ABOUT OUR ARTISTSRead below to find out more about a few of our many artists. |
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Betsy Williams PO Box 518 |
I was born in Georgia, graduated from St. John's College in Santa Fe, and then worked as a money market trader for five years at a Japanese bank in New York City. My co-workers introduced me to Japanese ceramics, and in 1994 I moved to Japan. I completed a 4½-year apprenticeship in Japan in 1999 and returned to New Mexico. I have been a full-time artist since 2001. My partner, Mark Saxe (a stone sculptor), and I own Rift Gallery, about an hour north of Santa Fe, and my work is exhibited nationally. | 
My tiny plates are like a sketchbook. Each one is wheel-thrown and hand-decorated, and I make every one different. They are dishwasher and microwave safe, and make a perfect 100% handmade gift. |
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Cheryl Stahl 417-429-3722 |
Forty years ago, my husband and I came here from Chicago to "think," fell in love with the mountains, and found our hearts belonged with the cultures here for hundreds of years. We farmed, raised children and animals, and became silversmiths. My first work was crosses and 'milagros'. After years of selling from Santa Fe galleries, I now work solely with the High Road Marketplace: a remarkable artist co-op helping so many. My work includes "three-metal" earrings of copper, silver, and brass, often including spirals. We are now making jewelry with the beautiful beach glass we have collected during a health sabbatical on Lake Michigan. I am so grateful for the beautiful surrroundings I have lived in and the support of so many. |          |
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Debbie Denison 3 Santa Cruz Dam Rd |
Debbie Denison is a self-taught artist who lives in Chimayó, New Mexico. Forced by disability to find an occupation she could do while sitting at home, she discovered a passion for art. Debbie draws her inspiration from the sacred and beautiful surroundings of Chimayó and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. |
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Gerret Durland |
Gerret Durland lives and works in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains north of Santa Fe. After 25 years of making a living as a sheepskin worker and sandal maker, he discovered his talent and passion for woodturning. Inspired by the natural beauty of exotic hardwoods and the complementary tones of semi-precious stones, his woodworking combines years of professional craftsmanship with his appreciation of utilitarian products. |    |
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Kathryn Blackmun 505-424-1228 retr... |
Kathryn Blackmun spent several years in Los Angeles doing editorial design and illustration. After moving to Santa Fe a few years ago, work was hard to come by. So after several ceramic classes she was inspired to set up a studio and started creating, specializing in handmade earthenware dishes handpainted with whimsical rabbits, cowgirls, cats, pigs, dogs, that she hopes will make you smile. Kathryn does a line of saint tiles and magnets especially for the High Road MarketPlace. | 
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Liz Gold 3 Santa Cruz Dam Rd |
Liz Gold is a self-taught photographer who lives in Chimayó. Gifted with her first professional camera after surviving breast cancer, she has been a professional photographer only a few years. However, she has already caught people’s attention with her stunning photographs of the nearby Santuario, other churches, Abiquiu, and the Northern New Mexico landscape. |
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Lois Malone Truchas, NM 87578 |
After a lifetime of moving across the country, with brief sojourns in southern Europe, in 2007 I settled near Truchas overlooking the Truchas Peaks, El Pedernal, and the Rio Grande Valley. My subject is the nuts and bolts of daily living, unvarnished by romanticism. Conditioned to look for The Sublime, we miss much of what life offers. My past work, often 4' x 6' on canvas, documents highways, movie theatres, drug stores, barber shops, and small town streets. In New Mexico I am still intrigued by these places, but also by the traces of lives past in abandoned buildings, romanticized by photographers as Ghost Towns. Working in a smaller format (16" x 24"), I have been trying to document what is visible while paying attention to the invisible. (MFA 1974, University of California at Irvine) |       |
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Manny Chavez 505-753-2521
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 I started singing Christian music when I was a child, Thanks to my parents who inpired me with their own music ministry. I was encouraged to record this CD by my fellow parishioners as well as family and friends and have dedicated it to my heredity, El Santuario de Chimayo, where my parents fulfilled their ministry. |
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Marcia Clasgens PO Box 1586 retablokits.com mar...@marciaclasgens.com |
