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“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,” wrote John Gillespie Magee, Jr. in his oft-quoted poem High Flight, “and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…put out my hand, and touched the face of God.” The entire poem appears on the back of the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery proving yet […]
Think of this exhibition as lemonade. You know, like when life gives you lemons and you make something delicious out of them. In the “before-times,” Placitans frequently gathered at the library en masse to hear marvelous lectures on myriad topics, chairs set up front to back and side to side in the Collin Meeting Room […]
When life gives you lemons.... As you are no doubt aware, the 2020 Placitas Studio Tour was canceled due to the pandemic. What was to be the first exhibit in Placitas Community Library’s new Gracie Lee Community room featuring 2020 PST artists’ work became a virtual exhibition because of delayed completion of that space. So […]
Mellow Yellow? Yellow Submarine? Yellow Bird, Yellow Moon? Yellow Rose of Texas? Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree? Musicians have an extensive history of celebrating the color yellow. And now, artists, it’s your turn. The focus for the August/September exhibit is the color yellow. Whether your take is positive (think sunshine and sunflowers!) […]
Collin Meeting Room featuring “Wayne Jones’ Placitas: There Was a Time” Doris Fields, PhD The Collin Meeting Room is being reinvigorated with a new, special purpose, evolving as an education space for Placitas History. Periodically, PCL’s Collin Meeting Room (CMR) will focus on various areas and eras of Placitas History, including but not limited to […]
Gardens and artwork are similar in that they are composed in harmony with a series of shapes, forms, colors, and textures. The Placitas Garden Tour has invited a select group of local artists to showcase their work at Garden Tour Exhibit held in the Gracie Lee Community Room. The following artists will join us: Barbara […]
Stop in after touring the gardens to view and purchase additional artwork created by the guest artists of the Garden Tour. While there, take your chances on a raffle for a basket full of garden delights.
About Mosaic Traditionally, mosaic is a style of art where a larger image is created by arranging and attaching bits of clay, glass, stone or other materials directly to non-flexible surfaces with cement and mortar to last through the ages. Today, polymer cements, silicone, and other glues are frequently used as adhesives. In New Mexico, […]
Mosaic is a style of art where a larger image is created by arranging and attaching bits of clay, glass, stone or other materials directly to non-flexible surfaces. The resulting surfaces, whether smooth or rough, brilliantly hued or somber in color beg to be explored by human hands, and these sturdy materials have the power […]
Join friends and family for an indoor stroll through a festive German town reimagined at Placitas Winery, where halls will be decked with hand-crafted, holiday-style gifts. Come share in the joy of the season while benefitting our community library. Enjoy authentic German and European tasty treats, such as bratwurst with sauerkraut, latkes, pretzels, and more! […]
