El Morro Area Arts Council
The El Morro Area Arts Council is a vibrant organization the celebrates diversity, thrives on the sharing of creative ideas through programs, exhibitions and workshops, and supports a community-centered activity hub for traditional and contemporary arts. Open to all who love arts & our community.
* SPECIAL EVENTS - concerts, theatrical productions, lectures, dances
* FESTIVALS - Mayfest, Fiber Festival, Holiday Crafts Fair
* ART EXHIBITIONS AND OPENINGS
* WORKSHOPS - art, crafts, wellness, gardening, self-expression
* ONGOING GROUPS - book discussion, Yoga, Tai Chi, visual journals, readers' theater, drumming & tribal dance, ceili dance
* CHILDREN AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING - annual student art exhibition, annual writing contest, annual summer art program--serving students of 11 area schools; monthly "Art Smart" classes for local homeschooled students
* MOVIE NIGHTS
* OPEN MIC NIGHTS
* QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER & MONTHLY EMAIL NOTICES of EMAAC and other community events and news
* COOPERATIVE PROGRAMMING with local Farmers Market, Ancient Way Restaurant, Inscription Rock Trading and Coffee Company, El Morro National Monument
* OWN AND OPERATE THE OLD SCHOOL GALLERY on NM 53, 1 mile east of El Morro National Monument. Open 11am to 5pm Thursdays through Mondays. Staffed by Executive Director and trained Docents. Funded by memberships, benefit events, business campaign, Gallery sales, and grants from New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and New Mexico Tourism.
1997
Paula D. Tripodi (22.5 hours per week paid)