Jun 1, 2014
Friends of Archaeology Chile and Sherds
Office of Archaeological Studies
The Friends of Archaeology invite you for a day-long event that will include tours of the San Cristóbal Pueblo and rock art as well as a single small group tour of pictographs in nearby Pine Canyon. A New Mexican themed lunch will be provided. Price is $95.00, with $70.00 as a tax-deductible donation. Reserve your ticket starting Tuesday February 18, 2014 at 12:01 a.m. by calling 505-982-7799 ext 7. Please check here and here for updates. To become a FOA member, click here.
Jun 1, 2014 - Jun 30, 2014
Historical Downtown Walking Tours
New Mexico History Museum
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Starting from April 14 and continuing through October 11, learn about the history of Santa Fe on a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors guides every Monday through Saturday. Gather at the Palace Courtyard’s Blue Gate just south of the History Museum entrance at 113 Lincoln Avenue at 10:15 am. Cost: $10; children 16 and under free when with an adult. Museum guides do not accept tips. (No tours on Saturdays when large events are held on the Plaza, such as Spanish Market and Santa Fe Fiesta.)
Jun 1, 2014
The Poetry of Light
New Mexico History Museum
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
A writing workshop for Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography
Join Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis for "The Poetry of Light," a writing workshop based on Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. Open to high schoolers and older, the session will bring participants into the exhibit gallery to study pinhole photographs and inhabit them imaginatively using a variety of approaches. Let language carry you toward and away from the images. Draft poems that engage what’s in front of you—and explore what isn’t there but is only suggested by these often mysterious photographs. Free; make a reservation by calling 505-476-5096.
Jun 1, 2014
Book Event
New Mexico Museum of Art
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Literary Pilgrims: Life in the Santa Fe Writers’ Colony
Lynn Cline talks about writers in Santa Fe during the early 20th century 2-3pm
Jun 1, 2014
Tails of Long Ago
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A Lecture by Dody Fugate
Dody Fugate is an Assistant Curator of Archaeological Researh at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, who will speak to us on dog tales from long ago.
Jun 1, 2014
Adopt-A-Thon
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Gone to the Dogs and Cats!
collaborative program presented by the Museums and the Santa fe Humane Society and Animal Shleter on Museum Hill.
Jun 4, 2014
Southwest Pottery/Artist Demonstration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Native artists, from different Southwest tribes, will discuss and demonstrate techniques, clays and styles of pottery.
Jun 6, 2014 - Oct 12, 2014
Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014
New Mexico Museum of Art
Marking both her seventy-fifth birthday and three decades of living and working in New Mexico, Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014 opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art June 6, 2014 and runs through October 12, 2014.
The exhibition will focus on both large-scale public projects and smaller-scale personal artworks and will be among the first to focus on recent works by Judy Chicago.
Jun 6, 2014
Opening Reception
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014
Enjoy free refreshments and klezmer for the public opening of Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014
Jun 6, 2014
Free Friday Night : Yes for the Palace, No for the History Museum
New Mexico History Museum
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Due to a private event in the History Museum, it will not be open for our usual Free Friday Night on June 6. The Palace of the Governors, however, will remain open for free from 5-8 pm. (Folks attending the Judy Chicago opening at the New Mexico Museum of Art who would like to tack on a visit to Donald Woodman’s exhibit at the History Museum will need to plan a return visit.) We apologize for the inconvenience.
Jun 7, 2014
Native American Film Festival
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
"A Weave In Time," in 1938, noted anthropologist, John Adair, travelled to the Navajo reservation in Pine Springs, Arizona with a 16mm hand wind motion picture camera. There he met and filmed the Burnside family, creating a visual record of Navajo life in the 1930’s.
Jun 8, 2014
Friends of Folk Art: Three Artists and Their Collectors: Where Passions Meet
Museum of International Folk Art
Join the Friends of Folk Art for a day filled with beautiful art and stimulating conversation. Meet three well-known artists at the homes of their collectors for a lively discussion about the relationship between creating and collecting. Not a member of the Friends of Folk Art? Join here!
Jun 8, 2014
Vernon Haskie Lecture
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Vernon Haskie, Navajo Jeweler
Vernon Haskie is one of the most renowned of contemporary jewelry artists. He learned his basic skills from his father, Leonard Haskie, but for the most part taught himself the rest. He creates multi-dimensional designs of silver and gold, set with the best quality turquoise, coral and precious gems. Though his work is unique and contemporary, it is inspired by and imbued with his Navajo culture.
