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Teresa Ali-Olivas’
art is whatever inspires and whenever as hands and mind play with different art media. Colors and fac-es intrigue her. 537-3470. Media: clay, oil, watercolor, mixed media. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery, T Ali Studio. Email: olt1028q.com
Elizabeth Allen
creates photos printed on steel, and loves us-ing New Mexico nature as her subjects. Media: Metal Prints and Sculpture, Photography. Locale: Saturday Arts and Crafts Fair/Market, Silver City, May-October. Email: jellyfishmandala@gmail.comVisit Website
Libby Beck
is addicted to beading and also likes to paint and sculpt. The love of Appaloosa horses led her to learn Native American styles of beadwork. Air, fire, water and earth are all in-spiring to her. Blessed be. Media: beads, leather, oil, watercolor, colored pencil, mixed. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery. 534-0569. Email: nmsilverrain@yahoo.com Studio: Crystal Rainbow Arts, Arenas Valley.
Jean Robert P. Be’ffort ‘s
collaged graphic constructions are layered with surreal juxtapositions of text and images intermingled with recycled found objects that illustrate stories of reinterpretation through visual narrative. Media: assemblage sculpture, text/image collage, mosaic. Locale: (a)sp”A”ce: Stu-dio/Art Gallery. 583-3333 Email: aspacestudiogallery@gmail.comVisit Website
Mark Bowen
uses various metals and natural objects to create unique artwork, from petroglyph inspired yard art to abstract pieces and earthy copper jewelry. Media: steel, copper, found objects. Locales: Copper Quail Gallery, Running Horse Gallery. 719-302-3068. Email: markbow-en.metal@gmail.com
David Brink
practices old school photography from shutter’s click to making the print. His goal is to inspire the viewer to see the familiar in new ways. Medium: photography. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery. 534-9488
Luanne Brooten
uses various media to paint Southwest scenes, messages, and historic Native American designs in bright colors. She loves making bags, coats, and dresses of recycled materials. Media: pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, fab-ric, collage. Locales: Copper Quail Gallery, Silver Spirit Gallery. 590-2006. Email: luannebrooten@gmail.comVisit Website
Steve Brooten
believes everything is in the details: how lines, shapes light and color come together. It takes an artist to make a photographic work of art. Medium: photography. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery. 538-144. Email: Stevebrooten6gmail.comVisit Website
Suzi Calhoun
creates functional items using bright happy col-ors. She creates vessels from clay and fiber. Media: ceramic, knitting, felting, and other fabrics. Locale: Art and Conversation/Yada Yada Yarn. 388-3350. Email: suzi@artandconversation.comVisit Website
Judy Crawford’s
gourd art is an ever changing palette for her artistic talent. Media: gourds, acrylics, stones and dyes. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery. 546-0056. Email: southwest_designs45@yahoo.com
Lois DeLong
paints landscapes, portraits and still life, often using imagery of the Southwest as her subject matter. Her style is primarily realistic with a touch of impressionism. Me-dia: oil, watercolor. Locales: Gila Regional Medical Center, Pinos Altos Church Gallery, Silver Spirit Gallery, Lois DeLong Studio. 388-4759. Email: nmdelonga@gmail.com
Lanora Elmer
is a self-taught artist who has been crating works of art since childhood. Her current work is centered on western design wall-hangings and mixed media art. Me-dia: copper, recycled cans, gourds, leather acrylics. Locales: Creation and Adornments, Running Horse Gallery. 535-4200 Email: elmer@gilanet.com
Jan Fell‘s
single passion is to illustrate the wonder of all living crea-tures through her art rendered in remarkable detail with heartfelt strokes. Media: acrylic, waqtercolor, pen, ink, mixed media. Locales: Copper Quail Gallery, Running Horse Gallery, Silver Spirit Gallery. 956-7351
Gerry Gordon
studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and majored in painting and printmaking. He draws and paints but the jewels he turns into wearable sculptures are his delight. Media: nat-ural gemstones (precious and semi-precious stones), silver, mixed media paintings, photography and drawing. Locales: Copper Quail Gallery, Silver Spirit Gallery, G’s Tees. 388-4440.
