small wall in the right hand vestibule leading into the auditorium? If not please have a look. This wall is curated by artist Theresa Gray and changes with each exhibition in the Encore. Currently on exhibit is:

Robert Parker
Untitled Triptych No. 1,2,3
Acrylic on Canvas
2015
$700
 

 This month it is a series of books, created by Carol Farmer, one of the founding members of the Book Arts Group. Carol says she wanted to explore what life might have been for a Kansas farm girl who side-stepped the attention of a dull suitor and became a Harvey Girl. She says, “In a workshop on cloth books several years ago, I made my first Molly book. I liked her so much that I decided I had found my alter ego and went on to make three more. I like the way she embraces new adventure and finds her way in the world beyond the farm.”

For the first half of the 20th Century, The Fred Harvey Company hired thousands of young women to work in his dining rooms along the route of the Santa Fe RR. He created high standards for his food service and equally high and strict standards for the Dining Room Girls who came to work for him. In a time when most young girls had very few employment opportunities many were able to leave home to work for the Harvey Company.

Each book has eight pages with period photographs and textiles as well as machine and hand stitching as practiced by most young women of the first half of the 20th century.

The Molly books will be on display again at SOMOS on October 18 when members of the Book Arts Group will show examples of several forms of book making and talk about the bookmakers art.

The Taos Book Arts group is open to anyone interested in book arts and meets the third Tuesday of each month at 3 p.m. at the Millicent Rogers Museum.

 Taos Center for the Arts announces Spirited Images – new works by Taos/Dallas artist Susan Barnett, in the Encore Gallery September 4th to October 7th with an opening reception Thursday, September 6th from 4pm to 6pm.

Spirited Images offers one series of collages using handmade Tibetan paper, as well as two series which utilize simple geometric elements based upon an underlying mathematical progression. In addition, the largest piece in the exhibition (Topkapi Grid, 2016, 44”x52”) is part of another series on a pattern taken from the Topkapi Scrolls and reinterpreted at different scales, allowing the underlying pattern to appear in different forms.

Ten years ago Susan Barnett taught painting at SMU at Fort Burgwin and fell in love with Northern New Mexico. She and her husband Bill now spend six months a year in Arroyo Hondo and six months in Dallas. Susan holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from SMU. She studied cognitive psychology and art in college, had a career in nonprofit management with the American Heart Association, and has shown her art at Conduit Gallery in Dallas since 2008.
 

Reception for the artist on Thursday, September 20, 4-6:00pm.

A native of Taos, but raised in Denver, David Gary Suazo has lived and worked in Taos since 1987.

Suazo began his painting career using the empty pages in his mother’s encyclopedia set. In his sixth grade art class, the teacher, who knew of the Taos Society of Artists, introduced him to southwest art.

While attending high school in Denver, Suazo took the highest level art classes available by the time he was a junior. He started out with pencil on paper doing wildlife drawings. His father taught him how to sketch using free sketch technique, which is drawing without looking at the sketchpad. Suazo is also a self-taught artist in the mediums of monotypes painting, drawing and pastels.

After graduation, Suazo attended the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe. Influences in his life include his parents, grandparents, and also his great-grandfather; who was a model for E.L. Cause and Joseph Sharp. Suazo became serious about painting and started using canvases with pencil-like paints. He experimented with sizes ranging from miniature to large size canvas.

In the early years after moving back to Taos, Suazo was employed by artist Frank Howell in Santa Fe; working for his gallery doing tasks that included delivering paintings and mixing colors for artists who worked in the same medium.

Suazo has entered shows and has won awards for his paintings. Some of which include the Eight Northern Pueblos, the annual market SWAIA Indian Market, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Millicent Rogers Museum, and many other places in the country. His pieces have also traveled around the world, shown in places such as England and Italy, and have been purchased by clients throughout the world.

Suazo’s paintings have a quiet, peaceful feeling and leave out all the noise of the modern world. An architect with color and texture, he uses paint to build the uneven wall, the layers of stone, the very ground of the Taos Pueblo. “We use whatever nature has to offer to make the homes we live in,” states Suazo.

Pressing On offers its eighth annual exhibition of handmade prints in conjunction with the Taos Fall Arts Festival.

The artwork for the show will be presented in an unframed format and will be on display from Friday, September 21 through Sunday, September 30, with an opening reception on Friday 9/21 from 5pm to 7pm.

Pressing On will once again conduct a free printmaking workshop for any interested parties on Saturday, September 22 from 11am to 4pm. Several artists from the show will be present to demonstrate techniques and guide members of the public who are interested in a firsthand experience of printmaking. Children and adults are all welcome to view and take part in these presentations.

