CHAC

CHAC Gallery Artist Show: Somos Aztlan

           Somos Aztlan  Forms - Figures - Symbols

      Opening Night, First Friday, August 7, 6-10 PM

Exhibition Dates:  August 5 thru August 29, 2009

Gallery Hours:  Wed & Thurs 10 AM to 4 PM,  Friday   12 Noon to 10 PM,  Saturday  12 Noon to 4 PM

Somos Aztlan Featured Artists

       Stevon Lucero - Daniel Luna - Javier Flores

           David Ocelotl Garcia - Michael Penny

             Michael Canada - Robert Maestas

Frida & Diego, Passion & Storms, 2009

 

The food was hot, the music was cool and the tequila was burnin'!

Frida sitings were everywhere.  If you missed it, you missed it, but you can still check out the photos on the website! 

See you next year, Frida!

CHAC Norte La Galleria Cocina

Three Ladies and a Gentleman

Join us for a great multi-media art show featuring the work of several new artists to the CHAC Familia including artists:

Pegi Taylor who specializes in landscapes, floral and pets.         Linda Wilcox who works with oils, acrylics and mixed media. Beverly Green who specializes in pet portraits, animals and landscapes.  Stevon Lucero is showing his vivid works in La Cocina.

We will also be featuring a great new metal sculpture artist who has some amazing wall and floor pieces in fantastic colors that will blow your mind!

CHAC Norte Front Gallery

Rebecca Rozales creates a strong and simple purpose of the human expression through her acrylic paintings and other mixed media. Rebecca has been creating her art combining spirit and soul for over thirty years and is a full time artist.
 

Please come meet the artists August 7th-2009, from 6- 10pm and will run all month.

Contact Rebecca at: 720-331-8768 artm72@rebeccarozales or visit Rebecca’s web site www.rebeccarozales.com

Ian Rumley is a new member with CHAC. Working as a vibrant Tattoo artist and painter, Ian started creating art in his teens. Ian is finishing up his BFA and is now teaching drawing and painting.

Visitors walk through our visual gauntlet of art and become aware of the relationship between art and life.

“Art is not only a business but a business expression.”  WEB.MAC.COM/IANRUMLEY

 

Ian is also in CHAC Norte Front Gallery.

CHAC Norte Gallerys A and B

Gallery A:  Lionel Holy Elk Face

Lionel Holy Elk Face will show original works in Gallery A for the month of August.

Gallery B:  Robert Martinez

Robert Martinez's ongoing show at CHAC Norte explores the potential of basic shapes in a new acrylic series.  Native American studies are also featured. www.robertmar.com            ---->>>

 

CHAC Norte South Wall

Suzanne Martino

Suzanne's witty mixed media work continues this month on the south wall of CHAC Norte during August. Starting with a single object, her montages explore themes of personal geography.

 

Chile Harvest Festival 2009

August Just Got Hotter in Lakewood!
Chile Harvest Festival August 29 & 30
at Lakewood’s Heritage Center

This summer, a Colorado tradition will bring people to Lakewood’s Heritage Center to celebrate traditional and contemporary Spanish Colonial art, music, food and chiles, chiles, chiles. Thanks to a partnership between the City of Lakewood and the Chicano Humanities & Arts Council, the Chile Harvest Festival will be in full swing August 29 & 30 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m . at Lakewood’s Heritage Center (Wadsworth and Ohio), 801 S. Yarrow Street. Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for children (ages 3-12). With plenty of free parking available.

The festival will feature up to 45 artists, showcasing both contemporary and traditional art forms including music, dancing and storytelling as well as many other cultural and art activities for the kids.

Several local restaurants will be on site, serving authentic Mexican cuisine along with other specialty foods featuring chiles. And of course, there will be nonstop chile roasting, so stock-up your freezer with chiles for the winter. Demonstrators will be showcasing the art of making traditional chile ristras: dried chiles strung together to be used in cooking throughout the year or just for decoration.

The Chile Harvest Festival is an outreach effort to educate, enlighten and entertain the community with the many different facets of Chicano and Latino culture. Its goal is to give people a well-rounded cultural experience. Proceeds from the event support HCA and CHAC programs.

Lakewood Heritage, Culture & the Arts programs are made possible in part through funding from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) – metro Denver's unique commitment to its nonprofit art, science and cultural institutions and the Denver Post. Chile Harvest Festival partners include Tedford Katz, Noodles & Company, Carmichael Chiropractic, El Semanario and KUSA 9NEWS.

For more information call 303-987-7859 or visit www.Lakewood.org/HCA.

Kid's Art Saturday -- 3rd Saturday

Bring your kids to Kid's Art Saturday on August 15th, the 3rd Saturday from 2 to 4 pm for a fun day.

Poetry Y Mas -- 2nd Saturday

Poetry Y Mas -- 2nd Saturday  Join us for poetry on August 8th from 2 to 4 PM.  Participate in the reading or just listen for a well spent afternoon. 

Meet the Staff -- Joe N. Martinez

CHAC's Official Photographer Joe Ned Martinez

Joe is a native of Denver, Colorado.  He resides in the north Denver area, and is a retiree of the supermarket business.  He enjoys photography as a hobby.  Most of his photography is of Colorado and New Mexico landscapes.  Joe is a self-taught photographer. 

 Joe’s photographs have appeared at Chac Gallery, Taza de Cafe and Metal Master at Heritage Square.  Joe’s color photographs were selected for Chac Art Galleries 4th annual regional photography Exhibition in 2007 and was awarded third place. 

"I have enjoyed photography since I was young.  And used my Mom’s old Polaroid SX 70 camera.  Today I use a Nikon 35 mm SLR film camera.  When I take my photos, it is therapy, a feeling of Serenity, A calming of my mind-just me and My camera and what I see through the lens.  I know that every photo I take is of a moment in Time, remembering that moment will never Happen again, Joe Ned Martinez :  One day at a time”

CHAC is on Facebook!

CHAC has a Facebook page so find us and add us as a friend.  Make comments on the shows and socialize with other members.  Link to us here and keep up to date. 

The Chile Harvest Festival is also on Facebook.  Link to it here!  See you online. 

CHAC Grandfathers

This wonderful photo of four proud men was snapped by Daniel Smith @ Your Hub

Jerry Jaramillo

Carlos Santistevan

Stevon Lucero

Al Sanchez

Center for the Arts Evergreen (CAE)

August at the Art Center - CAE  32003B Ellingwood Trail, next to the Buchanan Rec Ctr. at Hwy 74 & Squaw Pass Road   www.evergreenarts.org 

Contemporary Latino Show - July 31st to August 21st   Opening reception July 31st from 5 PM to 8 PM at CAE

Latin Music Soiree - August 2nd - 5 PM  A very special concert with Peggy Lyon & ECO at CAE

Brown Bag Lunch - August 5th  Artists from the current exhibit to speak - CAE 12 Noon to 1pm

Paint, Sculpt, "Shoot Out" - August 8th  Downtown Evergreen - 9 AM to 6 PM  Auction begins at 4 PM.  Call to register.

Mark Nelson Exhibit - August 28th to Septmber 18th  Opening reception August 28th from 5 PM to 8 PM at CAE

Also Showing at:  Buchanan Rec. Center:  Cathy Jones - August & September   Rotary Gallery:  Betsy Buckner - July & August