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The City of Santa Fe Arts Commission has chosen "Santa Fe Mariachi" a pastel by Lori Aguirre Snable as the Winner of the 2009 City of Santa Fe Poster Competition.
The 89 entries submitted for this year's contest were judged on overall artistic quality and ability to represent Santa Fe as a creative city and, promote, and market the City of Santa Fe as a tourist destination. This year's poster will be given out during Santa Fe's 400th anniversary year, assuring an even wider audience than in previous years. The poster will be used as a marketing tool to promote Santa Fe's creativity and culture internationally.
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Lori Aguirre Snable is a recipient of over 100 awards and a signature member of The Pastel Society of New Mexico, The Pastel Society of Colorado, and The Pastel Society of The West Coast. She has exhibited both publicly and privately over the past fifteen years and has been the featured artist in ten solo shows. Lori's painting career was delayed early on, having devoted her life to a career in the medical sciences and later raising a family. She returned to painting in 1993, and for the past sixteen years has been the driving force behind an award winning art program that caters to both developmentally disabled and gifted children. Originally a California native of Hispanic ancestry, she is a Santa Fe resident that has become deeply connected with Northern New Mexico.
In her artist statement, Lori Aguirre Snable uniquely describes her work: "My night scenes are a brief glimpse of a moment, opening the imagination of the viewer. The faces of my subjects are intentionally indistinct to allow anyone to identify with the figures. I seek to elicit an empathic reaction relating to a previous experience or feeling, thus drawing you into the painting."
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