Hi Everybody:
WHAT'S UP WITH DAVID?
I am alive and well, happily living and making art in the Land of Enchantment, Santa Fe, New Mexico!
Life is all about dreams, dreaming and making your dreams come true. Chasing dreams, while scary at times, can be rewarding and vital to our existence. I am a dreamer, a dream chaser! How about you?
After arriving in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 10, 2005 I feel as if I am home. I have found the place that allows my spirit and soul to soar. The dream is being lived, out in the country, about fifteen minutes south of the beautiful, quaint Santa Fe Plaza.
Santa Fe is called "The City Different" and I totally concur. The Santa Fe area with it's great selection/collection of museums, galleries and other visual treats feeds my soul and my art head.
MY NEW HOME AND STUDIO:
I purchased a home that serves both as a studio and living space. My home is located in La Cienega on 2.5 acres with incredible views in all directions. The eastern views display the glorious Sangre de Christo Mountains while to the west the Jemez Mountains rise elegantly and are breathtaking as are the Turquoise Mountains to the south east. The blue sky seems so immense displaying breathtaking weather changes and the black, star filled nights remind me of summer night growing up in northwestern Ohio!
The acreage came with at least 10 trees filled with lots of different species of birds during the non-migrating season. The colorful humming birds love to zip and zoom around the trumpet vines and feeders, partaking of the nectar as required which seems to be all of the time. Nature in New Mexico calls to me in ways different than Northern California. I love the changes I am living each new day. How grand to be alive!
My new living space also includes a spacious metalworking studio that will allow me to work on both large and small scale art. My south facing portal, which covers nearly one half of the building, allows for outdoor work almost any day of the year, wind, dust and weather permitting.
The 330 days of New Mexico sunshine each year make up for the many cloudy, damp and foggy days I experienced having lived on the beautifully green, California North Coast in Humboldt County. I now prefer the high, dry desert climate and my bones also seem to appreciate the weather change.
My 33 years (1971 - 2002) as the jewelry and metalsmithing mentor in the Art Department at Humboldt State University were incredibly fulfilling, highly charged creativity wise and enjoyable. The intense and close association with my jewelry people will forever be a high light in my life as a metalworking teacher. I cherish those times and enjoyed being a part of the art so many talented young people created over the years!
DAVID'S CURRENT ART:
My current art production centers around art microphones and tagua nut or vegetable ivory jewelry. The microphones seem, at this point, to be the major focus of my creative adventures. That, of course, can change at any time! Art is like the weather - always on the move and changing from day to day! Don't you agree?
LAPLANTZ.COM WEB SITE:
If you are as tired as I am at seeing the same art on David's and Shereen's areas of LaPlantz.com, never fear changes are in the works. It will just take some time to make updates and improvements. Please be patient.
FUTURE WORKSHOPS I AM TEACHING:
FOR EXHIBITIONS OR TO PURCHASE MY WORK:
Please email or call if interested in exhibiting or purchasing any of my art.
My work is being shown at Jett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Gallery Zipp, Glorietta, NM, and Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA
FORMER STUDENTS OF MINE:
If you are a former student from any of the schools I
taught at during my 36 year career, please call (505.438.2469) and tell me what
you are doing. I am always interested in knowing what "my metal
people" have been doing since
we last worked together!?
Until then, all of my smiles are directed to you!
David LaPlantz