Located at 900 Santa Fe Drive, D’art Gallery hosts “D’art & Friends! Members Invitational Exhibition“ in the Main Gallery from Thursday, December 16, 2021 through Sunday, February 6, 2022. D’art Gallery will participate in the Art District on Santa Fe First Friday on January 7 and Friday, February 4, 2022.
D’art Gallery Members have invited “artist friends” to join in on a special exhibition for the holiday season. Each D’art Artist has invited another artist to show or perform in each of the nine foot members exhibition spaces in the Main Gallery. Dancers, Poets, Sculptors, Ceramists and Visual Artists have been invited to offer new experiences in the gallery and expand opportunities for other artisans to show in the Art District on Santa Fe over the holidays and into February 2022.
Seventeen members of the gallery are exhibiting their work during the “D’art & Friends! - Members Exhibition“: Terrel Bailey, Dan Baumbach, Jaime Belkind-Gerson, Laura Brenton, Lisa Calzavara, Barbara DeMarlie, Lori Dresner, Suzanne Frazier, Ashton Lacy Jones, Tara Kelley-Cruz, Carrie MaKenna, Morgan Leigh McKenna, Emily Oldak, Lydia Riegle, Kim Roberts, Jean Smith, and Vicky Smith. The work of each participating artist can be viewed at https://dartgallery.org
An Artists Opening Reception is scheduled for Friday, December 17 from 5 – 9 pm. During the reception from 5 - 7 pm, dancer Joanna Rotkin, a guest of D’art Artist Laura Brenton, performs "Dog Dance", a quiet, slow spiraling into one’s body. A second performance by Joanna Rotkin will be given on Saturday, December 18 from 2 – 4 pm.
An Artist Talk by Morgan McKenna & Peder Morgenthaler is scheduled for Sunday, December 19 at 1:30 pm and additional artists talks will be scheduled on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm throughout the exhibition. (Another press release will be sent out with the January Artist Talk Schedule.)
Special Christmas Week Shopping Days:
D’art Gallery is hosting Special Christmas Week Shopping Days from Monday, December 20 through Friday, December 24, Noon – 5 pm. Then, D’art Gallery will be closed from Christmas Day through New Year’s Eve and will reopen on January 1, 2022 for a New Year’s Day Open House from Noon to 5 pm for art appreciators to bring out-of-town guests to the gallery.
Gallery Hours: Thursday, Noon to 5pm, Friday, Noon to 9 pm, Saturday, Noon to 5 pm, and Sunday, 1 pm to 4 pm.