Artists of the Month & New Artists

Artists of the Month: September 2022

Nanci Bissell

Nanci is a graduate of Texas A&M University of Commerce Texas, having a BS and Master’s degree in education with a minor in art studies. She has been an educator, teacher, assistant principal, and principal in the elementary schools, retiring after 26 years in the school business. Nanci’s paintings have been exhibited at numerous art shows. Nanci’s artistic interests include seascapes, street scenes, landscapes and people.

Steve Martin

Steve was a geographer, historian, and criminologist, spending 29 years protecting natural, historic, and cultural resources on public lands throughout the Western U.S. He retired to pursue his photographic creations. As a self-taught photographer, he strives to create public awareness for protecting and preserving our nation’s public lands through the medium of digital photography.

New Gallery Artist

Jean Wilkey

Jean’s art starts with color, with a momentary glance at something previously unseen, with a feeling. She paints worlds populated with plants, animals, people, and objects, that blur the line between indoor and outdoor, between still life and landscape. Her compositions incorporate personal symbolism that becomes a metaphor for our relationship to the animal kingdom, to nature and to our spiritual and physical selves. Wilkey’s art has appeared in Southwest Art and Exploring TOSCA magazines and is in private collections in the United States and abroad. She holds an MFA in painting and has taught at New Mexico State University, the University of El Paso, and Doña Ana Community College. She currently teaches painting in her Las Cruces studio.

In addition, the gallery artists offer art in many media, which include:
original paintings, photography, jewelry, ceramics, fabric collage,
stained glass and gourds, as well as affordable note cards and prints.
For further information please call 575-522-2933.