Artist, Gloria Toti Bell will be exhibiting a Day of the Dead, One Woman Show at the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Gallery Floor from September 1st-October 31st. There will be paintings as well as prints, cards and various other items for sale during this show exhibit.

Toti Bell is a native California artist known for her works in the Mexican Folk Art and Dia de los Muertos traditions. Born and raised in East Los Angeles her art expresses her Mexican heritage through the mediums of acrylic, watercolor and ceramics. Toti has continued evolving as an artist drawing from those traditional roots and is generally considered to be one of the most prolific Dia de los Muertos artists in the United States. She has published three years of the original Dia de los Muertos calendar honoring the Mexican tradition of remembering past family members and important historical and cultural contemporaries.


Picture Above by Artist, Gloria Toti Bell.

Toti Bell’s art has been represented in the Latin American Museum of Art in Long Beach, California, the Southwest and Gene Autry Museums in Los Angeles, California, the Heard and Chicano Museums in Phoenix, Arizona, the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, the Buddy Holly Museum in Austin, Texas, the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts in Globe, and the Copper Mine Picture Café Gallery in Miami, Arizona. She works from her art studios in Banning, California and Miami, Arizona.

Toti and her husband, Bill, have reconnected with their family roots in Arizona and have a home in Miami, Arizona, where they create art and music surrounded by the inspiration and beauty of the Cobre Valley.

Gallery hours are Monday - Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For more information, please call the Center at (928) 425-0884.

Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Our Annual Desert Social will be held outside the White Porch Gift Shop at the Center for the Arts Building. Molly Cornwell, owner of the White Porch did an amazing job of planning this event last year, with a HUGE turn out in guests and desserts!

Bring your favorite dessert and enter it to be judged! The categories... for judging are: Fancy, Home Cookin', Other, Made by Kids (ages 0-11), Made by Teens (ages 12-19), and Overall People's Choice. Special prizes will be awarded to the winners! Wear your favorite apron to this event! There will also be a "Hero Cape" Apron Fashion show. There will also be a contest for your picture of a family member and an apron story to go with it!

Admission to the event is free, however, there will be small fee of $5.00 to taste test your choice of 6 of these wonderful desserts. Drinks will also be for sale at this event. Many of our bakers will be bringing a duplicate desert to our "Silent Auction" table. If you like the taste of a certain dessert, you can bid for it at the Silent Auction Table. All proceeds got the Center for the Arts. For more information, call Molly at the White Porch at (928) 425-4000 or Pat Dodd at the Center at (928) 425-0884.

Let your imagination run wild. Anything haunting or about autumn or even both together is fair game. Fall Leaves, Day ofthe Dead, Haloween, whatever blows your skirt up. Do something creative and enter! Open to all media - This show is open to all artists of all ages and there is no fee to enter.

This show runs September 1st-October 31st. Art work may be for sale or not for sale. When pricing your artwork be aware that a 30% commission will be withheld from the final sale price of all artwork. This will go to the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts for continued restoration and upkeep of this historic building.

Art work can be dropped off any time in August, hanging will be the afternoon of August 31st. Bring your artwork to the front desk at the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts in Downtown Globe. Summer hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For more information, please call (928) 425-0884. Picture above by Artist, Diana Tunis.

Please pick up any unsold pieces by November 30, 2010. Pieces left unclaimed may be subject to storage fees.