Remarkable Women Alcove Shows — KENDRA RISINGER Glass Art

 

STARR INTERIORS presents the Glass Art of  KENDRA RISINGER

Glass Work - Kendra Risinger at Starr Interiors
Glass Work — Kendra Risinger at Starr Interiors

Kendra was born in South Dako­ta she lat­er lived in Wyoming. She than moved to Min­neso­ta for high­er edu­ca­tion. She received her degree in Occu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­py from Saint Cather­ine Uni­ver­si­ty, and now works for the Penasco school district.

Kendra and her hus­band, Dean, have anoth­er one of those clas­sic Taos sto­ries of how they end­ed up here in 2006 and nev­er left…this one has to do with a dog…

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The medi­um was the right one. She felt she could “con­verse” with glass. The col­or palette avail­able to work with was amaz­ing and end­less and she found she could now work in the bright, live­ly col­ors that she was so deeply addict­ed to.

The type of tech­nique Kendra uses is called fused glass. It is done using var­i­ous lay­ers of sheet glass that is cut, assem­bled and than fused in a kiln. Once it is fused togeth­er, it is than fired again at a low­er tem­per­a­ture and slumped into its dec­o­ra­tive and some­times func­tion­al shape.

Glass Work - Kendra Risinger at Starr Interiors
Glass Work — Kendra Risinger at Starr Interiors

Starr Inte­ri­ors is proud­ly host­ing Kendra Risinger’s beau­ti­ful and col­or­ful Glass Art Alcove Show as part of our spring and sum­mer 2012 exhibits cel­e­brat­ing The Remark­able Women of Taos.

Remembering Richard Enzer — Final Part

Remem­ber­ing Richard Enz­er – Part 3 — Final

by Susan­na Starr

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The fol­low­ing year, our work sched­ule togeth­er with Richard con­tin­ued and now he was liv­ing in anoth­er house with much more room, while we con­tin­ued liv­ing in the house that would be our Oax­a­ca home for many more years. There were still par­ties and art open­ings and din­ners out at places like El Sol y La Luna which was a restau­rant that fea­tured local musi­cians as well as art exhibits on the adobe walls. Food was served in the indoor cov­ered patio and being with Richard meant being with lots of peo­ple. He always seemed to have the aura of a rock star” and the years we spent togeth­er always seemed filled with ongo­ing adven­ture. Com­plete­ly devot­ed to the work of the Line of the Spir­it, being in the city was anoth­er thing and the cir­cle of friends that we were con­stant­ly involved with was always a col­or­ful one.

Richard Enzer & Susanna Starr in Starr Interior's Courtyard, Taos, New Mexico
Richard Enz­er & Susan­na Starr in Starr Inte­ri­or’s Court­yard, Taos, New Mexico

It was dur­ing these years that we formed the last­ing friend­ship with Mitzi Linn who was Richard’s “spir­i­tu­al advis­er.” It was also then that we were intro­duced to Domeni­co and his friend, both of them fair­ly recent­ly arrived from Italy. They cooked fab­u­lous pas­ta din­ners at Richard’s house, a pre­lude to the restau­rants that Domeni­co would own and oper­ate after he mar­ried a local Oax­a­ca girl, as beau­ti­ful as he was hand­some. Domeni­co is now the own­er of Piz­za Rus­ti­ca, a won­der­ful and well known restau­rant housed in one of the old con­vert­ed Oax­a­ca mansions.
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Miri­am got mar­ried to an archi­tect that she met through the Line of the Spir­it and left to raise a fam­i­ly. Abi took her place and I work with her still. She is my very close friend. Although Ser­gio moved on, we now have anoth­er art direc­tor who was just a child when we began work­ing togeth­er with Richard. Jace is Alta Gracia’s son, which makes it very con­ve­nient since he’s work­ing direct­ly with his moth­er, our extra­or­di­nary dye-mak­er. He and his fam­i­ly are all still very involved in pro­duc­ing spe­cial pieces for the Line of the Spir­it and Alta’s gar­dens are as mag­nif­i­cent as the col­ors she pro­duces for the yarns that hang out to dry in the strong Mex­i­can sunlight.

About five years ago we decid­ed to change the name of our gallery from La Uni­ca Cosa which we had for about thir­ty years, to our new name of Starr Inte­ri­ors. We had a par­ty to cel­e­brate and much to my sur­prise and great plea­sure Richard came. I cried, stirred by an emo­tion I didn’t know I had. He had been sick, I knew, and had sur­vived a kid­ney trans­plant. He looked old­er, but so did I. I flashed back to one of the first open­ings we had for the Line of the Spir­it short­ly after we formed our part­ner­ship. Richard bought me a very spe­cial huip­il from one of the sev­en regions of Oax­a­ca which I wore to that open­ing. It had been a num­ber of years since we had seen each oth­er, with Richard mov­ing onto the Roman­ian project after our part­ner­ship end­ed, and my con­tin­u­ing with the Oax­a­ca project. It was emo­tion­al for both of us and his smile was a reminder of many times we had work­ing togeth­er in those ear­ly years of the nine­teen nineties.

