May 1, 2015
"RED-HOT" Haute Flea
Museum of International Folk Art
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
This year’s party celebrates the color red, in honor of the new exhibition The Red that Colored the World, opening May 15, 2015. Red explores the use of cochineal dye, used to produce deep burgandy reds to soft pinks. Guests are encouraged to wear their selected shade.
May 1, 2015
The Haute Flea
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Enjoy food, wine, music and a Silent Auction of very special folk art treasures! Update your folk fashion with “wearable folk art” and jewelry from this year’s version of “The Haute Flea Boutique!” Surprises await you! More information (including ticket cost) coming soon!
May 1, 2015
Red Hot Haute Flea
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Museum of International Folk Art
Enjoy an evening of shopping,camaraderie and folk art at the Folk Art Flea, the museum’s annual fundraiser. Learn more here.
May 1, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
Fire Season
New Mexico Museum of Art
The Southwest has become increasingly aware of a season that begins around June with the unleashing of nature’s harsh and renewing forces: fire season. New Mexicans in particular are well acquainted with the apocalyptic plumes of smoke and sprinklings of ash that accompany this wildfire season. In this exhibition of more than a dozen photographs, artists respond to the fearsome and alluring element of fire, exploring its destructive, hypnotic, symbolic, and regenerative aspects. This group show of 15 photographs includes work by Jane Fulton Alt, Patricia Galagan, Philip Metcalf, and Larry Schwarm.
May 1, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
Photo Lab
New Mexico Museum of Art
cyanotypes and albumen prints
The Photo Lab features photographs from the collection made with two historic processes: cyanotypes and albumen prints. Both were popular in the nineteenth-century and examples are on view by early practitioners including Francis Frith, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Arthur Wesley Dow. These processes have been revived by contemporary artists -- such as Rita Dewitt, Betty Hahn, Robin Hill, Jennifer Schlesinger, Nancy Sutor, and Zoë Zimmerman – whose work is exhibited alongside the earlier masters. Find out about these colorful photographic process and check out a selection of historic cameras, a comment board, touch-screen videos, books, and more!
May 1, 2015 - Feb 26, 2016
Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War
New Mexico History Museum
Civil War battles raged across America’s northern and southern states as Texas Confederates launched a plot: Head north and west through the New Mexico Territory with hopes of seizing California’s goldfields and sea ports. In 1862, battles erupted in Mesilla, Valverde, and Glorieta. Confederate forces briefly occupied the Palace of the Governors. Despite such victories, breaks in supply chains forced the Texans to retreat.
While the carnage of Shiloh, Manassas and Gettysburg roiled the nation, New Mexico’s role in the Civil War faded—like the photographs of soldiers and loved ones held for remembrance as a nation faltered and the dead were buried. What was left behind—cased-image portraits of wartime soldiers and their families; a tattered flag; post-war lithographs—failed to definitively answer our nation’s questions, leaving mysteries, unknown faces and untold stories.
In the museum’s intimate Mezzanine Gallery, three curators—Meredith Davidson, Daniel Kosharek and Tom Leech—come together, approaching the subject from different angles and inviting visitors to consider these fragments of memories and how a long-gone war still defines us as Americans.
May 1, 2015 - Jun 1, 2015
Ticket Sales Begin
Museum of International Folk Art
International Folk Art Market| Santa Fe
Join us for the 12th Annual International Folk Art Market | Santa Fe on July 10, 11, & 12, 2015.
TICKETS: Available online beginning May 1, 2015
—Tickets are limited and events may sell out!
May 1, 2015
Exhibit opening: Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War
New Mexico History Museum
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A Free First Friday event
See the new Mezzanine-level exhibit, Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War, while enjoying refreshments, courtesy of the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico, and a preview of El Rancho de las Golondrinas’ Civil War weekend, May 2–3. Participating re-enactors include the New Mexico Territorial Brass Band and Madeleine Quillen, with a Women of the Civil War demonstration. A free event.
May 1, 2015 - May 30, 2015
Historical Downtown Walking Tours
New Mexico History Museum
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Starting from April 13 and continuing through October 17, 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.)
May 1, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
To Feel Less Alone: Gay Block, A Portrait
New Mexico Museum of Art
May 1 through July 26, 2015
Longtime Santa Fe resident Gay Block’s photography is internationally recognized for its fearless exploration of personal identity issues—gender, class, religion, familial relationships, and sexual orientation. A survey of more than forty of her works from 1975 to 2012 in To Feel Less Alone: Gay Block, A Portrait, opens Friday, May 1, 2015 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. The exhibition runs through July 26, 2015.
May 1, 2015
Public Opening
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Focus on Photography
Free concert by Ron Helman Jazz Ensemble and three new photography shows 5 - 8p.m.