Mary Gravelle
creates elegant and yet whimsical, colorful art and design. Media: mixed media, digital media, graphic design, web development, and acrylic. Locale: Tatiana Maria Gallery, Shevek's Restaurant. 956-7315. Email: mary@wisdompainting.comVisit Art Website
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Sally Hansen
is a lapidary artist and silversmith who creates jewelry from her hand-cut and polished cabochons, beads, silver wire. She has found many of the stones herself that she uses in her jewelry. Media: rare and semi-precious stones, silver. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery. 534-9293.
Deb Harclerode’s
love affair with the unique Southwest influences what she paints in her representational and contemporary watercolors and acrylics. Good art lifts the spirit. Media: watercolor, acrylic, prints. Locales: Silver Spirit Gallery, Desert Artisans Gallery, Tucson. 520-721-4895 Email: Hardoo1@aol.comVisit Website
Barbara L. Harrison
is well-known for her abstract brass wall sculptures. She has corporate commissions, including Bank of Tokyo and Neiman Marcus. Her recycled steel sculptures, made of found objects from local mines, can be seen mainly in her studio/gallery. Medium: recycled steel objects. Locales: Creations and Adornments, Del Canto Gallery, Tucson, and Latigo Trail Gallery. 941-387-8589. Email: jaybarbara@verizon.net
Jean W. Hatfield
enjoys exploring new techniques and media. She likes to help her students at the Silver City Senior Citizen Center do the same. Media: graphite pencils, colored pencils, watercolor pen-cils, watercolor, pastels. Locales: Pinos Altos Church Gallery, Silver Spirit Gallery, JW Art Gallery. 519-2977. Email: jeansmail@myartbyjean.com
Therese Higgins
attended New York’s Japanese Cultural Center, The NY Studio School, Rocky Mountain College of Art and WNMU. She produces unique jewelry using various beads, glass, crystal, metal and more. Media: copper, silver, glass, stone, crystal, hand painted shower curtains. Locales: G’s Tees, The Silver City Trading Company. 538-3971.
Diana Ingals Leyba
sees her work as a culmination of several trains of thought which she has explored throughout the years, and is an integration of several aspects of her personality. Media: oils, acrylica, mixed media. Locale: Leyba and Ingalls Art. 519-0548
Jeff and Debbie Kuhns
create high-fired stoneware pottery, both wheel-thrown and sculptural. Jeff is a Master Potter and has discovered that the essence of a pot is its form. Mixing their own glazes allows for a wider range of creativity. Medium: clay. Locales: Mountain Arts Gallery, Ruidoso, NM, Worthington Gallery, Springdale, UT, Lois Duffy Gallery, Kuhns Pottery Studio. 534-9389. Email: yodeb@hotmail.com
Tatiana Kurakin and Jim Druffel
design furniture that they call “Spanish primitive”. Evocative of New Mexico colonial styles, their pieces further integrate Pueblo design elements with early Spanish Renaissance construction and detailing. Medium: ponderosa pine, brass, iron. Locale: Tatiana Maria Gallery. 388-4426. Email:tmkgallery3@gmail.com
Phoebe Lawrence
creates functional and sculptural work that reflects her Southwest heritage and joy in the creative process. She focuses on form, design, surface texture and color. Media: ceramics, photography. Locales: Copper Quail Gallery, Silver Spirit Gallery (SVA area). 534-0180. Email: clayfulhands@yahoo.com
Pat Clayton Leff
has a continuing interest in exploring color, shape and texture using various media. She enjoys the ex-citement of working through the endless possibilities of every piece–the process is the important part. Media: multiple. Locale: Dragonfly Studio 388-8646. Email: patdesanto@gmail.com
Cindy Lindhorn’s
whimsical and clever animal designs are collected by enthusiasts around the world. Media: acrylic, pastel, watercolor, polymer clay. Locales: Silver Spirit Gallery, The Mar-ketplace. 719-440-6646. Email cydrid398@yahoo.comVisit Website
Cheryl R. Mallett
knows that one bead at a time is the pace of her art form. Time, patience, meditation, and dreams create her one of a kind designs. Media: beads, leather, bone, fur. Locales: A Bead or Two, Silver Spirit Gallery (SVA area). 537-3031. Studio: Custom Designs.
