Studio Artists
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Erika Harding
I first learned to do mosaics at Ghost Ranch with Kathy Thaden more than 10 years ago. I love the meditative nature of the work, but also really enjoy it as a group activity, drinking wine and chatting with friends as we glue and learn together.
I have gravitated toward using stained glass in my work, and specialize in glass-on-glass mosaic pieces and tables. I collect beads, fused glass pieces, stones and other elements that I can build into my work. I also love mosaicking objects (like a deer skill and an old-fashioned porcelain cast-iron sink!) and building sculptures with glass and mosaic elements incorporated.
One of my favorite things about doing mosaic art is the ongoing learning – from my peers, books, master instructors and my mosaic students. There is so much lovely sharing of ideas and helpful tips among mosaic artists. I am learning to fuse glass and create innovative elements for my mosaics as well!
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Alison Robbenhaar
Alison Robbenhaar is a colorist and landscape oil painter. She tries to capture the unique beauty of New Mexico. She specializes in plein air painting and leads painting excursions around Taos and across New Mexico.
She has lived here since 2004, and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
She will be teaching folks how to make a portrait of their pets at our “date night”events, for students of all ages and abilities.
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Sarah McIntyre
Sarah is an award-winning photographer, focused on telling the stories of New Mexico’s people and places.
A lifelong New Mexican, with familial roots in the state spanning generations, her approach to photographic storytelling is informed by her experiences in a place that is truly unlike any other.
Though her photographs engage a variety of themes from the sacred to the secular, Sarah is New Mexico’s premier photographer of historic churches, having long ago lost track of time spent traveling across the state to search out and photograph even the tiniest capillas in the remotest areas.
In addition to Sarah’s work documenting New Mexico’s churches, she leads private photography workshops and classes, and wows her portrait photography clients by freezing time with her camera, capturing special moments for a lifetime.
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Catalina Salinas
High mountains and indigenous cultures surrounded my childhood; I was born in La Paz, Bolivia. I grew fond of the bright colors and textiles that have inspired my artwork for many years. My continued curiosity for new cultures, language and design led me to pursue a master’s degree in Architecture.
I’ve been promoting art education, incorporating architecture, design concepts and teaching Spanish and Creativity to kids and adults, yet I always find time to keep participating in yearly collectives, regularly donating a portion of my art sales to different charity events, and exhibiting internationally. I’m considered a self-taught artist and experimentation has been by path for learning. I’m a member of the Amapola Gallery in Old town New Mexico, since 2018. My abstract designs incorporate geometrical shapes and patterns based on nature and mathematical components. The beautiful sunsets and landscapes of my New Mexico querido keep inspiring and evolving my art. I use continuous color gradations and textures to help my art pieces move, sometimes creating little optical illusions, sometimes the composition changes according to the orientation of the piece.
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Joseph Romero