Mar 6, 2015
Gallery Talk
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Focus on Photography
Series of events in the year-long project Focus on Photography. Meet local photographers 5:30-6:30pm. Free
Mar 6, 2015
Opening Reception
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Colors of the Southwest
5:30-7:30pm free music and refreshments
Mar 6, 2015 - Sep 20, 2015
Colors of the Southwest
New Mexico Museum of Art
The New Mexico Museum of Art is participating in the city’s 2015 “Summer of Color” celebration with the exhibition Colors of the Southwest. The exhibtion dates are March 6 – September 20, 2015. The exhibition will encompass an array of art created from the early 20th century to the present and will include paintings, photographs, prints, watercolors, and ceramics.
Mar 6, 2015
New Mexico Women’s Clubs: Civic Pioneers
New Mexico History Museum
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A Free First Friday talk
Celebrate Women’s History Month with an auditorium talk by historian Pat Farr on "New Mexico Women’s Clubs: Civic Pioneers," at 6 pm on Friday, March 6. Learn how women at the turn of the last century helped the state make strides in "municipal housekeeping" chores, though their contributions went largely ignored. A Free First Friday event. Museum admission is free to everyone from 5 to 8 pm.
Mar 10, 2015
Colors of the Southwest
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Tour for Benefactor, Ambassador and Circles Members
Members at the Benefactor level and above will see some of the most notable and prolific artworks from the museum’s collection that showcase the vibrant colors of the Southwestern landscape.
Mar 11, 2015
Black Pioneers on Route 66
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A Brainpower and Brownbags Lunch Lecture
In the Jim Crow era, black tourists experienced a different kind of Route 66 than the one remembered in story and song. On Wednesday, March 11, Frank Norris, a historian for the National Park Service, National Trails Intermountain Region, in Santa Fe, speaks on "Black Pioneers on Route 66," part of the 2015 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series in the Meem Community Room. Enter for free through the History Museum’s Washington Avenue doors.
Mar 11, 2015 - Feb 1, 2016
Early Native American Easel Art in New Mexico: The Dorothy Dunn Collection
Coronado Historic Site
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
New Exhibit Featuring Early Native American Easel Art at Coronado Historic Site from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Dorothy Dunn Collection.
March 2015 – February 2016
The Development of Native American Easel Art in New Mexico just opened at the Coronado Historic Site and runs through February 2016. Featured are {how many?} prints of original water color paintings lent by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Dorothy Dunn Collection.
Among the artists on view are Vidal Casiquito, Jr. of Jemez, Gilbert Atencio of San Ildefonso, and Pablita Velarde of Santa Clara, as well as several pieces by Zia artist, Velino Shije Herrera, who in the early 1930s painted the murals in the reconstructed Kiva at the Coronado Site. Pueblo lifeways is the exhibition’s theme.
Mar 15, 2015
18th-Century Harpsichord Music
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
A "Painting the Divine" event
Susan Patrick, an associate professor emerita of music at the University of New Mexico, performs and discusses 17th- and 18th-century harpsichord music from Italy, Germany and France. The performance, in the History Museum auditorium, is free with admission. Sundays are free to NM residents. Children 16 and under are free daily.
Mar 15, 2015
GranMary’s Place Storytelling
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
GranMary’s Place is a storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that is dedicated to celebrating the memory of Docent Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, children, and telling stories to children visiting the Museum.
Jason Tecube, grew up in Dulce, New Mexico on the homelands of the Jicarilla Apache . At a young age he began learning about his tribe through various elders and relatives of his community. His knowledge also extends to the Apache tribes of the White Mountain, and Mescalero. Whether they be songs or stories, they are deeply rooted.
Mar 15, 2015
Between Two Worlds
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Performing Arts Showcase
Part of the National Dialogues on Immigration Project of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. New Mexican Artists from diverse places reflect on the immigrant experience.
Mar 15, 2015
Atlatl Throwing Demonstration & Related Artifacts
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
with Chuck Hannaford from the Office of Archaeological Studies
Ever wanted to know how to use an atlatl to throw a spear? This is your chance! Chuck Hannaford from the Office of Archaeological Studies will be on site with a host of artifacts and information, and will demonstrate use of an atlatl. Stop on by from 1 to 4pm. Free for NM residents on Sundays!
