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    • Tuesday, January 02, 2024
    • 9:00 AM
    • Wednesday, May 01, 2024
    • 4:00 PM
    • Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM, Albuquerque. Enter Gate #3-San Pedro and Copper NE
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    Add Dimension to your Watercolors

    Registration will open in the Spring 2024


    REGISTER for May 1, 2 , 3 Watercolor Workshop

    with Fealing Lin, NWS, TWSA, WW

                                      

      2024  Spring Watercolor WORKSHOP 

    to take place on Wed, Thu, Fri.

    May 1, 2, 3, 2024 - 9AM to 4PM

     at the Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM

    CANCELLATION POLICY -  Workshop Cancellation Policy

    The cost of the Workshop is $ per student to be paid in full at registration. The Workshop is limited to 20 students on a “first come, first served” basis, with registration opening March , 2024 to NMWS members, all others , 2023. Once registered, if you cancel, and the workshop is full, you will receive a full refund only if your space in the workshop is re-filled. 

    Transparent Watercolor Portraiture & Figure

    with Fealing Lin, NWS, TWSA

    Workshop Description

    Although portrait painting can be very intimidating, Fealing will teach you how to relax and enjoy the process as you discover the spontaneity and uniqueness to watercolor. You will also learn how to capture the quality of light available to you. You will achieve a level of transparency with your images anddevelop an understanding of head architecture that will give you the confidence to take on even the most challenging portraits. Award winning watercolorist, Fealing combines semi-abstract strokes and impressionistic concepts to elicit life and movement in her portrait and figure paintings. There will be daily lecture, exercise and demo. Fealing will assist and critique student's works whatever way she could, and allow the students to work on their own pace. During this workshop, learn how value and temperature change, as well as how to use transparent glazing to allow the glow ofthe paper to shine through. By balancing colors and weaving lights and darks, you will achieve painterly and successful paintings. She will spend time in the workshop discussing the value and essentials of a good drawing, although the focus will be on painting.

    Workshop Coordinator is Ray Prudhomme - 505-296-0273

    There will be a Public Painting Demo on Tuesday evening, April 30 , starts at 7PM, in the Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM. Admission - $10

     Workshop Supply List -   The list is suggested, but if participants have other favorites they are welcome to bring their own supplies. 

    • Tuesday, March 05, 2024
    • Monday, April 29, 2024
    • Phoenix, AZ


    REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

     for the

    2024 Western Federation of Watercolor Societies

    49th Exhibition

    Hosted by the Arizona Watercolor Association


    Prepare your paintings for the upcoming 49th Western Federation of Watercolor Society's show in Phoenix, AZ hosted by the Arizona Watercolor Association. Guest Juror and Workshop artist is the Stan Miller. Contact NMWS-WFWS representatives Jay Leutwyler for questions. 

    Registration is NOW Open via the ArtCall system, online only. Payment is by credit card only.

    To Register, click here:

    Register 2024 Western Federation of Watercolor Societies 49th Exhibition

    The Registration DEADLINE is November 27th, 2023



    • Saturday, March 23, 2024
    • 8:00 AM
    • Saturday, April 27, 2024
    • 6:00 PM
    • Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM, Enter Gate #3, San Pedro and Copper NE, Albuquerque
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    NMWS Spring Exhibition 

    Signature Member Room Display

    Current Signature Members of the NMWS are invited to submit up to two paintings for the Spring Exhibition Signature Member Room Display, coordinated by Andrea Nichols, Signature Member Chair. 

    Display space is limited to 40 paintings. Once 40 paintings have been submitted a waiting list will open. Meeting gallery framing standards is required for all paintings.

    For the first time, these paintings may be FOR SALE, but sale availability is not required to display the paintings. Each painting submitted for the Signature Member Room Display, whether for sale or NFS, will have a $10 fee. NM Gross Receipts Tax will be added to the purchase price and NMWS will withhold 25% of the sale price for a handling fee. Sale price may NOT be changed after the painting has been submitted and the registration fee paid.

    It is NOT NECESSARY to upload an image of your submitted paintings to submit for this display.

    Paintings submitted among the first 40 accepted for display must be dropped off at the Fine Arts Gallery at EXPO-NM on Tuesday, April 30th, from 11AM to 1PM, during the usual exhibition painting drop off hours. Sold paintings will remain in place until the close of the show, May 26, 2024, from 10AM-1PM.


