Taos Fall Arts exhibits On Friday evening, the Taos Fall Arts Festival opened in downtown Taos, with the Taos Open section at the Stables Gallery and Coronado Hall at UNM Taos, and the juried Taos Selects at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church gymnasium.  At the same time under a nearly full moon, The Paseo, a multi-media event, offered a broad spectrum of innovative presentations throughout the downtown area.  Without a doubt, "TaranTula" by Christina Sporrong, garnered the most attention.  It was an appropriate installation, since tarantulas are on the move at this time of year.

TaranTula by Christina Sporrong  If you are in northern New Mexico this week or during the coming weekend, I would encourage you to find all the jewels that were entered in this year's event.  Taos Selects and Taos Open are open daily from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. through Sunday, 4 October.  You can get a map with locations at either the Stables Gallery or Our Lady of Guadalupe Church gymnasium.  In conjunction with Taos Fall Arts, the Wool Festival will be held 3 and 4 October in Kit Carson Park from 9 a.m - 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday.  Three of the vendors will be Betty and George Sullivan (left and right), and Fred Black (middle), whose work can also be seen at Taos Selects.  Here are this year's entrants.

Weaving Taos Fall Arts Festival

You may wonder why I titled today's blog Artists' Moon.  As if to officially welcome the art events in Taos this weekend, a "blood moon" followed by a full lunar eclipse was clearly visible in New Mexico last night.  It was the fourth in a series of blood moon and eclipses that some feel predicts doom and/or change.  I like to think of it as a good sign for art, education, and wisdom in the world.  The photographs below are not worthy of Sky and Telescope or any other magazine, but with my 70-200 mm lens, camera set at 2500 ASA, and windowsill serving as tripod, these are a few shots from last night.  You begin to see the color as the eclipse begins.
Blood moon

  The second shot is just as the eclipse becomes more apparent, and before a rogue cloud temporarily obscured the moon.

Blood moon-2

The color enabled me to see some of the moon's surface patterns.

Blood moon-3

until next Monday,

DB

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