Bill Tite has been exploring the San Luis Valley since arriving here from the Detroit area in 2019. He received his MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, and taught in the ASU Art Department until May 2024. 

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He works in a variety of mediums, including screen printing, painting, photography, sculpture, and digital- and mixed media, each through multi-sensory immersion. He is especially fascinated with the senses of touch. 

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Along with visual art,  he also writes poetry and prose. His work embodies the intersections of landscape and human-ness (we are the landscape), made possible through long walks and meditation. He loves the San Luis Valley. He loves exploring the world in abstraction, which he believes opens art up to wider individual experience. He loves music and lying in mountain meadows throughout the seasons. He’s very interested to learn how you feel about what he creates.

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He is currently working on a series of multi-media canvases. An “Emotional Cartography” performance piece is in the planning stages. It will take place in and around Alamosa next Spring. 

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You can find copies of some of his books in the Local Author section at the Narrow Gauge, and you’ll be able to see his art throughout the month of November.

 

We hope you’ll come and meet him and talk with him at the reception on November 7th, between 4pm and 6pm!

Each month, the Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative features a local nonprofit that serves the San Luis Valley. This month, you can support PALS Children's Program, which is part of the La Puente network.

 

From their website: "PALS Children's Program is a referral based, licensed, after-school and summer program for children 5 to 9 years old who are combating trauma or instability in their home lives. Geared to the needs and interests of each child, PALS focuses on social, emotional and behavioral growth through an exploratory learning environment aimed to cultivate their sense of self, family, and community. Through activities and experiences PALS encourages a child's personal growth and self-expression."

When you shop at the NGBC this month, you'll be asked if you want to round up and donate your change. It's a simple and easy way to support local organizations that help make the Valley what it is! 

 

In addition, each year we work with Crystal Gonzalez of Honey-Do Floors, to host the Reading Tree. You’ll find the tree decorated with tags that have a child’s initials, age, and interests, and underneath the tree, you’ll find an assortment of books that match the interests. Once you select a book, it will be wrapped by us, and gifted to a child at the PALS holiday party on December 17th. We’ll have the tree set up by November 7th, and it will be in store through December 17th, giving us time to get the gifts to PALs. You just purchase the book, and we’ll do the rest!

 

Check out their recommended books, and visit their website for more information!

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• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel M.D. 

• Parenting From The Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel M.D.

• The Connected Child by Karyn B. Purvis

• The Connected Parent by Karyn Purvis PhD

• What Happened To You by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry