"People of Place" Art Exhibit FREE Exhibit! The "People of Place" batik art exhibit, created by artist Gary Fey, will be showing throughout the month of September. Contact Gary Fey at batikfey@yahoo.com or 1-575-758-1750 for more info.Location: Good Thunder Batik Studio/Gallery. 105 Kit Carson Road. http://www.garyfey.com. 10:00am - 5:00pm. TBA Sep 4 "Police Blotters & More" A one-man show at the Stables Gallery by oil painter Mark Asmus, featuring his amusing Police Blotter series and subjects depicting day-to-day life in Taos. The Community Against Violence receives 25 percent of all proceeds. Call (575) 758-7171. 10:00am - 5:00pm. Stables Gallery of the Taos Center for the Arts, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte Sep 4 - e-mail "Taos Heals" healing consultations Healing and Cranial Sacral, Gemstone and Crystal Healing; Healing Touch; EFT Emotional Freedom Technique; Readings, and more, Desert Blends, 130 Bent Street, Taos NM 1-575-737-0770. 1:00pm - 4:00pm. TBA Sep 4 Abstract art by Art Gilbert Abstract art prints for sale by Art Gilbert now available at the Taos Cow. These abstracts are amazing! They crackle with color and movement. Some describe them as electrical energy or scenes from the cosmos. Contact Art for information about large sizes and originals. TBA - TBA. Taos Cow, 485 Hwy. 150, Arroyo Seco Sep 4 - e-mail Al-Anon, For family, friends of alcoholics. TeamBuilders, 118-H Este Es Road. Feww, Call (575) 776-5435 or 758-9585. 8:30am - 9:30am. TeamBuilders, 118-H Este Es Road. Sep 4 |
Arroyo Seco Facts: Population (year 2000): 1,149
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Welcome to our Arroyo Seco website!
Arroyo Seco is a small New Mexican village located immediately below Taos Mountain and 7 miles from the town of Taos, NM. We have brought together many community members to create a website that will inform locals of events and issues as well as introduce outsiders to our community. Welcome and Enjoy!
our History
There are many folktales told in New Mexico about how some towns came to be. There are few, however, which can match the beauty of the tales surrounding the founding of the village of Arroyo Seco. Just 7 miles north of Taos, Arroyo Seco was begun when its people acquired rights to the lands under a grant made by Joaquín Codallos y Rabal, dated October 7, 1745. As a site, it was first recorded in a chronicle dated 1716. It was deeded at that time to General Lucero de Godoy by the Viceroy of Mexico. He never bothered to settle on the land.
Settlement of the area began in 1804 when two brothers named Cristóbal Martínez and José Gregorio Martínez from Río Arriba County planted crops there before building their houses in 1806. Click to Read More...
local shops
Seco, as Arroyo Seco is locally refered to, has many small specialty shops, restaurants and services. Many of these shops exhibit work by local artists and crafts people.