ART Magdalena Weekend May 4 & 5, 2024

Hills Snyder

Magdalena Drawings

This exhibition is an extension of explorations made mainly in two bodies of work, Altered States (2016, ongoing) and Your Nowhere is My Somewhere. See You There (2017) and combines Snyder’s ‘70s and ‘80s labor-intensive ways of drawing with the minimalist one-line style he developed in the ‘90s.

The Magdalena drawings are based on locations in the New Mexico town Snyder moved to 2017- 19. These drawings exist somewhere between representation, quantum fantasy, and sheer love of drawing, perhaps implying that the center of the universe may be found anywhere.

Estelle Roberge

The Book of Cranes

The Book of Cranes was one of two projects Estelle Roberge found solace in during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The content included my observations of wildlife at a nearby bird refuge which I frequented. I found myself drawing birds, photographing them, especially cranes, and images of dancing cranes emerged. Slowly, I felt a renewed sense of well-being. I traversed between inner voices and outer observations when frequenting the nearby refuge. When I returned home, I felt uplifted, like having visited a friend. Along with observations and gestures of birds in flight, I read The Birds of Heaven, Crane Music, and watched numerous films of cranes. Thus, two artist books evolved: The Book of Covid: Unbound which led to The Book of Cranes through which I found balance and creativity during a very insecure time."

Sarita Johnson

The Donkey in Albany

A graphic novel

My wife, Susan Alexander, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma (a bone marrow cancer) on August 3, 2010. The doctors gave Susan a prognosis of six months to a year to live. That’s when I started the drawings that would fill several sketchbooks and eventually become the graphic novel The Donkey in Albany, the first chapter of which is on exhibit here. The book chronicles Susan’s first year with multiple myeloma from diagnosis, early treatment, through bone marrow transplant, as well as what it was like for me as her witness, wife, and caregiver.

Music Performance at WAREHOUSE 1-10

The Dawn Hotel 

Amanda Kooser | guitar/vocals

Zac Karim | Base

Steve Del Favero | drums 

The Dawn Hotel is an Indie rock band with Americana roots. From broke-down engines to prairie fires, The Dawn Hotel mines the history of rock, folk, country, and blues to forge a new tradition in indie rock and Americana. 

 Amanda Kooser singer-songwriter-guitarist says They come from the heart of New Mexico  She is well acquainted with hiking the hills of Magdalena and even wrote a song about it. 



Thanks to our friends at The Thirsty Eye and Exhibit 208 / Albuquerque for the recommendation! 

Performance starts promptly at 8 pm 

$10 at the door. Reservations recommended

​Call or text 575-517-0669

Listed | https://www.thedawnhotel.com/

In Community May 4 & 5, 2024

For more info http://www.artmagdalenanm.com

kind of a small array

106 North Main St.

Open Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5, 10 am to 4 pm.

Artist reception Saturday evening, 6 pm to 7:30 pm.

Michael Beitz Drawings

Michael Beitz’s prolific dedication to daily drawing will manifest at kind of a small array as a fundraiser for MEOWrefuge, the cat sanctuary Beitz operates next to his Roswell studio, where he fosters thirty homeless cats. Dozens of cat portraits, by turns hilarious, touching, mystifying, and disturbing (just like cats!) will be on offer at a pay-what-you-can sliding scale: $50, $75, and $100 for your choice. 100% of sales go to MEOWrefuge.

Sunday, May 5, 2 pm to 3:30 pm

106 N Main, Magdalena, New Mexico. 

kind of a small array will host readings by New Mexico poets Bruce Holsapple, Jules Nyquist, and John Roche

Art Magdalena Day Two, kind of a small array offers poetry readings by three New Mexico poets, Bruce Holsapple, Jules Nyquist, and John Roche. (Day One: https://southwestcontemporary.com/ongoing-exhibitions/michael-beitz-meowrefuge-fundraiser/)

Bruce Holsapple, worked as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the Magdalena Municipal Schools for several years. He’s published seven books of poetry, most recently Wayward Shadow (La Alameda Press, 2013). He is currently at work on his eighth book, Sun, Wind, Rain. His study of William Carlos Williams’ poetry, The Birth of the Imagination, was published by the University of New Mexico in 2016.

Jules Nyquist is the founder of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, NM, a place for poetry and play with writing classes, readings and retreats supporting community poetry. Her latest book Atomic Paradise, winner of the 2021 NM/AZ Book Award for New Mexico History, is an exploration of growing up in the Cold War and living in the Land of Enchantment. Her poetic memoir, Homesick, then, is a 2018 NM/AZ Book Award winner in poetry. 

John Roche lives in Placitas, New Mexico, partnering with Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and is editor of Poetry Playhouse Publications. He was chief organizer of the Black Mountain North Symposium, and an instigator of the annual Cloudburst Council poets' retreat in the Finger Lakes, New York. His poetry collections include On Conesus, Topicalities, Road Ghosts, The Joe Poems: The Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet, Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet, and his latest, Tubbables.

Cruising Main

A rotating public art project along North and South Main Street,

Magdalena, New Mexico. Making art accessible to a rural community.

May 4, through August 4, 2024

Reception Saturday, May 4^th, 4 – 8 pm

Exhibition Artists: 

Robert Wilson (Next to Judy’s Studio, 104 N Main St)

Gwen Rush (In Michael Bisbee’s Studio Windows, 201 S Main St)

S.C. Ward (Next to Warehouse 1-10, 110 N Main St) 

PORTRAITS OF THE WEST

A visual representation of American Ikons by 20th Century and Contemporary Artists.

CWB Gallery 104 Main Street, Magdalena

Featuring works by Maynard Dixion 1875-1946, D.H. Monepenny 1900-1976, Louise de Mayo 1926-2022, Hugh Cabot 1930 - 2005, J.D. Challenger 1951-2023 and contemporary artists Robery Spannring and Ricky Padilla Jr.

Reception Saturday, May 4, 12-6 pm

Curated by La Posada de Maria Magdalena Gallery

for more info: Laposadademariamagadalena.com

Coming June 2024 !

ART Magdalena Workshop Weekend June 16 & 17

Workshops in weaving, hand-dying, watercolor painting, papermaking, and more around town. A complete is list coming soon.

Reminiscent of Music on Main 

Friday, June 28, 7 pm

Warehouse 1-10 in Collaboration with kind of a small array

We're bringing back the hottest West Texas touring bands BUTTERCUP NPR calls “jangly art rock for the left side of the brain and  GARRETT T. CAPPS with NASA COUNTRY. Since forming his band NASA Country in 2017, Capps has been working to introduce an unconventional new sound into country music, one that mixes the electronic, experimental hum of Kraftwerk with the cosmic hippie twang of Doug Sahm. Capps calls it “Kraut-country.” Rolling Stone 

And for the first time SUNJAMMER. The Hotter than Lone Star asphalt in July, San Antonios's new charred county rock posse. 

Three bands one evening at Warehouse 1-10. 

Keep the flow: Buttercup’s 4th and Garrett’s 2nd performance in Magdalena!

$25.00 at the door. Reservations recommended 575-517-0669

More information coming soon in our next newsletter ALL ABOUT MUSIC

Our 2024 programming has been made possible in part with a grant from The Creative Industries Division Fund through the New Mexico Economic Development Dept.