Member News

Opening Reception - Nov 7 5:30 - 8:30 pm

PAPNM Member, Diane Arenberg was a juror for the show!!

PAPNM Members in the exhibit  include Michele Byrne with more names to follow.

Congratulations Carole.

This year's 2026 museum exhibition selection process was incredibly competitive. Out of 791 pieces, 107 works were chosen to be exhibited in Of Mark & Meaning: American Women Artists at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN.  Please click here to see the list of selected artists.

Follow AWA on social media for a sneak peek of exhibit images in the coming months. The online gallery will open with the exhibition at The Customs House Museum on February 13, 2026.

https://pleinairsalon.com/

Finalists: September 2025:

Congratulations to Natasha Isenhour and Jane Hunt, top Finalists in the Sept Competition.

and others by Jane Hunt.

Awards and Finalists: August 2025:

Our very own Natasha Isenhour was the judge for the AUGUST 2025 competition! Click on the linkable for more information. Natasha wrote detailed descriptions of why the top three paintings won (well worth reading).

Congratulations to the PAPNM artist Top Finalists and the Award Winning Paintings in August:

Barbara Coleman, Best Landscape

Kath Reilly, Best Building

Jane Hunt, Honorable Mention, Clouds and Sky

Donna Barnhill: Finalist Figure & Portrait

Finalists: June 2025:

Congratulations to Peggy Immel and Natasha Isenhour for their paintings that were chosen in the top 100 finalists this month

Awards: May 2025

See all May 2025 awards here.

The judge for the May competition was award-winning artist Dave tulationsSantillanes.

Congratulations to Jane Hunt, PAPNM Master Artist, for awards:  Headed Home (May 2025 Best Nocturne), Ablaze (May 2025 Clouds and Sky Honorable Mention). She also placed two additional top 100 finalist paintings. 

https://www.janehuntart.com

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Awards: April 2025.

Congratulations to John Misner for his Category Award for Best Western and to Jane Hunt for her Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category:

See all April 2025 awards here 

Congratulations to Carolyn Lindsey, 1st Place!! And to Barbara Coleman in the top 20!!

Personal note by KLH: I was visiting Legacy Gallery when I noticed Jane's paintings at the Legacy for the first time. They are beautiful in person (It's always wonderful to see John Meister's paintings at the Legacy, also).

From Jane Hunt:

Excited to share what's happening - new representation, a special event at the Denver Art Museum, and more shows coming up very soon!

I've joined Legacy Gallery!

I'm pleased to share that I'm now represented by Legacy Gallery in both Santa Fe, NM and Scottsdale, AZ. I dropped off my first six paintings in Santa Fe last week and had the chance to meet their wonderful team. More work will be heading to the Scottsdale gallery soon! Meanwhile, if you're in the Santa Fe area, please stop by and check out these new pieces in person. This is a sneak peek at a few of the new paintings now at Legacy - more are waiting for you on the Legacy Gallery website 'Into the West' 48x36" Oil

'First Light on the Pueblo' 12x20" Oil

'Evening Sunflowers' 30x24" Oil

'Purple Reflections' 12x20" Oil

See all my Legacy pieces & Stories

Michael Chesley Johnson PAPNM Signature Member: Honorable Mention Award, Sedona Plein Air Festival.

Katherine Gauntt has a show hanging at the East Mountain Public Library through the end of October.

She will have a reception (no food or sales, it is a public library) on Saturday October 11 from noon to 3pm.

She has about 43 paintings, mostly watercolor paintings, in this venue. Come and enjoy during business hours;

Tues, Wed. Friday and Saturday from 10-6 and Thursday from 11-7. 

FROM SURFACE TO SOUL

Eclipse A solo exhibit of transcendent paintings The Gallery ABQ Hoffmantown Shopping Center 8210 Menaul Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 4 pm Reception: October 3, 5 - 8 pm Exhibit: October 2 - 28 MORE INFO

In this digital world, we have grown accustomed to flat images without three-dimensional form. Carla Forrest creates a dynamic, tactical quality in her paintings that appeals to the viewer's sense of touch and feel. From thin to the thick and from transparent to opaque, the unusually rich surfaces of her paintings immerse the viewer into a multi-dimensional world where they experience the soul of creativity. The Renaissance occurred after the crises of the late Middle Ages, which halted European stability and transitioned humanity to Modernity with great social change - including recovery from the Great Famine, Black Death, demographic collapse, political instabilities, and religious upheavals. The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was humanism, a new thinking that became manifest in art, architecture, literature, science, and politics. Forrest believes that we are now emerging into the New Renaissance, birthing a new society with elevated respect and compassion for all sentient beings and our Mother Earth. During this transition, humanity will move beyond cognitive and emotional intelligence into the higher level of spiritual intelligence. So, the intellectual basis of the New Renaissance is transcendence, which will bring a new level thinking that will become manifest in art, architecture, politics, science, and literature, and move us toward a multi-dimensional world where we can experience the soul of creativity.

PAPNM members Diane Stoffel and Katy Korkos, who manage Step Up Gallery at Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, announce the opening of the exhibit “Projection and Confession: Self-Portraits,” September 18-October 18. 

Please come see the show which includes self-portraits by PAPNM members: Wendy Ahlm, Phyllis Gunderson, Marcia Williams, Lee Ann Costello, Rachel Pearson, Diane Stoffel, and Katy Korkos. Visitors are encouraged to vote for their favorite self-portrait. People’s Choice Awards will be presented at the closing reception at 2:00-3:30pm on Saturday, October 18 at Step Up Gallery, 2400 Central Ave., Los Alamos. 

     

Step Up Gallery Managers

Here’s a link to the September 19th edition of Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo Magazine: 

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/exhibition-at-los-alamos-gallery-exhorts-artists-to-look-within/article_25fca914-b33d-4837-afac-e47195bb4f57.html

Congratulations on the article.

Article beginning:

Step Up Gallery manager Diane Stoffel conceived of Projection and Confession: Self-Portraits as a way to inspire artists to gaze within during an era of stress-intensifying overstimulation.

“It goes along with the political climate right now, because I wanted people to look at themselves and discover their own courage,” she says. “I think it’s necessary for us to put the brakes on what’s going on politically and find our own morals, find our own strengths, and eventually find the courage to do something about it, to speak out. I was thinking of reality TV and how people are sort of voyeurs, and that’s how they entertain themselves. I don’t know how much introspection goes on anymore.”

Stoffel didn’t seek to showcase works specifically by female artists, but it certainly worked out that way: Only three of the 51 featured artists are men. As a result, Projection and Confession serves as a glimpse into a collective New Mexico female psyche, reflected not just in standard portraits but in fiber arts and even a gargoyle head. Stoffel aims to offer a different slate of exhibitions each summer; this is the first featuring self-portraits."