This year’s 16 printmakers are: Abby Salsbury, Fatima Rigsby, Joy Purcell, Betsy Peirce, Stephanie Moller, TJ Mabrey, Brian Bari Long, Jennifer Lindsley, Juanita Lavadie, Lawrence J. Herrera, Allen Griffith, Cat de Brito, Gary Cook, Jane Ellen Burke, Dwarka Bonner, and Asa Benson-Core.

September 23-26
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Heather Lenz, USA, Runtime 1hr 20mins, Not rated, Documentary, 2018

Now at the age of 89, legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is currently one of the most popular and successful artists in the world. For an observer who doesn’t know much about Kusama, the information director/co-writer Heather Lenz provides is very interesting and gives a prime look into the discrimination Kusama experienced as a budding artist in Japan, and when she eventually became internationally famous in New York City.
You may think Yayoi’s detailed art mostly consisting of nets and dots is visually compelling, but you’ll understand how personal the pieces are when Kusama: Infinity lays it all out.
Using archival footage and with current one-on-one interviews with Yayoi herself, Kusama: Infinity gives insight into the inner conflicts that are deeply inscribed within the artist’s collective work.
Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Burt CPAs, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

September 23-26
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Heather Lenz, USA, Runtime 1hr 20mins, Not rated, Documentary, 2018

Now at the age of 89, legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is currently one of the most popular and successful artists in the world. For an observer who doesn’t know much about Kusama, the information director/co-writer Heather Lenz provides is very interesting and gives a prime look into the discrimination Kusama experienced as a budding artist in Japan, and when she eventually became internationally famous in New York City.
You may think Yayoi’s detailed art mostly consisting of nets and dots is visually compelling, but you’ll understand how personal the pieces are when Kusama: Infinity lays it all out.
Using archival footage and with current one-on-one interviews with Yayoi herself, Kusama: Infinity gives insight into the inner conflicts that are deeply inscribed within the artist’s collective work.
Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Burt CPAs, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

September 23-26
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Heather Lenz, USA, Runtime 1hr 20mins, Not rated, Documentary, 2018

Now at the age of 89, legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is currently one of the most popular and successful artists in the world. For an observer who doesn’t know much about Kusama, the information director/co-writer Heather Lenz provides is very interesting and gives a prime look into the discrimination Kusama experienced as a budding artist in Japan, and when she eventually became internationally famous in New York City.
You may think Yayoi’s detailed art mostly consisting of nets and dots is visually compelling, but you’ll understand how personal the pieces are when Kusama: Infinity lays it all out.
Using archival footage and with current one-on-one interviews with Yayoi herself, Kusama: Infinity gives insight into the inner conflicts that are deeply inscribed within the artist’s collective work.
Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Burt CPAs, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

September 23-26
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Heather Lenz, USA, Runtime 1hr 20mins, Not rated, Documentary, 2018

Now at the age of 89, legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is currently one of the most popular and successful artists in the world. For an observer who doesn’t know much about Kusama, the information director/co-writer Heather Lenz provides is very interesting and gives a prime look into the discrimination Kusama experienced as a budding artist in Japan, and when she eventually became internationally famous in New York City.
You may think Yayoi’s detailed art mostly consisting of nets and dots is visually compelling, but you’ll understand how personal the pieces are when Kusama: Infinity lays it all out.
Using archival footage and with current one-on-one interviews with Yayoi herself, Kusama: Infinity gives insight into the inner conflicts that are deeply inscribed within the artist’s collective work.
Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Burt CPAs, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

Enjoy this exquisite and brilliantly danced work of Ballet Taos, choreographed by Megan Yackovich (Director of Classical) to music by composer Herbert Baumann. This is sure to be a beautiful production!  Come and enjoy this timeless story of Alice's journey interpreted through the art of dance!

Tickets are available by calling (575)779-9128 or by clicking here

Enjoy this exquisite and brilliantly danced work of Ballet Taos, choreographed by Megan Yackovich (Director of Classical) to music by composer Herbert Baumann. This is sure to be a beautiful production!  Come and enjoy this timeless story of Alice's journey interpreted through the art of dance!

Tickets are available by calling (575)779-9128 or by clicking here

Enjoy this exquisite and brilliantly danced work of Ballet Taos, choreographed by Megan Yackovich (Director of Classical) to music by composer Herbert Baumann. This is sure to be a beautiful production!  Come and enjoy this timeless story of Alice's journey interpreted through the art of dance!

