Linda Anderle
A floral designer for more than 40 years, Linda Anderle has taken a different direction in her creative endeavors. As a maker, she explores paths of creating with fabric, fibers and found objects. Recently she and her husband, Bill, opened the newest gallery in town, 2Ten: A Galeria of Art & Treasures at 210 on the Plaza, Las Vegas NM.
Meredith Britt
I was born at 8:28 a.m. on a Thursday. This paper collage evolved from West Las Vegas to Bridge Street to the Colorado border and farther north. Only backwards. If the sun doesn’t shine, it’s cloudy or night or both. Sometimes.
Jane Chavez
Impressionistic painter of landscapes and portraits.
Irene Dorman
I am a metalsmith and gemologist who was born and raised in New Mexico. I love working with silver and copper and I love when people enjoy my work.
Barbara Ehrlich
Barbara Ehrlich’s first artistic love was painting but after moving to Northern New Mexico 40 years ago, she was introduced to the traditions of spinning and weaving.
She uses a reverse dye process on her handwoven fabric to remove color and create exciting surface effects.
David Escudero
Raymond Finck
Wood is good. Plastic is nastic. Plastic makes me spastic. I’ve been a furniture and cabinet maker in Las Vegas for 24 years.
Denise Fox
Making art drives me. Once the idea pops into my brain (like a light bulb!), my hands begin to bring that idea into fruition. Photographic portraiture is my primary medium, and I have developed a love for alternative photographic processes. Finding new uses for discarded things also excites me…odd objects that I find on my walks, outdated cassette tapes, and unusual metal bits found when scavenging at the scrap metal place.
The execution of a piece can be a puzzle—this I find to be a wonderful thing about art making. Sometimes there is failure, but other times, success.
I have undergraduate degrees in dental hygiene and English/film, and am working toward an associate’s degree in photography at Santa Fe Community College. Five wonderful animals live with me: two cats–Psycho and Jasmine, and 3 dogs—Wally, Chyna, and Jellybean.”
Sarah Frazier
I work with tiny beads, making jewelry, hatbands and decorative items. I’m a member of the El Zócalo Co-operative Art Gallery and a fan of the AWC.
Carolee Friday
Carolee’s award winning photographs depict the history, people, places and animals of Santa Fe & northern NM. She is a student/performing artist of Mexican folklórico dance and a past Santa Fe Fiesta Queen. Her Hispanic heritage, culture & faith are vital to her art. Carolee holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Spanish from the University of New Mexico and a Masters of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Phoenix. She is an artist and board member of the Contemporary Hispanic Market in New Mexico.
Lauren Karle
Originally from Middleton, Wisconsin, Lauren earned her bachelors of arts degree in K-12 Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. After graduating she taught middle school art for two-and-a-half years in Guatemala City, Guatemala. While she loved teaching, her heart was only half fulfilled; she was just as much an artist. She began pursuing the second component of her career and started her journey in clay.
Lauren was a post-baccalaureate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for two years before completing her Masters of Fine Arts at Kansas State University in 2014. Community projects include Taste of Mexico, Collaborative Potluck, Coffee Corner Connections, Women’s Roles through Time, Cultivating Community through Shared Experiences, and Portion Plates. In 2013 she was awarded the NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship to complete a two month internship at Talavera Uriarte in Puebla, Mexico. She continued to research the Talavera tradition as the Artist-in-Residence at Escuela de Arte Talavera in Spain in 2015. Her work has been included in the 2015 NCECA Biennial, the MBK Graduate Student Exhibition at the Clay Studio, Strictly Functional, and Crafts National among other shows. In 2015 she was awarded the Betty Woodman Prize and participated in the Future of Food thematic as an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She regularly publishes articles in Ceramics Monthly and has contributed to Ceramics Technical. From surface to form and the ways in which her work is used, she aims to use pottery as her vehicle to build understanding and compassion between diverse people and cultures. She is excited and motivated by the belief that her work can make a difference in the world.
Martha Kennedy
Martha Kennedy was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She currently lives & works in Santa Fe, NM, surrounded by sunshine, mountains and desert. She studied art at the Ontario College of Art & Design, University of MN, Minneapolis and Lake Tahoe Community College, but has found that her life’s experiences have played an even more important part: years of traveling the USA, Canada, Central & South America, meeting people, seeing the landscapes, experiencing new things, more years working with her dogs and shelter dogs… Her paintings have been influenced by all these experiences.
Martha works primarily in oil on panel. The pure colours of oil paint and layers of glazes give the vivid and rich colour to her distinctive landscapes and still lives.
Talking about her work, Kennedy says:
“I walk, I bike, I drive through the desert hills and arroyos of the Southwest. I take a lot of photos. Back in my studio, photos and memories combine with fantasy and magic, resulting in paintings that embody my love for these landscapes.”
Martha is in the permanent collections of the Haldan Art Gallery in South Lake Tahoe, CA, the Renown Art Collection in Reno, NV, at the Northern New Mexico Community College, New Mexico, and numerous private international collections.
Andy Kingsbury
I’ve had the sculpture bug for years, but left it on the back burner. Now I have time.
Kristine Klaiber
Mixed media and mosaic artist. My work can also be seen in El Zocalo Gallery and online at Artfire.com (Gingerbear)
Kathryn Lenihan
“I have always made my living within the Arts both commercial and fine art.
In Hollywood I worked in Animation and in Northern CA I worked in the field of Graphics and Animation. After teaching Art for 10 years I have retired and have the freedom to work on my fine Art that I so enjoy.”
Amber Lon MacLean
Amber Lon MacLean is an artist who works in a variety of mediums including ink, paint, tinwork and animation.
