The Pastel Society of New Mexico (PSNM) is a nonprofit arts organization formed in 1989 by a small group of artists seeking to promote the appreciation of the soft pastel medium as well as to contribute to the growing arts community in New Mexico. Although PSNM is based in New Mexico, our membership now includes artists from more than half the states in the nation.

Interested in joining? Go to our Membership Page.

Click here to read our By-Laws and Policies & Procedures.

MEETINGS
The PSNM general meetings are always held from 10am to 12 noon on the second Saturday of the month and are open to the public.

The meetings are held in the auditorium of the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, which is located at Mountain Road and 19th Street NW, just a block east of the Old Town Plaza. Meetings begin at 10 am with an overview of PSNM business, followed by an hour-long program or demonstration.

ACTIVITIES
As part of our commitment to the New Mexico arts community, PSNM is one of the four sponsors of the annual juried MasterWorks of New Mexico multimedia exhibition. The 2007 Prospectus will be made available for download once it is released. For information on Masterworks and for the prospectus (when available), visit www.masterworksnm.org.

PSNM also sponsors freqent workshops with local and national artists and exhibits members’ work at venues in and around Albuquerque. For information check the PSNM newsletter.

We also provide scholarships for student artists and maintain an extensive lending library of art books and videos for members. Click here to view library listings.