February 27, 2026 -- PORTRAIT

The portrait session on Friday nights is free -- FRIDAY NIGHT FACES -- but the artists had to give their drawings to the sitter:

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KREA Realtime prompt:

"abstract sculpture in the style of Bernini"

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Midjourney

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SANTA FE PORTRAITS

The Tuesday Night Drawing group in Santa Fe is having a portrait exhibition next month.  The opening is on March 20th, 2026, 5 - 7 PM, at the Vital Spaces Annex on the Santa Fe Midtown campus.  Closing is on April 3rd, 5 - 7 PM:

In a similar spirit as many of the Post-Impressionists, such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gaugin, a group of artists from Tuesday Night Drawing (in Santa Fe, New Mexico) created a Portrait Project to paint portraits of each other. There was one rule — Do whatever you want.

Beginning in August of 2025, they met every two weeks to take photos of a host artist in their studio. Two weeks later they would meet in another studio to show their portraits and take photos of the host for the next portrait. The project, which completed six months later in January, 2026, includes an eclectic range of styles and techniques.

The result is this exhibit — and a memorable, shared experience for the artists, who discovered mutual energy, inspiration, and a sense of community that harkens back to the early days of the Santa Fe artist colony. This spirit is reflected in this exhibit of 120 portraits.

Portraits of participating artist Raye,

painted by other participants of the Portrait Project,

 show some of the diverse styles represented in the exhibit.

About Tuesday Night Drawing 

The historic Tuesday Night Drawing group was established in 1969 by artist Eli Levin who now lives and paints in his iconic adobe compound near the village of Dixon, New Mexico, north of Santa Fe. Eli will be an honored guest at the opening reception. 

The drawing group is Santa Fe’s longest running, continuously active weekly life drawing group. During the pandemic, artists continued to meet weekly via Zoom for two years to continue the group’s tradition of life drawing and to stay in close touch with each other. Models posed online from as far away as Washington, D.C.