The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico

The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational and charitable organization. "Support the artist and the creative process"

The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, established in 1954, is one of the oldest artist residence programs in the country. The foundation keeps a low-profile and serves as a haven for painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, composers, photographers and filmmakers. We are located on fifteen acres in the heart of Taos, New Mexico, a four-hundred-year-old multicultural community ren

owned for its popularity with artists. The foundation fellowship offers three months of rent-free and utility-paid housing to grantees. Our eleven guest houses, or casitas, are fully furnished and provide residents with a peaceful setting in which to pursue their creative endeavors. The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico provides their services to people who specialize in the creative arts. The foundation accepts applications from and offers residency grants to painters, poets, sculptors, writers, playwrights, composers, photographers and filmmakers, of national and international origin.

HAPPENING TODAY! 7pm. Wurlitzer Alumn Gustavo Alonso López presents an intimate evening of live Flamenco guitar at the ...
08/08/2026

HAPPENING TODAY! 7pm. Wurlitzer Alumn Gustavo Alonso López presents an intimate evening of live Flamenco guitar at the Harwood Museum of Art in celebration of his third full-length studio album, Sonanta Con Metales. For this performance, Gustavo will reimagine works from each of his three albums for solo guitar.

About Sonanta Con Metales

Released in Spring of 2026 and created in collaboration with trumpeter Jay Roulston, Lopez’s newest record showcases Flamenco guitar in the context of a brass ensemble. Firmly grounded in the tradition and heritage of Spanish Flamenco, Sonanta Con Metales is also rooted in the lands of the American West. It was composed while Gustavo served as an Artist-In-Residence in Taos at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and draws on influences ranging from Flamenco to Jazz, film music, and Minimalism.

About the Artist

Gustavo Alonso López is a North American Flamenco guitarist and composer based in Walla Walla, WA. Born and raised in Idaho as the son of a Salvadoran immigrant, his music emerges from Flamenco’s grassroots oral tradition and the institutionalized Western notation system, borrows concepts from classical music and jazz, and blurs lines between composition and improvisation. Dismantling stereotypes and building cross-cultural dialogue and understanding through music are key elements of Gustavo’s creative practice. He has released three full-length studio albums, Punto Lejano (2014), Espasón (2023), and Sonanta Con Metales (2026). His work has received support from the Fulbright US Student Program, ArtWalla, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Artist Trust, Audiosocket, and the Ucross Foundation. He also serves as a Studio Music Instructor in Guitar at Whitman College.

Click below for more information:
Artist Website: studioespason.com
Bandcamp: https://gustavoalonsolopez.bandcamp.com/music
Buy tickets at: https://harwoodmuseum.org/events/la-guitarra-flamenca-de-gustavo-alonso-lopez/

The Harwood Museum of Art

08/07/2026

This Saturday! One of our very own alumn, Gustavo Alonso López, presents an intimate evening of live Flamenco guitar at the Harwood Museum of Art in celebration of his third full-length studio album, Sonanta Con Metales. For this performance, Gustavo will reimagine works from each of his three albums for solo guitar.

About Sonanta Con Metales

Released in Spring of 2026 and created in collaboration with trumpeter Jay Roulston, Lopez’s newest record showcases Flamenco guitar in the context of a brass ensemble. Firmly grounded in the tradition and heritage of Spanish Flamenco, Sonanta Con Metales is also rooted in the lands of the American West. It was composed while Gustavo served as an Artist-In-Residence in Taos at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and draws on influences ranging from Flamenco to Jazz, film music, and Minimalism.

About the Artist

Gustavo Alonso López is a North American Flamenco guitarist and composer based in Walla Walla, WA. Born and raised in Idaho as the son of a Salvadoran immigrant, his music emerges from Flamenco’s grassroots oral tradition and the institutionalized Western notation system, borrows concepts from classical music and jazz, and blurs lines between composition and improvisation. Dismantling stereotypes and building cross-cultural dialogue and understanding through music are key elements of Gustavo’s creative practice. He has released three full-length studio albums, Punto Lejano (2014), Espasón (2023), and Sonanta Con Metales (2026). His work has received support from the Fulbright US Student Program, ArtWalla, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Artist Trust, Audiosocket, and the Ucross Foundation. He also serves as a Studio Music Instructor in Guitar at Whitman College.

Click below for more information:
Artist Website: studioespason.com
Bandcamp: https://gustavoalonsolopez.bandcamp.com/music
Buy tickets at: https://harwoodmuseum.org/events/la-guitarra-flamenca-de-gustavo-alonso-lopez/

The Harwood Museum of Art

Gustavo Alonso López was an artist-in-residence at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation during the summer of 2024. This summe...
07/28/2026

Gustavo Alonso López was an artist-in-residence at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation during the summer of 2024.

This summer, he returns to Taos to present an intimate evening of live Flamenco guitar at the Harwood Museum of Art in celebration of his third full-length studio album, Sonanta Con Metales. For this performance, Gustavo will reimagine works from each of his three albums for solo guitar.

About Sonanta Con Metales

Released in Spring of 2026 and created in collaboration with trumpeter Jay Roulston, Lopez’s newest record showcases Flamenco guitar in the context of a brass ensemble. Firmly grounded in the tradition and heritage of Spanish Flamenco, Sonanta Con Metales is also rooted in the lands of the American West. It was composed while Gustavo served as an Artist-In-Residence in Taos at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and draws on influences ranging from Flamenco to Jazz, film music, and Minimalism.

