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  • Cat Tales: Art Exhibit July and August

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    Sigmund Freud said it best. “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” Accordingly, the Placitas Community Library Art Committee is excited to offer an opportunity to observe a host of fascinating felines at rest and at play. Beginning July 7 and continuing through August 27, this PCL exhibit will be available for the first time […]

  • Art Exhibit: Flights of Fancy

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    “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 […]

  • Clustering in the face of uncertainty

    Art Exhibit: Off the Wall

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    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 […]

  • The Gracie Lee Room Inaugural Exhibition – Placitas Studio Tour Artists

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    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 […]

  • Contradictions and Complexity: The Color Yellow

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    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!) […]

  • There was a Time: An Exhibit of the Photography of Wayne Jones

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    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 […]

  • Magic in the Gardens: Placitas Garden Tour Exhibit

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    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 […]

  • Magic in the Gardens – Placitas Garden Tour Open House

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    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.

  • Piece by Piece: Mosaic New Mexico Artist Collective Exhibit

    Placitas Community Library 453 HWY 165, Placitas, NM, United States

    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, […]