High Desert is New Mexico’s first master-planned, sustainable community in the foothills of our exquisite Sandia Mountains and the Cibola National Forest. Home to dozens of artists and creatives, High Desert hosts an annual studio tour to share the beauty we make with our friends and art-loving neighbors around Albuquerque.
join us for the 14th High Desert Studio Tour on December 8, 2024
Just follow the purple balloons!
Allen Morrison
Allen's passion for photography birthed from an unexpected trip to the Galapagos Islands in 2014. Hooked from the first press of the shutter attempting to capture what he really saw with his own eyes. 9 years later, Allen is the co-owner of Land of Enchantment Photography - Art Gallery, a thriving photographic gallery in Old Town Albuquerque that showcases the Southwest. Allen's passion is capturing and teaching photographers the art of cultivating one's own style in the digital era of photography akin to Ansel Adam's workflow where over 50% of the creative process of making an image occurs in post-processing. Allen's work specializes in landscapes, astrophotography, wildlife and hot air ballooning.
www.landofenchantmentphotography.com
Studio Tour Address: 13601 Quaking Aspen Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111
Allison Jones Hunt
Allison Jones Hunt is an abstract painter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work uses color, intuitive form, and layers dancing between chaos and control to channel the full emotional spectrum, offering a permission slip to feel it all. Her creative practice uses the embodied act of painting as somatic processing and healing for herself, the viewer, and the world at large. Her paintings serve as visual reminders to feel all our feelings—and use them to create both the lives we want to live and the world in which we want to live them.
allisonjoneshunt.com
Studio Tour Address: 13215 Bighorn Road NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Andrea bisignani
What started out as a hobby over 20 years ago, has turned into a creative business that allows me to share my craft with others by selling gifts and teaching classes. I love all the fun techniques and mediums that can be incorporated into paper crafting, such as watercolors, alcohol inks, embossing, and more. Furthermore, paper crafting is fun and forgiving. Crafts on the Move loves bringing crafts to life by teaching virtual and in person classes.
Crafts on the Move
Studio Tour Address: 13515 Osage Orange Rd NE Albuquerque, NM 87111
Paula Heffner
The joy of painting with watercolor for me is about the fluidity of the medium and the happy surprises can happen even when you think you are in control. I love challenging myself to continually try new subject matter and techniques and enjoy painting landscapes, flowers, animals, still life and portraits.
Studio Tour Address: 13709 Ricegrass Pl. NE Albuquerque, NM 87111
Andy Kilbury
Andy has been experimenting with all kinds of artistic media since childhood, but sewing has always been there in the background. Lately, following a detour into interior design, she has been making small fabric home goods and other accessories. She loves playing with colorful fabrics and unusual materials of various weights, and tries never to repeat a combination!
Studio Tour Address: 6319 Calla Lily Circle NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Dagmar Beinenz-Byrd
Dagmar is a fiber artist who offers a wide variety of colorful hand dyed yarns, celebrating the beauty of the Land of Enchantment. In addition to her yarns you can find hand-knit fingerless mitts, many of them from hand-spun yarns, as well as zippered bags, made from high quality cotton fabrics.
www.ziawoolz.com
Studio Tour Address: 13701 Elena Gallegos Pl NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
JJ PArsons
JJ’s art career began over a decade ago combining a love for jewelry making with watercolor & acrylic painting. Through classes from local artists, she learned silversmithing and creates unique sterling, brass and painted watercolor jewelry. She is a self taught acyclic painter and her medium and large scale work evolves either from the beauty of nature in the southwest or her own abstracts designs on canvas.
http://jjparsonsdesigns.com/
Studio Tour Address: 13515 Osage Orange Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Laura Salamy
At High on Hooking we do “not so traditional” rug hooking. That is, the mats and rugs aren’t necessarily fashioned using only woolen strips or yarn. We prefer to use old textiles (especially old t-shirts and bed sheets!), funky fabrics, and notions like yarns and ribbon. Cutting cloth strips by hand to a fairly broad width gives each mat a bit of a rustic and bulky charm, creating something you can really sink your toes into. They look good on the wall too. And don’t forget to try them on benches and tables.
highonhooking.com
Studio Tour Address: 13701 Elena Gallegos Pl NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Mary Cornish
Mary Cornish took up painting when her daughter left the nest about 26 years ago. She took private lessons from a couple of local artists and found that painting was food for the soul. She started with acrylics and then painted with oil. She is now taken with watercolors and
mixed media. Her style and likes are diverse from Southwest to abstract. But she loves color vs monochromatic.
Studio Tour Address: 13515 Osage Orange Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Mary Martin
From the time I could hold a crayon, I wanted to be an artist. Happily, throughout school I was always “the one who could draw” so I became a junior high school Art Teacher - then an Art Director/Creative Director at two advertising agencies in Chicago. But it wasn’t until 1999 when my husband sculptor William Freer and I were lured to New Mexico - with its crystal skies, heroic landscapes and color everywhere - that I started to take art seriously. My paintings are varied from oil portraits, to acrylic abstracts, to still life pastels,
and I look forward to sharing them with you in December!
marymartinartist.com
Studio Tour Address: 6220 Buffalo Hills Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Sarah Lovell
I received my first degree from the Colorado Institute of Art and then was attending UNM for ceramics when my son was born premature. I then pursued my degree in nursing at UNM to gain the knowledge I would need to care for my child that would have many health care needs. That child has grown into a strong healthy young man and I have recently been able to reunite with my passion for pottery after sixteen years as an ICU nurse. All of my work is inspired by nature. I love to bring nature and color into the functional world to brighten everyday life.
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Studio Tour Address: 13701 Elena Gallegos Pl NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Thea Berg
Thea started beading about 18 years ago after taking a class in creating a bracelet with a freeform and intricate peyote stitch. Selling her jewelry occurred to her after a flight attendant bought her new bracelet right off her wrist. Since then she has branched out into a variety of different necklace and bracelet designs, incorporating beads found during her travel in various parts of the world. In order to find a venue for sharing her work, she started the High Desert Studio Tour in 2009 featuring 11 local artists.
thea.berg43@gmail.com
Studio Tour Address: 13515 Osage Orange Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
William Freer
I am a contemporary artist who works in bronze, steel, paper and glass. Each work is designed to capture shadows or accentuate color and light. My sculptures are chosen by residents here in High Desert and by collectors internationally. These are a few of the pieces commissioned by our neighbors. I look forward to seeing you!
williamfreerstudio.com
Studio Tour Address: 6220 Buffalo Hills Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Stephen Kim Williamson
I have traveled the world half of my life and have now lived in New Mexico for 35 years. My life’s adventures have helped me become the artist I am today. My love of colors come from the many amazing places I have visited. I enjoy surrounding myself with art and the stories that come with each piece. I hope you find your own story in my paintings.
https://www.instagram.com/stephenkimwilliamson
Studio Tour Address: 13516 Quaking Aspen Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111
Stephen Kim Williamson
I have traveled the world half of my life and have now lived in New Mexico for 35 years. My life’s adventures have helped me become the artist I am today. My love of colors come from the many amazing places I have visited. I enjoy surrounding myself with art and the stories that come with each piece. I hope you find your own story in my paintings.
https://www.instagram.com/stephenkimwilliamson
Studio Tour Address: 13516 Quaking Aspen Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111
Karen Macek
I am primarily a palette knife artist working in oils. My work centers on the Southwest terrain in an intuitive style. With a focus on color and shape, I let my knife guide me as to whether the painting will concentrate on a definitive scene or an expression of feeling.
Studio Tour Address: 6319 Calla Lily Circle NE Albuquerque, NM 87111
LEah Sandman
A native of Albuquerque, Leah Sandman has been working as a graphic designer for over 25 years. She began taking lessons on the pottery wheel in late 2021 and immediately became hooked! Currently Leah focuses on functional pieces but is constantly striving to improve and learn more.
Studio Tour Address: 13709 Ricegrass Pl NEAlbuquerque, NM 87111
Lisa Brunacini
My work centers on functional pieces, both wheel-thrown and hand-built.
www.lisabrunacini.com
Studio Tour Address: 13709 Ricegrass Pl NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
