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Southwest Art Towns
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A new online community for southwest artists and their fans.
Connection • Community • Collaboration

🥳Join our crowdfunding campaign!
🔗 https://www.ifundwomen.com/projects/help-build-southwest-art-towns
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✨Need a triple win for your Small Business Saturday gift-giving? We've got it for you!

You know what to do 👇
🔗https://www.ifundwomen.com/projects/help-build-southwest-art-towns

Thank you! 🙏
#SouthwestArtTowns #WhyIFundWomen #Crowdfunding #SupportSmallBusiness
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow!

Today's entry brought to you by the #Warmth of the sun in winter (AKA #Apricity)

📸 Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park (2013)

More thoughts 👇
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November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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nmecondev.bsky.social
It’s Small Business Saturday! Shop small, buy local, and support New Mexico’s hometown businesses.
Where are you shopping today? Tag a small business you're supporting this year!
November 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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desertlilyartistry.bsky.social
I mean this in the nicest way possible; if you haven't ordered your set of custom fluid art holiday/christmas ornaments yet, why not lol?? I mean, check out that red sparkle 😭🙌!

*Shop link/info ⬇️😊

#holidaydecor #christmasdecor #ornaments #smallbusinesssaturday #bipocowned #womanowned #bspu #bsnm
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
southwestarttowns.bsky.social
✨Need a triple win for your Small Business Saturday gift-giving? We've got it for you!

You know what to do 👇
🔗https://www.ifundwomen.com/projects/help-build-southwest-art-towns

Thank you! 🙏
#SouthwestArtTowns #WhyIFundWomen #Crowdfunding #SupportSmallBusiness
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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desertlilyartistry.bsky.social
OK, hear me out lol💡... Seriously, replacing Cyber Monday with Micro Biz Monday is such a great idea! What do you say, all? Can we do it 👀?? Y'all know the drill: shop, repost with your own info, and SHARE! It's way past time for the little guys to take back our economy ✊!
#shopsmall #supportsmall
A cute wintery photo with the captions "Forget Cyber Monday" and "Microbusiness Monday" along with a blank space where someone can add their shop info. This one is made with an earthy green palette. A cute wintery photo with the captions "Forget Cyber Monday" and "Microbusiness Monday" along with a blank space where someone can add their shop info. This one is made with a lovely purple and mint palette. A cute wintery photo with the captions "Forget Cyber Monday" and "Microbusiness Monday" along with a blank space where someone can add their shop info. This one is made with a nice neutral and dark blue grey palette. A cute wintery photo with the captions "Forget Cyber Monday" and "Microbusiness Monday" along with a blank space where someone can add their shop info. This one is made with a nice neutral and grey palette.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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cybergata.bsky.social
Mimbres inspired mural in Deming, #NewMexico (J. Kriegel, artist).
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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desertlilyartistry.bsky.social
Regular reminder to support and shop small and local ✊! Amazon doesn't need another cold billion, but your friends, family, and neighbors can use all the sales and support they/we can get! Pweez 🥺👉👈.

P.S. repost for good karma 😜🙌.

#smallbusiness #localbusiness #community #localeconomy #signalboost
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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artshubabq.bsky.social
There is still time to sign up for this FREE workshop! 😁 Link in the original post.
artshubabq.bsky.social Arts Hub @artshubabq.bsky.social · 15d
WORKSHOP ALERT 🔔We are partnering with Chroma Print Residency to bring you a new workshop!

*️⃣ Register using this link ➡️ www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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valinreallife.bsky.social
🤗 I'm giving all my digital babies a virtual hug for National Brand Day.

😏 Our running joke around here that the OG blog is the mother ship of all our other projects so here's me being cheeky with it.

😁 Happy National Brand Day!

#ValinRealLife #ThisWasNotInTheBrochure #NationalBrandDay
Graphic reading "Happy National Brand Day" with a spaceship with multiple logos underneath it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
southwestarttowns.bsky.social
📣Big announcement coming up next week.

💡Our subscribers get the skinny first so sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know.

Sign up today! 👇
🔗https://southwestarttowns.com/newsletter/

#SouthwestArtTowns #SWArtTowns #ConnectionCommunityCollaboration
Graphic reading "Pssst. Big news. Something exciting is happening."
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
Here's where I admit I've been working on this piece off-and-on for years. But with the SCAA Fearlessly Independent show coming up fast, I had to get 'er done. So here it is—Abandoned Homestead.

