Come out and support these amazing mujeres from New Mexico and check out their beautiful art!
On March 7, El Chante: Casa de Cultura will celebrate its first art opening for 2014 featuring two separate art exhibits in one night, the first exhibit features Concha Soto a 1st generation New Mexican, Soto was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. Soto is a self-taught artist in her first art exhibit entitled ¿¿Solas?? ¡¡Nunca!! The second exhibit features Sandra Casaus a multi-generation New Mex...
Come out and support these amazing mujeres from New Mexico and check out their beautiful art!
On March 7, El Chante: Casa de Cultura will celebrate its first art opening for 2014 featuring two separate art exhibits in one night, the first exhibit features Concha Soto a 1st generation New Mexican, Soto was born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. Soto is a self-taught artist in her first art exhibit entitled ¿¿Solas?? ¡¡Nunca!! The second exhibit features Sandra Casaus a multi-generation New Mexican and self-taught artist in her first art exhibit entitled “So You Think You Can Paint”.
Coinciding with the International Day of Women events, ¿¿Solas?? ¡¡Nunca!! is an art experience that explores the reality of our lives as we transverse through the seen and the unseen via photography, paintings, live installations, poetry, and dreams. It is the lifting of the veil between worlds and brings forth the terrifying, healing, compassion, life, death, and dance of which we are all participants. What we choose to hear, what we choose to see, learn, and do is not always what is expected after being born, teaching, praying, dreaming, listening, and dying. It is the artist reality that we are never alone in this infinite mystery of life.
As a child growing up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sandra Casaus was influenced by artist-painter Tommy Macaione, who practiced his art in the Santa Fe Plaza. Macaione, known as Santa Fe’s “Patron Saint of the Arts”, inspired Casaus to someday dare to paint. Through the influences of the art and culture in Santa Fe and her own trial-and-error, Casaus shares with us a view into her world of color, creativity, and imagination inspired by a lifetime of mental recollections of people, natural beauty, culture, and imaginary places in her first exhibit “So You Think You Can Paint”. This show is dedicated to her parents Joaquin and Lily.
In celebration of Women and Creativity during the month of March, El Chante: Casa de Cultura will organize and host a series of events entitled “Being a Woman is Revolutionary”. The month long of events are co-sponsored and co-hosted by Los Jardines Institute (South Valley), Las Pistoleras Instituto Cultural de Arte (Taos), Voces Feministas, and UNM MEChA.
A big shout out to Puro Amor Productions for all the work they did on the postcards and helping to set up the art show. The art installation is going to be so cool!
