The Wooden Cow! I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before but we won “Best Art Gallery” in Albuquerque the Magazine’s Best of City voting. We’re going to the awards party on Wednesday and will be having a booth there. This is a huge deal for us – we’ve only been open a little over a year, have worked so hard making this little dream come to fruition and flourish, and being recognized in this way is amazing.

Our Mission:

The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space is a creative environment devoted to providing area artists and craftspeople with a quality retail showroom, show space, and classroom space designed to encourage growth of the Albuquerque artist, while increasing general art awareness in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space is devoted to becoming an active part of the local visual arts, performing arts, and literary arts scene, offering a rich line-up of classes and workshops, shows, poetry readings, special events, programs, educational opportunities, performance pieces, charity events, and services designed to promote the arts and enliven the creative experience for all.

The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space is an artist-owned gallery that strives to make a difference. We are also proud to be working with local charities, groups, and foundations.

We believe that arts and crafts are of equal, important value to society, and that all mediums, techniques, and styles are equally embraceable, worthwhile and necessary for the transmission of human culture.  We also support other creative mediums such as local poetry and literature, music and theater.

look at his scuffed up face and the goose egg flowering on his forehead and I decided he couldn’t go to school – so we dropped Katie off and hopped on a bus – his first bus trip. He was a trooper – probably would have been fine at school – but he’s my baby and he was bleeding so he stayed with me!

Friday night was spent at the Cow – where we had a fabulous opening

reception for our Art of the Shrine show.  More on that later.

Saturday we went on our roadtrip and Sunday I worked at the Cow as usual – Sunday night I started filling seriously icky. Double-whammy! A cold and a UTI (something that seems to happen a lot with kidney stones) I have always gotten sick after having a KS attack – I think my body is just weakened and any old germ can come on in an wreak havoc on me. Monday – no work – today – no work – tomorrow I’m going back to work. I hate being sick!

Will’s party was great too – we had a lot of fun and got to mingle our extended groups of friends and get them all together – I love that kind of stuff – and he had a blast which is the most important thing!

The next show at The Wooden Cow is going to be awesome!  Our theme is “The Art of the Shrine” and we have two featured artists – Francisco Bussetti and Monica Francisco DeKam.  The opening reception is Feb. 6 which also happens to be the American Heart Association’s “Wear Red Day”. This event helps raise awareness about heart-related health issues in women.  Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America.  Go to their website to get educated on reducing your risk of heart disease.  So we will be participating in that as well.  Anyone who wears red, donates money to the American Heart Association, or fills out a registration card for Go Red for Women will get entered into a raffle to win heart-related artwork.

And we will have tarot readings and a caricature artist on hand as well! Plus scrumptious food as always!

Next Friday, the 7th, is going to be one crazy day for me – I have two shows!

The first one is at Chroma Studios – another new artist-run gallery in town and is an all photography show!! WOOT! They are located at 1606 Central Ave SE, Suite 102 and it runs from 5-8:30pm.

The second one is at the Wooden Cow and is a Dia de los Muertos show. We are featuring three artists and have a juried show (I headed up the jurying and will be participating in the physical hanging of the show) and I will have a piece in the juried show. I’ve also created all the ads and collateral for the show – it’s been a crazy couple of weeks! And I don’t see it slowing down any time soon.

I’ll be starting at Chroma and then heading over to the Wooden Cow to end the evening. Two great shows – try and see them both if you can!