Tickets are available by calling (575)779-9128 or by clicking here

September 30 – October 3
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Boots Riley, USA, Runtime 1hr 51mins, Rated R, Fantasy/Sci-fi, 2018
Stars: Lakeith Stansfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer

Nothing can prepare you for the sheer brilliance of this satirical masterwork. Hilarious from beginning to end while also subversive, this film joins some of the finest satires of its generation, from South Park to the best episodes of Saturday Night Live, guided by the intentionally unsteady hand of rapper-activist turned debut director, Boots Riley.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

Enjoy this exquisite and brilliantly danced work of Ballet Taos, choreographed by Megan Yackovich (Director of Classical) to music by composer Herbert Baumann. This is sure to be a beautiful production!  Come and enjoy this timeless story of Alice's journey interpreted through the art of dance!

Tickets are available by calling (575)779-9128 or by clicking here

September 30 – October 3
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Boots Riley, USA, Runtime 1hr 51mins, Rated R, Fantasy/Sci-fi, 2018
Stars: Lakeith Stansfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer

Nothing can prepare you for the sheer brilliance of this satirical masterwork. Hilarious from beginning to end while also subversive, this film joins some of the finest satires of its generation, from South Park to the best episodes of Saturday Night Live, guided by the intentionally unsteady hand of rapper-activist turned debut director, Boots Riley.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

September 30 – October 3
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Boots Riley, USA, Runtime 1hr 51mins, Rated R, Fantasy/Sci-fi, 2018
Stars: Lakeith Stansfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer

Nothing can prepare you for the sheer brilliance of this satirical masterwork. Hilarious from beginning to end while also subversive, this film joins some of the finest satires of its generation, from South Park to the best episodes of Saturday Night Live, guided by the intentionally unsteady hand of rapper-activist turned debut director, Boots Riley.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

September 30 – October 3
Sun 2pm Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Boots Riley, USA, Runtime 1hr 51mins, Rated R, Fantasy/Sci-fi, 2018
Stars: Lakeith Stansfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer

Nothing can prepare you for the sheer brilliance of this satirical masterwork. Hilarious from beginning to end while also subversive, this film joins some of the finest satires of its generation, from South Park to the best episodes of Saturday Night Live, guided by the intentionally unsteady hand of rapper-activist turned debut director, Boots Riley.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

Taos/Dallas artist Susan Barnett will discuss her approach toward and methods used in creating her works in Spirited Images, her current exhibition in the Encore Gallery.

Spirited Images offers one series of collages using handmade Tibetan paper, as well as two series which utilize simple geometric elements based upon an underlying mathematical progression. In addition, the largest piece in the exhibition (Topkapi Grid, 2016, 44”x52”) is part of another series on a pattern taken from the Topkapi Scrolls and reinterpreted at different scales, allowing the underlying pattern to appear in different forms.

Ten years ago Susan Barnett taught painting at SMU at Fort Burgwin and fell in love with Northern New Mexico. She and her husband Bill now spend six months a year in Arroyo Hondo and six months in Dallas. Susan holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from SMU. She studied cognitive psychology and art in college, had a career in nonprofit management with the American Heart Association, and has shown her art at Conduit Gallery in Dallas since 2008.

The 1969 film starring Oliver Reed, Allan Bates and Glenda Jackson, based on DH Lawrence's novel, will be screened for free at the TCA for one night only, Thursday, October 4th at 7pm.

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

Runtime is 2 hrs 11 minutes.

Meet the artist at the Opening Reception Friday, October 5th, 5-8pm.

Taos artist Fred Burns is pulling out all the stops with his upcoming show at the Stables Gallery. “Big Nudes and More” features large format nudes in pastel, charcoal, and graphite along with monumental heads that Burns considers to be a form of landscape painting. Some pieces appear to be clothed portraits but are actually day dreaming sequences where fantastic or magical elements have wandered into the space occupied by the live model. Other pieces form part of a time travel series in which Burns paints images “after Manet” or “after Botticelli,” traveling in his imagination back to earlier historical eras while at the same time pulling the past forward into his Taos studio.

Burns’s life-long interest in drawing and painting nudes is related, he explains, to his professional career as a film animator. For him, drawing from a live model has always been about capturing motion, or potential motion. The bones and muscles of the human figure are so obviously designed to propel the body through space. That potential for motion comes across even when the figure is temporarily stilled. Burns’s goal in drawing the nude is to create the effect of a moving body on pause.

