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Fair Jurors
2008 Jurors
Cathlena Burr
Village Wools
www.villagewools.com
Cathlena Burr has lived in
Albuquerque longer than any of the twenty or so other places she’s lived – more than half of her life. She has been a fiberaholic since childhood when she learned to embroider, sew, taught herself to crochet from Japanese patterns and began weaving before she knew what it was. She did pastel duplications of paintings of the masters in grade school and studied pottery in
Michigan and at
Berea
College before discovering that weaving was where her winding path had been leading all along. She has her degree in French, English and Art History from
Berea
College and has taught weaving for nearly 22 years. She has been co-owner of Village Wools since 1992 where she continues to enjoy fiber, color, texture and teaching. Cathlena is also an active member of On Borrowed Time, a group of breast cancer survivor artists who bring a message of creativity and healing to cancer patients through a reader’s theater, art show, and creativity workshops.
David Drummond
www.drummondart.com
David Drummond is widely recognized for his photorealist watercolors of Lake Powell. “Art is about communication, says Drummond. “I paint what I love to look at, hoping to bring that same emotion to the viewer." Drummond is active as a teacher as well as a painter, and he has authored many articles on painting technique.
Drummond’s work has been awarded numerous honors, including being featured on the 2007 White House Christmas card, the 3rd place prize in Artist’s Magazine’s 2007 competition (with more than 11,000 entries), the Windsor Newton Award (2007), Arts For the Parks Founders Favorite Medal (2005), the Arts For the Parks Bronze Medal Landscape Award of Merit (2004), and the New Mexico Masterworks Show Award of Excellence (2007). His work is well represented in public and private collections throughout the United States and has received critical acclaim in the national fine arts media, including, most recently, the June 2007 issue of Fine Art Connoisseur. He currently resides in Albuquerque.
Anna King
Just Imagine Gallery & Coffee House
www.justimaginegallery.com
Anna King came to
New Mexico in 1975 and after ten years of working her way through all aspects of a handmade jewelry business, and then into sales management for a fine jewelry manufacturing company, she started her own jewelry design and manufacturing business.
Faced with the age old problem of how to both hand make, and market her work, Anna began making metal and stone chimes, wall hangings, and mobiles, and sold her work directly to the public through juried arts and crafts shows. In 1989, she opened her store Just Imagine Gallery in Tijeras, and later expanded to add a coffeehouse.
After serving on the board of directors and exhibiting in the New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair for a number of years, she dreamed of offering artists a user friendly, affordable, consistent way to market their work. In 2006, she launched the Tijeras Open-Air Arts Market, a weekly juried arts and crafts event on the 2 acres where her gallery and coffeehouse are located.
Reynaldo "Sonny" Rivera
www.reynaldosonnyrivera.com
Reynaldo Rivera, a native New Mexican born and raised in the Las Cruces area, had an interest in drawing and painting since early childhood. After a four-year paid vacation touring the world in the Navy, and after 20 successful years as a barber-hairstylist in Albuquerque, his travels brought him closer to world-class museums and galleries, which rekindled his interest in art. So, at 40, off to art school he went: Chicago, Italy, Mexico and Scottsdale.
With over 40 public art commissions to his credit, Rivera’s sculptures have included historical and modern-day themes such as the Santa Fe Trail; the Spanish colonizers who established the first settlement in New Mexico in 1598; and a “9-11 Memorial”. Rivera’s most recent accomplishments are a monumental bronze sculpture of world renowned Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya for the City of Santa Rosa, New Mexico; and a bronze bust of Mr. Anaya for the Albuquerque Museum who was name the Notable New Mexican for 2007.
Rivera is currently working on a 13' high bronze monument depicting Medal of Honor recipient Captain Raymond G. “Jerry” Murphy for the entrance of the Albuquerque VA Medical Center, which was renamed in Murphy’s honor.
“My approach to public art is aimed to educate and enlighten the viewer," said Reynaldo. "I take pleasure in creating interactive artwork that evokes emotion in the observer, as well as, instills a sense of pride in the community.”
