Note from the Director

March 2022

by Patricia Cream

Please Note: Govenor Grisham lifted the mask mandate on February 17th, which took place immediately. In accordance with this mandate, masks will be optional when attending our member meetings or our gallery. Please know that you are welcome to wear a mask if you choose to. The gallery will continue to follow NM Safe Guidelines for cleaning the gallery and wiping down common areas.

A big thank you to all our faithful customers. It has been fantastic to see so many of you at First Friday and throughout the month. Our February sales have been amazing, in part to the wonderful interview by Adrian Gomez, Albuquerque Journal. Adrian interviewed Greg Lujan, wood/metal, Featured Artist for February. If you missed the article, I have attached the link, below. Many locals have come in to see the gallery refresh and to purchased art. Several of the gallery artists have had good sales to start 2022.

At the March 4th First Friday, 5:00-8:00 pm, we will have a Salon show called “Creative Gatherings.” This show will run from March 4th through March 24th. The mission of this group is to be a part of "an artist community that serves to inspire, facilitate, enhance, and awaken the God-given creativity in every person."

I am excited to introduce Meg Munro, watercolorist. Meg joined the gallery at the end of January. She lived in Mexico for 30+ years and feels that in Mexico she was able to create herself as an artist. You can find more information about Meg and her beautiful and unique art below.

Call for Artists: If you are a local artist looking for a Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery to show your art, please go to our website (link below) to get more information about our gallery. The application is online.  If you are interested, please send in your application and we can set up a jury date.

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.”

Dieter F Uchtdorf

In the Salon in March

Creative Gatherings

We welcome our newest artist:

Meg Munro

Meg loved living in Mexico for over thirty years. She painted its people, towns, and marketplaces, developing herself as an artist in the "warm, all-embracing culture." Even though she moved away in 2016, she says, "I feel that I bring in my heart the life, love, and freedom gifted to me by Mexico and her people."

Meg's medium of choice is watercolor, and she is interested to see how New Mexico's Land of Enchantment will express itself in her art. View a more complete bio and her art on her website and on the gallery website.

Masterworks New Mexico

Meg Munro, Jeff Warren, and Nancy Schrock

will have artwork in Masterworks New Mexico 2022

Above left, The Protecting Veil, Meg Munro

Above right, Toys in the Attic, Jeff Warren

Below left, Emmett, Jeff Warren

Below right, Persimmons, Nancy Schrock

The things of this world are not all as sayable and graspable as people usually want us to think; most of what happens is unsayable, unfolding in a space no word has ever entered, and the most unsayable of all are works of art: those mysterious creatures whose life endures, alongside our own life, which is so fleeting.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

Letter 1, Letters to a Young Poet