Community Calendar

This is an SFCC event jointly sponsored by the SFCC Creative Writing program and the SFCC library.

Participants only need to register once and will be registered for every event in the series.
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenFall2025

All sessions will take place online and the URL for each session will be sent out the morning of each event. The events are free and are open to anyone who would like to attend.

October 22 & 29, 2025
Reading and Creative Session

James Thomas Stevens

James Thomas Stevens (Akwesasne Mohawk) was born in Niagara Falls, New York and grew up between Six Nations Reserve in Ontario (the birthplace of his grandfather), the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York (birthplace of his grandmother), and

the Tuscarora Reservation in western New York (where his grandparents settled). He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodies Poetics, and Brown University’s graduate C.W. program. Stevens is the

author of eight books of poetry, including, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations, A Bridge Dead in the Water, The Mutual Life, Bulle/Chimere, and DisOrient, and

The Golden Book. He is a 2000 Whiting Award recipient and a 2005 finalist for the National Poetry Series Award. He teaches in IAIA’s undergraduate and graduate Creative Writing Programs. He teaches Poetry, Creative nonfiction, Native American literature,

and literary world survey courses. He lives in Cañoncito, New Mexico.

Trivia night returns to the Santa Fe Brewing Company Eldorado Taphouse on Oct 22, 7-9 pm. $10 a person at the door. All proceeds benefit the Vista Grande Public Library, an independent 501C3 library serving southeastern Santa Fe County.

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.

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.

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.

The Santa Fe Literary Review is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special reading and reception on Thursday, October 23, at the SFCC Visual Arts Gallery on the SFCC campus. The reception begins at 5 p.m., followed by contributor readings at 5:30 p.m.

Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome. Complimentary copies of the 2025 issue will be available at the event.

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“Mythology of the Asante Bonwire Kente Fabric”
Stephen Abban Junior

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.