Gallery talks on weekends:
Sunday, October 7, 4pm - “My Life in Motion: Artist and Film Animator”
Saturday, October 13, 4pm - “Why I Paint and Draw Nudes”
Sunday, October 14, 4pm - “My Life in Motion: Artist and Film Animator”

-Live Drawing: Watch the artist draw from costumed models on
weekdays, 10am - 2pm

FYI:
Select List of Professional and Personal Film Awards

EMMY Award, Outstanding Individual Achievement for Animated Programming: “A Soldier’s Tale” (1983)
Academy Award Nomination for Best Animated Film: “A Doonesbury Special” (1977)
CINE Golden Eagle Award: “Wither Weather” (1977)
Blue Ribbon Award, American Film Festival: “Everybody Rides a Carousel” (1976)

Student Film “Roll’em Lola”:

Considered for Academy Award Nomination (1975)
Included in 11th International Tournee of Animation (1977)
Chosen by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to
represent the United States at the Cannes Film Festival, 1976; Awarded the
Bronze Medallion
Shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum,
Washington, DC (1977)
CINE Eagle Award (1975)
Bronze Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival (1975)
Gold Praxinoscope, Third New York Animated Film Festival (1975)
Grand Prix, Le Touquet International Film Festival, France (1976)
First Prize, Baltimore Film Festival (1977)

Festivals:
FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Festival, The Art of Animation (1975)
The FOCUS Finds, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1986)
The Lincoln Center Animation Festival, New York Film Festival (1977)
1976 World Animation Competition, Ottawa, Canada (1976)
 

Soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as her formidable rival Amneris. Aleksandrs Antonenko is the warrior Radames, and Nicola Luisotti takes the podium for the Met's monumental production.

Runtime is 3hrs 56 minutes.

Tickets are $20 for TCA members, $25 for non-members and free for youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild). 2018-19 Season passes to all 10 Met Live in HD operas are $180 for TCA members and $225 for non-members, and may be purchased by calling (575)758-2052 Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm or at the TCA office during those hours. All will be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the opera begins.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Burt CPA, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort & Spa, Five Star Burgers,Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, Hillcrest Bank, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works,
 

October 7-10
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Spike Lee, USA, Runtime 2hrs 16mins, Rated R, Drama/Crime, 2018

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier

Spike Lee has created an almost unimaginably uneven career in film, but it has never been in doubt that he is one of the most talented American filmmakers of his generation. And should you have forgotten that, now you can remind yourself by watching the amazing BlacKkKlansman which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in May.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

Zikr Dance Ensemble of Colorado presents ​“Runes” at 6pm on October 7th. Runes will focus on the ancient magical northern European alphabet as it was used in its symbolic form for divination and prophecy. This stunning new work will feature the use of a cyr wheel along with a breathtaking set of monolithic structures designed by Perspective Design Fabrication visionaries Devin Gores and Charles Lefkowitz.

Also on the program will be one of the most intriguing and historic samples of The Gurdjieff Sacred Movements, along with the Zikr Dance Ensemble’s signature work and audience favorite, “In Your Eyes”.

Zikr Dance Ensemble is excited to announce a major new collaboration. Internationally acclaimed Persian dance master Shahrzad Khorsandi will create a new work entitled “Atash" (“fire” in Farsi) that will be staged for the Zikr Dance Ensemble’s female dancers.

The Zikr Dance Ensemble’s stellar cast of international dance artists will include numerous guest artists from all over the country.

Before this performance, there will be a Masterclass for intermediate/advanced and professional dancers from 1pm-3pm. Please do join us. The Masterclass will take place at Ballet Taos.

To purchase tickets, click here.
 

Opening reception - Thursday October 11 from 4:00 to 6:00pm
Artist talk is Thursday, Oct 25 at 4pm.

Dreaming the Land exhibition features recent abstract oil paintings and works on paper by William Stewart and Brian Shields.Their work inspired by the landscape they each embrace allows one to experience intimate permeations of landscape in lyric conversation via complimentary abstract expressions.

Shields has been in the Taos area since 1969, Stewart since 1983. Together they have 80 cumulative years of painting the Taos landscape – both as plein air landscape painters and currently as abstract artists with cheerfully distinct sensibilities. Both artists spend periods of time painting in foreign landscapes – Stewart returns to Oaxaca where he first traveled in the 70s and now maintains a studio, Shields returns annually to his homeland in Cataluña, Spain.