Jun 9, 2014
Caring for Family Photographs
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Workshop on caring for your family photos, negatives, and digital images
Join archivists Diane Bird and Kate Ruiz Navarro for a hands-on workshop on how to care for your family photos, negatives, and digital images; selecting appropriate archival enclosures; and preserving photos in home-storage conditions. Fee of $25 for materials.
Jun 10, 2014
Arts Alive !
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Free Hands-on Workshop
Free Hands-on pottery workshop for all ages; children must be with an adult. Contact Joyce Begay-Foss, 505 476 1272.
Jun 12, 2014
Arts Alive!
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Free, Hands-on Workshop
Free Native Music hands-on workshop for all ages: children must be with an adult. Museum admission is free for participants. Contact Joyce Begay-Foss, 505 476 1272
Jun 13, 2014
Treasure from the Bog: The Faddan More Psalter
New Mexico History Museum
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The archaeology and conservation of a medieval manuscript
In the summer of 2006, a peat bog in County Tipperary, Ireland, yielded a rare medieval manuscript containing fragments of the Old Testament’s 150 psalms with illuminations and decorated letters. On Friday, June 13, at 6 pm, Irish scholar John Gillis tells of the discovery and difficult task of conserving the document, in “Treasures from the Bog: The Faddan More Psalter.” The lecture, hosted by the Press at the Palace of the Governors, is free in the History Museum auditorium.
Jun 14, 2014
Pinhole Photography—Projections, Contraptions, Thoughts and Afterthoughts
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
An event for Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography
Missouri-based photographer Scott McMahon speaks in the History Museum auditorium on “Pinhole Photography—Projections, Contraptions, Thoughts and Afterthoughts," an event in support of the exhibit Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. McMahon, whose work is included in the exhibit, will talk about his exploration of pinhole photography, his interest in the ephemeral nature of things, and how building subject-specific cameras helped him link two-dimensional images with sculpture and installation. In the museum auditorium. Free. (Learn more about McMahon at his website: www.scottmcmahonphoto.com/.)
Jun 14, 2014
Art Making Workshop : Drawing
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Try on a Role
In St. Francis Auditorium 1:00 to 3:30 pm
Jun 15, 2014
Gallery Talk
New Mexico Museum of Art
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Which New Mexico Artist Are You?
Ellen Zieselman gives a special tour through Southwestern Allure 2-3pm
Jun 17, 2014
Arts Alive!
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Free Hands-On Workshop
Free hands-on jewelry workshop for all ages: children must be with an adult. Museum admission is free for participants. Contact Joyce Begay-Foss, 505 476 1272
Jun 18, 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.
Jun 18, 2014
The Curious Case of New Mexico’s Civil War-Era Slave Code
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
John Hays speaks on "The Curious Case of New Mexico’s Civil War-Era Slave Code," part of the 2014 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series at noon on Wednesday, June 18, in the Meem Community Room. Enter for free through the History Museum’s Washington Avenue doors.
Hays is an attorney in the Santa Fe firm of Cassutt, Hays and Friedman.
Jun 18, 2014
Southwest Pottery Artist Demonstration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Native Artist Demonstration
Native artists from different Southwest tribes will discuss and demonstrate different techniques, clays and styles of pottery.
Jun 19, 2014
Friends of Indian Art: The CrazyHorse Silversmithing Legacy
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Join the Friends of Indian Art (FIA) and renowned Cochiti jeweler Cippy CrazyHorse and son Waddie, a recent Stanford University graduate, as they discuss the influence of Terecita and Joe H. Quintana, the famed master-silversmith parents of the elder CrazyHorse. Now flowing three generations, working with silver runs deep in the roots of the CrazyHorse family. Classic traditional peublo designs carry through in each of the father and son’s respective works as a result of the silversmithing legacy. The jewelry creations of these two artists clearly maintain a distinctive signature style of their own, blending both the past and present in their designs. Learn more here. To become a FIA member, click here.
Jun 19, 2014
Arts Alive!
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Free Hands-on Workshop
Free Native foods hands-on workshop for all ages; children must be with an adult. Museum admission is free for participants. Contact Joyce Begay-Foss. 505 476 1272
Jun 21, 2014 - Jun 22, 2014
Ft. Stanton Living History Event
Fort Stanton Historic Site
10:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Jun 21, 2014
Turquoise Buying Seminar
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Learn Before You Buy
We’re surrounded by turquoise, especially in Santa Fe. Before you buy, learn what you should be looking for.
Garrick Beck from Natural Stones, in Santa Fe will be doing the seminar. In the classroom. Free with the museum admission.
