Apr 1, 2015
Owning the Sacred: The 1929 Sale of the Santuario de Chimayo
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A Brainpower and Brownbags Lunch Lecture
Wednesday, April 1, Brett Hendrickson on “Owning the Sacred: The 1929 Sale of the Santuario de Chimayó,” on Wednesday, April 1, part of the 2015 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series in the Meem Community Room. Enter for free through the History Museum’s Washington Avenue doors.
Hendrickson is an assistant professor in the Regional Studies department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and is the author of Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican American Curanderismo (New York University Press, 2014).
Apr 3, 2015
Closing at 5 pm for Good Friday
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The museum will not have its regularly scheduled Free Friday Evening on April 3 in honor of Good Friday. Instead, we will close at 5 pm.
Apr 3, 2015
Good Friday
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing at 5 pm for Good Friday
Apr 4, 2015
New Member Campaign Tour: Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Foundation Cultural Ambassadors and their guests are invited to attend an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with Curator Valerie Verzuh. This tour is only offered to Cultural Ambassadors and their guests and is a part of the New Member Campaign.
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.
Apr 5, 2015
Closed for Easter Sunday
New Mexico History Museum
We are closed on April 5 for Easter Sunday. The museum will reopen at 10 am on Tuesday, April 7.
Apr 6, 2015
Folk Art in Color
Museum of International Folk Art
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Turquoise, Water, Sky: Beauty and Meaning in the Southwest
Apr 6, 2015
Member Monday
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors and New Mexico Museum of Art
Foundation members at the Family/Grandparents level and above are invited to gain new perspective on New Mexico’s cultural heritage with this insider’s look at the three exhibitions through guided tours with museum staff and scholars. Curator-led tours of Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World, Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy (both at the New Mexico History Museum) and Tales from a Dark Room at the New Mexico Museum of Art are being offered.
Meet at 10 a.m. in the lobby of the New Mexico History Museum before going on your tours. R.S.V.P. here or call 505.982.6366 ext. 100 for more information.
Apr 8, 2015
CreativeMornings kickoff: Robert Martin on Humility
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Calling all creative types—graphic designers, writers, artists and more. Enjoy a casual talk (and treats!) and network with others at the debut of this monthly series in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, part of the global CreativeMornings program. Robert Martin, executive and artistic director of the Lensic Performing Arts Center, gives a casual talk on this month’s global theme: Humility. A free event in the History Museum lobby.
Next month’s event will be hosted in the Duke City by Albuquerque’s Creative Startups. Speaker, site and date TBA. Check back here for details.
Apr 13, 2015 - Apr 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.)
Apr 15, 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.
Apr 16, 2015
FOCA+P Member’s Preview
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Art on the Edge 2015
5-7pm. Call 505.982.7799 ext. 1 for more information.
Apr 17, 2015
Opening Reception
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Material Matters : Selections from the Joann and Gifford Phillips Gift
5:30-7:30pm free public reception with jazz
Apr 17, 2015 - Aug 16, 2015
Material Matters : Selections from the Joann and Gifford Phillips Gift
New Mexico Museum of Art
Over a period of 35 years, Joann and Gifford Phillips gifted a series of paintings to the Museum of Art. These artworks represent two distinct locations with works created during eras of significant growth and change within their respective contemporary art scenes -- California from the 1950 -1980s and New Mexico from the 1980s. The Phillips’ generous gift included works by California artists Richard Diebenkorn, John McLaughlin, Edward Moses, Lee Mullican and Joe Goode as well as works by New Mexico based artists Emmi Whitehorse, Richard Hogan Eugene Newmann and Allan Graham.
Apr 17, 2015 - Aug 16, 2015
Art on the Edge 2015
New Mexico Museum of Art
Return of the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography juried exhibition. Artists from New Mexico and its adjoining states selected by Nora Burnett Abrams, Associate Curator at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. This year’s artists are Will Clift, Danae Falliers, Chris Oatey, Sarah McKenzie, Kate Rivers, Ian Fisher and Jill Christian.
Apr 17, 2015 - Aug 16, 2015
Material Matters: Selections from the Joann and Gifford Phillips Gift
New Mexico Museum of Art
Material Matters: Selections from the Joann and Gifford Phillips Gift opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on Friday, April 17, 2015 and runs through August 16, 2015. The twenty-eight works on view are artists working in California and New Mexico who took an experimental approach to abstraction through materials and process.
