Damien Gonzales 'starred' in a film shoot in Old Town of "Galileo" (the working title) by L.A. based director Jay Silverman who is behind the camera. "Other extras and I played various villager roles with me being a plein air artist. The movie is a romantic comedy loosely based on one of the heirs to the Taco Bell fortune falling for a woman chef in a small hypothetical town named Villa Nueva. Filming was done in Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico." 

Signature Member Rosie Sandifer will take part in an upcoming exhibit at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina from January 28 - April 16 , 2017. The exhibit includes two of her oil paintings and one sculpture along with works from Brookgreen's renowned collection and selections from private collections in Wyoming and New Mexico.

In conjunction with this exhibit Rosie will be giving an informal talk on Saturday morning January 28, 2017.

  

Cheryl Koen has received the Southwest Art Award of Excellence and Partrice Walker (Dello-Russo) the Best Oil at the prestigious Women Artists of the West's  46th Annual National Exhibition in Frederiksberg, Texas.

 From the catalog:

From Nancy: Artist in Residence grants are available from many of our National Parks - different conditions and requirements in different places, rolling deadlines, etc.  all information can be found on NationalParks.gov or on the websites of individual parks.  

Here at Acadia I have an apartment and a studio, abundant quiet and solitude for two weeks!  Fantastic!   I urge all painters to apply! (Click on Read more for photo of Nancy painting by the ocean)

Karen Halbert won an Award of Merit for her painting, "Santa Fe Turbulence," 10x16 oil, at the annual Plein Air Painters Colorado (PAAC) show Sept. 1 at the Mary Williams Art Gallery in Boulder. See karenhalbert.blogspot.com for a history of this painting (including stages and paints). 

PAPNM members Gary Kim and Janice St. Marie have recently been granted Signature Member status by the PAPNM Board. Congratulations Gary and Janice!

Congratulations to Holly Grimm, who won an honorable mention for acrylics at the SF Indian Market last weekend.

Richard Abraham, Best of Show winner of the Santa Fe Plein Air Festival last June, is featured in an article written by Bob Bahr, editor of PleinAir Today (link below). Titled "Anatomy of an Award Winner," it describes just how Richard's award-winning painting came about.

http://www.outdoorpainter.com/anatomy-of-an-award-winner-richard-abraham-in-santa-fe/

The opening reception is Thursday Sept. 7th, 6-8p.m. at the Art Building at the Fair grounds in Albuquerque, N.M. The Fair dates are Sept.8-18, 2016.