Santa Fe residents, Curtis and Polly Schaafsma will talk about the archaeology of the Galisteo Basin with a focus on San Marcos Pueblo and its history that ended with the Pueblo Revolt in 1680.  Polly will address the regional rock art and how it gave and continues to give meaning to place, creating a cultural landscape defined by Pueblo cosmology.

Curtis received his BA in anthropology from the University of Colorado in Boulder and his MA in anthropology from the University of New Mexico. He is Curator of Anthropology Emeritus from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture /Laboratory of Anthropology, and he was New Mexico State Archaeologist from 1979-1992.  He is author of Apaches de Navajo and co-editor of The Casas Grandes World.

Polly is an archaeologist and artist whose diverse works are connected to the land and the people of the Southwest.  As an archaeologist, her specialty is ancient Indian rock art and Pueblo kiva murals from the late pre-Hispanic period.  In order to better understand the people of the Southwest, her studies focus on the meaning and cosmologies expressed through the images painted and carved on rocks across time throughout the region.  As an artist, her drawings and paintings find their inspiration in these same arid landforms.

Polly received her BA in art history (Mount Holyoke College), an MA degree in Anthropology (University of Colorado), and honorary doctorates from the University of Colorado and the University of New Mexico.

Polly’s many publications include: The Rock Art of New Mexico, The Rock Art of Utah, Indian Rock Art of the Southwest, Warrior, Shield, and Star, Images and Power: Rock Art and Ethics. Polly is volume editor of and contributor to, Kachinas in the Pueblo World, and New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo, and co-editor of Painting the Cosmos, as well as author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Are you ready for the next Salon at Hat Ranch Gallery? Been wondering what all the buzz is about? Now is your chance for an Authentic Experience of a European-Style discussion Salon - only instead of Paris, it's in Santa Fe! Limited to 10. Free. Please bring a bottle (or two!) of red wine to share and your best conversational skills will be honed to a fine edge. Lively conversation, good dinner, great people. RSVP required. Last minute cancellations are highly frowned upon.

5:00 - Social time in the Gallery 
5:30 - Light dinner - topic announced
6:15 - Salon begins 
7:30 - Salon adjourns 

During her 40-year career as a painter, Woolworth has garnered a global following of collectors, earned numerous awards and grants, and spent many years creating and conducting workshops in the South of France. Woolworth’s oils and gouache merge toward the abstract figurative and are created with a palette that soothes the eye and spirit while contributing to an overall feeling of harmony and warmth within the viewer.

My paintings attempt to capture an intense moment in time that rings absolutely true. A scene, a certain light, colors arranged that pierce through one’s center to extract an emotion. A search for beauty in the familiar, unseen until revealed by the work.  

-       Carol Tippit Woolworth

THIS SHOW WILL RUN FROM MAY 19th - JUNE 19th

ARTIST STATEMENT:

“The paintings for this Show arose from my sketchbook and swift drawings that appear as I observe this captivating world. I think in terms of vignettes, in the literary sense. My works are like short stories or poems. They talk about beings with hearts and souls and attempt to express the spiritual unity of all forms of life. I look for images in elements that I’ve seen, felt, or wondered about. I strive for a healing quality and a sense of rightness with the world. My work has been to discover my own true way of speaking with images. Because I am so fond of drawing living beings, my art is not purely abstract. I love the relationships of elegant beautiful colors and rounded simplified form.” Zima lives south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her partner Tom, her beloved horses, dogs, cats and lots of wide-open views.

Bernice Ende is the Lady Long Rider. Since her first long ride at age 51 in 2005 from Montana to New Mexico, Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback—alone. More than once she has traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest deserts, the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains. From 2014 to 2016, she was the first person to ride coast to coast and back again in one trek. Lady Long Rider: Alone Across North America on Horseback chronicles Ende’s travels, the friendly people she meets along the way, and her ongoing encounters with rough weather, wildlife, hard work, mosquitoes, tricky route finding, and the occasional worn out horseshoe. Ende reveals her inner struggles and triumphs—testing the limits of physical and mental stamina, coping with inescapable solitude, and the rewards of living life her own way, as she says, “in her own skin.” Along the way, she discovers a sense of community and love of place that unite people wherever they live.

Hat Ranch Gallery is pleased to present an intimate holiday evening with Bernice Ende reading from her book and signing books. Join us at The Gallery for some Holiday Cheer and inspiration!

Jim Alford’s art usually lies somewhere between painting and photography. In Alford’s own words: “For me Art begins where language ends. One of my goals is to create images no one has ever seen before.”

Alford has an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of California Santa Barbara and currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Alford has been featured in over 33 solo shows and 24 group shows throughout the United States and has over 27 years of teaching experience at university level. His public art collections include Lucent Technologies, NASA Kennedy Space Art Museum, Eastman Kodak, San Luis Obispo County Airport, The Milinneum Collection: 21st Century Celebration of Fine Art in New Mexico as well as a multitude of others.

Louise Baum received a BA from Bennington College, Vermont and later studied painting in the tradition of the Old Masters with Frank Mason at Art Student’s League, New York City. Baum attended The New York Studio School where she studied with noted Abstract Expressionists Milton Resnick, Phillip Guston, George McNeil and George Spaventa.

Nancy Day has been an artist in New Mexico for over 25 years, prior to that, she was in the Boston area. Day has a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University has shown work in over 37 solo and group exhibitions and has been featured in more than 14 publications. An award-winning artist, Day’s art is collected by corporations ranging from the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston to The Davis Group in Santa Fe, and the Valley Children’s Hospital in Fresno. Day’s pieces reside in private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.