Library Schedule

A retrospective featuring works by longtime Placitas residents Mary and Karl Hofmann will begin the Placitas Community Library’s 2024 exhibition series in the Gracie Lee Community Room. The couple is being celebrated for their collaborative efforts throughout the nearly fifty years they’ve lived and worked together in New Mexico producing ceramics and sculpture, paintings, pastels, […]

As displaced persons of the African Diaspora, upon birth we are inundated with tainted notions of other’s perceptions of who we are, can be, will be, and won’t be.  Because we are born of Spirit-power, from a soul level we continuously, actively, no matter how arduous the journey, identify and embrace our true individual and […]

“Our America” is a tapestry of cultural diversity  bound together by the unique weft and warp of stories and experiences of all people representing various backgrounds and origins of the American landscape.  Through the lens of art, we can explore and celebrate the richness and complexity of our collective identity.  Artists are invited to reflect […]

Artist Reception: August 2, 5:00 -6:30 pm Chaco Culture National Historical Park is considered to be the sacred ancestral homelands of the Hopi and Pueblo people. Las Placitas Association sponsored an artists’ adventure in Chaco Canyon in late 2023.  Sacred Places will feature works inspired by that trip, and is open to any artists similarly […]

Photography by David Haigh

The Placitas Community Library exhibit - "Native Visions" celebrates Native American artists. This art exhibit showcases Native American artistic talents in painting, pottery, basketry, jewelry and other art forms. Coordinators: Geri Verble & Margaret Bruch

Coordinators:  Geri Verble and Margaret Bruch

Inspired by the beauty in which we live, from the grand scale to the minute, through seasonal and temporal changes, we create “From Our Hearts.” — Bunny and Leland Bowen For well over fifty years, Bunny and Leland Bowen have been collaborating to create art. It began in 1970 as they learned basic metal smithing, […]

In collaboration with Mosaic New Mexico, Placitas Library will display work of approximately twenty local mosaic artists. Imagery fanciful, realistic or design oriented - all will have wild spirit!! Coordinators: Geri Verble & Laura Robbins