The interactive experience this year is a light-based drum circle. The intention of the light circle is to invite everyone to join by taking up a noise/light maker. As the unconventional noise makers are tapped, shaken, or beaten - they create light and sound. Patterns of light travel up strips and join the "fire" at the center of the drum circle. The audience can see and hear as the participants perform. The activity is built around forming community. The light/drum circle offers equality because there is no head or tail. It includes people of all ages. The main objective is to share rhythm and get in tune with each other.

This project is part of the PASEO and UNM-Taos Educational Partnership and is made in collaboration with Fall 2022 UNM-Taos Art Practices students. These students are utilizing sound technology and traditional sculptural processes to transform found and fabricated objects into “drums.”

About the artist: Sarah Stolar is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The breadth of her work includes painting, drawing, multi-media installation, film, video, and performance art. Rooted in a 25-year investigation of the female psychological narrative, common threads in her work include loss of innocence, sexuality, power, death, spirituality, and identity. She grew up in her mother’s art studio and award-winning art school Schain Studios in Cincinnati, received a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati (2000), and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2003). Her work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally and she is an internationally award-winning filmmaker. Sarah has been featured in multiple media outlets including Yale University Radio Archive, Fifty Feminist States, The Nation Magazine, Hyperallergic, and CNN Style. A committed educator for over fifteen years, Sarah Stolar is currently the Chair of the Department of Fine Arts and Digital Media at the University of New Mexico - Taos.

Enrico Trujillo is a multimedia artist from Taos, New Mexico. Enrico creatively draws from his experiences growing up in northern New Mexico. The core of his work includes painting, drawing, multi-media installation, film, video, and interactive art. His work explores the human form, physical and virtual places, the high-desert landscape, complex emotions, belief, queer culture, and technology.