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MMAC November Music Series: Composers of Mountainair

MMAC November Music Series: Composers of Mountainair

MMAC is hosting three composers who will perform their works across November. Here’s the details.

Sunflower Festival Attendance Benefits Local Business

Sunflower Festival Attendance Benefits Local Business

Free and public access to this post is sponsored by the Manzano Mountain Art Council, which hosted the 2023 Sunflower Festival on August 26, 2023. Readers interested in learning more about the Manzano Mountain Art Council and the services it provides our community can click here to see current exhibits

Sunflower Festival Raffle

Check out the art lineup in this year's Sunflower Festival Raffle: Del Rae Mote's sunflower quilt, Madeline Gutwein's sunflower ceramic, the Talavera tea set, and Cyndie Wright's sunflower basket. The best part? You can pick which pieces you'd like to compete for. 🔗 View the collection and enter the raffle here:

Paint in the Park

Arts and Culture

Paint in the Park

Wendy Ahl was the last painter to be working at the Abó unit of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument on Saturday, May 6, 2023. Ahl was part of a cadre of ten painters that the National Monument had opened its doors to as part of the Mountainair-Plein Air Collaboration

Upcoming Events for Monday, April 24, 2023

Federal Courts (For cases at the US District Court level or higher.) State Courts (For cases at the District Court level or higher.) State v. Heath White, D-722-CR-202300020, Thirteenth Judicial District Courthouse, Cibola County (while this is a Torrance County case, the New Mexico Supreme Court ordered a change of

New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp stands at a microphone, reading from an open book of poetry.

Arts and Culture

Poet Laureate and Other Writers Share Their Work at MMAC

An event which showed the impact of poetry on young writers, while sharing the reflections of a few older writers, as well.

Arts and Culture

MMAC Speaker Series Ends, Upcoming Performance and Exhibition Planned

On Saturday, February 18, 2023, the Manzano Mountain Arts Council (MMAC) ended its February Speaker Series with a talk by Gloria Lovato Zamora on New Mexico Land Grants. Zamora’s talk discussed the land grants in a wide-ranging fashion that included personal history, the work of Oglala Lakota Activist Russell

On the left is a woman speaking behind a microphone; on the right is a woman seated with a ukulele.

Arts and Culture

From Mountainair Mud

At the Manzano Mountain Arts Council (MMAC), Sidney Smart and Davine Torres presented Mountainair in Story and Song. Smart’s stories covered the history of Mountainair going back to the Cambrian Era, when Torrance County was the shallow sea floor over which swam trilobites and nautili. The presentation by Smart

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