Valerie Tibbets
Weyrich Gallery
www.weyrichgallery.com
Valerie Tibbetts is the owner of the Weyrich Gallery (The Rare Vision Art Galerie). She has owned and directed the Weyrich gallery for 25 years and has spent her life in the exploration of Spirituality and Consciousness while she is also interested in Science. Her background is eclectic like her gallery. She was born in
Los Angeles,
California and has traveled throughout the world. She is very grateful for her traveling experience that has taken her to many different sacred places like Delphi,
Machu Picchu and provided her the opportunity to walk the sacred valley of the Incas, Angkor Wat, Banares/Varansi,
India. She lived in
Australia for 2 years, lived with the aboriginal people of
New Guinea, and learned a lot about nature. She studied repousse’ and metal-smithing in
Cordova,
Spain at an
Institute of
Art. Tibbets is becoming more aware of how important it is to understand the different cultures that we are surrounded by and that we all have so many things in common while Art is the communicator.
Tibbets believes that society is measured by the art it leaves. We are at a very important time in our history and Art plays a very important role. Our artists are our Shaman today and sometimes see things before the Scientists do. She is very interested in things we do not necessary see with our eyes, however, we see with our third eye. Some call this intuition or primordial knowledge.
While Tibbets worked in the medical field for 25 years, she also attended the Fine Arts Department at the
University of
New Mexico and exhibits Transcendental Art, Contemporary Art, Fine Art and Crafts in her gallery.
Tibbets is also a Feng Shui consultant and has been interested in Eastern Philosophy. She is a practitioner of Japanese Tea Ceremony-Chado (The Way of Tea) and is very interested in the ritual of peace in a bowl of tea. Furthermore, she enjoys hiking, reading and good conversation.
2007 Jurors
Charles Carillo
Charles is a santero - a carver and painter of images of saints. He started creating depiction of saints for religious purposes in 1978 when he began researching the techniques, materials, and subject matter of the early santeros. Today he is recognized as an authority on the subject and as the most accomplished artist practicing in this regional tradition. Recognitions include the Museum of International Folk Art's Hispanic Heritage Award, as well as numerous First Place, Best of Show and Grand Prize entries in the Annual Spanish Market in Santa Fe. Charlie earned a doctorate in anthropology/archaeology from the University of New Mexico, but his commitment to tradition has led him to work within the religious community of northern New Mexico as an artist and an advocate. In 2006 he was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, to read an interview with Charles please visithttp://www.nea.gov/honors/heritage/Heritage06/Carrillo.html
Colgate Craig
Colgate first came to New Mexico in 1949 to attend the New Mexico School of Mines (now the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology or The Tech ). He graduated in 1953 as a Mining Engineer. After working in the corporate and industrial world for some 32 years from South America and Mexico to several locations in the US, he left mining to become self employed and ended up in the art and custom picture framing business with a store in Denver, Colorado. With the draw of family in New Mexico, Colgate moved to
Albuquerque and took over Framing Concepts in 1992. Representing more than twenty five local and regional artists and delving into conservation or preservation framing, he has built a successful and ongoing business in Albuquerque where he claims to be Albuquerque s best hidden asset in the Northeast Heights.
Stella Naranjo-Thompson
Stella has 35 years of experience as an artist involved in Native American art and jewelry appraising and restoration, marketing and public relations, business administration and gallery operation. Stella established the first Native American organization in Houston, a non profit that planned and developed social service activities, art classes and produced a Powwow and Art Market with visual and performing demonstrations. Stella creates jewelry, pottery, crafts, painting, poetry and writing and currently owns Naranjo s Arts of Santa Fe, Inc in Albuquerque.
Lia Lynn Rosen
Lia has lived and worked in New Mexico for nearly twenty years, creating elegant clay vessels based in the culture and spirit of this Land. Lia specializes in hands-on pottery workshops centered in the heritage of ancient pottery in New Mexico, ongoing clay classes at her studio in Albuquerque, and artistic retreats in a mountain village, Magdalena (near Socorro), for all those seeking spiritual renewal.
Karen Simmons
After graduating from UNM in the 1970s, Karen taught herself to weave and began showing her work both locally and nationally in 1980. After almost twenty years as a production weaver, Karen felt it was time to pursue her passion for three dimensional forms. She learned papermaking, yet another extension of fiber art, and knew this was a perfect match for the work she envisioned. Her award winning paper vessels have been shown across the country and can be found in several books. Karen has served in various capacities with local arts and crafts organizations through the years, including two years on the board of the New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair.
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