Community Calendar

Stock up for winter or gifts for holidays with VGPL's always popular Eldorado Knitters' Art Exhibit, in the 2D space in November. You'll find handmade socks, hats, gloves (and sets), sweaters, capes, and shawls--something for everyone. This year, the group will hold a pop-up market during the Library's Fall Book Sale, Nov. 8, showing additional inventory.

The Eldorado Knitters began nearly 25 years ago. Some 15 knitters, weavers, crocheters, needle pointers, and basket weavers will participate in the show. The two art groups will have a special pop-up sale during the library's Fall Book Sale, on Saturday, Nov. 8. Not only can you get incredible deals on books and media during the book sale, but you can also visit the artists and find something for everyone on your list.

As always, 20% of art sales during the exhibitions benefit the library.

Tales from the Edge of Americana is an exhibition of mixed media paintings and monoprints by Kim Eubank that depict archetypal scenes of Postwar America. Charming, melancholic, and folkloric, this exhibition conveys the evolution and social byproducts of America’s social contract and an unarticulated tension surrounding the slow decay of Pax Americana.

For Piet's Sake is an exhibition of oil paintings from the late 1970s to the 1980s, more recent and new panels by Robert Storr, along with the inaugural print portfolio of ZB Editions, which features eight prints based on drawings by Storr and produced by master printer James Bourland. Storr's paintings span forty-six years and bracket the decades of exceptional curatorial and professorial influence, over which he has now privileged his artistic lifework. The inaugural print portfolio, Celebesstraat, is based on a series of diaristic drawings by Storr that explore the infinite variation of line- and mark-making.

Invisible is a journey across cultural borders that features mixed media paintings, watercolor on paper, and ceramics adorned with found objects by New Mexico-based artist Bunny Tobias. This exhibition presents landscapes, collaged improvisations, and unpredictable associations informed by Tobias's study of Eastern literati such as Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa, and Laozi; Western literary figures, such as Jack Kerouac, Fernando Pessoa, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf; as well as her experience as a pioneer of San Francisco’s psychedelic surrealist movement (1960s–70s).

100 Years of Collecting|100 Years of Connecting is on view through December 13, 2025 at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum, located at 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. Admission is free. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit nmheritagearts.org.

The exhibition marks the Spanish Colonial Arts Society's centennial by telling its century-long story of creating and caring for an extraordinary trove of nearly 4,000 objects representing the distinctive Hispano heritage of New Mexico. This provides a unique lens on the Society’s legacy of connecting to a community of artists and supporters of Hispano arts in New Mexico and beyond.

Each month, Vista Grande Public Library features art exhibits, with 20% of any art sales going to benefit the library. We thank the community artists for supporting us. In October and November, we feature jeweler Janice St. Marie.

When Janice St. Marie was 12 years old and living in a small town in Minnesota, her father would drop her off at the flea market where she would set up her jewelry on a little card table and create custom necklaces and earrings for the locals as they browsed through the market. “I have never stopped making jewelry,” she laughs. “In fact, I have some beads from so long ago that they could now be considered vintage!”

Through the years St. Marie has sold to retail stores and had private showings. She uses turquoise, amber, coral, and semi-precious stones as well as a variety of other beads to create unique necklaces.

She has lived in Santa Fe since 1985.

Stock up for winter or gifts for holidays with VGPL's always popular Eldorado Knitters' Art Exhibit, in the 2D space in November. You'll find handmade socks, hats, gloves (and sets), sweaters, capes, and shawls--something for everyone. This year, the group will hold a pop-up market during the Library's Fall Book Sale, Nov. 8, showing additional inventory.

The Eldorado Knitters began nearly 25 years ago. Some 15 knitters, weavers, crocheters, needle pointers, and basket weavers will participate in the show. The two art groups will have a special pop-up sale during the library's Fall Book Sale, on Saturday, Nov. 8. Not only can you get incredible deals on books and media during the book sale, but you can also visit the artists and find something for everyone on your list.

As always, 20% of art sales during the exhibitions benefit the library.

Tales from the Edge of Americana is an exhibition of mixed media paintings and monoprints by Kim Eubank that depict archetypal scenes of Postwar America. Charming, melancholic, and folkloric, this exhibition conveys the evolution and social byproducts of America’s social contract and an unarticulated tension surrounding the slow decay of Pax Americana.

For Piet's Sake is an exhibition of oil paintings from the late 1970s to the 1980s, more recent and new panels by Robert Storr, along with the inaugural print portfolio of ZB Editions, which features eight prints based on drawings by Storr and produced by master printer James Bourland. Storr's paintings span forty-six years and bracket the decades of exceptional curatorial and professorial influence, over which he has now privileged his artistic lifework. The inaugural print portfolio, Celebesstraat, is based on a series of diaristic drawings by Storr that explore the infinite variation of line- and mark-making.

Invisible is a journey across cultural borders that features mixed media paintings, watercolor on paper, and ceramics adorned with found objects by New Mexico-based artist Bunny Tobias. This exhibition presents landscapes, collaged improvisations, and unpredictable associations informed by Tobias's study of Eastern literati such as Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa, and Laozi; Western literary figures, such as Jack Kerouac, Fernando Pessoa, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf; as well as her experience as a pioneer of San Francisco’s psychedelic surrealist movement (1960s–70s).