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LOS LUNAS — Student artists from across the county were honored during the opening reception for the eighth annual Student Art Show at the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Arts on Saturday. While the creations of more than 20 elementary, middle and high school received ribbons, museum specialist Jan Micalettie said every piece in the show was a winner. “Every piece hanging in the gallery is a winner because they were juried in,” Micalettie said. For this year’s show, Los Lunas High School senior Tia Bernal submitted a watercolor still life. She typically does portraits,...

04/07/2021 We’ve heard from our friends at the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe and they are putting out a call for artists for the Official 2021 Zozobra Adult and Student Poster and T-shirt images. This year, 2021, will be the 97th presentation of The Burning of Will Shuster’s Zozobra, Santa Fe’s historic cultural celebration, organized annually by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization whose mission it is to help the children of New Mexico to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive. The Kiwanis Club members volunteer thousands of hours every year to prepar...

COVID-19 by the numbers New Mexico health officials yesterday reported 277 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total so far to 191,652. The health department has designated 173,701 of those cases as recovered. Bernalillo County led with 125 new cases yesterday—more than twice as many as Tuesday. Sandoval County had 41, followed by Doña Ana County with 23. Santa Fe County had 16 new cases. The state also announced five additional deaths; there have now been 3,937 fatalities. As of yesterday, 99 people were hospitalized with COVID-19. You can read all of SFR's COVID-19 coverage h...

Burning Man Fig. 1. Self Portrait by William Shuster (1893–1969), 1931. Signed and dated “Self Portrait, 1931/ WillShuster” (backwards) on easel. Oil on canvas, 30 by 24 inches. Photograph courtesy of Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1920 serious health issues brought William Shuster to New Mexico, beginning forty-nine years of creativity, exploration, and community engagement. Though he received some fine-arts training in Philadelphia, it was not until he experienced the inspiration of Santa Fe that he decided to dedicate his life to art. Almost immediately he integra...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... The New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe opened to the public Feb. 20. (Courtesy of Eric Martinez) For more than a century, the New Mexico Museum of Art has showcased some of the most dynamic art seen in the state. On Feb. 20, the museum became the latest state-run entity to open to the public. The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs says it plans to open the museums one at a time. .............