El Rito Art Association and Arts Festival

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The El Rito Art Association is a nonprofit, volunteer run organization dedicated to promoting the arts in and around the village of El Rito.

The 2025 Studio Tour and Mercado is September 27-28. The tour features artists who make pottery, stoneware, Spanish Colonial wood furniture, tin work, paintings, hand-forged iron works, retablos & santos, photography, beadwork, and the fiber arts.

04/24/2026

Click on the link in our bio to be a part of the 39th El Rito Studio Tour and Mercado! September 12-13, 2026.
Participation in Mercado open to all Rio Arriba County residents and NNMC students and alumni. More information available at elritoartassociation.org.

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12/03/2025

Art makes the best gift! Come out to the El Rito Library this Saturday, December 6, for the art auction to benefit the library and get a lot of your holiday shopping done! Many of your favorite artists from the area have contributed pieces. Viewing starts at 1pm. Bidding starts at 2! Tell your friends!

09/29/2025

Art may be food for the soul, but a body needs to eat, too. So, a special shout-out to the 4H Clubs of Rio Arriba County and Zenitram Industries for serving up great food at the Mercado, as well as to 👉 El Farolito and The Chuckwagon of El Rito for offering both art and tasty dishes on the Studio Tour.
And it’s good to hear that the El Rito Library had so many people clamoring for their homemade chocolate desserts that they didn’t have time to take pictures!
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09/27/2025

Scenes from the El Rito Mercado! Happening today and tomorrow, 10 to 5! Come see us!

Partial funding granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers Tax.

09/26/2025

Ruben Dominguez will be playing both days at the Mercado this weekend, at the El Rito campus of Northern New Mexico College! And serving up tasty food will be the 4H Clubs of Rio Arriba County, sponsored by Zenitram Industries of El Rito.
On Saturday, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Art to G.O. Mobile Creative Studio will be on site from 10am to 2 pm, and on Sunday, ArtPlay will be under the portal during those same hours.
And on both days at 2pm in the Pueblito Ceramics Studio, Janeen Singer will offer a pinchpot activity for all ages!
Don’t miss it!

Photo credit 2: Chelsea Call
Partial funding for the El Rito Arts Festival granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers’ Tax.

09/25/2025

At Stop 16 on this weekend’s El Rito Studio Tour are newcomers to the tour but lifelong artists Jean Inglis and her daughter, Amaryllis Khat. Jean and Khat came to El Rito for the tour several years ago and liked the place so much they bought a fixer-upper on Main Street.
Be sure to stop by, say hi, and check out their playful work!
The El Rito Arts Festival is 10am to 5pm September 27 and 28. Lots to see and do!

Partial support for the event was granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers’ Tax.

09/24/2025

Studio Tour Spotlight: David McClister — — is a portrait and documentary photographer whose work has appeared in national publications such as Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
David, who divides his time between Nashville and El Rito, will be at Stop 7 on this weekend’s El Rito Studio Tour!
Photo 1: Dolly.
Photo 2: Chris Stapleton.
Maps for the tour’s 16 stops will be at Stop 1, the Mercado, on NNMC’s El Rito campus, where there’ll also be food, music and family activities.
Maps will also be available at every stop on the tour.
Partial funding for the event was granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers’ Tax.

09/23/2025

Anyone familiar with El Rito or the El Rito Studio Tour knows Vanderbrook Studios. Though no longer a designated stop on the tour, KT and Terry Vanderbrook will be displaying work at Stop 14 this year. Be sure to pay a visit!
The El Rito Studio Tour is this weekend, September 27-28, 10am to 5pm.
Partial funding for the event was granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers’ Tax.

09/22/2025

There’ll be so much to see at the El Rito Arts Festival this weekend that you may need to sit for a spell. In that case, head on over to Stop 14, where will have plenty of seating available—as long as you’re 6 inches tall! 👉Pablo gives his sofa a 👍 .
And Stop 14 has a couple of special guests, too: Terry and KT Vanderbrook, who helped launch the very first El Rito Studio Tour back in 1986, will be showing their work. But more about that in another post!

The El Rito Arts Festival is this weekend, September 27-28.

Partial funding for the event was granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers’ Tax.

09/21/2025

The El Rito Studio Tour truly has something for everyone! At Stop 9, Josef Weese and Charles Knight will be showing “Euclid Off the Wall: Geometric Proofs as Art.”
Weese and Knight will present a brief talk on Weese’s work, which explores in surprising and colorful ways the hidden structure of Euclid’s geometry, at 1pm both days.
Be there or be square!
The El Rito Arts Festival is September 27-28.

Partial funding for the event was granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers’ Tax.

09/20/2025

Photographer David Michael Kennedy has been a mainstay on the El Rito Studio Tour for years.
After spending more than a decade in New York City photographing the likes of Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Debbie Harry and other musicians, David moved to New Mexico in 1986. Since then he has concentrated on his art photography, with an emphasis on the landscape and people of the Southwest. David’s studio is Stop 15 on this year’s tour!
The El Rito Studio Tour and Mercado is next weekend, September 27-28!
Partial funding for the event was granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodgers’ Tax.

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El Rito, NM
87530

Website

http://www.elritoartassociation.org/

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