We are on edge here in Silver City due to a wildfire northeast of town. June is a predictably dry and hot month. The winds make it difficult for the hardworking firefighters and other rescue personnel to perform their jobs. We are grateful for their efforts. The fire is still quite a distance from town, but many smaller communities are on alert, and some are under evacuation. Nigel and I live in Arenas Valley, which is currently in a ready zone, so we are prepared to leave if needed. We remain optimistic and look forward to the rain on Tuesday.
We are very grateful to all of you who joined our new membership program and donated to the building maintenance fund. Thank you.
Here are the links for those who missed it:
https://lightartspace.com/annual-membership/
Donate to our Building Maintenance Fund
Call for Alternative Process Photography!
The deadline has been extended to June 24th.
Submit at: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=15321 
Juror Annie Lopez (https://annielopezartist.com/).
The deadline to submit has been EXTENDED TO June 24th.
Submit at:
https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=15321
Congratulations to the following artists who were accepted into the Perception exhibition:
Mary Angell, Caitlin Benson, Jasmine Beul, Sally Brogden, Marie Brown, Vincent Burke, Rachel Estrada, Jasper Eyrich-Bingham, Carolyn Fisch, Ashley Gauntt, Drew Harrington, Colleen Hench, Karina Knutzen, Justin Leavitt, Stephanie Lebaudour, Susan Mach, Amy Maule, Mercy Neumark, Tori Nicoletti, Dina Perlasca, Amber Ransom, Amber Riordan, Jenna Ritter, Cirrelda Snider-Bryan, Mathew Wheeler, Mary Clare Wilkinson, Betsy Williams.
Two clay exhibitions open on July 3rd. Perception and It’s a Fine Line
Join us for the opening reception on July 4th from 5 to 7 p.m.
Join us for the CLAY festival from July 14th to 20th.
We will feature a retrospective, “Transformed: The Visionary Art of Joel Armstrong,” from July 24th to August 16th.
Joel has been a Light Art Space artist for 6 years and an essential member of the Silver City art community. Although his illness saddens us, we are so grateful to have him in our lives.
“Transformed: The Visionary Art of Joel Armstrong” celebrates the extraordinary artistic legacy of a prolific multi-media artist through his three children’s loving eyes as they honor his life’s work and his final rite of passage. Spanning decades of creation—from masterful colored pencil portraits and figure studies to transcendent wire installations—Joel’s pieces reveal an artistic master who understood art’s power to transform materials and human experience. Joel’s work reflects his deep commitment to authentic expression and radical acceptance, even while courageously navigating his journey with bipolar disorder. This intensely personal retrospective presents his art not as a commercial product, but as the transformative vision of a true master—work that celebrates the full complexity of being human and marks the sacred transition of an artist whose creative legacy will endure.
