Art, Artists and Internet Groups

TAO Members Art on Exhibition

Call for Entries: Glam Trash Fashion show Sept 6th at the Stables Gallery in Taos. Looking for designers and models. If you want to be in the show, let us know by Aug 15th. We need your name and a contact number and an idea of what you are making. We have relaxed the "send a photo" deadline, and now just want you to check in - Call Nicole 587-2115 or Jean 587-0202. Glam Trash Fashion workshops will be held every Friday from 1-4 pm at Art for the Heart Studio in Peñasco (across from PO). We have lots of materials or you can bring your own. Contact: Jean Nichols 587-0202, 587-2889 (during studio hours -
Thurs-Sun 11-5).


Bianca Maestas, "Visual Texture", sculpture and photography at the Taos Cow on main street in Arroyo Seco, Artist Reception on Friday, August 8th from 5-7.
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TaosArtists@yahoogroups.com Our new Internet Taos Artist Organization Yahoo Group

Whether you are an artist, gallery owner, art collector, or art appreciator, we hope you'll contribute to and enjoy the liveliness of this forum. Mary Lela, TAO member, is the moderator for the Group. To begin, send an email to TaosArtists-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taosartists/join . Don't be discouraged by the joining questions. This forum is a great asset to the artists in our community. When you join, the address to post a message to everyone on the list is TaosArtists@yahoogroups.com

Communicate to other TAO members about shows, techniques, materials, distributors, great painting spots, art gatherings, art openings, go museum hopping together in Santa Fe, in Paris, in New York...the possibilities are endless.

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Oddballs in the Desert : by Alexander Theroux
A Book Review written in the Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121754696826502651.html

From Greenwich Village to Taos: by Flannery Burke

excerpt - ..."It was an art colony predominantly, but it included a range of creative guests: the painter Georgia O'Keeffe; the journalist John Reed; writers D.H. Lawrence and Gertrude Stein; the feminist Mary Austin; and Carl Van Vechten, one of the guiding lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Mabel Dodge Luhan knew everybody and, in a sense, everybody visited her in Taos...."

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A word From David Vedoe - Steering Committee Member

Visionary Visual Artists of Taos

Greetings Fellow Visual Artists: Each of us bear part of the responsibility to ensure this vibrant mountain artist community/colony is alive and kicking. As we honor and revere the past and the inherent qualities that drew us here, kept us here and inspires our daily creative energies, it is also of paramount importance, as the first link as creators in the vast Art Industry, to steer toward a future that holds the best of our individual contributions. We are the stewards of the factual legacy that will be handed down to the following generations of artists - Let us make them proud to be Taos Artists.

Artists, Gallery Owners, Collectors, Art Lovers, Museums and art related organizations in Taos must bond in improved ways to create a local atmosphere and ambiance around visual art that allows everybody involved to be the best they can be.

Therefore - Give your practical-!!! viewpoint on how to manifest that to the TAO group forum so we can present it to all the people involved in the Visual Arts of Taos.

Keep in mind:Any successful endeavor requires participation, responsibility and accountability.

Because we ourselves Love Living in Taos - People visiting will also learn to Love Taos & recognize it for its strong, engaging, sparkling and enchanting art community.

Artists for Artists at work for Visual Art in Taos.

Sincerely Yours,

David Vedoe

Co-Founder TAO Taos Arist Organization
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