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Eduardo Alicea - Blanch Almquist - Susan Christie - Sandy Hopper - Jessica Logreira - Donna Monroe
Represented by RioBravoFineArt Gallery
Truth or Consequences
New Mexico

2020
WHAT WE ARE DOING THIS YEAR​

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​Saturday, September 26, 2020 - 10am  - 2pm
Workshop at RioBravoFineArt® Gallery

with Darlene Olivia McElroy
www.darleneoliviamcelroy.com



​Eduardo Alicea
Susan Christie
Mary Alice Holmes
Sandy Hopper
Jessica Logreria
Priscilla Spitler
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Eduardo Alicea
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Sandy Hopper
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Susan Christie
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Jessica Logreira
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Mary Alice Holmes
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Priscilla Spitler
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Priscilla Spitler

Long dry days
Heatwaves ramble graveled hills
Cool misty breezes recalled
An ocean view
White water capped shores
An expansive life sighs deeply 
-Blanche Almquist, July 2020

DONNA MONROE
SELVEDGE MAGAZINE
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Selvedge Newsletter No. 22, May 2020

In November, the RioBravoFineArt® Gallery, New Mexico,
will show an exhibition of the work of Donna Monroe:
Works on Paper, Sculpture, Artfully Embellished Textiles "40 Years of Innovative Wit".

​The exhibition will trace Monroe’s career from her early photographs, monoprints, collagé, shrines, and altered books to her later totem figures and three-dimensional wall pieces.
Curated by Susan A Christie

The gallery plans to increase its focus on fibre and textiles
with a textile exhibit to be included annually.
After Monroe, fibre artist Sandy Hopper is scheduled for the autumn/winter season 2021.
Here we talk to Susan A Christie, curator, about the history of RioBravoFineArt®.
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SELVEDGE MAGAZINE BLOG 
May 17, 2020
RioBravoFineArt Gallery.
The gallery plans to increase its focus on fibre and textiles with a textile exhibit annually...
​Read the story.
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Donna Monroe, ”Tiger Eye" - 40"W x 65"L - Japanese Peasant Jacket, Vintage Pillow, Doillies, Scarves, Doll, Trims & Thread.

SUSAN CHRISTIE
I been a naturalizing gardener most of my life. Gardening in the desert has been a huge challenge.
​After 15 years, maybe I am getting the hang of it!
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​The New Mexico Fiber Arts Directory is announcing a new website feature!!!
In order to provide a more personal look into our member fiber artists, we will be publishing in-depth pieces.
We believe that this is the time to expand our online role to support New Mexico's Fiber Artists (with a serious approach and a sense of humor!)
Q U E L L E   Z I N E
​(what?)

The New On Line Magazine for
​     The New Mexico Fiber Arts Directory!!!

newmexicofiberartsdirectory.com/quelle-zine

BLANCH ALMQUIST
Here are a few pictures from my gardens. Turns out I’m a food grower. Radish beet greens chard kale tomatoes peppers spinach eggplant - and I ain’t finished yet.  Pumpkins beans greens carrots and zucchini go in tomorrow.
More watermelon and okra too!  

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Latest Sculpture Project

SANDY HOPPER
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Banksia Rose - Elephant Butte, NM
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I just finish spending the better part of the morning developing a new site in the yard to put my silk steamer.  
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I have not steamed for over 4 years BUT I have just finished painting a new Ruana! So!!!  Had to build! 

WHAT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT
WRITING
2020 
No more days staring at pages of words, written in the
Smallest typeset, relaying one sided contractual terms
No more rising to rush through office doors, phones
Ringing, sales quotas, clients begging to be soothed

The transition was difficult, moving, jumping in, volunteering, 
Buried in work, without the financial rewards
Worrying about ruining my reputation that barely exists,
In this little river village

Letting go of collective dead ends, no more trying to fit in,
No more meditative focus on solving other people’s problems
Living their solutions in my mind of serious imagination 
Today’s self inflicted assignments: eat, dance, love well

Honor those internal twisting ropes of colors, reds, and golds
Images forming shapes, sparkling, flashing, crossing my minds eye
Changing so fast there’s barely time for the “Awww” of appreciation
The “Awww” of appreciation 

Sculpted wings pull against an elastic power embedded
In my brain, habitual, unrestricted possibilities, the promise of this
New Year, a continuum of extremes, I will never again dispute the 
Revelation that I am the artist 

-Blanch Almquist

Sisters (A Thank You)

I walk this earth the way you taught me
My face contorts
unabashedly joyous 
laughter 

I listen intently the way you taught me
My heart sings
uplifting resonating 
music

I love consistently the way you taught me
My soul dances 
exquisite harmony 
sisters 

-Blanch Almquist

DONNA MONROE
​Book Art Project


SANDY HOPPER
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Octopus Wall Art - Flax Fiber
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Resin Counter Top
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Suspended Door, Copper Frame - Flax Fiber
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Resin Counter Top - Detail
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Suspended Door, Copper Frame, Flax Fiber. Header is Flame Painted Copper. The piece is back lit.

CURRENT EXHIBITS

An Exhibition by the 
Mesilla Valley Weavers Guild
at the Farm and Ranch Museum, Las Cruces 

December 13, 2019 thru April 5, 2020.

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​BLUE, a Collaborative Textile​
View The Exhibition​
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Jessoca!!!
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Blanch!!!
​BLUE, a Collaborative Textile
​Six Artists Participating From Our Community
Eduardo Alicea - Blanch Almquist - Susan Christie - Sandy Hopper - Jessica Logreira - Donna Monroe
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​BLUE, a Collaborative Textile
At the Mesilla Valley Weavers Guild Exhibit
at the Farm and Ranch Museum, Las Cruces 
December 13, 2019 thru April 5, 2020.

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​All individual works are combinations of 6" up to 18"
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Blanch Almquist - Elevation
Eduardo Alicea 12" x 12"
Eduardo Alicea 6" x 12"
Eduardo Alicea 6" x 12"
Blanch Almquist 6" x 6" x 3"
Susan Christie 6" x 6"
Susan Christie 6" x 6"
Sandy Hopper 6" x 6"
Jessica Logreira 6" x 6"
Jessica Logriera 6" x 6"
Jessica Logriera 6" x 18"
Donna Monroe 12" x 12"

PREVIOUS EXHIBITS

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Rio Bravo Fine Art Gallery
September 14 - 29
​Art Hop September 14th, 6 to 9pm
2nd Floor
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​STRETCHING OUR WINGS
FLAX all things fiber

July 13TH - August 2nd @ ART HOP
​​RioBravoFineArt Gallery 

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​FLAX all things fiber
Opening JUNE 8TH @ ART HOP
Thru July 11th
In the Blue Room
​​RioBravoFineArt Gallery
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Sandy Hopper Abundant Life



​MAY 2019
In the Blue Room
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RioBravoFineArt Gallery
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APRIL 2019
In the Blue Room
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RioBravoFineArt Gallery

STUDIO WORK SESSIONS

September 10, 2019 @ Jessica Longreira's Studio
Images in Process
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Aspen Pond - Susan Christie
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Sunlit Forest - Susan Christie

August 6, 2019 @ Jessica Logreira's Studio
Thinking About Blue
 BLUE, a Collaborative Textile
At the Mesilla Valley Weavers Guild exhibit at the Farm and Ranch Museum December 13, 2019 thru April 5, 2020.
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July 9, 2019 @ Jessica Logreira's Studio

May 28, 2019 @ Sandy Hopper's Studio

 April 29, 2019 @ Jessica Logreira's Studio
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