Kids art featured at Double Six Gallery

Copyright © 2008
Gallup Independent
By Helen Davis
Cibola County Bureau

GRANTS — Crownpoint Middle School students will beat the adults to holding an opening for the Double Six Gallery’s latest show.

The gallery, which hangs four new shows a year, will hold an opening for the four newly hung shows on Nov. 15, but the Crownpoint student artists will hold a special opening today at 1 p.m.. The show is the first student show of the academic year and runs till 3 p.m. with students present.

Gallery director Robert Gallegos said the Crownpoint teacher who gave the rural students the assignment to “make a picture that tells a story” is former gallery assistant director, Sherri Carattini.

The students and Carattini are invited to the big opening next weekend, Gallegos said, but have arranged today’s event because Carattini cannot be in town next weekend. Gallegos said he hopes the eighth-grade students can come back for opening of the four exhibit fall show but added, “It is a long way to come.”

The Double Six Gallery, home of the Cibola Art and Artifact Museum in Grants, keeps one wall for student art exhibits over the school year. Student exhibits often feature one school or one theme and rotate through the school year until the wall closes in May.

Those who cannot attend the main opening on Nov. 15 will be able to view all the exhibits for the fall show today and start holiday shopping while the selection is still large.

Other exhibits on view include the Mount Taylor semi-annual quilt show featuring stunning handiwork ranging in size from place-mat dimensions to coverings for large walls — or big beds. Prices range from around $50 to several thousand dollars.

At the other end of things, the Liliputian Exhibit does not take up much room but offers tiny affordable works from Agnes Peynesta, David Carr, Angela Studer and Fran Barbano.

Shoppers and art supporters can still see the ceramics shows, with new Zuni and Navajo offers among the works of Grants area artists in the members show.

Information: Double Six Gallery/ Cibola Art and Artifact Museum, 1001 W. Santa Fe Ave., Grants; (505) 287-7311. On the Web: http://www.cac66.com. Open 1 p.m. till 5 p.m. Tuesday though Saturday; hours extended till 9 p.m. on Fridays.