Arte de Descartes VII

Arte de Descartes VII, seventh annual recycled art show took place from August 25 - September 8, 2007 at the Stables Art Center located at 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos. This show represents an unusual collection of artistic expression, all made from mostly recycled materials. Traditional recycled art like patchwork quilts, rag rugs, rag dolls, forged metal, collage, sculpture, mosaic are all made with ingenuity from bits and pieces of whatever is on hand. It encompasses many different mediums because our waste stream is so vast. Sponsored by local non-profit Wholly Rags and juried by esteemed artists, Tom Noble, Ed Larson and Maye Torres, participating artists are represented from coast to coast.

Tale of Taos

Also these developers moved in and made resorts like the one in Red River New Mexico, square dance capital of the world. Red River New Mexico is like the resort you see in the movie "Dirty Dancing" except that it's all square dancing where the best come to strut their stuff. As the resorts moved in Land values increased and property taxes increased for private farmers and the farmers could not afford to live on their ranchos so many had to sell out to the land developers.