Sagebrush Grill Art Exhibition

Elise Covlin

Ms. Elise Covlin lives in northern New Mexico where she is inspired by a rural life style and the richness of cultural diversity surrounding her. She attributes the evolution of her art to extensive travel and has been heavily influenced by North African and European designs and artistic styles.  For 15 years, Elise was primarily a furniture artist.  In the early 90s, her work was included on a year-long tour of Japan to promote cultural exchange and represent a selection of art from the United States.  In 1996 she was personally invited by Myer/Grace Bros in Melbourne, Australia to participate in a show featuring New Mexican art to help promote trade between Australia and New Mexico.  At this time, she has produced and sold approximately 10,000 pieces of work, and has had 15 one-woman shows including two in Sydney, Australia in 1997.  For the past several years her focus has moved into fine art, further exploring and immersing herself into a variety of mediums including watercolor paintings, paper cuts, and smoked micaceous and white clay vessels.

All pieces are provided courtesy of Elise Covlin. Please contact Elise Covlin, Artist, at elise@ecovlin.com for purchase inquiries or to schedule a viewing. The Elise Covlin exhibition is on view to the public from 6:30 AM - 9:30 AM and 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Sunday - Saturday in the Sagebrush Grill whenever this venue is not reserved for a private party. More information about Elise Covlin can be found on her website here.

Sagebrush Grill Art Exhibition

Vickery Ottaway

Born in Kansas, Vickery Ottaway and her two brothers were raised both in Wichita and in the family adobe in Ranchos de Taos.  The daughter of two anthropologists, she was first introduced to Taos when she was two months old.  Her mother, an archaeologist, excavated Pot Creek Cultural Site in Carson National Forest for her Master’s thesis.  Her father, an ethnologist, studied the Los Hermanos Penitentes of northern New Mexico for his doctoral dissertation. Not surprisingly, Vickery developed an appreciation for the people, art forms, and landscape of New Mexico at an early age, and that appreciation has deepened profoundly through the years. She has fond memories of times spent with her parents’ friends—artists, book lovers, art collectors, scholars, as well as laborers and craftsmen / craftswomen. Vickery remembers that when she was growing up, other kids went to Disneyland or the beach for their vacations, but her family always went to museums, archaeological sites, galleries, Pueblo dances, and the mission churches of New Mexico. Now a mother of two, Vickery continues that family tradition with her own children.

All pieces are provided courtesy of Vickery Ottaway. Please contact Vickery Ottaway, Artist, at vickeryottaway@gmail.com for purchase inquiries or to schedule a viewing. The Vickery Ottaway exhibition is on view to the public from 6:30 AM - 9:30 AM and 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Sunday - Saturday in the Sagebrush Grill whenever this venue is not reserved for a private party. More information about Vickery Ottaway can be found on her website here.