HeyTaos · Arts & Culture
Working artists connected to Taos County across painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, jewelry, fashion and textiles, printmaking, land art, and multidisciplinary practice. Some sell directly or through galleries; others maintain noncommercial practices. Public studios, gallery placements, exhibitions, commissions, and purchase channels are included only when current information can be verified.
Taos-based landscape and nature photographer
Taos photographer and videographer whose work is rooted in Northern New Mexico landscapes, skies, storms, adobe, and mountain horizons. Signed fine-art prints are available through his current online portfolio.
View the Complete GuidePainter / Acrylic & Watercolor
Taos painter working in acrylic and watercolor, with figurative and experimental work shaped by a vivid primary palette and memories of Latin America. She settled in Taos in 1990 and is a signature member and president of the Taos Watercolor Society.
Where to See the Work
2026 Exhibitions
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Artist / Educator / Community Arts Organizer
Artist, educator, and community arts organizer with a BA in Fine Art from Colorado College. She joined Taos Center for the Arts in 2022 and currently serves as its Communications and Development Manager, with a practice centered on art, community building, and hands-on creative work.
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Visual Artist / Land Art & Installation
Northern New Mexico visual artist working with sculpture, installation, ritual environments, sound, story, land, and ecology. Through Earth Bhakti, she creates site-specific land altars and shrines from natural materials and develops gatherings and workshops around place, attention, and creative practice.
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Textile & Fused Glass Artist
Taos artist working in handwoven clothing and fused dichroic-glass jewelry.
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Pyrography / Wood-Burned Art / Mixed Media
Artist Elisabeth Darby works in pyrography, wood-burned art, illustration, and mixed media. Her artwork is shared publicly on Instagram under the handle @whittlingwren.
Fine Art Photographer / Photo Workshops
Photographer who chose still photography as his primary medium and moved to Taos in 1988. His work focuses on the landscapes, villages, architecture, nature, and skies of Northern New Mexico and the Southwest.
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Santero / Woodcarver / Lithographer
Talpa-based santero and full-time artist whose practice grows from New Mexico devotional art and a family background in Latin American art conservation. He creates hand-carved bultos and retablos as well as stone lithographs, combining traditional techniques with original design.
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Taos Pueblo Artist
Taos Pueblo-born and raised artist who identifies his creativity and artistic practice with his Pueblo ancestry and New Mexico upbringing. His public artist profile presents original artwork and directs collectors and followers to his social channels.
Multidisciplinary Artist / Painting & Sculpture
Taos multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and painting, with additional work in installation, film, and public art. Her 2026 record includes a solo exhibition at the Taos Art Museum’s Fechin Studio and group exhibitions at Stables Gallery and Zane Bennett Gallery.
2026 Exhibitions
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Ceramic Artist / Atmospheric Firing
Ceramic artist who moved to Taos in 2006 to help build a ceramics community and later turned to making pots full time. His vessels draw on the high-desert landscape and are fired atmospherically with wood, salt, and soda rather than relying primarily on glaze.
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Sculptor / Drawing Artist
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Taos-born artist creating drawings and sculpture in materials that include pencil, bronze, and ceramic. Her work combines scientific inquiry, mythology, cosmology, politics, and human emotion, with the human form remaining a central subject.
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Oil Painter / Contemporary Taos Art
Taos painter whose oil paintings draw on memory, personal experience, and the distinctive light and color of Northern New Mexico. She moved to Taos in 1986 and now paints from her home and studio, using expressive color, strong pattern, and a folk-inspired sensibility.
Where to See the Work
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Potter / Ceramic Artist
Ceramic artist who moved to Taos in summer 2025 to apprentice with Logan Wannamaker and continue studying atmospheric firing. His work is primarily functional ware, using facets and slip to create surfaces that interact with flame and ash during firing.
Where to See the Work
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Lens-Based Mixed Media Artist
Lens-based mixed media artist combining photography with pan pastels, oil paint, encaustic medium, gold leaf, and other layered processes to create painterly images informed by nature and Romanticism. She moved to Taos permanently in 1993.
Where to See the Work
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Fashion & Textile Designer / Artist
Taos Pueblo fashion and textile designer and founder of PMWaterlily Designs. Her practice brings Indigenous artistry, cultural storytelling, hand-worked textiles, and contemporary fashion together, with work shown on national and international stages.
2026 Highlight
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Taos Pueblo Artist / Painter & Carver
Taos Pueblo-born and raised artist working as a painter, woodworker, and stone carver. His work depicts traditional Pueblo themes and uses locally sourced materials.
Where to See the Work
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Painter & Printmaker
Taos painter and printmaker known for singular monotypes that can incorporate watercolor and collage, alongside painting and mixed-media work. His imagery layers figures, symbols, landscapes, and imagined spaces.
Where to See the Work
2026 Exhibition
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Jeweler / Silversmith
New Mexico jeweler working in silver since 1986. He hand-makes his stamps from cold-rolled steel and continues a distinctive pattern language associated with his late brother, Michael Montaño; his current work includes stamped silver and turquoise jewelry.
Where to See the Work
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Photographer / Filmmaker / Visual Artist
Taos photographer, journalist, filmmaker, and visual artist working across photography, moving image, painting, and digital storytelling rooted in Northern New Mexico.
Taos Art Context
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Watercolor Artist / Original Paintings
Local artist creating original handmade watercolor works. Home-based studio visits are available by appointment; work is also available for local pickup or shipping.
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Ceramic Artist / Sculpture
Ceramic artist focused on tiles, sculpture, and large vessels, working from her Raven’s Nest studio. Her figurative and narrative ceramic work includes human, animal, and symbolic imagery.
2026 Exhibition
Photographic Artist / Nature & Landscape
Taos-based photographic artist documenting landscapes, wildlife, weather, roads, and the everyday visual character of Northern New Mexico. Photography is her artistic medium, with the work centered on observation of the natural environment and life around Taos.
Use the related HeyTaos guides for galleries, current exhibitions and events, and the broader cultural context around artists working in and around Taos.