Her work has been exhibited nationally, and can be viewed year around at Tito’s Gallery, or by appointment at her home studio: Tin Fish Studio NM in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Terry Mossman
Have lost my mind – woodwork takes me in direction of sanity or insanity. Can’t tell.
Nick Nickolds
1923 – 2009, one of the main contributing artists of the psychedelic poster company East Totem West, which was founded in 1967, based in Mill Valley. Alan Bisbort, author of the White Rabbitt came into contact with the poster company East Totem West and was greatly influenced by Nick Nickolds who became his teacher. Nick Nickolds was more known for his posters than his artwork. Pratt Framing out of Maine who did these two paintings remembered framing them. “They were very California art” he said.
Maureen O’Brien
Maureen O’Brien is a painter trained in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Her love of the natural world brought about a melding of expressionism and landscape painting. Her love of canines has created her “Dogs in Wonderful Places” series. Lemon Drop is a AWC Pet Center graduate. She and her mother came to our rescue, Woofaste, about three years ago. Both live with wonderful families in Eldorado now. No, Lemon Drop is not on The Big Island. She dreams about it though.
David Pascale
David got his first camera as a gift from his mother when he went to Bolivia with the Peace Corps – fifty years ago. He has been shooting ever since, thirty five years as a free lance professional.
Duffy Peterson
I am an original member of el Zocalo and a proud supporter of AWC. I make paintings, drawings, jewelry, rosaries; I teach art and I make killer scones.
Debbie Pike
I lived in Arizona 10 plus years and enjoyed the spectacular sunsets and sunrises. This picture captures the brilliant color display of an Arizona sky!
Naomi Raine
Naomi Ruth Raine paints and sculpts animals. Her artwork is inspired by animals she has known and concern for animal habitat, and is often interwoven with mythical stories and events from her experience. The mutual love and respect that develops when an animal is welcomed as a member of the family is a recurring theme in her work.
Kimberly Reed-Deemer
Kimberly Reed-Deemer grew up in Woodstock, Illinois, and attended the prestigious American Academy of Art in Chicago, eventually continuing her education at Northern Illinois University. While earning her degrees she worked in scientific illustration and was hired by world-class paleontologists to produce illustrations of major fossil discoveries. Upon moving to New Mexico in 2004, and freshly inspired by the cultural and natural landscape of the area, Kimberly returned to fine art full time. Her current work includes Southwestern subjects such as Baile Folklorico, Flamenco and Native American performers, as well as evocative landscapes in oil or watercolor with ink, and an oil series of the NMHU Art Foundry sculptors. Kim’s oil painting, ‘Eagle Dance,’ was juried into the 2014 Gala silent auction at The Taos Art Museum. Kimberly was invited to show her paintings in New Mexico Highlands University’s 2014 & 2015 Invitational Exhibits, and the 2015 Iron Tribe Conference exhibit. She is represented by the historic art hotel, La Posada de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as Tito’s and El Zocalo galleries in Las Vegas.
Robert Rohm
Artist Robert Rohm paints southwest landscapes.
Paul Roybal
Paul Roybal is a native New Mexican who has been creating rustic art for decades. He enjoys turning scrap metal into beautiful yard art. Paul is happy to be raising funds for AWC; they do amazing work for the animals and helped save Cinderella who Paul adopted earlier this year.
Juli Salman
I am a life-long artist, baker, and crafter. I studied Environmental Design at UC Davis, and enjoy experimenting with different media.
Oh, and I love animals.
Xi Shen
I am an international student from Shanghai, China. I am study at Highlands now as a graduate student in Business. This is a painting I drew few weeks ago in a foundation event. I am so proud of it because it is my first painting.
McKayla Silvis
I have loved art since I was young, and now I have started painting and want to spread the happiness this painting gives me to someone else.
Penny Spring
Janet Stein Romero
Sharon Stillwater
Sharon is a local artist who works from her home studio in Pendaries where she has been a resident for 30 years. In her previous incarnation her profession was as a clinical psychologist, and, in her words, “the privilege of sharing the rich kaleidoscope of the human psyche still informs and motivates my art”. Her other passions include wilderness, hiking and animals. She works in oil, mixed media, and pencil and her favorite subjects are people and animals.
Meredith Taylor
Meredith enjoys all animals and her time in NM.
Rosanne Troncoso
Local artist / craftsperson, create wooden police badge wall plaques for retirement, graduation and other commemorative events, also create additional images per request (people portraits, pet portraits, scenery, wildlife, architecture) / work with pencil, oil, and pyrography.
Kyrat Tuvahoema
Went to the Albuquerque Indian school for art in 1927. Limited works due to his early death from tuberculosis. 1914-1942
Scott Vail
Scott Vail photographs wildlife from his home base in Mora County and around the world. His work is exhibited at el Zocalo Art Gallery in Las Vegas.
Shawna Wangseng
Shawna is a Las Vegas painter, teacher, and entrepreneur. Her work is rooted in realistic representations of the world around her.
Jane Warsaw
Jane Warsaw is a musician, potter and photographer. She spent 17 years doing software development at the New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs and a few internet start ups. Born and raised in New York City, she attended the High School of Music and Art, University of Rochester Eastman School of Music and Columbia University. Jane started coming to Las Vegas to visit family when she was fourteen and moved here in 2006.
Sean Weaver
Sean Weaver is an award-winning photographer, writer and musician who lives in Las Vegas New Mexico. For more than 20 years, Sean has specialized in portrait, documentary, travel and fine-art photography. His work is included in many private collections and has been published in national and regional publications.
Linda Wooten-Green
Linda Wooten-Green is a New Mexico artist whose work is in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States. Linda is also an Art Educator and has taught Junior and Senior High School and college level for many years, as well as presenting art workshops in the Mid West and Western United States. Her website is www.lindawootengreen.com