About the Artist

Gustavo Alonso López is a North American Flamenco guitarist and composer based in Walla Walla, WA. Born and raised in Idaho as the son of a Salvadoran immigrant, his music emerges from Flamenco’s grassroots oral tradition and the institutionalized Western notation system, borrows concepts from classical music and jazz, and blurs lines between composition and improvisation. Dismantling stereotypes and building cross-cultural dialogue and understanding through music are key elements of Gustavo’s creative practice. He has released three full-length studio albums, Punto Lejano (2014), Espasón (2023), and Sonanta Con Metales (2026). His work has received support from the Fulbright US Student Program, ArtWalla, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Artist Trust, Audiosocket, and the Ucross Foundation. He also serves as a Studio Music Instructor in Guitar at Whitman College.

Click below for more information:
Artist Website: studioespason.com
Bandcamp: https://gustavoalonsolopez.bandcamp.com/music
Buy tickets at: https://harwoodmuseum.org/events/la-guitarra-flamenca-de-gustavo-alonso-lopez/

ONE MORE DAY LEFT in our online Auction, which closes tomorrow, July 25th, at 6PM MDT. You can view the work for auction...
07/24/2026

ONE MORE DAY LEFT in our online Auction, which closes tomorrow, July 25th, at 6PM MDT.

You can view the work for auction and place your bid here:
https://givebutter.com/c/wurlitzerartfest2026/auction

A portion of each sale goes to the Wurlitzer Foundation and maintaining the residency as a respite for future generations of Artists.

Be a part of our mission to support the artist and the creative process--- Place your bid today!

07/12/2026

One Week away! Wurlitzer Summer Art Fest on July 18th Helene Wurlitzer Foundation

The countdown is on! The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation campus will come alive with artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, dancers, and supporters for the Wurlitzer Summer Arts Fest: Alumni Art Auction & Showcase.
Saturday, July 18, 2026
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Campus | Taos, New Mexico

B/W photos by CREATE to ELEVATE

TODAY'S AUCTION PREVIEW, available in-person July 18th, 2026 at the Wurlitzer Summer Arts Fest: Holds all parts together...
07/08/2026

TODAY'S AUCTION PREVIEW, available in-person July 18th, 2026 at the Wurlitzer Summer Arts Fest:

Holds all parts together (set of prints)
by Caroline Clerc
7.375 x 4.96 inches each
Archival Pigment Prints
2025

A unique box set comprising twelve archival inkjet prints, each measuring 7.375 x 4.96 inches, in a paper box (8⅛ × 5⅝ × 1⅜ inches). The set includes a hand-signed title card. Work was made during the 2025 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency.

Preview the work on our Auction site: https://givebutter.com/c/wurlitzerartfest2026/auction/items/2058321

Caroline Clerc is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography. Her work responds to natural environments in the production of large-format photographs and sculpture. Her work is first performed though an immersion in the natural environment in long walks. Images are then digitally composited into a single photograph. Problematizing the act of looking and disrupting the idea that it is possible to fully understand one’s relationship to the environment or to nature, her anxious images without stable perspectives evoke imminent collapse. They reflect a precarious relationship with environments under perpetual threat by the effects of climate change. Her work also incorporates sculptural forms: improvised installation with the landscape; or the incorporation of found materials into a final installation.

TODAY'S AUCTION PREVIEW, available at the Wurlitzer Summer Arts Fest on July 18th, 2026:"Ciúineas" 2025by Annie Tull18''...
07/02/2026

TODAY'S AUCTION PREVIEW, available at the Wurlitzer Summer Arts Fest on July 18th, 2026:

"Ciúineas" 2025
by Annie Tull
18'' x 15''
Oil and cold wax on Belgian linen mounted on panel

This piece was the recipient of the People's Choice Award at the 2026 Belonging exhibition at Sitar Arts Center in Washington, DC, and was recently selected for the Taos Is Art banner competition.

Tull writes, " 'Ciúineas' (kee-yoo-ness) is an ancient Irish word, drawn from the langauge of my ancestors, that describes a deep quiet borne from environmental stillness."

"Drawing from training in fine art and architectural design, (Tull's) work investigates materiality and the dialogue between human gesture and the living world. Her projects have taken shape across galleries, forests, and public spaces in the U.S. and Europe, from large-scale corporate installations to quietly thematic collections and site-specific works rooted in ecology and myth. In every form, her practice seeks a sense of balance: the meeting point of structure and surrender, art and environment, self and landscape."

TODAY'S AUCTION PREVIEW, available at the Wurlitzer Summer Arts Fest July 18th, 2026:Two pieces by Leon Syfrit---"Reese"...
07/01/2026

TODAY'S AUCTION PREVIEW, available at the Wurlitzer Summer Arts Fest July 18th, 2026:

Two pieces by Leon Syfrit---

"Reese"
2020
Photography-based Mixed Media
31" X 23" X 1"

and

"Mike"
2020
Photography-based Mixed Media
31'' x 23'' x 1''

Syfrit writes of his process:

"I compose portrait photographs that I make with a digital camera. I make a print of each image on paper that I stain with paint and botanicals. I place the print in a small container and freeze it in water with plants and other substances. While the items congeal, I apply gel food color with a syringe, and when everything is icy, I photograph it. The resulting image is a fusion of my original portrait photograph, the material I arrange with the print, and the unique impression created by the natural process of water freezing.

In general, Syfrit's practice includes, "making photographs from all types of found objects. I use materials such as blown out automobile tires, plants, and bugs. I enjoy building beautiful things from discarded and overlooked bits and pieces. I also like documentary photography and alternative photographic processes. My mother made art, and my father was a chef, so the visual and culinary arts were influential from an early age. Mom went on beach walks and collected seashells and driftwood to make sculptures. Dad did the same thing with food, although his walks were at the butcher shop and produce market. And, of course, dad's sculptures were edible."

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