When young and part of the 60’s -70’s avante garde scene in New York City, Stewart showed at O.K. Harris Gallery – one of the first SoHo galleries – and went on to exhibit at the Rudolph Zwirner Gallery in Koln, Germany, and at the Paris Biennale. He left NYC in the mid 70’s in search of connection with the landscape and began painting from nature. He traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, where he lived for four years before moving to Taos in 1983. Excited by the beauty of the landscape of Northern New Mexico, he painted plein air for many years. Stewart has also taught at UNM-Taos, since it’s beginnings in 1993. “My recent abstract work is rooted in nature, the landscape of Oaxaca , the Taos valley, my garden, and travels to the sea. Dreaming the Land will feature oil paintings, watercolors and lithographs painted last winter that I call the Oaxaca Series.” For a review of Stewarts’ recent abstracts see: https://hamptonsarthub.com/2017/05/15/reviews-art-review-william-stewart-commits-to-abstraction-in-watermill-center-show/ and
https://www.instagram.com/wsoaxaca/

Shields’ formative years were spent in Barcelona, Paris, New York City, and San Francisco. He came to the Taos area to teach art, and with characteristic passion became intimately familiar with the wildest places in the Southern Rocky Mountains, both as a mountain and river guide and as an environmental advocate. Shields says of his art practice: “I paint what I have absorbed, what has become a part of me. The imagery that is revealed comes from my love for and interactions with landscape, with the sea, with life. The act of painting is a process of emotional and intellectual ardor, sometimes resulting in upheaval, but more often than not waking me up to a grateful co-existence with the unknown.” See: http://www.brianshieldsart.com.

October 7-10
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Spike Lee, USA, Runtime 2hrs 16mins, Rated R, Drama/Crime, 2018

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier

Spike Lee has created an almost unimaginably uneven career in film, but it has never been in doubt that he is one of the most talented American filmmakers of his generation. And should you have forgotten that, now you can remind yourself by watching the amazing BlacKkKlansman which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in May.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

October 7-10
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Spike Lee, USA, Runtime 2hrs 16mins, Rated R, Drama/Crime, 2018

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier

Spike Lee has created an almost unimaginably uneven career in film, but it has never been in doubt that he is one of the most talented American filmmakers of his generation. And should you have forgotten that, now you can remind yourself by watching the amazing BlacKkKlansman which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in May.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

October 7-10
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: Spike Lee, USA, Runtime 2hrs 16mins, Rated R, Drama/Crime, 2018

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier

Spike Lee has created an almost unimaginably uneven career in film, but it has never been in doubt that he is one of the most talented American filmmakers of his generation. And should you have forgotten that, now you can remind yourself by watching the amazing BlacKkKlansman which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in May.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre and broadcast to cinemas.

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.
Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Dominic Cooke (The Comedy of Errors).
Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards, Sondheim’s previous work includes A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George.

Runtime is approximately 3 hours including an intermission for lunch. An a la carte selection will be available in the lobby, or patrons may bring a sack lunch.

Please Note: this production includes the use of strobe lights.

Tickets are $15 for TCA Members, $18 for non-members and $10 for youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.
 

August 26-29
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: RaMell Ross, USA, Runtime 1hr 16mins, Not Rated, Documentary, 2018

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South, trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while it’s simultaneously an artistic testament to dreaming.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

August 26-29
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: RaMell Ross, USA, Runtime 1hr 16mins, Not Rated, Documentary, 2018

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South, trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while it’s simultaneously an artistic testament to dreaming.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

August 26-29
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: RaMell Ross, USA, Runtime 1hr 16mins, Not Rated, Documentary, 2018

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South, trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while it’s simultaneously an artistic testament to dreaming.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

August 26-29
Sun 2pm, Mon-Wed 7pm
Director: RaMell Ross, USA, Runtime 1hr 16mins, Not Rated, Documentary, 2018

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South, trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while it’s simultaneously an artistic testament to dreaming.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission, $7.00 for TCA Members and $5.00 for youth 17 and under.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, Common Fire, Community Against Violence, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

203 FINE ART is excited to bring a Pop-Up exhibition and fundraiser to the Stables Gallery this October.

A fine selection of works by the early modern artists of Taos, the Taos Moderns,some of whom created the original Stables Gallery as an artist cooperative for the newly created Taos Artist Association in the mid 50s. The Stables Gallery, an actual converted stable, was a bastion and important showcase for modern art in Taos, and had a lasting influence on the art market here for almost 30 years, finally closing in 1980. Pressed into existence by artists Emil Bisttram, Cliff and Barbara Harmon, Ted Egri and others, these artists and the works of many Taos Moderns will return to the Stables this summer for a major three day exhibition.

This Stables Gallery Pop-Up exhibition will be a fundraiser for the TCA, to set aside funds to remodel the Stables Gallery. A portion of our sales will go into a
special account set aside for that purpose. In addition, Saturday Oct. 20th, at 2pm, there will be a series of oral histories provided by Taos Modern John De Puy,
David Witt (author of Modernists in Taos), and others to be announced.

