Emelina Medina ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Emelina Medina is a resident of Questa and student at Questa Junior Senior High School. Her piece approaches the theme of home via celebration of family and her love for fishing.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Diane de Fremery ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Diane de Fremery is a life-long artist; originally from California she now lives north of Questa, NM. Her piece reflects her search for beauty, inspiration and meaning in the midst of the intense stress and tragedy of the pandemic – “an assemblage of collected items that were either sent to me for inspiration or gathered by me during these stressful times.”
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
David Vargo ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
David Vargo, originally from Cleveland Ohio, has lived in Lama, New Mexico since 2000. His piece explores the wholesomeness and beauty of home and also the pain and confusion when one’s private space is violated – “the antithesis of home.”
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Danielle Lacome ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Danielle LaCome is a resident of Questa and student at Questa Junior Senior High School. In her piece she uses carefully chosen images and symbols in a variety of artistic mediums to represent her homeplace, family and school life in Questa.
Find images and artist statement HERE.
Crystal and Ariessa Medina ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artists
Crystal and Ariessa Medina created their cube artwork as a mother-daughter team. Crystal (mother) is a Salon owner, Ariessa (daughter) is in the medical field working toward a nursing degree. Their piece reflects on 2020 as “a year of awakening” and how they “survived locked in the box this year has given us” by leaning “toward the simplicity of home.”
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Connie Long ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Connie Long is a builder of home and family and wood toymaker living and working north of Questa, NM. Her piece represents an Air B&B for migrating birds and the “uplift” that she’s felt by providing for, observing and learning about the incredible qualities and human advocates of “these feathered wonders.”
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Cathy Hope ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Cathy Hope is a life-long artist, whose primary medium has been aroma; she lives north of Questa. Her piece pays homage to the many birds that have made their nests on her property for over thirty years alongside her own parallel habitation of her land and home.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Carol Schrader ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Today’s Featured Artist: Carol Schrader is an artist and middle school art teacher living and working in Santa Fe. Her piece explores themes of deception, enchantment and escape, inspired by her own childhood dream world.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection HERE.
Ashton McKenney ~ NeoRio HOME Featured Artist
Today’s Featured Artist: Ashton McKenney, a student at Questa Junior Senior High School. His piece explores “how confused and contained people’s happiness is right now.” Find images and artist statement HERE.
Anne-Marie Emanuelli – NeoRio Home Featured Artist
Today’s NeoRio Featured Artist is Anne-Marie Emanielli of Mindful Frontiers. Her piece explores her experience and expanded notion of home during the pandemic.
Find images, artist statement and audio reflection at her page in the online exhibition HERE.
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