| Studio Tour of Taos County - September 26-28 and throughout the week, ending October 3-5 of 2008. Visitors can see 128 artists create in a variety of media and chat with them about their concepts.
Abiquiu - October 11 and 12: More than 70 artists in this Columbus Day weekend event. The Abiquiu Studio Tour is a self-guided, driving tour that takes visitors and collectors through the village of Abiquiu and the surrounding Chama River Valley---a landscape of imposing mountains, spectacular rock formations, and the glorious rivers of the Piedra Lumbra basin. Inhabited for centuries by Native Americans before and after the Spanish settled here in 1692, Abiquiu village is well-known internationally as the home of the renowned painter Georgia O'Keefe who made it her permanent home.
El Rito - October 18 and 19: Visit individual artists’ studios as well as stops where many artists are showing, such as the Mercado and Northern New Mexico College. Three venues are also stops on the new, state-wide New Mexico Fiber Arts Trail. At the El Rito Library), don’t miss “Death by Chocolate,” offerings of to-die-for desserts, as well as an exciting display of children’s art works, including retablos and tinwork.
Galisteo Studio Tour - October 18 and 19
Dixon Studio Tour - November 1 and 2: " . . . an annual major art event since 1982. Dixon, nestled in the Embudo Valley in Northern New Mexico where the Rio Embudo flows into the Rio Grande, has been long known for its rich Native American and Hispanic heritage, productive farm lands and pastoral beauty. During the last 30+ years many artists moved to the valley to pursue their artistic talent and a simpler way of life."
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Harvest Fair 2008 - Plant Sale and Craft Fair
October 3 and 4: Sponsored by the Council of Albuquerque Garden Clubs
At the Albuquerque Garden Center (10120 Lomas Blvd NE)
Ancient Way Fall Festival - October 4-5: The Ancient Way largely follows an old trade route between Zuni and Acoma Pueblos, running south of the Zuni Mountains across the lava fields left by ancient volcanoes.
Trinity Site and the Very Large Array - Open House on October 4. Reservations not required.
The Harvest Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas - October 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26: The Harvest Festival, held each October for the past 36 years, celebrates fall and the way of life that sustained New Mexico settlers for 200 years, from the 1700s to statehood in 1912. Docents and volunteers stomp grapes, weave baskets, spin wool, and enact other daily rituals of New Mexico's early settlers.
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