Mar 1, 2014
Historic Forts Day
El Camino Real Historic Trail Site
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Mar 2, 2014
Ranching in the 22nd Century: How We Get from Here to There
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
A Cowboys Real and Imagined event
Drought has descended on the Southwest for the last several years, leaving most of New Mexico’s agricultural land in conditions that demand new ways of thinking. Ranches have traditionally been one of the state’s largest industries, and that rainless sky means tough choices for people who juggle land management and environmental change. Many of them are adapting successfully, though, by reevaluating land use in creative ways. Their efforts help keep the legacy of the cowboy alive.
As part of the ongoing exhibit, Cowboys Real and Imagined, join us for a panel discussion on “Ranching in the 22nd Century: How We Get from Here to There,” at 2 pm on Sunday, March 2, in the History Museum Auditorium. Moderated by Courtney White, founder and creative director of the Quivira Coalition, panelists will address the issues facing ranchers in the current drought and the prospect of ranching in the future with a deeper understanding of environmental conditions.
Mar 4, 2014
A Santa Fe History, by Dedie Snow
New Mexico History Museum
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
A special program for the Downtown Walking Tours
Want to learn more about downtown Santa Fe history? Hear from an expert who happens to have dug up a good chunk of it. Noted archaeologist Cordelia (Dedie) Thomas Snow speaks at 9:30 am on Tuesday, March 4, in the auditorium. She’ll show historical images of old Santa Fe and reveal stories of its past. Come to the Meem Community Room following for coffee and snacks to learn how you can become one of the museum’s Downtown Walking Tour guides, spread knowledge of Santa Fe, and raise needed money for the museum. The event is free; no reservations are required.
Mar 5, 2014
Trees of Life: Our Forests in Peril
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
Michigan-based forester and author Brian Stout speaks on "Tree of Life: Our Forests in Peril," part of the 2014 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series at noon on Wednesday, March 5, in the Meem Community Room. Enter for free through the History Museum’s Washington Avenue doors.
Stout is the author of Trees of Life: Our Forests in Peril (Friesen Press, 2013).
Mar 7, 2014
Feasting at the Colonial Palace: History with Dirt on It
New Mexico History Museum
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
A Free First Friday Gallery Talk
Archaeological excavations provide a glimpse of life’s little details seldom recorded in official documents. The bits of bone and burned-plant remains that archaeologists recovered from excavations behind and under the Palace of the Governors show us what kinds of foods people ate over the centuries. Bones and pot sherds tell us how foods were prepared and served. Even the tiniest pottery fragments reveal the networks of trade between Spanish colonists and Pueblo peoples. As part of the museum’s Free First Friday Gallery Talks, Dr. Frances Levine, director of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors, takes you on a culinary tour of the Palace.
Meet up with friends, learn a little something, and head onto dinner with the money you saved. The talks last 15-20 minutes and are repeated at 5:30 and 6:30 pm. Museum admission is free from 5-8 pm on the first Friday of the month, November through April.
Mar 7, 2014
Opening Reception
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Focus on Photography
First part of a year-long celebration of photography. 5-8 pm. Free
Mar 7, 2014 - Apr 19, 2015
FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY YEAR-LONG CYCLE OPENS IN MARCH WITH THREE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS AT NM MUSEUM OF ART
New Mexico Museum of Art
Focus on Photography is a year-long series of exhibitions opening March 7, 2014 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Three simultaneous exhibitions kick off the series: the solo show Beneath our Feet: Photographs by Joan Myers; the group show of landscape photographs titled Grounded; and the Photo Lab, an evolving interactive space exploring photographic processes and ideas.
Focus on Photography is a year-long series running March 7, 2014 until April 15, 2015.
Mar 9, 2014
Come to the Hoedown
New Mexico History Museum
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A Cowboys Real and Imagined event
Dance to the western music of the Holy Water and Whiskey in the lobby from 2–4 pm. Bonus: Free dance lessons by folks in threads inspired by 19th-century cowboys. From 1–4 pm, bring the kids to the classroom to craft a take-home collage of cowboy lingo and words of wisdom. Head upstairs for hat-fitting demonstrations by J.D. Noble of the Hatsmith of Santa Fe, and more. (Can you lasso the dummy calf?)
Free with museum admission; Sundays free to NM residents.
Mar 9, 2014
"Beauty in Simplicity"
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Demonstration of Pueblo sash weaving.
Louie Garcia Tiwa/Piro Pueblo was taught weaving by his grandfather at a very early age. He has always been fasinated by the simplicity embodied in the many textiles that make up traditional Pueblo clothing. He will be weaving a traditional Pueblo sash.
Mar 9, 2014
The Power of Objects: The British Museum/BBC partnership for A History of the World
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
With Frances Carey of the British Museum
Free lecture in St. Francis Auditorium 10:00 to 11:00 a.m
Mar 10, 2014
Friends of Folk Art: Great Santa Fe Kitchens
Museum of International Folk Art
9:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Join the Friends of Folk Art as their tour several homes that boast fabulous, folk art-rich kitchens. The morning will end at the Santa Fe School of Cooking and Market for a demonstration and tasting of regional cuisine. Ticketed event, learn more. Not a member of the Friends of Folk Art? Join here!
