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Announcements & Latest Happenings

 

April, 2012

 
Due to the holiday weekend, the April meeting has been rescheduled to Saturday, April,14th This meeting will be held at the Palo Duro Senior Center in Albuquerque, NM.  All ages are welcome.  The meeting will begin at 10:30 am. We will be making gourd name tags to wear. NMGS will provide the gourd pieces, paints, feathers, wire, dried botanicals, glue, and beads. If you wish to use any other materials, please bring those with you. We will also have drills so you can make holes if you wish to add your own cording. This promises to be a great activity for all participants.  

May, 2012

 

 

This Quarterly meeting will be held at the Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church on the corner of Moon and Academy in Albuquerque. The meeting will begin at 2:00 pm in room 407. If you are looking for a new and interesting texturing technique, this is the meeting for you. The topic of the event will be Paper Texturing. Three different methods will be demonstrated and then you will be able to try any or all of the three paper texturing shown. All materials will be available, provided by the NMGS. Come and learn three new ways to decorate your gourds.

June, 2012

 

 

This meeting will start at 2:00 pm, room 407 at the Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque.  At this NMGS gathering, Ann Reilly will be teaching a small basket mask. The NMGS will provide the gourds, baskets, paints, feathers and cording so that you will be able to go home with a finished basket mask suitable for hanging. The basket sizes vary from 3" to 4" and are crafted with various colors and motifs. They are very sturdy and will make a welcome addition to your gourd collection. Best of all, you will have made it yourself. Join us for this June gathering. A notice will be sent out in mid-May asking you to let us know if you will be attending so that the right number of kits will be available for all who wish to participate. Contact Trisha Sutton, at 505-899-3982, for the meeting location.

    

                                                

 

 

Every house there is surrounded by a garden and when the gourd dries in the sun it hardens and it can be used for everything.

~Chisseko Kondowe

 

 

The New Mexico Gourd Society
P.O. Box 94973
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87199-9998
nmgourdsociety@gmail.com


         
            
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