Cornerstones hires director of exterior relations
Mary Madigan has been appointed director of exterior relations at Cornerstones, the Santa Fe-centered nonprofit that is effective with communities to restore historic constructions. She arrived to Santa Fe in February 2020 as govt director of Santa Fe Pro Musica. Her posture was eradicated later that yr as section of the company’s fiscal response to COVID-19.
“I designed my career in the music area, but my passions have constantly been different,” she advised Pasatiempo. “I’ve usually been drawn to earthy and ancient locations. Perhaps it’s since I grew up in an outdated stone farmhouse. I’m enthusiastic to provide Cornerstones by bringing my expertise and working experience, together with my love for artwork and aesthetics, architecture, and exclusive cultures.”
Madigan has earlier served as the govt director of Composers Now, a New York City-centered organization that advocates for and presents the music of residing composers, and the director of packages for Meet The Composer. She has also been the promotion manager for tunes publisher Boosey & Hawkes and the common supervisor of the Vermont Mozart Pageant. — Mark Tiarks | For The New Mexican
The New Mexico Historic Preservation Division seeks community input on long run tasks
In late 2020, the Historic Preservation Division chosen Sunmount Consulting, LLC, to guide in developing a Condition Historic Preservation Program for initiatives relevant to range, environmental sustainability, and their financial reward to New Mexico. State citizens are invited to weigh in by way of an on the net study being executed by June 10. Entry the study at nmhistoricpreservation.org/plans/point out-program.html. Study responses will be used in the development of a street map for historic preservation tasks more than a 10-yr time period. “This is our chance to achieve out and comprehend how we may be able to improved provide the preservation requirements for New Mexicans,” reported Point out Historic Preservation Officer Jeff Pappas in a press release from the Section of Cultural Affairs. The NMHPD manages all historic preservation functions in New Mexico and will work to guard thousands of historic and archaeological web pages across the point out. nmhistoricpreservation.org — Michael Abatemarco
The New Mexico Condition Library announces winners of Letters About Literature competitors
The State Library’s annual New Mexico Letters About Literature crafting contest invitations youthful readers in grades 4 via 12 to produce a personal letter to the author of a ebook they’ve read through that information how the reserve impacted their life. Pupils are permitted to publish letters in reaction to performs of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Writers contend at a person of three ranges: Amount I (grades 4 as a result of 6), Stage II (grades 7 and 8), and Stage III (9 by way of 12). Funds prizes are awarded in each competitors degree. This year’s winners include 6th-grade Albuquerque scholar Emma Deifel, who penned a letter to cartoonist and graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier about her ebook Guts (Scholastic, 2019) 7th-grade Albuquerque pupil Piper Heffron, whose letter was prepared to Margaret Gurevich, creator of the collection Chloe by Structure (Capstone) and 11th-grade Farmington student Isabelle Workman, who wrote her letter to youthful grownup fiction author Jandy Nelson about the book I’ll Give You the Sun (Dial Publications, 2014). Take a look at lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org to study the successful entries. Almost 100 young audience entered this year’s opposition, which is open to enrolled and homeschooled college students all-around the condition. The panel for the remaining two judging rounds involved retired Museum of Intercontinental People Art Librarian Caroline Dechert Susan E. Beck, professor and head of access products and services at the New Mexico Point out University Library in Las Cruces and Malcolm Alonzo, library services supervisor for the General public Library of Albuquerque and Bernalillo. nmculture.org — M.A.