Virginia Couse Leavitt, granddaughter of Eanger Irving Couse, one of the founders of the storied Taos Society of Artists, died November 26, 2024 surrounded by family members and close friends. …

Art has long been a marker of taste and influence, and Gallery 215, a new by-appointment only experience, takes that concept a step further. Located within a private residence, Gallery 215 isn’t …

Art doesn’t just hang on walls — it seeps into cracks, mutates, revolts. Revolt Gallery in Taos, now approaching its eighth year, isn’t content with stillness. Revolt Gallery is not so much a …

A new wave of galleries is giving Taos a fresh creative pulse. These spaces champion emerging artists, experimental programming and bold curatorial perspectives, from craft-based practices to …

Maria Samora walks with her feet in two worlds. Her father, Frank Samora, a Taos Pueblo native, was immortalized by Frank Waters in his seminal book,  “The Man Who Killed The Deer.” Her …

In 2023, leaders and board members at Taos Art Museum at Fechin House did something they had never done before. They initiated an ambitious capital funding campaign that would expand its facilities. The catalyst for the relatively easy fundraising decision was a result of accepting a generous gift of more than 150 pieces of art from Janis and Roy Coffee, Jr. With the addition of the Coffee’s collection, the museum’s collection will essentially double in size which meant a potential expan…

Cooper's Garage is nestled within a warehouse complex, sharing space with Taos Winnelson, and Loveless Stone and within its sights is the cannabis dispensary 7884. There's a small sign that leads you through an open gate into a parking lot where you can only surmise what's going on behind the doors of the nondescript garage that is Cooper's Garage. 

Located a stone's throw from the famous San Francisco de Asis Catholic Mission Church, the family owned and operated Chimayo Trading del Norte is celebrating 40 years in business and 21 years at their current Taos location.

Women have long played an outsize role on the Taos Arts scene; women have been the backbone of the Arts in our community, especially as dealers and gallerists.

Few have done more for the arts community in Taos than Janet Webb.

Webb has spent her time in Taos ensuring the survival of the art colony founded over a century ago and preserving the unique cultural heritage of the town itself.

Taos is in the midst of an underground art renaissance, with new concert venues and galleries popping up all over town and the outlying areas. As the Paseo Project heads into its 10th year, the indoor Seco Live space starts heating up, and major concert offerings start to be announced for the warmer months, there are many reasons to feel hope about where things are going in the local music scene. But the true hallmark of the moment is the hybridization occurring in the smaller spaces in …

The Wright Contemporary is the long-held dream of its gallery director Ann Landi, who has made a name for herself over decades as a patron of the arts.

Taos is one of those places in the world where a century can pass in the blink of an eye. 

High desert artist Jeff Cochran makes art as a lifestyle choice and readily admits it's not as glamorous as it sounds. He’s on call for his muse and “some days nothing happens, and then some days are four days long. I have my studio on my property, which is great. I go out there and 20 minutes turns into 5 hours.” 

The origins of the Southwest’s most storied cultural institutions are often as interesting as the objects preserved within. Take the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos for instance. Before it became …

The front windows of the old police station on Civic Plaza Drive are transformed into an art destination every month by The Annex Window Series fueled by the Paseo Project. Beginning in September …

For those whose families have lived in Taos for generations, and for those who have more recently chosen to call Taos their home, there is an intrinsic understanding of the many ways history …

Tucked away in plain sight in the historic 1948 Howell Building on Kit Carson Road, you’ll find Bryans Gallery. Home to authentic Southwestern Native American arts and jewelry, Bryan Steger opened …

When Taos Clay in El Prado closed, a core of local artists were left without communal studio space and a supplier of the materials necessary for their craft. It was fortunate, indeed, there was a …

Stroll through Wilder Nightingale Fine Art Gallery on Kit Carson Road in Taos and you’ll discover multiple rooms of artwork ranging in every size, style and price imaginable. Walls and easels present an exquisite collection of original oils, pastels and watercolors depicting the people, flora and fauna of these regional landscapes. Peggy Immel, Stephen Day and Peggy Trigg are just some of the well-known artists with work on display. 

Growing up in Taos, Noelle Kalom left after graduating from Taos High, and never looked back. She spent 16 years in NYC cutting creative teeth in Guerilla Street Theater and making art in her Brooklyn studio, before returning to Santa Fe where she met and married jeweler and artist,  Wave Redfish, a Lakota Native.

When Moriah Stanton feels a "yes" -- the sacred kind, the kind that roots deep in the gut and begs to flower -- she follows it. Like 15 years ago when she was in living it up hot on the hospitality scene in the Hampton's, but was one day walking on the beach and had the maybe-crazy thought, 'I need to quit everything and go live with my dad.' 

The Vallecitos, New Mexico artist Afton Love said her family name comes from a long line of “many Loves.” Afton is a coincidence between my parents. My grandfather on my mom’s side was born in Afton, Wyoming. My great grandmother and lots of great, great great aunts on my dad’s side are named Afton. Their heritage is Scottish and there is a river in Scotland called Afton that they named the ladies after. 

Pandemonium struck in spring of 2020, just as Taos’ Gallery Guide was going to press.  It had promised to be an exciting year for the crown jewel museums of Taos: Couse-Sharp Historic Site; Harwood Museum of Art; Millicent Rogers Museum; Taos Art Museum at Fechin House; and Taos Historic Museums. Notable exhibitions and big dreams were in the works for 2020, with each organization under the direction of passionately dedicated executive directors.

'This past year has been huge for me," Nikesha Breeze says. "Not just with the lockdowns and relative home isolation. Breeze is the mother of two teenage sons, one of whom just won a national scholarship competition and was awarded a full-ride four-year all-inclusive scholarship to the University of Chicago, but with all the uprisings around the world for Black Lives Matter and social justice, both of which I've been deeply engaged with."