Mar 18, 2015
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 19, 2015
Collector Helene Sage Presentation (FIA Event)
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Helene Sage Shares Her Dazzling Native American Horse Gear Collection
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A FRIENDS OF INDIAN ART EVENT AND MEMBERSHIP IN FIA IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. CALL 505-982-6366 OR VISIT THE FIA SITE FOR MORE INFO.
Not only has Helene Sage had an illustrious career as a research scientist in cell biology, but she has also had a passion for horses from an early age. Sage has amassed one of the most distinguished collections of historical Native American horse gear and has written two books on the subject. She will share her immense knowledge and dazzle the FIA with beautiful examples from her own collection.
Mar 19, 2015
Audio Revolution on Museum Hill
Museum of International Folk Art
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A Listening Event hosted by MoIFA’s Gallery of Conscience
A FREE evening event presented in collaboration with Youth Media Project of Santa Fe and ¡YouthWorks!
Mar 21, 2015 - Mar 22, 2015
Johann Sebastian Bach 330 Birthday Bash
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Community Celebration of the music of Bach
Mar 21, 2015
Pre-Contact Diet Project: the "Pueblo Food Experience"
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Roxanne Swentzell and friends discuss their traditional food journey
Join us as we screen a brief film (~20 mins) about the incredible journey local sculptor Roxanne Swentzell and her friends took as they aspired to eat only traditional Pueblo food for more than a month. The results? Outstanding. People lost weight, their sugar levels decreased, and other health benefits emerged -- all from instituting a "pre-contact" period diet.
Roxanne will bring six of her friends who participated in the "experience" to answer questions about their dietary and cultural journey from the beginning from the audience.
Free with Museum admission.
PRE-CONTACT DIET PROJECT:
PUEBLO FOOD EXPERIENCE
Mar 22, 2015
Face jugs of the American South: Lecture & Demonstration
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Mar 24, 2015
Community-in-Residence at the Folk Art Museum
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
A special program for people with memory illnesses and their loved ones
The nationally acclaimed Alzheimer’s Poetry Project and a growing consortium of Santa Fe-based arts and cultural institutions are joining forces to help people living with memory loss, along with their care partners, friends and the public. Each month, the Community-in-Residence program will open the doors at a different institution for an hour-long session of creativity, playfulness and learning. The program moves to the Museum of International Folk Art on Tuesday, March 24, at 2 pm. Future events will be announced soon. A highlight of the event will be the creation of a new poem set to music inspired by the artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe. The series includes light refreshments and is free and open to the public with registration. For a reservation, please write gary@alzpoetry.com.
Mar 25, 2015
Winter Lecture Series
New Mexico Museum of Art
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
"Real Housewives of the Santa Fe Trail"
6-7:30pm Free
Mar 28, 2015
New Member Campaign Kick-Off Event
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Foundation members are invited to attend the New Member Campaign Kick-Off Event and Orientation to learn more about the campaign and how to become Cultural Ambassadors. The New Member Campaign, which runs from April 1 to May 31, 2015, is an opportunity to add new members to our program. We invite Foundation members to become Cultural Ambassadors and share their passion for our cultural institutions with family, friends, coworkers and neighbors and encourage them to join the Foundation. Learn more here. For questions email liaison@museumfoundation.org or call 505.982.6366 ext. 100.
Mar 29, 2015
Sweet Georgia Brown, a film about African American women in World War II
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
In war and in peacetime, in theaters of conflict and on the homefront, American women have participated in our nation’s defense. Until recent years, those contributions have failed to attract much notice. Even less understood: the contributions of African American women, who had to fight just for the right to serve.
On Sunday, March 29, at 2 pm in the History Museum auditorium, see the New Mexico premiere of Sweet Georgia Brown: Impact, Courage, Sacrifice and Will, a documentary by Lawrence E. Walker of PureHistory Films. A celebration of National Women’s History Month, the event will include remarks by Walker; Marilyn Dykman, a retired Coast Guard officer and the first female Hispanic aviator in Coast Guard history; and Lt. Col. Pam Gaston, representing Women Veterans of New Mexico, a nonprofit organization providing support services.
The event is free with museum admission. Sundays are free to NM residents. Seating is limited. Make a reservation by calling (505) 476-5152.
