“Crowning Gory” Photographs by Martin Levowitz will be on display at the Gathering Grounds from January 9 through January 31. The exhibit is organized around three themes: people, places and things. “A Day at the Dentist” Levowitz’s people are shown as they live the comedies and the small dramas of life. His eye is also […]
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Arts Alive
Photographs by Sidney Spencer were on display at the Gathering Grounds during November. The work included close-ups of flowers, European scenes, and landscapes of the San Raphael Valley. Mounted on board, they were reproduced in full color on matte photo paper, giving them a beautiful finish. Spencer describes her photographic work as recordings of her […]
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Books
“Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness On the Midlife Trail” by Laura Chester Trafalgar Square Books, 2013 236 pages Laura Chester and Barranca Our community is blessed with many fine authors who write all kinds of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and other genres. Among the best is Laura Chester. Cast as a one-year journal, her most […]
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Lama
Lama Doesn’t tell me he’s enlightened, Smiles as he clips a hair From the crown of my head For use in some beyond-shamanic blessing. Doesn’t give me thousand-year-old abstractions, Hopeful or fearful generalities, concepts. Shows me that something greater Can not be reduced to something smaller; Shows me that it can’t even be pointed out; […]
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A Journey Through Time
Waila music, archaeology, albondigas, homesteading stories, migration routes, and a spiritual healer…are all part of a six-week series of coming events portraying the unique influences that shaped the early growth of the area we now know as Santa Cruz County. Hosted by the Patagonia Library and organized by librarian Abbie Zeltzer, the project is part […]
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Arts Alive: Gail Jacobson’s Oil Pastels
Recent work by Patagonia artist Gail Jacobson is on display at Global Arts Gallery through November 23. The images portray scenes of Patagonia, rendered in oil pastel. They are brilliantly simple, and saturated with color. Jacobson, who earned a BA in Art and a Masters in Art Education, has made her home in Patagonia for […]
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Books
The Woman Upstairs a novel by Claire Messud Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 253 pages We are blessed to have an exceptional public library in our midst, which constantly brings in the latest offerings in fiction and non-fiction. Sometimes it is fun to wander in, go to the ‘New Books’ section and pull one off the […]
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Sponsor a Year of Art
The Patagonia Creative Arts Center in Patagonia is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the arts in the Patagonia and Sonoita area. The art center offers classes for school-aged children , homeschoolers and adults. For school-age children there are multiple programs throughout the year. Club Theater, an after school program for children 9-18, focuses on […]
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Paula Wittner Exhibit
“Drowning Out the Devil”, oil on panel “Anti Gravity”, an exhibit of oil paintings by Patagonia artist Paula Wittner, is on display through December at Seedboat Gallery, 214 Yankie Drive, in Silver City, New Mexico. A reception and presentation by the artist is scheduled for December 7 at 5:30 p.m. Call (575) 534-1136 for more […]
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The Grasshopper
The Grasshopper He stands rigid in his armor plate. Unblinking eyes of Hundreds of angular facets Stare out at the wide world, three hundred and sixty degrees. He lifts his right front leg And draws his right antenna through The curved cleft on his foot To clean thousands of microscopic hairs That smell rain and […]