Mr. Parker does not describe his process as intentionally historical, but rather spontaneous and intuitive. Yet its intimate tie to quilters of the past cannot be denied.

Santa Fe artist Debra Baxter is a jeweler, a sculptor, a naturalist, an historian, and a scientist. Her works are compendia of creative talent, scientific knowledge, and intense spirituality – all ingredients for a recipe of beauty.

The two works, painting and engraving, attempt to portray the pre-eminence of faith as the basis of belief, while artistically emphasizing dramatic physical details and intense emotionality.

What do a Victorian mathematician and a Modernist painter have in common? How are an English author of the 19th to 20th centuries and a professional French translator of the 20th to 21st centuries thematically related?

Alcoves 20/20 No. 1 related intrinsically to the original purpose of the St. Francis. It is fitting that the original ethos of the physical and spiritual connection between human beings and the animals of land, sea, air are emphasized in the portraits of Diane Marsh which were on exhibit in Alcoves No. 1.

Both the world wide web and the wood wide web are templates for connections and communications. The world web connects humans and the wood web connects trees. Together they are essential for sustenance, support, and solace. Together they are the basis for the visual art of Marietta Patricia Leis and the verbal art of Robert Macfarlane.

Heather McGill, whose works are on display in ALCOVES NO. 2 at the New Mexico Museum of Art until February 9th, 2020, is a master of reconciling such opposing concepts of: fact and fabrication, individual and mass produced craftwork, conventional female and male artistic expressions, history and modern technology.