The 2025 Art in the Garden Tour, a Picacho Hills-based art event, returns on Saturday, May 10. This year’s tour includes five locations and seventeen artists and runs from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public drawing large crowds on the Saturday before Mother’s Day. Patrons can expect to see paintings, ceramics, jewelry, photography, mosaic art, mixed media, and fiber artwork.
Members of the Artists of Picacho Hills have been organizing and hosting this event since 2011. The group invites Picacho Hills residents to select five gardens representing Southern New Mexico landscaping at its best. Each residence will host three to four artists in their garden. These artists will display their work, and some will even provide demos. Master Gardeners will be onsite to answer questions about the plants and landscaping.
“Art in the Garden is a lovely way to welcome the community to Picacho Hills for a perfect blend of art, nature and social interaction,” said event chairperson Cate Tomassen. “I look forward to showing my paintings for the first time at this event.”
This year the group has invited local guest artists to participate. These include some Agave Art Gallery Artists; among them photographer Emmitt Booher and multimedia artist Nancy Begin. There will be potters and artists working in fiber and assemblage. New member Tess Lane is excited to share her new Spring collection of enamel jewelry inspired by spring blossoms and mandalas during the event.
“I love participating in the Artists of Picacho Hills Art in the Garden each spring,” said watercolor artist Becki Thomas, who will be participating again this year. “It is such an excellent way for me to showcase my watercolor paintings and gifts in a beautiful garden setting.”
Returning painter Donna Popky likes participating in this event because “it’s so much fun to set up art displays in neighbor's gardens and have the public enjoy wandering around the gardens and enjoying all the creativity of our group. I have been creating flowerpots painted with New Mexico scenes and being that this is a Spring event, planters and gardens seem to be in sync.”
All seventeen artists will be present to talk about their work, and this event provides the opportunity to buy from the artists themselves. A welcome booth stocked with maps to guide patrons to the gardens will be behind the Santa Fe Restaurant on Picacho Hills Drive.
For more information about Art in the Garden, visit the website at www.artistsofpicachohills.com.
