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ARTIST MARY BEAGLE

Mary Beagle is first artist at DAAC’s new location

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Las Cruces artist Mary Beagle is the Doña Ana Arts Council’s (DAAC) featured artist for the month of September, and her paintings and sculptures will be the first series displayed at DAAC’s new home, 250 W. Amador Ave., at the corner of Amador and Alameda Boulevard.

Before moving to New Mexico eight years ago, Beagle and her husband, David, took part in numerous outdoor juried art shows in New England.

Mary said she paints with oils and David does all the custom framing. Her Native American-themed art has been a change from the usual landscapes and seascapes seen in New England, Beagle said, “so there was a special niche for her art with collectors of the western genre.”

As research for her work, Mary and David said they have travelled to Native American gatherings throughout New England and the Southwest. Many of her Latino-themed paintings are done from photographs taken around Mesilla and Santa Fe.

In 2005 and 2008, Mary Beagle said she attended the Southwest Stone Carving Workshop in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, where she found a new medium of expression in limestone, alabaster, calcite and marble, while working with sculptors Rollie Grandbois, Cliff Fragua, Jon DeCelles, Tim Nicola, T. Barney and others.

Beagle’s art has been shown in galleries in Connecticut, Santa Fe and Las Cruces. Her work also has been featured in Southwest Art, Art of the West and Cowboys and Indians magazines.

DAAC is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and will have extended gallery hours noon-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12.

Contact DAAC at 575-523-6403 or visit www.daarts.org.


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