I have lived and studied art, it seems, forever. I studied landscape painting with a Hudson River artist in New York, who told me, "Just open your eyes. Everywhere you look there is a painting." I found paintings not only in the landscape, but also in faces, things, and revered images. So I apprenticed with a portrait painter in upstate New York and studied Russian Icon painting at the School of Sacred Art in Maine. Upon moving to New Mexico, I was introduced to the joy and inspiration of retablo painting. I also make objects out of clay, both functional and decorative. I am featured at Spanish Market and at the Palace of the Governors, where I demonstrate retablo painting. I have won awards and recognition for my work, which has appeared in shows, galleries, and collections across the continent. |
At the MarketPlace, I sell both retablos and retablo making kits. |
Maureen Freyne 505-920-9542 frey...@gmail.com |
Maureen Freyne is an artist who paints New Mexico Churches in vibrant watercolors. | 
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Molly Hart
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Molly Hart is a self-taught jeweler and photographer with an innovative vision and an eye for the unusual. Her mixed media jewelry draws on many sources, including mechanical pieces. The layering of materials creates a sense of sculpture in wearable art. Layering has become a theme in her photography as well, with a body of work utilizing multiple images overlaid, evoking a sense of mystery. The high desert has been an ongoing inspiration for her work, as well as the beauty of the tropics, especially Hawaii. |
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Ron Leard 505-747-8218 |
Ron Leard uses materials found in nature to create ceremonial pipes, pipe bags, antler jewelry, jewelry boxes, and jewelry trees. Much of his work is crafted from naturally harvested or legally obtained exotic antlers and horns. His work has evolved through the years as new interests and influences guided him, creating a beautiful cohesion of Mother Earth, form, functionality, and engineering. |
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Rosemary Sparno 8 Calle Margosa |
Rosemary Sparno creates artistic paintings on gourds, many home-grown. Her works depict plants, animals and symbols that reflect a love for nature and the environment. Her gourds are dried and cleaned by hand, prior to sketching, painting, wood burning and etching. Rosemary's work with gourds is done with simple hand tools rather than machines to create an Old World artistic quality that makes each work unique and timeless. Rosemary received her training in the arts in New York. Prior to moving to New Mexico, she was a special education teacher in New York and owner/director of a Child Care Center in California. She is an active member of the New Mexico Gourd Society. |
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Ruzina Busch PO Box 404 |
Ruzina Busch is a self-taught artist, living and working in Truchas, New Mexico for the past 30 years. Her drawings and mixed media artworks are influenced by her love of colors and shapes in the natural environment. Her artwork has been exhibited in the Governor's Palace in Santa Fe and in other galleries in New Mexico. |
  
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Sandy Ballard
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Sandy Ballard is a nature photographer who has come far since his mother presented him with his first camera (bought with green stamps) when he was 13. He was quick to transition to digital photography in order to have more influence on the quality of the finished artwork. He is involved in the complete process, from printing to matting to framing. He uses only the finest photo paper and canvas with archival ink. Sandy divides his time between Abiquiu, NM, which is the inspiration and setting for much of his work, and Texas, where he has 7 grandchildren. His wish is that his work will inspire you to respect and celebrate the unique beauty of nature wherever your path leads. |
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Sharon Stewart 575-387-2320 |
Born in Edinburg, Texas on the South Texas borderlands with Mexico, educated in finance and economics at the University of Texas and Harvard University, photographer Sharon Stewart moved to the mountain village of Chacon, NM, where, in a visual fusion of memory, perception, and form, she has photographed the economic, social, familial, mythic, and religious influences that define the northern New Mexican cultural landscape. |
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Vivian Trujillo
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Vivian Trujillo, a native of Truchas, New Mexico, shapes crosses from recycled metal. Vivian began making her rusted metal crosses while helping her son Kevin, who started making them when he was 10 years old. Kevin started making them from pinõn twigs, then began picking up metal from old roofs. Vivian picked up where Kevin left off. Kevin still makes rusted metal angels. Vivian collects her metal from rusty old roof pieces, then beats them flat. Next she looks at the pieces and lets the material “speak” to her as she shapes it, inspiring her various designs (see the copper necklace designs on the right). |
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Helping Artists Succeed
The High Road MarketPlace was founded to help develop the arts as a means for rural residents to make a living. It unites a network of artists and community members, of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, in a common goal of bringing an economic base to their communities.
The High Road MarketPlace helps artisans achieve a livelihood through self-employment in the practice of their art, which is even more critical in our current economy.
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