#ValWestonNM #PhotographicArt #SilverCityArtist #VisitSilverCity #SilverCityArtAssociation
Selective color photographic artwork of an old truck parked in front of abandoned cabins with grass growing through the grill on a stormy day.
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow.

Today's reflection is on #Bright light after a storm.

📸 Usury Mountain Regional Park, Arizona (2019)

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Backlit cactus holding rain drops in its spines in black and white
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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cybergata.bsky.social
One of my favorite painting by Doug West titled "Dreams of Chimayó."
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November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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planzing.bsky.social
Sandhill Cranes at Bosque del Apache…
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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mmorrillart.bsky.social
Happy Saturday!
This is my painting 'Expanding Light' 30x60 acrylic on canvas. It's available for collecting, please contact me if you are interested.
Have a great day!
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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desertlilyartistry.bsky.social
THIS is one of the many reasons I advocate so much for mayhemmarketplace.bsky.social. How many platforms show that they actually value their users over profits? Not many 🙃. But Mayhem Marketplace is very much blue, and the CEOs seem like wonderful people who actually care. ⬇️
its gonna be a hard yes, and what else can we do to help over here. #mayhemmarketplace #etsy #shopify #smallbusiness
TikTok video by MayhemMarketplace
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November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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unmpress.bsky.social
"But the Colleyville author’s own story isn’t just about navigating a rocky path toward success, it’s also about developing the self-confidence to persevere and shake off rejection to turn dreams into reality."
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Kathleen M. Rodgers' journey from small-town reporter to award-winning novelist - 360West Magazine
Colleyville author Kathleen M. Rodgers shares her decades-long path from small-town reporter to award-winning novelist, reflecting on perseverance and purpose.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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valinreallife.bsky.social
📰The November newsletter is out.

🤩And yes, we've officially added another website to the Val in Real Life family.

🤯Our biggest one ever, in fact.

Check it out👇
🔗https://mailchi.mp/valinreallife/2025-november

#ValinRealLife #ThisWasNotInTheBrochure #Newsletter #LaborOfLove
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
southwestarttowns.bsky.social
We just got back from a whirlwind trip to T or C for the Second Saturday Art Hop. What a fun, lively, art-filled event!

Big thanks to #SierraCountyArtsCouncil for taking the time to chat with us.

#SouthwestArtTowns #SWArtTowns #ConnectionCommunityCollaboration #TruthOrConsequences #TorC #ArtHop
Man and woman taking an ussie with an art gallery exhibit in the background.
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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mmorrillart.bsky.social
Islands in the Mist
30x60 acrylic on canvas
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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lsalami.bsky.social
All ready for tomorrow's NM Arts & Crafts Festival at UNM Continuing Ed. Here's some uniquely NM "stuff." As for the chiles, if you know, you know. Bowyn knows...
Ourschedule:
-UNM Continuing Ed Arts & Crafts Festival (11/8)
-High Desert Studio Tour (11/5)
-Santa Fe Fiber Fiesta (11/21-23)
Small hooked rug (wall haning) depicting a red and a green chile with the word OR between them. Small hooked rug depicting a hot air balloon flying just above trees and shrubbery. Small hooked rug of a cartoonish roadrunner. Welsh Springer spaniel with his head resting on 3 small hooked rugs.
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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@desertlilyartistry.bsky.social Thanks for joining! 🥰
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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valwestonnm.bsky.social
Happy Saturday, #BlueskyArtShow!

@jcbrandon.bsky.social and I like to spend the #evening having happy hour and decompressing from the day. And sometimes those evenings are extra pretty.

📸 Indian Pass Wilderness, California (2021)

🔗https://valinreallife.com/postcards-from-real-life-evening/
Digital watercolor of an ocotillo standing tall in front of a distant mountain range at sunset.
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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mmorrillart.bsky.social
Good morning! Hope you had a great weekend and are adjusting to the time change!
This is a painting from a few years ago, 'When Time Stands Still' 36x48 acrylic on canvas
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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balail.bsky.social
Grabbing breakfast...
Tri-colored Heron
#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM