NM Arts Showcase
Artist Showcase: New Mexico’s Diverse Artistic Community
New Mexico is one of the most culturally diverse of states and is home to thousands of artists, artisans, actors, performers, musicians, dancers, writers, film makers, and others. Santa Fe boasts the highest number of artists per capita in any U.S. city, and is the first designated UNESCO Creative City in the nation. We are honored to showcase, on a rotating basis, the rich bounty of creative individuals that contribute to New Mexico’s creative sector.
Current Showcase: Bone Springs Art Space in Roswell, NM
Roswell, population 48,422, is home to a wealth of non- and for-profit arts/culture organizations and individual artists and entrepreneurs that contribute to the synergy of a flourishing creative sector and a growing local economy. One for-profit arts organization stands out as an excellent example of a successful renovation and repurposing project near the downtown.
Bone Springs Art Space was opened in 2018 by ceramic artist and former Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program fellow, Miranda Howe. Bone Springs is a successful arts-fueled renovation that transformed a historic industrial warehouse into an art space with a ceramic studio, classroom, art gallery, gift shop, and living space for the artist/owner. The living space is still under construction, however the remainder of the facility is open to the public for classes and workshops, film/book/art discussions, rotating exhibitions featuring local and regional artists, and event rentals. Bone Springs Art Space is an example of a viable small art business that contributes to the local economy and can serve as a model for other artist developed spaces.
Howe holds a BFA degree in Ceramics from Texas Tech University and an MFA degree from Montana State University. Besides the Roswell residency program, Howe has been awarded fellowships with the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, the LH Project, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Kohler Arts/Industry Residency. Howe and Bone Springs were featured in “Making It,” an article in the October 2022 issue of New Mexico Magazine.
Bone Springs’ current exhibition, Observations and Fabrications: Stephen Fleming and Maria Rucker, continues through January 21, 2023. The exhibition features Fleming’s landscape paintings and Rucker’s carved stone sculptures; both artists using different media to reference geologic elements of the Roswell area. Fleming and Rucker also share an affiliation with the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program: Fleming as a resident fellow from 1986-1987 and its Program Director from 1994-2019; Rucker a resident fellow from 1999-2000.
Bone Springs Art Space, 212 East Walnut Street, Roswell, NM 88203. 575-208-0916.