Jun 22, 2014
Perspectives and Meanings
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Turquoise from Prehistory to the Present: A Lecture Series
"Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos" The second lecture of a five part series. This lecture is free with museum admission.
Jun 22, 2014
Participatory Creativity
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
A Celebration of Axle Contemporary’s Renga Project
Join us 1pm-3pm for this free panel discussion and poetry reading
Jun 24, 2014
San Juan Day San Juan Mission
Lincoln Historic Site
6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Jun 25, 2014
Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Explores the Poetics of Light
New Mexico History Museum
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
A special session of the nationally renowned Alzheimer’s Poetry Project comes to the New Mexico History Museum and its newest exhibit, Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, from 10:30 to 11:30 am on Wednesday, June 25. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended. To make reservations or for more information, please contact Gary Glazner at gary@alzpoetry.com or go to www.alzpoetry.com.
People living with dementia, their family members and the general public are invited to attend this FREE event. Participants will perform and create poetry inspired by the Poetics of Light exhibit.
Jun 25, 2014 - Jun 29, 2014
Traditional Weaving Demonstrations
El Camino Real Historic Trail Site
By Pueblo textile artist Louie Garcia
El Camino Real Historic Trail Site will host Traditional Weaving demonstrations by Pueblo textile artist Louie Garcia June 25-29, 2014.
Garcia, Tiwa/Piro from the Piro Manso Tiwa tribe of Guadalupe Pueblo in Las Cruces, will demonstrate traditional weaving techniques using yucca and cotton from 10am–4pm Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
On Saturday, he will teach a plaited yucca mat workshop. The free workshop begins at 10am and spaces are limited. Registering in advance is required.
This artist in residence program is made available through the generous support of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.
El Camino Real Historic Trail Site, formerly El Camino International Heritage Center, is located between Socorro and Truth or Consequences off Interstate -25 at Exit 115. It is open Wednesday-Sunday from 8:30 a. m -5:00 p. m. For more information call: 575-854-3600
Jun 26, 2014
Performance Art
New Mexico Museum of Art
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Theater Grottesco’s Consider This…..
Theater Grottesco performs their 1 hour show Consider This...
Jun 28, 2014
Member Preview: Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
6:00 AM - 7:30 AM
Foundation members are invited to see Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World on Saturday, June 28 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the New Mexico History Museum. 35 paintings will be on display that reveal how faith sustained Spanish colonists in harsh and remote frontiers and how their religious art evolved. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Paper invitation to be mailed in mid-May. RSVP by calling 505.992.2715 ext. 6.
Jun 28, 2014
First Look: Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Members of The Circles, Legacy and Founders Society, and the Business Council, as well as Exhibitions Development Fund and Director’s Leadership Fund donors are invited to be first to see Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World, which features 35 17th- and 18-Century paintings from Spain’s three colonial capitals: Peru, Mexico and New Mexico. Curator Josef Diaz will provide a private tour of the exhibition, followed by wine and hors d’oevures. By invitation only. For more information, call 505.982.6366 ext. 113.
Jun 29, 2014 - Mar 13, 2016
Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World
New Mexico History Museum
A 1960s’ ecclesiastical wave of urban renewal inspired mission churches throughout the Americas to undergo renovations and, all too often, cast off centuries-old artwork. Charles W. Collier, a cultural attaché to Bolivia, and his wife, Nina Perera Collier, began purchasing and obtaining pieces that eventually formed the backbone of the International Institute of Iberian Colonial Art, once based at their Los Luceros estate in northern New Mexico. In 2005, with the promised construction of spacious galleries and a state-of-the-art collections vault at the New Mexico History Museum, the Institute donated 70 paintings and three sculptures. When Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World opens on June 29, 2014, 35 of these 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces will share one exhibition space for the first time ever.
Painting the Divine includes works from Spain’s three colonial capitals: Peru, Mexico and New Mexico. Together, they reveal how faith sustained Spanish colonists in harsh and remote frontiers and how their religious art evolved in those places.
Jun 29, 2014
Exhibit Opening: Painting the Divine
New Mexico History Museum
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World features 35 masterpieces from the museum’s collections, combined with modern interpretations that, together, reveal a story of how faith unified Spanish colonists across harsh and remote frontiers. Be among the first to see this original exhibit, accompanied by Spanish classical guitar performed by AnnaMaria Cardinalli. Learn how art conservator Cynthia Lawrence brought the hidden beauty out of 12 of the paintings. Craft a take-home ramillete (paper flower). Refreshments courtesy of the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico.
Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents, children 16 and under free daily.
Learn more about the exhibit by clicking here: http://media.newmexicoculture.org/events.php?action=detail&eventID=1945.
