Media Contacts
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Tracey Stone
The Nature Conservancy
Phone: 602.738.1586
Email: tstone@tnc.org
Join TNC in New Mexico and Patina Gallery to celebrate Earth Day with an environmental and creative collaboration called Preserving the Canyon.
On Friday, April 22nd, Kay Khan—an exceptional hand embroidery artist represented at Patina Galley—will present an exclusive design with a deep range of colors to reverence the natural world. Influenced by the flowers at TNC's Santa Fe Canyon Preserve, Khan’s one-of-a-kind piece will be filled with gifts from some of Santa Fe’s favorite local businesses and available for purchase to benefit trail improvements and enhancements at the popular natural space.
With 30,000 annual visitors to the preserve, it became clear we needed to make improvements to this place and ensure its accessibly to remain a world-class natural area.
Khan—who’s from Virginia and now lives in Santa Fe—utilizes different sewing techniques to weave together a mosaic of vivid colors and intricate details. Moved by pattern, structure, color and composition, her aspiration is to express a narrative that conveys what she sees and feels through her work.
Khan’s work has been shared in numerous publications around the world and is in the permanent collection of the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA, Museum of Art and Design in New York, and the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, NM, as well as other notable institutions.
Funds raised by the sale of the usable textile pack will go toward renovations at the 20-year-old preserve. What started as a PNM land donation, the preserve has turned into a 575-acre oasis with wildflowers, birds, willows, deer and beaver.
Earth Day
Funds raised by the sale of the usable textile pack will go toward renovations at Santa Fe Canyon Preserve.
Kay Khan backpack: Kay Khan backpack inspired by flora and fauna from Sant © Patina Gallery
Kay Khan backpack: Detail of Kay Khan backpack © Patina Gallery
Black-chinned Hummingbird: A Black-chinned hummingbird sits on her nest located near a nature trail near Santa Fe, New Mexico. © Getty Images/Robert Alexander
Hooded warbler: Hooded warbler at Santa Fe Canyon Preserve © Bernard Foy
Santa Fe Canyon Preserve: Santa Fe Canyon Preserve, New Mexico © Jackie Hall/TNC
“With 30,000 annual visitors to the preserve, it became clear we needed to make improvements to this place and ensure its accessibly to remain a world-class natural area,” said Terry Sullivan, TNC’s state director for New Mexico.
In addition to new interpretive and multi-lingual signage, the chapter will build an ADA-compliant trail, a bird blind and an educational gathering space.
Thanks to all the Santa Fe businesses for participating in this special Earth Day collaboration:
- Cafecito
- Chiaroscuro Gallery
- Four Seasons
- Goler Shoes
- Jean Cocteau Cinema
- Museum of New Mexico Foundation
- Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
- Ohori's Coffee
- Opuntia
- Positive Energy Solar
- Santa Fe Botanical Gardens
- Second Street Brewery
- Site Santa Fe
- Ski Santa Fe | Sandia Peak
- Violet Crown
- Wild Life | Santa Fe Dry Goods
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