I think, too, of the time when the tele­phone rang one evening and it was Richard. I knew imme­di­ate­ly from his voice that some­thing had hap­pened but wasn’t pre­pared for the news that his son, Michael, had just been killed in a motor­cy­cle acci­dent. Michael was spend­ing time with his Dad in Oax­a­ca and it was Richard’s hope that his involve­ment would con­tin­ue. But that was not to be. It was a dev­as­ta­tion that only a par­ent could know. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, I knew from first­hand expe­ri­ence, hav­ing lost my own son, when he was younger than Michael, a num­ber of years earlier.

Now Richard, too, is gone, hav­ing passed away last year. Hard liv­ing took a toll, I’m sure, but it was the kind of life he chose and I think he enjoyed it “to the max.” There were dif­fi­cult moments but they always passed and what­ev­er hap­pened that appeared dis­rup­tive was always resolved. But his genius lives on in the con­tin­u­a­tion and flour­ish­ing of the Line of the Spir­it. Short­ly after we became part­ners, I rec­og­nized the need for a trade­mark which remains the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion for this stun­ning body of work. Although I have gone on to intro­duce some designs and col­ors of my own, the col­lec­tion still retains his ini­tial vision.

Alta con­tin­ues to do her mag­ic with mak­ing the col­ors. Abi con­tin­ues to keep every­thing togeth­er in Oax­a­ca, Jace con­tin­ues to vis­it each weaver on the project and sup­ply them with the mate­r­i­al they need to com­plete their indi­vid­ual pieces and the fine staff at Starr Inte­ri­ors con­tin­ues to present the Line of the Spir­it col­lec­tion in the three rooms that house the col­lec­tion. We con­tin­ue to use the hand-card­ed, hand- spun wools pre­pared on a drop spin­dle at a remote Zapotec Indi­an vil­lage high up in the moun­tains. How can I men­tion that vil­lage with­out men­tion­ing their oth­er claim to fame, the mak­ing of mescal in home-made stills. Which brings up the mem­o­ries of going there with Richard to buy wool and sam­pling each of the offer­ings of spe­cial mescal from the var­i­ous hous­es in that lit­tle vil­lage. What an adven­ture! That, too, is part of remem­ber­ing Richard.

Events at Starr Interiors — Book Signing & Weaving Demonstration

Father Bill & Mirabai Starr signing "Mother of God; Similar to Fire" at Starr Interiors, Taos, New Mexico
Father Bill & Mirabai Starr sign­ing “Moth­er of God; Sim­i­lar to Fire” at Starr Interiors

Peo­ple were lined up from one end to the oth­er of the Starr Gallery room at Starr Inte­ri­ors, Taos on Fri­day night (Sept. 24th) as Mirabai Starr and Father William McNi­chols (Father Bill) signed their new­ly released book Moth­er of God; Sim­i­lar to Fire*.

This exquis­ite book, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between both author and artist, presents a selec­tion of the icons of Father Bill’s with Mirabai’s accom­pa­ny­ing reflec­tions. The book is ded­i­cat­ed to the Fem­i­nine rep­re­sent­ed by Mary, Moth­er of God since she tran­scends any reli­gious bound­aries, but rep­re­sents the Moth­er as she appears to all peo­ple in all cultures.

It was a beau­ti­ful and joy­ous occa­sion at Starr Inte­ri­ors with both old friends and new, mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty and vis­i­tors, milling around the court­yard, sam­pling the deli­cious, beau­ti­ful­ly-pre­sent­ed food pre­pared by the School of Culi­nary Arts of the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co at Taos.

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Florentino at loom in Starr Interior's courtyard
Flo­renti­no at loom in Starr Inte­ri­or’s courtyard

The next week­end event (Octo­ber 2nd and 3rd) was just as suc­cess­ful – the annu­al vis­it by mas­ter weaver Flo­renti­no Gutier­rez and his asso­ciate Hugo Gon­za­les. While they did weav­ing demon­stra­tions on the tra­di­tion­al Zapotec loom in Starr Inte­ri­or’s court­yard, Florentino’s wife, Eloisa, pre­pared and served deli­cious Oax­a­can hot choco­late. This event coin­cid­ed with the annu­al Taos Wool Festival.

*Moth­er of God; Sim­i­lar to Fire is avail­able from Starr Inte­ri­ors of through Mirabai’s web­site.

A Taste of Oaxaca in Taos, New Mexico: Master Zapotec Weaver, Florentino Gutierrez Gives Weaving Demonstration

Florentino Gutierrez Master Zapotec Indian Weaver
Flo­renti­no Gutier­rez Mas­ter Zapotec Indi­an Weaver ©John Lamkin

Flo­renti­no Gutier­rez, not­ed weaver of Zapotec hand­made rugs, will be giv­ing a weav­ing demon­stra­tion show­ing the tra­di­tion­al way of the cen­turies old Zapotec Indi­an weav­ing tech­nique Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, Octo­ber 2nd and 3rd, 2010. Starr Inte­ri­ors will be host­ing this spe­cial event in their court­yard at 117–119 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, New Mex­i­co two doors south of the his­toric Taos Inn.
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