Featured artists: Thomas Benrimo, Emil Bisttram, Louis Catusco, Edward Corbett, Lawrence Calcagno, Keith Crown, Andrew Dasburg, John De Puy, Adeine de La Në, Ted Egri, R.C. Ellis, Louise Ganthiers, Barbara Harmon,Cliff Harmon, Bea Mandelman, Lee Mullican, Robert Ray, Louis Ribak, Wesley Rusnell, Oli Sihvonen, Clay Spohn, Earl Stroh, Michio Takayama, and more!

Exhibition runs for three days only: Oct. 19, 20 and 21.
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 19, 5 to 8 pm

Saturday at 2 pm, there will be an oral history of the Stables Gallery by John
De Puy and David Witt, as well as other guest speakers to be announced.

Hours: Friday 11 to 8 pm, Saturday 11 to 7 pm and Sunday 12 to 5 pm

203 FINE ART is excited to bring a Pop-Up exhibition and fundraiser to the Stables Gallery this October.

A fine selection of works by the early modern artists of Taos, the Taos Moderns,some of whom created the original Stables Gallery as an artist cooperative for the newly created Taos Artist Association in the mid 50s. The Stables Gallery, an actual converted stable, was a bastion and important showcase for modern art in Taos, and had a lasting influence on the art market here for almost 30 years, finally closing in 1980. Pressed into existence by artists Emil Bisttram, Cliff and Barbara Harmon, Ted Egri and others, these artists and the works of many Taos Moderns will return to the Stables this summer for a major three day exhibition.

This Stables Gallery Pop-Up exhibition will be a fundraiser for the TCA, to set aside funds to remodel the Stables Gallery. A portion of our sales will go into a
special account set aside for that purpose. In addition, Saturday Oct. 20th, at 2pm, there will be a series of oral histories provided by Taos Modern John De Puy,
David Witt (author of Modernists in Taos), and others to be announced.

Featured artists: Thomas Benrimo, Emil Bisttram, Louis Catusco, Edward Corbett, Lawrence Calcagno, Keith Crown, Andrew Dasburg, John De Puy, Adeine de La Në, Ted Egri, R.C. Ellis, Louise Ganthiers, Barbara Harmon,Cliff Harmon, Bea Mandelman, Lee Mullican, Robert Ray, Louis Ribak, Wesley Rusnell, Oli Sihvonen, Clay Spohn, Earl Stroh, Michio Takayama, and more!

Exhibition runs for three days only: Oct. 19, 20 and 21.
Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 19, 5 to 8 pm

Saturday at 2 pm, there will be an oral history of the Stables Gallery by John
De Puy and David Witt, as well as other guest speakers to be announced.

Hours: Friday 11 to 8 pm, Saturday 11 to 7 pm and Sunday 12 to 5 pm

Anda Union's thoroughly addictive combination of Mongolian musical styles is a reflection of their roots. Hailing from differing ethnic nomadic cultures, the nine-strong band unite tribal and music traditions from all over Inner Mongolia. Anda Union bring a wide range of musical instruments and vocal styles together in a fusion that Genghis Khan himself would have been proud of. Keenly aware of the threat to the Grasslands and their age-old Mongolian culture, Anda Union are driven by their fight for the survival of this endangered way of life, by keeping the essence of the music alive.

Anda Union all trained in traditional Mongolian music from a young age, many coming from musical families. They are part of a musical movement that is finding inspiration in old and forgotten songs. As a group they hold on to the essence of Mongolian music while creating a form of music that is new. Anda Union combine different traditions and styles of Mongolian music, developing an innovation previously unheard of.

Driven by their thirst to discover the power and magic of the rich and powerful Mongol traditions and culture, they have been stunning people all over the world with their music for the last fifteen years.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show (including all service charges). They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251,or just click here

Anda Union's performance is made possible in part by a grant from the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

Estimated runtime is 3 hours and 4 minutes including 2 intermissions.

Tickets are $20 for TCA Members, $25 for General Adult admission and free for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052.

Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD. and Oscar Tang

Additional funding from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

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Coming Soon!!!

Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also sings some performances. Baritone Željko Lučić is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts.

Runtime is 3 hours 22 minutes including 2 intermissions.

Tickets are $20 for TCA members, $25 for General Adult admission and Free for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

Production a gift of The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Revival a gift of Rolex.

Coming Soon!!!

Coming Soon!!!

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.

Estimated runtime is 2 hours 52 minutes including 1 intermission.

Tickets are $20 for TCA members, $25 for General Adult admission and Free for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.
 

