Buy Art from Taos Artists, Help Animal Shelter during Stray Arts Gallery’s ‘Back Room’ Event
Press release 3/1/2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 1, 2011
Contact: Erica Asmus-Otero (505) 259-2202 Eric@griffinassoc.com
Buy Art from Taos Artists, Help Animal Shelter during Stray Arts Gallery’s ‘Back Room’ Event
TAOS, NM — Starting in March, art lovers will have full access to the Stray Arts Gallery’s “back room” for an opportunity to see and purchase art from a featured Taos artist each month. Half of proceeds from art sales will directly benefit the Stray Hearts Animal Shelter in Taos – providing humane care and shelter for abandoned and abused animals in the Taos area.
An opening reception for Stray Arts Gallery’s March artists – Ursula Jones and Sally Russell – is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on March 5 at the Gallery.
Ursula Jones will showcase some of her many impressionistic, brightly colored oils, acrylics and pastel paintings of local scenes as well as colorful ceramics which depict life-size dogs along with female sculptures inspired by RC Gorman's lithographs.
One of Jones’s pottery teachers, Bernadette Track, was a favorite model of RC Gorman. Jones also studied traditional pueblo pottery with Sharon “Dryflower” Reyna from Taos Pueblo and Felipe Ortega from La Madera, and sculpture with Roxanne Swentzell from Santa Clara Pueblo. Currently, she creates her pottery at the Tierra Hermosa Studio in Taos.
Originally from Germany and a long-time resident of Northern California, she now spends her winters in Taos and her summers on the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC, where she owns a Bed and Breakfast. When she is not involved with her various art projects, Jones volunteers at the Stray Arts Gallery in winter.
Sally Russell, known as the “Red Queen,” brings oils and monoprints to the mix of works. Russell’s work evokes a sense of warmth, security and home. She paints from her experience of life on the farm in New Mexico with gardens, animals, people and places. Russell’s use of Alizarin crimson, blues and greens meld into warm and cool blacks, bright reds jump to the page, dazzling greens, yellows and blues that accent the figures, flowers and animals of Northern New Mexico. Russell's work can be seen at www.theredqueensallyrussell.com.
Admission to the March 5 reception and show are free. The Stray Arts Gallery is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery is located on the corner of Camino de la Placita and Ranchitos Road in Taos.
For more information call Stray Arts Gallery at (575) 758-9780. Visit www.strayhearts.org for more information on Stray Hearts Animal Shelter.
Contact: Erica Asmus-Otero (505) 259-2202 Eric@griffinassoc.com
Buy Art from Taos Artists, Help Animal Shelter during Stray Arts Gallery’s ‘Back Room’ Event
TAOS, NM — Starting in March, art lovers will have full access to the Stray Arts Gallery’s “back room” for an opportunity to see and purchase art from a featured Taos artist each month. Half of proceeds from art sales will directly benefit the Stray Hearts Animal Shelter in Taos – providing humane care and shelter for abandoned and abused animals in the Taos area.
An opening reception for Stray Arts Gallery’s March artists – Ursula Jones and Sally Russell – is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on March 5 at the Gallery.
Ursula Jones will showcase some of her many impressionistic, brightly colored oils, acrylics and pastel paintings of local scenes as well as colorful ceramics which depict life-size dogs along with female sculptures inspired by RC Gorman's lithographs.
One of Jones’s pottery teachers, Bernadette Track, was a favorite model of RC Gorman. Jones also studied traditional pueblo pottery with Sharon “Dryflower” Reyna from Taos Pueblo and Felipe Ortega from La Madera, and sculpture with Roxanne Swentzell from Santa Clara Pueblo. Currently, she creates her pottery at the Tierra Hermosa Studio in Taos.
Originally from Germany and a long-time resident of Northern California, she now spends her winters in Taos and her summers on the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC, where she owns a Bed and Breakfast. When she is not involved with her various art projects, Jones volunteers at the Stray Arts Gallery in winter.
Sally Russell, known as the “Red Queen,” brings oils and monoprints to the mix of works. Russell’s work evokes a sense of warmth, security and home. She paints from her experience of life on the farm in New Mexico with gardens, animals, people and places. Russell’s use of Alizarin crimson, blues and greens meld into warm and cool blacks, bright reds jump to the page, dazzling greens, yellows and blues that accent the figures, flowers and animals of Northern New Mexico. Russell's work can be seen at www.theredqueensallyrussell.com.
Admission to the March 5 reception and show are free. The Stray Arts Gallery is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery is located on the corner of Camino de la Placita and Ranchitos Road in Taos.
For more information call Stray Arts Gallery at (575) 758-9780. Visit www.strayhearts.org for more information on Stray Hearts Animal Shelter.
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About Stray Hearts Animal Shelter
Stray Hearts Animal Shelter of Taos is wholly dedicated to interim compassionate and humane care and rehabilitation for lost and abandoned animals, upholding their rights for such, protecting animals from abuse and neglect and exploitation, and placing them into responsible and loving homes. We are committed to animal population control and public education to ensure long-term positive management of animal populations in our area. 
