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Questa Art Tour August 8 & 9, 2026

July 19, 2026 Claire Cote

Questa Art Tour 2025 Installation at Sunshine 360.

Come visit me and my new work at the Questa Art Tour on Saturday and Sunday, August 8 and 9, 10 am - 5 pm. Find me at Sunshine 360, Hub #14 in Sunshine Valley.

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Listen To MY TAAC Talk Radio Interview

July 18, 2026 Claire Cote

I was honored to be interviewed by Sid Barrett for TAAC Talk Radio. I genuinely enjoyed my conversation with Sid, who is a thoughtful and skillful interviewer. If you’re interested, have a listen here.

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Re-inhabiting Conservation Exhibition, May 22 - July 26

May 6, 2026 Claire Cote

“Map of Becoming” was selected to be part of Creature Conserve’s juried exhibition, Re-Inhabiting Conservation, at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, May 22 through July 26, 2026.

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Taos Abstract Artist Collective Spring Exhibition 2026

May 5, 2026 Claire Cote

I’m honored to be part of TAAC’s Annual Exhibition Spring show again this year. I will be showing “Map of Mornings: Tea Tinajas”.

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February 2026 At Home Residency

March 16, 2026 Claire Cote

February was set aside as “At Home Residency” month for me; and I loved it, even with less time for actual art-making than I would have liked.

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Shared Structures: Kinhouse Cohort Group Show

January 22, 2026 Claire Cote

Shared Structures brings together our 2025 Kinhouse Cohort featuring 12 artists from across the United States whose works emerge from a year-long process of sustained exchange, collaboration, and mutual support. Show installed through February 12, 2026.

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Kinhouse Small Works Show & Sale →

October 22, 2025 Claire Cote

Reflection Collection - 5 mixed media cyanotype works.

Affordable, gift-able art, from 8 Kinhouse Cohort Artists! (And I am one of them!)

We each created a small series of works to be collected during this holiday season and during our final cohort group show. All art pieces are under $350! Support us cohort artists!.

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Seasons of Resilience

June 4, 2025 Claire Cote

The two-person show is a culmination of years of creating in nature, imprinting ecological processes through the seasons.

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In Art & Ecology, Community, Cyanotype, Daily Drawing, Exhibitions, Experiments, Invitations, Nature, News, Painting Tags exhibition, seasonsofresilience, two-person show, new work, Wildflower Playhouse, collaboration
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Spring 2025 Exhibitions in Taos

May 21, 2025 Claire Cote

I had work in two wonderful spring exhibitions in Taos, NM at The Stables Gallery

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In Community, Cyanotype, Exhibitions, News Tags #taac #taosabstractartistcollective
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What is a Cyanotype?

March 28, 2025 Claire Cote
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Cyanotype is an accessible, nontoxic photographic printing process first used in 1842. Also called “Sun Prints” cyanotypes are created using sunlight! It produces prints in a distinctive dark turquiose-blue. The word “cyan” comes from the Greek, meaning  “dark blue substance.”

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New Cyanotype Drawings on view in Jelvega, Latvia

March 26, 2025 Claire Cote

I’m excited to share that these 5 works from my “Reflection Collection” are on view in Jelgava, Latvia, in “Capturing Nature” a Drawing Box International exhibition curated by Katrīna Tračuma.

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In Cyanotype, Drawing, Place, Culture Tags exhibition, cyanotype, drawing box
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Holiday Open Studio, 2024 - Thank you!

December 5, 2024 Claire Cote

Image by Daniela Garza ~ Duri Productions

Thank you to everyone that joined me at my studio on Saturday December 7, 2024 for art, cozy refreshments and conversation!

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“Shadows of Plant Bones 1” at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland

November 30, 2024 Claire Cote
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I’m delighted to have this piece included in the Inside I Out exhibition at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, Ireland.

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At-Home Residency, Fall 2024

November 2, 2024 Claire Cote

I’m wrapping up my month-long at home fall residency; what a generative time! I’m so grateful to have been able to set aside this intentional time to make progress.

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In Art & Ecology, Daily Drawing, Drawing, Musings, Nature, Painting, Residency
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Cyanotype Youth Story Quilts

September 16, 2024 Claire Cote

I’m thrilled that these Cyanotype Youth Story Quilts are now out in our community to be enjoyed at our local library in Questa, NM. Find them in the children’s section!

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Questa Art Tour 2024

August 19, 2024 Claire Cote

What a wonderful Questa Art Tour we had at Hub 17 in Sunshine Valley! Thank you to everyone who came out to visit us, chat, connect, purchase work, listen to local audio stories and soak in the gorgeous setting and architecture.

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On Which It Rests

August 10, 2024 Claire Cote

I was honored to have my piece This Place Has Seen included in On Which It Rests, a juried summer exhibition in the Dean Porter Gallery, Lunder Research Center at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos, New Mexico.

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The Blue Show: May 1 - June 28, 2023

April 11, 2023 Claire Cote

The Blue Show is an exhibition of mixed-media works by artist friends, Claire Coté and Nicole Thibodeau at the Questa Public Library. The works explore the relationship of time to the natural world and the artists’ spontaneity of interaction with materials. Reception is Saturday, May 13, 2023, 2 pm - 4 pm.

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2022 Gratitude Review

January 7, 2023 Claire Cote

Throughout 2022 I leaned-in to creating by experimenting, making decisions in my own way and time, and accepting and even celebrating my unconventional ways of doing and being. Writing about and choosing twelve photographs for the months of 2022, I was reminded of the importance of daily mindfulness and gratitude.

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Repurposed Motherhood Memories at Arte de Descartes XXII October 29 - November 6

October 29, 2022 Claire Cote

"Repurposed Motherhood Memories" is in the Arte de Descartes XXII exhibition at the Stables Gallery in Taos, on view October 29 - November 6, 10 am - 6 pm.

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News + Views

This blog offers news and updates about my current, ongoing and past projects, art shows etc.

This is where I will keep you up to date with what I am up to...

For more in depth explorations of my Off-Grid Arts practice visit: offgridarts.wordpress.com

For posts about Dreaming Place & Radio Dreaming visit: dreamingplaceproject.wordpress.com

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What a treat to have such dear friends come visit and stop by my studio! We loved getting to see you. Thanks so much for sharing in and supporting my creative journey. So happy this little green jewel of a collage went home with you. Can't wait for o
Hints of fall are in the air, summer is winding down. Plants are thick with growth from the incredible rainfall we've received. A hike down to the Rio Grande is one of our favorite ways to celebrate any season. 

"Have you ever regretted coming
My dad shared this piece of wisdom with me at a time when I really needed to hear it. Now it's in my kitchen reminding me to "Honor the rests."

Rest is directly linked to rejuvenation and resilience. My intention is to "honor the rest
Late summer in Sunshine Valley, view to the North down our driveway this morning. Cloud hat on Ute Mountain means more rain coming today. We are so grateful for these wonderful rains after such intense drought, but now many are experiencing flooding.

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