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Santa Fe Spring Festival, June 3 & 4

18th Annual Santa Fe Spring Festival: Featuring Lavender and Fiber Art!

Marketing poster for Santa Fe Spring Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, NM.Celebrate Spring with our Spring Festival: Featuring Herb & Lavender, and the opening of our 2023 season! Learn about New Mexico’s rich cultural heritage through an array of fun activities and demonstrations. Experience traditional New Mexican ranch activities like sheep shearing, spinning and weaving, plus a fiber arts marketplace featuring local artisans and craftsmen, horno bread baking, crafts for children, and more!
-https://golondrinas.org/

We here at High on Hooking hope that you can make it up to El Rancho de las Golondrinas (just sounth of Santa Fe) to celebrate the start of summer here on New Mexico’s high desert. I’ll be sharing a booth with Barbara Knupper, weaver and jewelry maker extraordinaire. You can find her art at the Artful Artisan.

We invite you to peruse our wares and enjoy the atmosphere of the Spring Festival on the ranch! Bring the whole family!

PS – To those, like me, who might be from New England, Las Golondrinas is kind of like a more primitive Sturbridge Village, southwest style:

El Rancho de las Golondrinas is a living history museum located on 200 acres in a rural farming valley just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Museum, dedicated to the history, heritage and culture of 18th and 19th century New Mexico, opened in 1972. Original colonial buildings on the site date from the early 1700s. In addition, historic buildings from other parts of northern New Mexico have been reconstructed at Las Golondrinas. Villagers clothed in the styles of the times show how life was lived on the frontier in early New Mexico. Special festivals and weekend events offer visitors an in-depth look into the celebrations, music, dance and many other aspects of life in the Spanish, Mexican and Territorial periods of the Southwest.
-https://golondrinas.org/

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Annual High Desert Studio Tour

Poster for High Desert Studio Tour

 

 

 

…and just in case you can’t make the New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival on November 19, High on Hooking will also be participating in the 12th Annual High Desert Studio Tour. Of course, you can come to both. In fact, you should.

 

For the past several years, New Mexican hand-dyer and knitter extraordinaire, Dagmar Beinenz-Byrd of ZiaWoolz has generously invited me to join her at her home and studio for the High Desert Studio Tour (click to download the brochure). We won’t talk about the past couple of years that Covid screwed us out of such things. It’s an intimate venue rather than one filled with all kinds of vendors and activities, allowing one the chance to  get in some good conversations with makers, letting you learn more about my work as well as Dagmar’s. In addition, Sarah Lovell of Southwest Sunflower Pottery will have all kinds of things that you didn’t even realize you need. (I know. I have some, LOL.)

 

Dagmar Beinenz Byrd of ZiaWoolz
Dagmar wearing her own work. (If only she was my size…

 

 

To be sure, there are other arts and artists on the tour. They include painters, sculptors, jewelers and more spread out over seven different studios. More info is available in the brochure. And, certainly, if you have any questions, please email me at Laura@highonhooking.com.

 

 

Mugs by Sarah Lovell
Her Rio Grande mugs provide just a taste of Sarah’s pottery.

If you’re looking to find holiday gifts for family and friends (and yourself!), please come see us at the New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival in November AND at the High Desert Studio Tour in December.

 

 

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New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival – Nov. 19

The New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival:

It’s a brand new holiday market, and High on Hooking is participating. The festival is local – here in Albuquerque, and it’s free! The parking too!

 

The Art of Gifting: New MExico Arts & Crafts Festival

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

  • More than 80 unique artists and vendors from the area  – perfect for buying holiday gifts for friends and family (and yourself, of course).
  • Live entertainment.
  • Food trucks!
  • Workshops and demos like knitting and crocheting, belly dancing, and free-motion quilting. Kids can make their own crafty gifts too.

WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN HIGH ON HOOKING’S BOOTH:

  • Fabulous hand-hooked art in the form of rugs, bench covers, table runners, wall hangings, and so on.
  • Dog on hooked rug
    Tynan bids you all a WONDERFUL FALL and we hope to see you at the New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival November 19. This hooked art would look marvelous in your house on Thanksgiving!

    Hand-dyed yarn.

  • Oxford punch needles.
  • info regarding hooking/pinching classes and the Adobe Wool Arts Guild, NM’s only hooking guild.

More information HERE.

So get thee to the UNM Continuing Education Conference Center at 1634 University Blvd. NE, on Saturday, November 19. Mention High on Hooking’s blog or other social media and get 10% off anything we’re offering.

PS – See our CALENDAR page to keep up to date on where you’ll find High on Hooking.

Hope to see you in a couple of weeks at the New Mexico Arts & Crafts Festival!

 

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Cinco de Mayo at La Parada

Come for the art, stay for the music and the margaritas!

Cinco de Mayo Folk Art Fest

information HERE and HERE.

Cinco de Mayo Folk Art Fest poster

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Of Cinco de Mayo (and margaritas)

 

Cinco de Mayo Folk Art Fest posterSo, because Cinco de Mayo is on a Thursday this year (and my neighborhood Bunco night to boot), here at High on Hooking we’ll be celebrating the Sunday before, May 1. Not only will Tom make some of his FAMOUS MARGARITAS for our gustatory pleasure, pal Catherine Kelly and I will first break out the tent and mark our first show of 2022: the CINCO DE MAYO FOLK ART FEST at La Parada and Farm&Table in Albuquerque’s North Valley. Think artisans, food, beverages, music, pinatas that you decorate yourself – in other words, a party! Or a fiesta, as we call it here. We hope that local peeps can come celebrate* with us!

Hooked art available at Cinco de Mayo Folk Art Fest
NOVA will be at the Cinco de Mayo Folk Art Fest. Will you? (10″x9″; hooked with wool strips, recycled silk sari yarns, old t-shirts, wool yarn, and old ribbons.

*As usual, if you mention High on Hooking’s blog post, take 10% off HoH’s prices.

 

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