Some schools sell t-shirts, others sell bumper stickers. We sell items that reflect the landscape of our life at Yaxche. These are treasures that keep on giving and will be available for purchase at Yaxche events. Please contact Yaxche at (505) 751-4419 or admin@yaxche.org for additional purchase information.

International recording artist Erika Luckett toured our school before performing in her benefit concert for Hispanic Scholarships at Yaxche. During her world-music-inspired concert, Erika announced she would donate the proceeds of that live-recording CD for Yaxche Hispanic Scholarships. We are so grateful for the support of this talented performer!

Now, a contest is on for Yaxche students to produce cover art for the CD--motivated by the richness of Erika’s lyrics, fierce intelligence, and acute social insight.

Erika’s songs testify to an eye and ear as readily attuned to the incongruous as to the magnificent. Crossing boundaries comes easily to Erika. Born in Mexico and raised in Venezuela and Brazil, she savored the richness of the Amazon, the urban rhythms of São Paulo, and the percolating warmth of the Caribbean. Erika sings in four languages—all reflected on her new CD.

Click here to read about Erika in The Taos News. Check out Erika’s Web site at www.erikaluckett.com for her journal description of her visit at Yaxche. And be sure to watch for sales of her Yaxche benefit CD, coming in early 2006. The proceeds from the sale of this CD will benefit the Yaxche Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

Nationally acclaimed painter Ed Sandoval is an accessible artist grounded by the security that comes from knowing and understanding his roots. Born in Nambé, in northern New Mexico, Ed’s inspiration for his paintings comes in large part from childhood memories and stories. These images are part of what he calls “the old days” in northern New Mexico, a time of dirt roads and old pickup trucks and workhorses plowing fields. This attachment to his past and cultural heritage clearly defines his style, which he describes as “romantic expressionism.” His paintings have a vibrant spiritual quality, capturing the natural beauty of the region while portraying a simpler era when time moved at a slower pace.

Ed begins each canvas with a blood-red acrylic under-painting, which exudes passion and glows; like a fire within the Kiva, that red fire is the blood and soul of Hispanic customs and deep spirituality flowing from within onto the canvas. The figures in his oil paintings move from his heart into the present. They work in the fields, they walk the tree-lined back roads, and they drive beyond time in old pickup trucks. These remarkable paintings give us an intimate, intricate view of Sandoval as an accomplished artist, as well as the depth of his ideas and convictions, and the rhythm and response to home.

We are delighted and honored that Ed Sandoval has agreed to produce a painting for auction at Yaxche’s first Annual Hispanic Scholarship Dinner. Ed will also produce limited-edition giclees and posters from this image.

The original commissioned artwork pictured to the right was sold at the Hispanic Scholarship Dinner. Ed signed posters of the same image. A Limited Edition of 50 giclees on canvas are now available:

24 x 30 giclees are $650
16 x 29 giclees are $400
Fine Art Signed Poster: $35

The proceeds from sales of all of these works by Ed Sandoval continue to benefit the Yaxche Hispanic Scholarship fund. For more images of Ed’s work, please visit www.decoloresgallery.com.

Please contact Yaxche at (505) 751-4419 or admin@yaxche.org for purchase information.