    • Sunday, April 14, 2024
    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • 3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces, NM

    Join us at the Learning Tables for three mini demos of art techniques! 

    Marie Siegrist will demonstrate monoprinting without a press using watercolors. A monotype is a type of print made by transferring an image from a “plate” to paper which can then be enhanced with many art media. She will demo using watercolor and other water-soluble mediums on various types of plates.

    Sue Davis will show the process of linoleum block printing. It can be used in conjunction with watercolor on top of the print, or create a "rubber stamp" from the linoleum and apply it to the watercolor painting.


    Kay Gross  will demo how to use a straw to blow watercolor paint, creating a loose and lovely effect. She uses this technique to create "whimsical birds", and will demonstrate how to make your own unique bird.

    We welcome the public to come to our meetings and get to know us and learn about watercolor.  Hope to see you there!  


    • Thursday, April 18, 2024
    • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

    Stay tuned for more information.  The location is subject to change.  Contact Nancy at nancytipton889[at]yahoo.com with questions. 

    Come one, come all to join your fellow painters and enjoy this beautiful setting for some relaxing painting fun. 


    • Wednesday, May 01, 2024
    • 9:00 AM
    • Friday, May 03, 2024
    • 4:00 PM
    • Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM, Albuquerque. Enter Gate #3-San Pedro and Copper NE
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    Registration IS OPEN!


    May 1, 2 , 3 Watercolor Workshop

    with Fealing Lin, NWS, TWSA, WW

                                      

      2024  Spring Watercolor WORKSHOP 

    to take place on Wed, Thu, Fri.

    May 1, 2, 3, 2024 - 9AM to 4PM

     at the Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM

    CANCELLATION POLICY -  Workshop Cancellation Policy

    The cost of the Workshop is $300 per student to be paid in full at registration. The Workshop is limited to 20 students on a “first come, first served” basis, with registration opening in January 2024, to NMWS members, all others in March 2024. Once registered, if you cancel, and the workshop is full, you will receive a full refund only if your space in the workshop is re-filled. 

    Transparent Watercolor Portraiture & Figure

    with Fealing Lin, NWS, TWSA

    Workshop Description

    Although portrait painting can be very intimidating, Fealing will teach you how to relax and enjoy the process as you discover the spontaneity and uniqueness to watercolor. You will also learn how to capture the quality of light available to you. You will achieve a level of transparency with your images anddevelop an understanding of head architecture that will give you the confidence to take on even the most challenging portraits. Award winning watercolorist, Fealing combines semi-abstract strokes and impressionistic concepts to elicit life and movement in her portrait and figure paintings. There will be daily lecture, exercise and demo. Fealing will assist and critique student's works whatever way she could, and allow the students to work on their own pace. During this workshop, learn how value and temperature change, as well as how to use transparent glazing to allow the glow of the paper to shine through. By balancing colors and weaving lights and darks, you will achieve painterly and successful paintings. She will spend time in the workshop discussing the value and essentials of a good drawing, although the focus will be on painting.

    Workshop Coordinator is Ray Prudhomme - 505-296-0273

    There will be a Public Painting Demo on Tuesday evening, April 30th, starting at 7PM, in the Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM. Admission - $10

     Workshop Supply List - Pending  The list is suggested, but if participants have other favorites they are welcome to bring their own supplies. 

    • Saturday, May 04, 2024
    • Sunday, May 26, 2024
    • Fine Arts Gallery, EXPO-NM, Gate #3 (San Pedro and Copper St. Albuquerque, NM


    NMWS Spring 2024 ANNUAL Exhibition

    EXPO-New Mexico ï Fine Arts Gallery

    300 San Pedro Drive NE, (Gate 3 Entrance) Albuquerque, NM 87108

    Entries Accepted : February 1, 2024 – March 8, 2024 MDT

    Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony: Saturday May 4, 2024, 1-4 pm MST
    Exhibition Open to the Public: Saturday May 4, 2024 – Saturday May 25, 2024 Thursdays through Sundays

    About The Exhibition 

     This years show will feature both standard and small works

     watercolor and water media paintings.   

