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 top bar.
REGISTRATION OPENS: 6 AM Monday, June 24, 2024
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: 6 PM Friday, August 9, 2024