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera

Music by Nico Muhly, libretto by Nicholas Wright, based on the novel by Winston Graham

By special arrangement with Universal Pictures

Production a gift of Andrew J. Martin-Weber

Additional funding from the Francis Goelet Charitable Trusts and Dr. Coco Lazaroff

New paintings by J. Matthew Thomas

Reception for the artist on Thursday, December 13, 4-6:00pm.

Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl, Skyfall, Hamlet) and Michelle Fairley (Fortitude, Game of Thrones) play Brutus and Cassius, David Calder (The Lost City of Z, The Hatton Garden Job) plays Caesar and David Morrissey (The Missing, Hangmen, The Walking Dead) is Mark Antony. Recorded at The Bridge Theatre, London.

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital.

Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.

Runtime is approximately 2 hours 45 minutes, including an intermission for lunch. An a la carte menu will be available for patrons, or you may bring your own sack lunch.

Tickets are $15 for TCA members, $18 for General Adult admission and $10 for youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the box office, which opens 45 minutes prior to the performance.
 

Captured live in 2011 from the National Theatre stage in London, this thrilling, sold-out production became an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world.

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) as the mad doctor Victor Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) as his creation.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful Creature determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.
Scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil, are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic tale.

Runtime is approximately 2 hours 45 minutes, including intermission.

Tickets are $15 for TCA members, $18 for General Adult admission and $10 for youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.
 

Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts Michael Mayer's richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Florez returns to the Met for the first time in five seasons to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta's hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo's father, Germont, who destroys their love.

Runtime is 3 hours 7 minutes including 2 intermissions.

Tickets are $20 for TCA members, $25 for non-members and FREE for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.

Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met—the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-century audiences with her on-and offstage passion.

The soprano is joined by tenor Piotr Beczała as Adriana's lover, Maurizio. The principal cast also features mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and baritone Ambrogio Maestri. Gianandrea Noseda conducts.

Sir David McVicar's staging, which sets the action in a working replica of a Baroque theater, premiered at the Royal Opera House in London, where the Guardian praised the "elegant production, sumptuously designed ... The spectacle guarantees a good night out."

Runtime is 3 hours 33 minutes including two intermissions.

Tickets are $20 for TCA members, $25 for non-members and FREE for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening begins.

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney.

On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gathers at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance around the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?
★★★★
"A bold reimagining…innovative and powerfully acted"
Sunday Times
★★★★
"A brilliant, lacerating account of the play… unforgettable"
The Independent
★★★★
"Miller and O’Connell get to a raw and naked truth"
The Metro

Runtime is 3 hours and 15 minutes including intermission.

Tickets are $15 for TCA members, $18 for General adult admission and $10 for youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the box office, which will open 45 minutes before the screening.

Thank You to our TCA Sponsors:
Arjuna Capital, BeyondTaos Art Calendar, Casa Gallina, Chevron Mining, Cid's Food Market, DeStefano Law Firm, Diane Enright - Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Taos Real Estate, El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa, Five Star Burgers, The Gorge Bar and Grill, Green Builders, High Country Real Estate, John Dunn House, KNCE, Knight Financial, Lambert's, Martyrs Steakhouse, Metric Motors, New Mexico Arts, Northern New Mexico Center for Cosmetic Dentistry (Kellie Harris), Nusenda Credit Union, Phoenix Mechanical, Pieces, Private Label Select, Rio Grande Ace Hardware, Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, Salon Marjorie, Siriusware, Straight Teeth Ltd., Taos Community Foundation, Taos Inn, Taos Lifestyle featuring Sleep Sanctuary, TaosNet, Taos Opera Guild, Taos Roasters, Wolfgang's Spa Works.

 

Artwork by Laurie Celine Balliett hangs throughout the Inn's public areas.

Reception for the artist on Thursday, January 31, 4-6:00pm

"The real thing, people."
—Billboard

Martin Sexton returns with what Rolling Stone calls his "soul-marinated voice," acoustic guitar, and a suitcase full of heartfelt songs.

This tour will feature Martin trying out new material, as well as reinventing his own classics for these critically-acclaimed solo performances.

Still fiercely independent and headlining venues from The Fillmore to Carnegie Hall, he has influenced a generation of contemporary artists. His songs have appeared in television series such as "Scrubs," "Parenthood," "Masters of Sex" and in numerous films, though it's his incendiary live show, honest lyrics, and vocal prowess that keep fans coming back for a new experience every time.

