NEW MEXICO AND SANTA FE EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

The Governor's Gallery at the State Capitol, 4th floor
"Between the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood"
Through May 4, 2012

For historical map lovers: "Between the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood." Part of New Mexico’s 2012 Centennial celebration, the exhibit presents maps from public and private collections, such as the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library. On display are hand-drawn and printed maps from 1564 to the present day.

New Mexico Museum of Art
"Beau Regards from Paris! Post-Impressionist Views by Donald Beauregard"
Through March 18, 2012

Donald Beauregard is well-known as the designer of the murals in the Museum's St. Francis Auditorium.

CONTINUE: "These works define a curious aesthetic moment when the intense, clashing colors of Post-Impressionist painting raged in Paris. The workers and peasants of France attracted Beauregard, just as Pueblo subjects captivated Paris-trained academic painters to New Mexico. Unfortunately, Beauregard died from cancer in 1914 before he could combine his newly acquired modernist style with New Mexico subjects." (New Mexico Museum of Art website)

ARTfeast Edible Art Tour
Downtown and Canyon Road galleries
Friday, February 24 5 to 8 p.m.
All proceeds to benefit art programs for young people in the Santa Fe area.
An event that combines food and art for a good cause: Over 35 of Santa Fe's favorite galleries join forces with the city's top restaurateurs, caterers, and chefs. Sample great food while feasting on art. Shuttle buses carry ticketholders between the Downtown and Canyon Road sites. $35.

Apollo's Fire
The Lensic Performing Arts Center, 505-988-7050
Saturday, March 3; 7:30 p.m.
A memorable concert for classical, baroque and folk audiences. Program includes 17th-century ballads, accompanied by an improvisational Spanish dancer and director Jeanette Sorrell's arrangement of Boccherini's Fandango Qunitet.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
"Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Landscapes of An American Modernist"
Through April 29, 2012

Part of the Living Artists of Distinction Series, this exhibition features both oil paintings and works on paper from Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

"Smith is one of the best-known Native America artists of the late twentieth century. Born in Montana, she is an enrolled Sqelix'u (Salish) member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. She has lived and worked in New Mexico since 1976. Smith began the Petroglyph Park Series just five years after she earned her MA in art from the University of New Mexico in 1980. The series established Smith’s artistic voice in the lineage of American landscape painting. Her brilliant color, compositional style, and gestural layers of paint, ground Smith’s painting in modern abstraction, even as she extends the tradition with her unique visual vocabulary of plants, animals and humans." (Georgia O'Keeffe Museum of Art website)