Karen E. Muench
feels a oneness, a harmony and a genuineness with herself when she is engaged in the creative process. Creating art helps her feel her feel in control of her inner life when her outer life seems chaotic. Media: watercolor, gouache. Locales: Hearst Church Gellery, Running Horse Gallery, Glenwood, Sun Vallery Do It Best Center. 388-1607
David Mulvenna
enjoys a relationship between creativity and spirituality. Working with transcendental, metaphysical and psychic subjective visions of an extended human consciousness of cosmic creativity to create his pieces. Media: oil, metal, mixed media. Locales: The Artist Lair, Creations and Adornments, Vickies Restau-rant. 590-4541. Email: studiogallery425@msn.comVisit Website
Mary Alice Murphy
looks for patterns, light and colors in nature. She also enjoys architectural and journalistic photography. Medium: photography. Locale: JW Art Gallery. 574-2703. Email: mabm@aol.comVisit Website
Ann Nace
describes her work in oil as landscape shapes defined by light and her work in acrylic as celebrating that “festive feeling” of everyday life in New Mexico. Media: acrylic, tile, oil, watercolor. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery. 956-5948.
James Palmer
is a traditional representational sculptor whose fine limited edition bronzes feature equine, figurative, and wildlife subjects. Medium: clay to bronze. Locale: Studio Behind the Mountain, Silver Spirit Gallery (SVA area). 388-3277. Email: jimpalmer55@gmail.comVisit Website
Diane Reed
is a silversmith with Native American training. She does original and custom designs. Media: sterling silver, precious and semi-precious gemstones. Locales: Creations and Adornments, Doc Campbell’s Trading Post, Silver Spirit Gallery, Gila Valley Hardware Store. 534-4269. Email: dianne_reed64@live.com
Arlene Sarkela
paints realistic landscapes in acrylic and water-color. Her favorite subjects are desert scenes and waterscapes of Lake Superior and Michigan waterways. Media: acrylic, watercolor. Locales: Silver Spirit Gallery, Pinos Altos Church. 538-9761. Email: rsarkela@zianet.com
Joanne Schuchardt
is a realistic impressionist who enjoys the rich-ness of acrylic, oil, ink wash collage and fiber art. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery 484-557-5748. Email: reschuch@juno.com
Rita Sherwood’s
passion is plein air painting, especially the Gila River. Religious iconography with found art is another love. Media: oil, acrylic, found object mixed media. Locales: Silver Spirit Gallery, The Place, Silver City Trading Post. 388-2410. Email: ritasherwood@rocketmail.com
Jean Siebenthal
paints out of enthusiasm for the process. Her work is alive with that energy. Whether it’s landscape, seascape or abstract, her work captivates. Media: oil, acrylic, pencil, watercolor. Locales: Cienega Spa and Gallery, Silver Spirit Gallery, Hidden Dragon Studio. 519-8942 Email: fnjj@dishmail.net.Visit Website
Chris Sowers
presents hand-crafted ceramic pieces that are made to be used and enjoyed by family and friends. Each piece is personally crafted and has its own individual spirit even though pieces may be similar, no two are exactly alike. Locale: Curious Kumquat, Saturday Art Market. 313-6468Email: cactusfireottery@live.com
Cecilia Stanford’s
work is inspired by her career in Theatre Arts and an interest in decorative arts. These influences produce color and, hopefully, wit. Medium: mixed. Locales: Blue Dome Gallery at Bear Mountain Lodge. 956-5759. Email: cece@ceciliastanford.comStudio: HandsOn Market
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Ann Taylor
paints realism to impressionistic landscapes and still life. She specializes in Native American pots, blankets, baskets, etc. Call for commissions and special orders of cards and prints. Media: oil. Watercolor, pastel, acrylic. Locale: Silver Spirit Gallery 534-0171.
Tom Vaughn and Sandy Feutz (FeVa Fotos Gallery)
share the joy they find in photography in keepsakes, cards and framed matted prints. Medium: photography. Locale: FeVa Fotos. 590-1588. Email: FevaFotps@gmail.com
Nancy Wachholtz
portrays the lives of the people of the Southwest, both yesteryear and today. Medium: watercolor. Locales: Copper QuailGallery, Isaac’s Restaurant, Running Horse Gallery. 388-2616.Email: jwachholtz@localnet.com
John Wachholz
photographs wildlife in its natural habitat, all for the fun and pleasure of it! Medium: photography. Locales:Copper Quail Gallery, Running Horse Gallery and Isaac’s Restaurant.388-2616. Email: jwachholtz@localnet.com
