Peoples Choice Awards go to: Mary Ellen Mathews, April Werner & Klara Wetmore
All three were tied with the same amount of votes! Congratulations!

In it’s third year the Taos Artists Self Portraits show has been open to anyone residing in or represented by a gallery in Taos County. The call was for all types of media, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography so it is a very eclectic exhibit. There was a size limitation of forty inches this year so that more artists could be represented in the exhibit.

This year’s self portrait show was juried by Robert Cafazzo, Robbie Steinbach and Judy Van Heyst.
The jury was looking for interesting, well-executed interpretation of the self-portrait. This show is wide open for the artist to create anything, however they want with whatever they want, that speaks to who they are as a person. It is not an easy task for any jury to choose the pieces that eventually end up in a show and it is even harder when the theme is open to almost any interpretation. To make it even more of a challenge sixty artists entered their work for the exhibition —the largest amount of entries for this show so far—so you will see an incredible variety of both media and personality on the walls of the Encore Gallery.

The Taos Center for the Arts will give prizes to the top three winners of the People’s Choice Award.
Prizes will consist of free movie passes to the TCA’s year round independent film program. The awards will be announced after the reception for the artists on December 10th, 2011 at the Encore Gallery.

The thirty artists chosen out of the sixty entries are:
Jamie Ash, Adeliza Backus-Pace, Bill Baron, Suzanne Betz, Adeana Carlyle, Susan Carpenter Sims,
Jeff Cochran, Ann Cole, Bob Cooley, Jane M Farmer, Reta Fitch, Bob Fitch, Sarah Hart, Kim Henkel,
Inger Jirby, Elizabeth Jose, Ted Keller, Jivan Lee, Mary Ellen Matthews, Wayne McKinzie, Deborah McLean, Carol Mell, Susanne Pinkham, Sam Richardson, Wesley Rusnell, Charlee Shroyer, Jean Stevens, Jonathan Sobol, April Werner and Klara Wetmore

Anyone can view all of the entries on the TCA website at www.tcataos.org/entries.

Experience a very special cinematic presentation: LEONARDO LIVE, a preview of the UK's National Gallery landmark exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, captured live and broadcast on a delayed basis to movie screens around the world.

This never-before-seen exhibition brings together the largest number of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever assembled in one collection.

Art lovers globally will have the chance to be part of this highly-anticipated gallery opening, the first-ever captured live for global movie theater audiences. The program will be presented by internationally acclaimed art historians and broadcasters Tim Marlow and Mariella Frostrup. See the trailer here

Ticket prices are $7 for TCA members, $10 for the general public and $5 for students18 and under. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office.

Please join us for a Reception, March 23, 4-6 pm
Paintings and Sculpture
Parks Gallery
March 24 to April 22, 2012
110 A Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos
(No Reception)

For more than 30 years, Melissa Zink’s art was fueled by her great love of books. From the sculptural ceramic tableaus of the late 1970s and early ‘80s, to trompe l’oeil paintings of the early ‘90s, the bronzes, some of them heroic, of the last decade, and her most recent work which combined sculpture and painting with immaculate mixed media construction, Zink was on a restless quest for more accurate and satisfying expressions of what she has termed “the book experience.”

The quest ended with her death in July, 2009, at the age of 77. She left a rich body of work which the gallery will continue to represent.

Also visit the comprehensive website about Melissa Zink's career here: www.melissazink.com