We had our grand opening celebration on Friday and it was a rousing success – lots of people enjoying and buying art, a bellydancing troupe to keep everyone entertained, a mountain of food (that kept having to be replenished), and fun, fun fun. All of the cows stepped up in a variety of ways and I think that was the key to our success. Here’s a few pics from the evening:

I was mentioned in the Albuquerque Journal today in an article about crafting. Go to the site and search for Etsy to read the whole thing. Here’s an excerpt:

“Crafting art
Linguistic and artistic lines are beginning to blur in the craft world.
Kurt Nelson, owner of Palette Contemporary Art and Craft, says “craft” has often been unfairly maligned. The distinctions between “art” and “craft” are on their way out, “like the dodo,” he says.
He used “craft” to describe his gallery to showcase the diversity of contemporary art — from oil painting to $3,700 submerged solid glass — but none is what he calls traditional “Aunt Millie” crafts.
A few doors down in the same Northeast Albuquerque outdoor mall, artists scurry around the Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space, a new multigenre cooperative gallery that opened last month. At the Wooden Cow, distinctions between high and low art blur as mosaic designs share space with Chinese brush work. The gallery includes pieces that could be called craft, such as resin-coated rings made from recycled Scrabble pieces.
Lorraine Klover, one of the Wooden Cow founders, is a photographer who also sells on Etsy. She says the term “craft” has been denigrated because it is associated with practical work done by women. Some locals eschew the “craft” label because of those traditional connotations.”