    NMWS membership is required for entry in the NMWS Spring 2024 Show. Dues must be paid in full before submitting to the call for entry and remain current throughout the show. Standard Paintings accepted for display in this Exhibition will earn points toward NMWS Signature Membership.

    Standard Works JUROR and JUDGE Fealing Lin  

    Small Works JUROR and JUDGE  Ruth Vreeland


    2024_02_14 Final SPRING Show Prospectus .pdf


    (Please save file or print out)

    Spring Exhibition Chair and File Manager - Sally Harris - taki888[at]yahoo.com

    (For questions about Art Call, preparation, sizing, fees and payments)

    TO ENTER USING ART CALL,

    CLICK THIS LINK BELOW.

    https://nmwsspring24.artcall.org

    • Sunday, May 12, 2024
    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • 3011 Buena Vida Circle, Las Cruces, NM

    Join us for a fun and informative demo by SC member Laurie Churchill on gel printing and how to integrate it into collage with watercolor.  More info to come...

    We welcome the public to come to our meetings and get to know us and learn about watercolor.  Hope to see you there!  


    • Thursday, May 16, 2024
    • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
    • 950 Calle del Norte, Mesilla, NM

    Stay tuned for more information.  The location is subject to change.  Contact Nancy at nancytipton889[at]yahoo.com with questions. 

    Come one, come all to join your fellow painters and enjoy this beautiful setting for some relaxing painting fun. 


    • Monday, June 24, 2024
    • 6:00 AM
    • New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011

    NMWS-SC Members Only Juried Fall 2024 Exhibition

    New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum

    4100 Dripping Springs Road

    Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011

    October 11-November 18, 2024

    Gallery Hours for this Exhibit: Monday -- Saturday,  10 am - 4 pm. 

    Artists' Opening Reception is Saturday, October 26, 2024 from 1:30-3:30

    Juror:  Lian Quan Zhen  https://www.lianspainting.com/

    Judge: Kathleen Key

    Theme:  Five Thousand Years of Agriculture in New Mexico".

    Somewhere around 5,000 years ago, indigenous people of the North American Southwest began to cultivate maize, an early version of what we know as corn today. Early maize was not much like the corn we know, but its cultivation enabled people who were essentially hunter-gatherers to remain in one area, allowing for the beginnings of what would later become the cultures of Ancestral Puebloans, Mogollon and Hohokam. Many changes in people, crops and practices have occurred in the last 5,000 years, but agriculture remains integral to culture and economy of the North American Southwest. Artists of the New Mexico Watercolor Society will draw on changes in Prehistoric, Historic and Contemporary agricultural practices and imagery to illustrate a beautiful timeline, supporting the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum’s mission to promote the arts while educating Museum visitors about aesthetics and diversity in the artwork of historic and contemporary New Mexico.

    NOTE: All NMWS Fall Show painting entries and payments must be made ONLY through this ArtCall address: https://nmws-sc-2024fallexhibition.artcall.org/

    Download 2024_06_SC_Fall Exhibit Call to Artists.pdf

    Print Prospectus and Schedule from the ArtCall website top bar. 

    REGISTRATION OPENS:
      6 AM Monday, June 24, 2024

    DEADLINE TO REGISTER:  6 PM Friday, August 9, 2024

    • Friday, August 09, 2024
    • 6:00 PM
    • New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011

    DEADLINE FOR NMWS-SC Members Only Juried Fall 2024 Exhibition

    AUGUST 9, 2024 at 6 PM! 

    New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum

    4100 Dripping Springs Road

    Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011

    October 11-November 18, 2024

    Gallery Hours for this Exhibit: Monday -- Saturday,  10 am - 4 pm. 

    Artists' Opening Reception is Saturday, October 26, 2024 from 1:30-3:30

    Juror:  Lian Quan Zhen  https://www.lianspainting.com/

    Judge: Kathleen Key

    Theme:  Five Thousand Years of Agriculture in New Mexico".

    Somewhere around 5,000 years ago, indigenous people of the North American Southwest began to cultivate maize, an early version of what we know as corn today. Early maize was not much like the corn we know, but its cultivation enabled people who were essentially hunter-gatherers to remain in one area, allowing for the beginnings of what would later become the cultures of Ancestral Puebloans, Mogollon and Hohokam. Many changes in people, crops and practices have occurred in the last 5,000 years, but agriculture remains integral to culture and economy of the North American Southwest. Artists of the New Mexico Watercolor Society will draw on changes in Prehistoric, Historic and Contemporary agricultural practices and imagery to illustrate a beautiful timeline, supporting the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum’s mission to promote the arts while educating Museum visitors about aesthetics and diversity in the artwork of historic and contemporary New Mexico.