Chris Trapper is a storyteller. With his soulful, honeyed tenor, sly humor and an uncanny knack for melody, Chris has traveled the world over, performing to a dedicated and ever growing fan base with nothing but his guitar and his songs. Raised on Prine and Kristofferson, Trapper's first foray in the music industry was as frontman of the critically acclaimed alt-rock band The Push Stars. Over the past decade, Chris has become a modern day acoustic troubadour, performing over 150 dates a year as a headliner and sharing the stage with the likes of Colin Hay, Martin Sexton and even John Prine himself.

Tickets are $35 (including all service charges) and may be purchased by clicking here. They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.

An AMP Member pre-sale will start on Wednesday, September 19 at 10 AM.
Click here for info on AMP Membership.

Tickets will go on sale Friday, Sept. 21, at 10 AM.

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

Runtime is 3 hours 21 minutes including 1 intermission.

Tickets are $20 for TCA Members, $25 for non-members and FREE for Youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.

Tickets are $39 in advance, $43 day of show (including all service charges). They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.

Tickets will go on sale only to AMP members on August 28 at 10 AM. .

Regular on-sale is Friday, August 31 at 10 AM.

Please join us in support of a local food bank by bringing a donation of canned food to the concert. There will be collection baskets at the entrances.

George Winston grew up mainly in Montana, and also spent his later formative years in Mississippi and Florida. During this time, his favorite music was instrumental rock and instrumental R&B, including Floyd Cramer, the Ventures, Booker T & The MG's, Jimmy Smith, and many more. Inspired by R&B, jazz, blues and rock (especially the Doors), George began playing organ in 1967. In 1971 he switched to the acoustic piano after hearing recordings from the 1920s and the 1930s by the legendary stride pianists Thomas "Fats" Waller and the late Teddy Wilson. In addition to working on stride piano, he also at this time came up with this own style of melodic instrumental music on solo piano, called folk piano. In 1972, he recorded his first solo piano album, Ballads and Blues 1972, for the late guitarist John Fahey's Takoma label.

Since then, George has released thirteen solo piano albums: Autumn (1980), Winter Into Spring (1982), December (1982), Summer (1991), Forest (1994), Linus & Lucy—The Music of Vince Guaraldi (1996), Plains (1999), which was inspired by his Eastern Montana upbringing, Night Divides the Day—The Music of The Doors (2002), Montana—A Love Story (2004), Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions—A Hurricane Relief Benefit (2006), Love Will Come—The Music of Vince Guaraldi, Vol. 2 (2010), Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions 2—A Louisiana Wetlands Benefit (2012), and Spring Carousel—A Cancer Research Benefit (2016). The songs from Spring Carousel were composed in 2013 while Winston was recovering from a bone marrow transplant.

This concert will feature George's Winter Show, which will include melodic fall and winter type songs, some of Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts pieces, pieces inspired by the New Orleans piano and the stride piano traditions, and songs from his upcoming albums.

BAFTA Award-winning actress Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) and Eric Kofi Abrefa (The Amen Corner) feature in the cast of this brand new production, directed by Carrie Cracknell (NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea).

Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean – which rapidly descends into a savage fight for survival.

This new version of August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie, written by Polly Stenham, remains shocking and fiercely relevant in its new setting of contemporary London.

Runtime is approximately 1 hour 45 minutes including intermission.

Tickets are $15 for TCA members, $18 for General Adult admission and $10 for youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.
 

Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

Runtime is 2 hours 35 minutes including one intermission.

Tickets are $20 for TCA Members, $25 for non-members and FREE for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the live stream begins.

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare's famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux Stratagem.

Tickets are $15 for TCA members, $18 for non-members and $10 for Youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.
 

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts.

Runtime is 4 hours 55 minutes including 2 intermissions.

Tickets are $20 for TCA Members, $25 for non-members and FREE for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by callong (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the live stream begins.

Multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III will be broadcast in cinemas in National Theatre Live’s first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse.
Written by one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys, The Lady in the Van), this epic play was also adapted into a BAFTA Award-winning film following its premiere on stage in 1991.

The cast of this new production includes Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, NT Live Coriolanus) in the title role, and Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs, After the Dance).

It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.

Tickets are $15 for TCA Members, $18 for non-members and $10 for Youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.
 

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast to cinemas.

Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision.

What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?

Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as ‘the premiere political dramatist writing in English’. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.

Tickets are $15 for TCA members, $18 for non-members and $10 for Youth 17 and under and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the screening.
 

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time, returns to the Met as the Prioress.

Runtime is 3 hours 9 minutes including 1 intermission.

Tickets are $20 for TCA members, $25 for non-members and FREE for Youth 17 and under (thanks to Taos Opera Guild) and may be purchased in advance by calling (575)758-2052. Tickets will also be available at the theater box office, which opens 45 minutes before the live stream begins.