Arts & Culture

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; […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Jason Schreiber Jason Schreiber grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, but after getting a Master’s degree in Music, he felt he’d like to teach in a small town. Thus, after a few stops along the way, Patagonia is now his home, and he teaches every student in the system […]

The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars by Terry Mort Pegasus Books, 2013 303 pages The Apache warriors Geronimo and Cochise have become icons in the American psyche, representing the brutal retaliations of native people driven off their ancestral lands by the encroachment of white settlers. None was […]