Apr 17, 2015
Art on the Edge 2015
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Seven contemporary artists from the Southwest will be featured in the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography’s juried exhibition, Art on the Edge, hosted by the New Mexico Museum of Art. The artists were selected by Nora Burnett Abrams, Associate Curator at MCA Denver. The exhibition opens Friday, April 17, 2015 with a free public receptionand runs through August 16, 2015.
Apr 18, 2015
New Member Campaign Tour: Colors of the Southwest
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Foundation Cultural Ambassadors and their guests are invited to attend an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Colors of the Southwest at the New Mexico Museum of Art with Curator of Art Carmen Vendelin. This tour is only offered to Cultural Ambassadors and their guests and is a part of the New Member Campaign.
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.
Apr 19, 2015
A Provocative Conversation on the Current State
Museum of International Folk Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
and Future of Traditional Southern Pottery
with Potters Garth Clark, Mark Hewitt and Matt Jones
Apr 19, 2015
Fred Harvey and American Indian Art
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Diana Pardue, curator at the Heard Museum and co-author of Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art, speaks in the History Museum auditorium on "Fred Harvey and American Indian Art." Part of the exhibit, Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy, her lecture is free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents.
Apr 19, 2015
Traditional Pots and Provocations; provocative program on pottery
Museum of International Folk Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Museum of International Folk Art presents a dialogue on Southern pottery featuring leading ceramic writer and commentator Garth Clark and prominent North Carolina potters Mark Hewitt and Matt Jones. This is not the first time Clark, Hewitt, and Jones have taken the stage together to debate the present and future of North Carolina pottery. This event, titled Traditional Pots and Provocations, is the latest chapter of an ongoing discussion that began as a blog scuffle between Jones and Clark in 2011 and continued as a symposium at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2012. Traditional Pots and Provocations will take place on Sunday, April 19, 2015, 2-4 pm, in the Kathryn O’Keeffe Theater of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. The program is in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition Pottery of the U.S. South: A Living Tradition. The program is by museum admission. New Mexico residents with ID are free on Sundays.
Apr 23, 2015
Northern Rio Grande Ancestral Pueblo World – A Historical Perspective
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Friends of Indian Art
Friends of Indian Art (FIA) invites their members to a presentation on Northern Rio Grande Ancestral Pueblo World. Forest Archaeologist Michael Bremer will provide insight and perspective into early Puebloan populations beginning in the 12th Century. He will discuss the relationship of these people to the wild landscapes surrounding their developed communities and will share the similarities these communities may have had with today’s management of wild land and its interface to adjacent large urban centers. Not a FIA member? Join by calling 505-982-6366 ext. 100.
Apr 23, 2015
Forest Archaeologist Michael Bremer Lecture (FIA Event)
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Northern Rio Grande Ancestral Pueblo World - A Historical Perspective
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.
Forest Archaeologist Michael Bremer will provide insight and perspective into early Puebloan populations beginning in the 12th century. He will discuss the relationship of these people to the wild landscapes surrounding their developed communities and will share the similarities these communities ay have had with today’s management of wild land and its interface to adjacent large urban centers.
Currently with the Santa Fe National Forest, Mike is excited to share his perspective of the ways of native ancestral people with you!
Apr 24, 2015 - Apr 28, 2015
Donation Days
Museum of International Folk Art
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
for the Folk Art Flea
The Folk Art Committee of the Museum of New Mexico Foundations a community sale of gently used folk art items supporting exhibitions and educational programming at the Museum of International Folk Art. Clean out your closets! Garage or storage unit and bring your tax deductible donation of gently used items to the Museum of International Folk Art from 9am to 4pm Friday April 24 through Tuesday April 28, 2015.
Apr 26, 2015
How to Save Your Marriage Through Pinhole Photography
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
A Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography event
Nancy Spencer and Eric Renner, guest curators of the Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography exhibition and internationally recognized artists, give a lecture on their collaborative work. "How to Save Your Marriage Through Pinhole Photography" is free with admission; Sundays are free to NM residents. Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography is on exhibit in the museum’s Herzstein Gallery.
Apr 26, 2015
Turquoise, Water, Sky Book Signing & Lecture
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Purchase the Long-Awaited TWS Exhibit Catalog!
Book signing with Dr. Maxine McBrinn and Ross Altshuler, authors of Turquoise, Water, Sky, the catalogue for our stunning exhibit on display through 2015. McBrinn will give a lecture on the topic following the 1pm book signing.
