We in the Southern Chapter are continually learning and growing in our art. Exhibitions are major activities that move us toward our goal of encouraging members in that journey. The NMWS Southern Chapter offers three to four exhibitions per year - the Fall Show, the NMWS-SC For the Love of Art Show in February, and the May Deming Invitational may or may not be themed, and are usually juried only for proper framing/space. The show in the spring is both juried and judged. See Past Shows below for the winners from previous Spring Shows.
The NMWS Southern Chapter 2010 Fall Membership Show will open Friday, December 17, 2010 (sounds like a winter show, doesn’t it?) and will continue through Monday, April 3, 2011. Member artists may submit one, two, or three paintings for one $10 entry fee. This show will be juried by museum personnel and there will be one Viewer’s Choice Award.
The theme of the show, “Vintage Views of Rural Women”, centers on the lives of rural women at the turn of the nineteenth century. Topics encompassed in the concept include daily life, tools, possessions, pastimes and the surroundings of women during this period of New Mexico’s history. Click here (link to Fall 2010 Prospectus.pdf) for a printable prospectus if you would like to enter this show.
NMWS-SC PAST SHOWS
Spring 2010 Exhibition, held in the Shannon Room at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, again demonstrated the continuing growth and variety of style that exists within the Southern Chapter. Jurors/judges for the show were Michael and Victoria Copeland of Alamogordo, NM. Click here (link to NMWS-SC Spring 2010 Show page) to view the award winners of this show.
Spring 2009 Exhibition definitely lived up to our goals for continued improvement. This show was held in April, 2009,
at the Branigan Cultural Center, Shannon Room. Our juror/judge was noted southwest artist and author, Bill Rakocy,
resident of El Paso, TX. Thirty-four works created by twenty-two artists were accepted into the show. Click here to
view the award winners of this show.
Spring 2008 Exhibition, in keeping with our goals of improving show quality, was our first juried show.
It was held at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces in April 2008. Jurors/judges for this show were
Marcy Boushelle and Sally Bryant, both NMWS signature members. Click here to view the
award winners of this show.
Spring 2007 Exhibition was our first judged show, held at the Branigan Cultural
Center in Las Cruces in May 2007. Judges for this show were Hazel Orr and Kay Green, signature members in the NMWS.
Click here to view the award winners at this show.
Southern Chapter Members are also eligible to and do enter work into the NMWS Fall and Spring Shows in Albuquerque, the Western Federation Show and Master Works of New Mexico, among others. Watch for announcements about these shows on the
NMWS Exhibitions page.
For further information about specific exhibits or future plans, you may contact Sue Van Frank at
vanfrank@earthlink.net
