Upcoming Exhibitions
The Sangre de Cristo Arts Center features 4 exhibitions filling up 7 galleries every year. Representing the West Exhibition and Sale takes place in the fall as the kickoff event to the Chile & Frijoles Festival and Own Your Own Art Show & Sale heats up the holiday season when holiday shoppers can literally buy art right from the walls and take it with them. January-May and May-August features new exhibitions revolving around a common theme.
EnvironMental: January 21-May 12, 2012 • Sponsored by Spradley Auto Network
Some artists focus on the beauty of landscape. Some use reclaimed and recycled materials. Others contemplate the intersection of humans and the environment in the larger scope of the world around them.
All are represented in EnvironMental, the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center’s Winter/Spring 2012 exhibition in the Helen T. White Galleries, in which the intersection of art and the environment is explored through a variety of media, techniques and perspectives. The exhibition offers a complimentary display of environmental art to the concurrent exhibit Recycled Fairytales in the Buell Children’s Museum (now open), creating a natural pathway for parents to expand their child’s awareness of ways recycling can take on aesthetic form and purposeful meaning.
EnvironMental will be installed in stages beginning Jan. 21 with the White Gallery.
A free opening reception with the artists: Friday, Feb. 10 from 5-7 p.m.
Following the reception, the exhibition may be viewed during regular gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
EXHIBITION CALENDAR (note different open/close dates for each gallery)
EnvironMental: White Gallery through May 12, 2012
Gene Kloss: Legendary Landscapes: King Gallery February 4 through April 21, 2012
Aaron R. Williams: Hoag Gallery January 28 through April 21, 2012
Kristin Knight: Regional Gallery February 11through May 5, 2012
River of Words: 2nd & 3rd Foyer Galleries February 11through May 5, 2012
High School Artists Corner
Annual Exhibits
Representing the West Art Exhibition & Sale
The West will come to life through vibrant colors in the works of artists with regional to national prominence in this year’s Representing the West Art Exhibition and Sale at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center. Held September 22 through October 29, 2011, this show will once again feature works from some of the best painters in the Western United States.
Now in its ninth year, Representing the West is a national invitational exhibition of traditional representational art in a realist tradition. The work depicts the western American genre highlighting the diversity of the land and its people.
Participating artists are Patti Andre, Dix Baines, Nikolo Balkanski, Keith Bond, Marty Brens, Doug Candelaria, Mitch Caster, Lorenzo Chavez, Lyle Clift, Stephen Day, Tim Deibler, Donna Dellacroce, Don Dernovich, Fran Dodd, John Encinias, Kim English, Jane Ford, Gerald J. Fritzler, Jo Gaston, Dan Glanz, Jim Glover, Chris Hunt, Carol Jenkins, Frank LaLumia, Tom Lockhart, Leon Loughridge, Kim Mackey, Jeremy Manyik, Eric Michaels, Starr Miller, Tom Owen, John Phillips, Nathan Solano, Jill Soukup, Sam Thiewes, Lani Vlaanderen, Teresa Vito, Ginger Whellock, and Dan Young.
Congrats to the 2011 Winners
Own Your Own Art Show & Sale
Own Your Own Art Show and Sale will fill, wall-to-wall, our largest gallery with the best selection of original affordable fine art and fine craft artworks. This exhibit features over 60 artists working in oil, pastel and watercolor, ceramics, metal and fiber. Artistic styles range from traditional and functional to contemporary and decorative. This is an opportunity to buy during the holiday season, at reasonable prices, and take the work home with you at the time of purchase.
