Have you ever wondered what it's REALLY like to make a movie? Hat Ranch Gallery presents award-winning screenwriter, playwright and director, Kristin Goodman. Ms. Goodman will discuss the "behind the scenes" real-life experiences of life in the fast lane of moving making.
Beginners are welcome - previous textile dyeing experience is helpful
Learn the ancient art of botanical bundle dyeing and make your own wearable art. Beginners welcome!
This is a beginning sketch class. All skill levels are welcome.
Learn the history and legend behind Native American dreamcatchers, then create your own using natural and local materials.
A fascinating workshop on how to use earth minerals to make your own pigments for oil painting
An introduction to the beauty of gold leaf application to your paintings. This workshop can be taken after the Mineral Pigment Painting Workshop (as a Part II) or you can take this one separately. Discount if you want to take both!
Learn how to create your own papier mache mask and tap into your alternate personality and release your inner jungle cat, queen or wizard. These make wonderful gifts for that someone special or to wear around the house while you’re doing your chores!
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 14. 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
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.
Don Kennell - Santa Fe metal sculptor and creator of “Long View Bear” a 35-foot high metal sculpture that brings awareness to climate change and polar bears.
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.
European-style Salon at the Gallery
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.
A collaborative show between Eve Picher and Hat Ranch Gallery to benefit Solace Crisis Treatment Center
John Hogan has been painting, printmaking and drawing since 1956. A graduate of Northeast Louisiana State University with a B.A. and an M.A. from Highlands University, New Mexico, John Hogan studied with Edward Schutz and Elmer Schooley, both exceptional landscape painters.
Hogan taught art at the University of Texas at El Paso where he became deeply involved in both drawing and printmaking techniques that have merged in many ways with his painting. Since the 1970’s, Hogan has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad and has work in the Santa Fe Museum of Art, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana and is represented in many private and corporate collections and has shown work in over 40 shows and exhibits, is a multiple award winning artist and has been featured in over 15 publications. Hat Ranch Gallery is privileged to be representing John Hogan’s prints, watercolors and sketches.
Robot Girl by Tara Gibbens
Embroidery & Embellishment Workshop
Soup & Wine served at 5:30 pm, Salon begins at 6:30 pm.
Come join us for a free, introductory Creative ZONE collage-making workshop led by textile artist and costume ethnographer, Nika Feldman. Nika studied at Pratt, was a sample cutter with Betsey Johnson, operated two New York clothing stores (Courtney Love hired Nika to rework her own vintage wardrobe), worked with disadvantaged children in Vermont for three years and graduated with a BFA in textiles from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. These are just a few of her impressive credentials.
In the Creative ZONE collage workshop, we will say farewell to 2017 and welcome in 2018 with new friends, art & drink. All supplies and beverages will be provided. RSVP required. Email sara@hatranchgallery.org or text RSVP to (208) 860-9767.
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation.
Since it’s inception in the 17th century, women (salonnières) had powerful influence over the salon. Women were the center of life in the salon and carried very important roles as regulators. They could select their guests and decide the subjects of their meetings. These subjects could be social, literary, or political topics of the time. They also served as mediators by directing the discussion. They were intelligent, self-educated, and educated women reshaped the salon to their own social intellectual, and educational needs.
