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Louise Saunders was born in Phoenix, Ariz., the youngest daughter of an Arizona ranching family. She attended Colorado Woman's College in Denver where she studied business and psychology, but spent...

Betty Finch and her fantastic gourd creations will be featured at Gallery 'N' Gifts for First Friday, March 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. Betty, raised in Mojave, began her working life as a commercial artist...

Gallery 'N' Gifts is featuring Larry McClain, the Gallery's resident wood carver, and some of his amazing, fanciful carvings. Larry's carvings are often based on his love of books with themes set in...

Tina Dille, best known for her contemporary watercolor animal portraits has found a new medium. Spray Paint! Something she has been working with for the last six months to prepare for a 16 by 25-foot...

Gallery 'N' Gifts is featuring our jewelers and potters at our Nov. 2 First Friday. Four of our fabulous Jewelers will be displaying their beautiful items that will make holiday giving very special....

Gallery 'N' Gifts Featured Artist for October is Linda McDermott a world traveler, hiker and eclectic artist. Linda grew up in a rural area near Cincinnati, Ohio, developing a deep love and curiosity...

Diana Pittenger is Gallery 'N' Gifts featured artist for September who describes her work as being a painter in the most unusual sense of the word. Instead of using acrylics or oils, she uses bits of...

Donald Towns is a fine arts painter with background as an animation illustrator for Disney Studios working on award-winning films such as "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Little Mermaid" and...

Dennis Cowden, AKA The Cookie Expert, is also a wonderful photographer. Starting at age 12 with his Kodak Brownie Hawkeye he won his first photo award. Dennis and his wife Peggy came to Tehachapi in...

Gene Stirm's wonderful mixed media art will be featured at Gallery 'N' Gifts for the month of May. The First Friday artist reception will be from 5 to 8 p.m. May 4, 2018 at the Gallery, 100 W....

Gallery 'N' Gifts March guest artist is new Tehachapi resident Kathy Burns. Kathy, whose love of art began in high school, started a journey of self discovery after a broken marriage, loading her two...

Artist and teacher Debbie Haeberle is making her debut at Gallery 'N' Gifts as the featured artist for the month of January! Debbie is a new resident of Tehachapi and currently teaches art at...

Tehachapi has many talented artists from kindergarten to high school that submitted art including; water color, oil painting,sculpture,pastel, collage and digital art. Everyone enjoyed the cookies...

Winners of the TVAA 2014 Youth Art contest were revealed at a reception for all the entrants held at Gallery N Gifts on Saturday, April 5. Cookies and punch were served as the young artist looked to...

April's First Friday will feature the successful All Tehachapi Youth Art Contest (ATYAC) at Gallery 'N' Gifts. This year marks the eighteenth year of this contest and spotlights the creative efforts o...