HeadFest 2023

Belen’s HeadFest 2023 was as exciting as the previous year. The founders of the Scarecrow Festival invited us to join them this year, rather than us invading their annual festival like we did the year before. It was another great event, full of laughter, dancing...

Belen Music Walk 2023

Belen’s Second Annual Music Walk took place July 29, 2023. It was a well attended event traveling up and down Becker and Main Street. Daniel Solis organized the event and performed to a large crowd in the gallery space at Silver Bar. Black’s Smuggler...

HeadFest 2022

The debut performance of Head Crushing Machine at the first Belen Music Walk in August of 2021 made a deep impression on a few local artisans, particularly Jason Schilberg of Rocket Punch Farm. He was interested in creating his own papier mache head. He wasn’t...

Tus ojos cuentan la historica

Tus ojos cuentan la historia/ Your Eyes Tell the Story, is a series of photographic portraits of women clad in diverse styles of masks, bursting into spaces of conflict that are usually chaotic and reserved for men. This project is soft research, an inquiry into the...

Chimera

Chimera: Jamie Marie Rose Extremely proud of this artist to be the first of many women exhibiting in Silver-Bar Studios specifically in what is referred to as the “Ladies Room” Gallery. Jamie is one of the first people we met in the Belen Arts District one year ago...

Woman Of The House

Daniel Montaño’s Wo/Man Of The House is a photographic exhibition that was inspired by and photographed in Wo/Manhouse 2022, in Belen,...

Exterior Makeover

Silver Bar was awarded a grant for the exterior. Thank you Jay Peters and Rhona Espinoza for the generous gift. We’ve use the grant to start painting the building to look more like the beautiful historic brick buildings on our block. We have added signage and the...