    NOTE: All NMWS Fall Show painting entries and payments must be made ONLY through the ArtCAll website soon to be announced. 

    Download 2024_06_SC_Fall Exhibit Call to Artists.pdf

    Print Prospectus and Schedule from the ArtCall website top bar. 

    REGISTRATION OPENS:
      6 AM Monday, June 24, 2024

    DEADLINE TO REGISTER:  6 PM Friday, August 9, 2024

    • Friday, October 11, 2024
    • 10:00 AM
    • Monday, November 18, 2024
    • 4:00 PM
    • New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011

    NMWS-SC Members Only Juried Fall 2024 Exhibition

    New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum

    4100 Dripping Springs Road

    Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011

    October 11- November 18, 2024

    Gallery Hours for this Exhibit: Monday -- Saturday,  10 am - 4 pm. 

    Artists' Opening Reception is Saturday, October 26, 2024 from 1:30-3:30

    Juror:  Lian Quan Zhen  https://www.lianspainting.com/

    Judge: Kathleen Key

    Theme:  Five Thousand Years of Agriculture in New Mexico".

    Somewhere around 5,000 years ago, indigenous people of the North American Southwest began to cultivate maize, an early version of what we know as corn today. Early maize was not much like the corn we know, but its cultivation enabled people who were essentially hunter-gatherers to remain in one area, allowing for the beginnings of what would later become the cultures of Ancestral Puebloans, Mogollon and Hohokam. Many changes in people, crops and practices have occurred in the last 5,000 years, but agriculture remains integral to culture and economy of the North American Southwest. Artists of the New Mexico Watercolor Society will draw on changes in Prehistoric, Historic and Contemporary agricultural practices and imagery to illustrate a beautiful timeline, supporting the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum’s mission to promote the arts while educating Museum visitors about aesthetics and diversity in the artwork of historic and contemporary New Mexico.

    Download 2024_06_SC_Fall Exhibit Call to Artists.pdf

    NOTE: All NMWS Fall Show painting entries and payments must be made ONLY through this ArtCall address: https://nmws-sc-2024fallexhibition.artcall.org/

    Print Prospectus and Schedule from the ArtCall website top bar. 

    REGISTRATION OPENS:
      6 AM Monday, June 24, 2024

    DEADLINE TO REGISTER:  6 PM Friday, August 9, 2024

    • Saturday, October 26, 2024
    • 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    • New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011


    2024 NMWS Southern Chapter

    Members Only Juried Exhibition 

    Artists' Opening Reception

    Saturday, October 26, 2024

    1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

    New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum

    4100 Dripping Springs Road

    Las Cruces, New Mexico 88011


    October 11-November 18, 2024

    Gallery Hours for this Exhibit: 

    10 am - 4 pm Monday - Saturday

    Theme: “Five Thousand Years of Agriculture in New Mexico".

    Somewhere around 5,000 years ago, indigenous people of the North American Southwest began to cultivate maize, an early version of what we know as corn today. Early maize was not much like the corn we know, but its cultivation enabled people who were essentially hunter-gatherers to remain in one area, allowing for the beginnings of what would later become the cultures of Ancestral Puebloans, Mogollon and Hohokam. Many changes in people, crops and practices have occurred in the last 5,000 years, but agriculture remains integral to culture and economy of the North American Southwest. Artists of the New Mexico Watercolor Society will draw on changes in Prehistoric, Historic and Contemporary agricultural practices and imagery to illustrate a beautiful timeline, supporting the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum’s mission to promote the arts while educating Museum visitors about aesthetics and diversity in the artwork of historic and contemporary New Mexico.

New Mexico Watercolor Society

P.O. Box 11604
Albuquerque, NM 87192

Contact - nmwatercolorsociety[at]gmail.com

New Mexico Watercolor Society - SC
PO Box 1571
Las Cruces, NM 88004-1571                           Contact - nmwatercolorsociety[at]gmail.com


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