Community Calendar

Introducing our new Artistic Director, Ricardo Hernandez; featuring music by Barber, Gorb, Hanson, Khachaturian, Mackey, Mendelssohn, and Puccini; free admission; donations accepted

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.

Each month, Vista Grande Public Library displays art exhibits, with 20% of any sales going to benefit the library. We thank all our community artists for exhibiting with us! In Sept-Oct, we feature Chris Cashiola's oil paintings of the beautiful Southwest.

Cashiola found his inspiration in the European Impressionist and the Post Impressionist movements, taking to heart the words of Claude Monet who said “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have in front of you, a tree, a field . . . . . Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own impression of the scene.” Chris tries to always leave something for the imagination of the viewer when painting his landscapes, which he often does plein air, finishing the canvas in the studio. Oil painting, he says, has given him the way to fuse his art to his passion for the natural world and landscapes of New Mexico.

"The beauty of painting is that you always develop and learn new things," Cashiola says.

The Language of Place is a group exhibition featuring mixed media painting by Heidi Brandow (Diné & Kānaka Maoli); photography by Shaarbek Amankul (Indigenous Kyrgyz); beadwork and photography by Thomas Jones (Ho-Chunk); Indigenous Kyrgyzstani textiles designed by Amankul and Brandow and made by Kyrgyzstani artisans; and a pair of moccasins handmade by Clementine Bordeaux (Sičáŋǧu Lakótapi [Rosebud Sioux Tribe]). Co-curated by Amankul and Brandow, this exhibition examines how land, history, and cultural knowledge inform and shape the creative processes of four artists whose practices are intricately embedded in their relationships with land and environment.

Janice St. Marie, Jewelry artist, exhibits through November with custom necklaces and earrings of turquoise, amber, coral, and semi-precious stones as well as a variety of other beads. A favorite with local shopper, St. Marie's unique works are for sale, with 20% of proceeds going to benefit the library.

Janice St. Marie, Jewelry artist, exhibits through November with custom necklaces and earrings of turquoise, amber, coral, and semi-precious stones as well as a variety of other beads. A favorite with local shopper, St. Marie's unique works are for sale, with 20% of proceeds going to benefit the library.

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.

Each month, Vista Grande Public Library displays art exhibits, with 20% of any sales going to benefit the library. We thank all our community artists for exhibiting with us! In Sept-Oct, we feature Chris Cashiola's oil paintings of the beautiful Southwest.

Cashiola found his inspiration in the European Impressionist and the Post Impressionist movements, taking to heart the words of Claude Monet who said “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have in front of you, a tree, a field . . . . . Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own impression of the scene.” Chris tries to always leave something for the imagination of the viewer when painting his landscapes, which he often does plein air, finishing the canvas in the studio. Oil painting, he says, has given him the way to fuse his art to his passion for the natural world and landscapes of New Mexico.

"The beauty of painting is that you always develop and learn new things," Cashiola says.

The Language of Place is a group exhibition featuring mixed media painting by Heidi Brandow (Diné & Kānaka Maoli); photography by Shaarbek Amankul (Indigenous Kyrgyz); beadwork and photography by Thomas Jones (Ho-Chunk); Indigenous Kyrgyzstani textiles designed by Amankul and Brandow and made by Kyrgyzstani artisans; and a pair of moccasins handmade by Clementine Bordeaux (Sičáŋǧu Lakótapi [Rosebud Sioux Tribe]). Co-curated by Amankul and Brandow, this exhibition examines how land, history, and cultural knowledge inform and shape the creative processes of four artists whose practices are intricately embedded in their relationships with land and environment.

Janice St. Marie, Jewelry artist, exhibits through November with custom necklaces and earrings of turquoise, amber, coral, and semi-precious stones as well as a variety of other beads. A favorite with local shopper, St. Marie's unique works are for sale, with 20% of proceeds going to benefit the library.