Mar 10, 2014 - Jun 1, 2014
Work in Progress:
Museum of International Folk Art
Folk Artists on Immigration -- Exhibition Lab
Work in Progress: Folk Artists on Immigration was the prototype for the exhibition lab, preceeding the “official” exhibition opening with a convening of international and local artists at MOIFA, in conjunction with the International Folk Art Market| Santa Fe, July 2014.
Mar 15, 2014 - Mar 16, 2014
Ft. Stanton Living History Event
Fort Stanton Historic Site
10:00 AM - 12:00 AM
The Fort Stanton Garrison will host a Living History Event the third Saturday of each month accept for July, which is Fort Stanton Live.
Mar 15, 2014
Gen. Lew Wallace comes to Lincoln on 135th Anniversary of Meeting Billy the Kid San Juan Mission
Lincoln Historic Site
2:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Mar 15, 2014 - Mar 16, 2014
Louie Garcia- Tiwa/ Piro Pueblo
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Intro to Pueblo Weaving 2 Day Workshop- March 15 & 16, 2014
The workshop will include weaving instruction, history, loom set-up, and students will work on small project. Supplies will be provided. Lunch on your own.
There is a charge of $120.00 for non-Members & $110.00 for Members with a Limit of 10 persons.
To sign up please contact Rita Iringan at 505.476.1271 or the Museum Shop at 505.982.5057.
Photo courtesy of Louie Garcia
Mar 16, 2014
The Story of New Mexico’s Most Accessible Geologic Wonders
Coronado Historic Site
2:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Friends of Coronado Lecture Series
Mar 16, 2014
Gran Mary's Place
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
A StoryTelling Program
This month’s Story teller is Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia.
GranMary’s Place is a storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that is dedicated to and celebrating the memory of Docent, Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, loved children, and loved telling stories to children visiting the Museum.
All programs start at 2pm and repeated again at 3pm.
Free admission for New Mexico residents on Sundays with ID, and always free admission for 16 and younger
Mar 16, 2014
Billy the Kid in the Movies
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Last day to see Cowboys Real and Imagined
Commemorate this last day to see Cowboys Real and Imagined with a presentation by Baldwin G. Burr, historian, author, and photo archivist at the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Arts. Using clips from decades’ worth of Billy movies, Burr shows how social and cultural trends influenced the various portrayals of New Mexico’s most famous outlaw.
Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents. This event is generously supported by the New Mexico Humanities Council.
Mar 18, 2014 - Mar 21, 2014
Japanese Kite Making
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Workshops & demonstrations
MoIFA is Kite Crazy March 18-21 with Japanese Artists from 10am to 1pm, culminating over the weekend of March 22 & 23 with the Matsuri at the convention center on Saturday and Kite making for all ages on Sunday March 23
Mar 19, 2014
Let’s Take A Look
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Curators Look at Your Treasures
During this time, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them.
The event is always FREE and open to the public. Federal and State regulations prohibit the curators from appraising any artifact.
Mar 20, 2014
Friends of Indian Art: A Visit to Patricia Michaels’ Studio
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
The Friends of Indian Art (FIA) are invited to meet Patricia Michaels, the Native American designer who rocked the fashion world on season 11 of Project Runway. This popular show has brought her fame and much deserved recognition. Patricia will show her designs, fabrics, and the processes she uses tot ake her frabrics to stunning finished garments. She will discuss her traditional Native family, how she got to where she is now, and the inside scoop of being on Project Runway. Learn more here. To become a FIA member, click here.
Mar 21, 2014 - Mar 22, 2014
A Trip to the Historic Bell Ranch
New Mexico History Museum
Special Palace Guard Event
This trip is sold out; the Museum of New Mexico Foundation can add your name to a waiting list. Join the Palace Guard for heads-up about future events (and first crack at signing up). Call 505-992-2715 ext. 4.
In celebration of the closing of Cowboys Real and Imagined, join the Palace Guard for an exploration of an iconic New Mexico ranch. Travel with History Museum Curator Meredith Davidson to the Bell Ranch headquarters, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The trip includes a visit to the studio of internationally recognized blacksmith and Farrier Hall of Fame member Jim Keith, a former Bell Rach cowboy. Overnight lodgings in Tucumcari offer historic Route 66 choices: The Blue Swallow Motel and Motel Safari.
Mar 23, 2014
Advanced Japanese Kite Making Workshop
Museum of International Folk Art
11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Workshop with lecture & lunch
A kite lecture with Masaaki Modegi, President of The Tokyo Kite Museum and President of the Japanese Kite Association, at 1pm and workshop with Master Folk Artist Mikio Toki. The workshop includes materials, lunch and preferred seating at the lecture.
Mar 23, 2014
Kite Crazy
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Japanese Kite Lecture + kite making for all ages
Master Kite maker Mikio Toki returns to Santa Fe with the Preseident of Japan’s Kite Association
Mar 26, 2014
Speaking of Traditions: New Perspectives on Old Traditions
New Mexico Museum of Art
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lecture
The Pueblo Canes and Spanish Vara: Enduring Symbols of Authority and Pueblo Sovereignty
