Art of Home Tour benefits art in the public schools

By: Paul Weideman
Published online: Sunday, February 05, 2012
Appeared in: Home, Santa Fe Real Estate Guide
Edition: February 2012 Vol. 14 No. 11

Here’s a fine way to spend a weekend day in Santa Fe: touring (and shopping for) an amazing selection of homes and seeing (and shopping for) some really cool art. It’s the annual Art of Home Tour, part of the ARTfeast program that helps raise money for art programs and supplies in the Santa Fe Public Schools.

The open house, underwritten by Santa Fe Properties, features eight homes on the market:

1430 Hyde Park Road ($4.75 million)

831 El Caminito ($3.95 million)

345 Delgado Street ($1.495 million)

1104 Mansion Ridge ($1.295 million)

3900 Old Santa Fe Trail ($1.1 million)

7468 Old Santa Fe Trail A ($1.1 million)

414 Camino Delora #3 ($939,000)

263 El Duane Court ($625,000)

The Art of Home Tour is free and is open from noon to 4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25 and 26. The homes are enhanced with artworks offered by Beals & Abbate Fine Art, Gallery 822, Gerald Peters Gallery, Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery, The William & Joseph Gallery, Vivo Contemporary, and Winterowd Fine Art, teachers from Fine Art for Children & Teens (FACT), and with metal sculptures by Santa Fe High School students.

A portion of the proceeds from the art sales goes to ARTsmart.

For more information, see http://artfeast. com/artfeast-events/art-of-home-tour/ and www.santafeproperties.com, or call 982- 4466.


The New Mexico chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council is accepting applications for the 2012 GreenBuilt Tour, to be held June 9-10.

The purpose of the tour is to help educate the public and future customers on the incentives for living green and what products/services are available. It’s also an opportunity for builders to show off what they do and for homeowners to show off what they’ve done to save energy. Last year, more than 650 people toured the seven GreenBuilt Tour homes in the Santa Fe- Albuquerque area.

Awards are given for homes that best demonstrate green building. This year’s theme is “Healthy Living, Healthy Families.”

For details, see www.usgbcnm.org or call 505-227-0474.