Queer at Folk: Doin' the ABQ Art Circuit

New Mexico has so much great art, and the quality is just as high as that of the people making it. I have found other artists here to be helpful and supportive, in addition to being supertalented!

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to do my first folk art festival thanks to Kenny Chavez, who is a local ABQ folk art icon. Kenny Chavez's Annual Cinco de Mayo Folk Art & Musical Festival took place at La Parada Mercantile on Albuquerque's Antique Mile.

I finally have some of my masks on the walls of a gallery in Old Town. If you are in the Albuquerque area check-out Desert Intarsia. They have wonderful jewelry by Brian and Stacey Maggard, as well as pottery, paintings, and now masks! I’m including some pics of Brian’s spectacular museum-quality stone intarsia jewelry as well as shots of my work available there right on the Plaza.

Here is a brief video of Kenny Chavez’s Annual Cinco de Mayo Folk Art & Music Festival this past Saturday. It was a lot of fun. I made some new friends and didn’t get too soaked in the “monsoon” that followed at about 4 p.m., bringing things down a notch. Enjoy the sites—really beautiful!

Senseless Folk Art and Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day! To all you who don't have a Valentine this year, just pretend that I'm all yours. There's lots of me to go around. You won't have to worry that you will or won't get a box of chocolates, and if you're not really interested in getting a big wet kiss, well you DEFINITELY won't have to fret about that because it's not likely to happen with me...unless you're Nathan Fillion or Jason O'Mara or Hugh Jackman!

Okay, I'm the first person to put it out there that I am not much of a painter. That's why I do folk art. Since my 5 x 7 piece finally sold up in Woodstock, I've somehow decided that I'm an artist and am now in the process of transferring would-be character subjects for wirescreen and papier mache masks onto canvas. These are a few of my new creations. I guess they are what they are. The good news is that they are much better than what I could have done in the second grade! Enjoy.

(Some works in progress)










Here is a finished piece: