Oct 1, 2016 - Oct 15, 2016
Historical Downtown Walking Tours
New Mexico History Museum
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Through October 15, 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.)
Oct 1, 2016
Donation Drop Off
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
For the Folk Art Flea
Procceds benefit exhibtiions are programs at the Museum of International Folk Art through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.
Oct 1, 2016
Artful Looking
New Mexico Museum of Art
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
with Elaine Ritchel
Join guest educator Elaine Ritchel on the first Saturday of the month from June to October 2016 from 3 to 4:00 pm for deeper appreciation of art
Oct 1, 2016
Lecture with Anna Sofaer and Robert Weiner
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Sun, the Moon and Chaco Canyon: Recent Findings by the Solstice Project
Anna Sofaer, rediscoverer of the Sun Dagger, and archaeologist Robert Weiner present their recent research results. Introduction by Brian Vallo (Acoma). This talk is presented in conjunction with Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time. Visit www.SolsticeProject.org for more on the Solstice Project.
Oct 2, 2016
Lecture with Harvard Professor Dr. Gary Urton
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Native American Southern Cosmologies
Join Harvard professor Dr. Gary Urton for a fascinating presentation that examines the cosmologies of Native peoples of the Amazonian and Andean regions of South America. Explore the Milky Way — their principal celestial object for organizing understanding of the sky and its relationship to human affairs.
Oct 5, 2016
Flamenco En Vivo
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Live Flamenco Guitar Music
Oct 7, 2016
Exhibition Opening
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Small Wonders
Enjoy refreshments served by the Women’s Board, music and a new exhibition, Small Wonders
Oct 7, 2016
Miguel Gandert
New Mexico Museum of Art
Gallery Talk
Artist Miguel Gandert gives a free gallery talk of his work on view in Con Cariño: Artists Inspired by Lowriders 5:30-6:30 pm
Oct 8, 2016 - Oct 9, 2016
Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sales Benefit MIAC Education Programs & Exhibits
An annual tradition at MIAC, the Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale is a unique opportunity to purchase objects from private collections in Santa Fe and beyond!
Pottery, jewelry, textiles, paintings, baskets, carvings - old and contemporary - whether you are a new or seasoned collector, come find your own treasure!
Saturday and Sunday, October 8 and 9, 2016 - 10am - 5pm - Free Admission
Special early bird admission on Saturday at 9am - $25
Oct 9, 2016
Summer Salon
New Mexico Museum of Art
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
with Lauren Mantecon
Guided drawing technique with artist Lauren Mantecon in the galleries and courtyard on second Sunday of the month from June to October 2016 from 11am-12pm
Oct 11, 2016
Nick Rosetta Stone and Shell Jewelry Demonstration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Using all natural material and handmade processes, he makes beautiful heishi necklaces. Nick learned the art from his parents, Ray and Mary Rosetta. The heishi artform goes back to ancestral pueblo times, long before the arrival of the Spanish in the Southwest, when Kewa stone and shell jewelry - believed by many archeologists to be the oldest form of jewelry in the southwest-was highly prized and widely traded.
Nick does most of the lapidary work--cutting, grinding, sanding and polishing. His wife Me-Wee does ninety-five percent of the stringing. He obtains his materials from many different places--turquoise from Nevada and Arizona, serpentine from South Dakota, pipestone from Minnesota, as well as stones from Canada, Peru and Australia.
Demonstrations of his work will be on October 11th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Oct 14, 2016 - Oct 23, 2016
The Circles Travel Spain and Portugal
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
The Circles will travel overseas to the Iberian Peninsula this fall, in conjunction with the Fractured Faiths exhibition opening in May at the New Mexico History Museum. Museum Director Andrew Wulf will be our travel companion. Our first stop is Madrid, Spain, for three days visiting world-renowned museums, cultural attractions and private art collections, including a one-day excursion to Toledo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We’ll spend three nights at the five-star Villa Manga and enjoy exquisite cuisine and a special flamenco performance. On day four, we travel to Lisbon, Portugal, spending two days in the capital city discovering the country’s artistic and cultural heritage. Day trips will then take us north to Sintra, Cascais, and the walled city of Obidos, and south to Evora and the famous rug makers of Arraiolos. The Four Seasons Ritz Carlton will be our luxurious accommodations for all six nights in Lisbon, with one night devoted to traditional fado music and a second night to a special dine-around featuring six of the finest eating establishments in the city.
For questions about The Circles, please contact Cara O’Brien by calling 505.982.6366 ext. 118 or email at cara@museumfoundation.org.
Oct 14, 2016
Exhibition Opening
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Alcoves 16/17 #5
Five new artists exhibit contemporary art made in New Mexico in this fifth rotation of Alcoves 16/17
Oct 14, 2016
CreativeMornings gets transparent
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Stay tuned to learn our special speaker at the next installment of CreativeMornings on the global them of "transparent." Enjoy some networking with other creative professionals before the talk, along with coffee and pastries courtesy of Iconik Coffee Roasters. Free.
Oct 15, 2016
International Archaeology Day at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology
Office of Archaeological Studies
Friends of Archaeology
The Office of Archaeological Studies, in collaboration with the Santa Fe Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America and other organizations in northern New Mexico, will host an open house at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology on Saturday, October 15, 2016 from 10 am to 4 pm. Visitors will have the opportunity to tour the building, which is the primary storage facility for New Mexico’s archaeological collections, as well as the offices and working research laboratories of the Office of Archaeological Studies. Visitors of all ages can learn about New Mexico’s unique 12,000-year cultural heritage through a wide range of hands-on activities, demonstrations, and interactions with archaeologists. Come throw atlatls, shoot bows, make yucca fiber, watch pottery firings, learn about coiled basketry, and query archaeologists with all those questions you have always wanted to ask about New Mexico archaeology.
Oct 15, 2016
Exhibition Opening and Archaeology Open House
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Celebrate World Archaeology Day with Family at the CNMA
Oct 16, 2016
Families Make History monthly workshop
New Mexico History Museum
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Before there was Halloween trick or treating, New Mexicans marked the Dia de los Muertos to remember and honor their ancestors. All Saints Day is celebrated on November 1 in New Mexican Pueblos with special ceremonials as well. We will celebrate both traditions today decorating a calavera and making a ghost to take home. children 16 and under free daily. Families Make History free workshops are held the third Sunday of every month
Oct 16, 2016
Lowrider Poetry Slam
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Levi Romero, associate director of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UNM, leads a slam, Take a Little Trip with Me, with young poets on the topic of lowriders. Join the fun, part of the History Museum exhibit, Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents. Children 16 and under free daily.
Oct 16, 2016
Inside View: Feng Shui For Blessings and Good Fortune
Museum of International Folk Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Lecture & booksigning
Oct 16, 2016 - Mar 12, 2017
Small Wonders
New Mexico Museum of Art
The museum is making a big deal about little pictures! This selection of photographic work, both historic and contemporary, invites visitors to revel in the pleasures of the miniscule. Featured are a small selection of nineteenth-century photos that provide a historical grounding for an engaging group of work by six contemporary artists who work on a small scale, including Susan R Goldstein, David Janesko, Jenna Kuiper, Jan Pietrzak, Liz Stekeete, and Laurie Tümer.
Oct 17, 2016
Embroidering within Boundaries
Museum of International Folk Art
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Afghan Women Creating Change
The first of four Langniappe lectures exclusively for Friends of Folk Art members
Oct 19, 2016
Let’s Take a Look...
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Curators Examine Your Treasures
A monthly offering at MIAC, Let’s Take a Look is your chance to bring by your personal treasures for evalauation. While curators are prohibited from assigning retail value (we have a list of external appraisers for you), our curatorial staff is great at helping determine age, origin, use, etc. of many objects. Items with Native American roots are most common, but we can also help with other items periodically.
This is a free program.
Oct 19, 2016
Estella Loretto – Peaceful Gratitude
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Join us for a delightful afternoon touring the home/studio of noted Jemez Pueblo artist Estella Loretto, currently the only Native American woman sculpting in monumental bronze. Her genuine spiritual nature defines her commitment to integrity and authenticity in her art and life. Estella studied and trained with mentors from around the world as well as here at home with her mother, grandmother, and most notably, Allen HouserHaozous. Allen was influential in the early stages of her career and they remained close friends until the time of his death in 1994.
Oct 20, 2016
New Jewelry Galleries at the Wheelwright Museum
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Friends of Indian Art
On June 7, 2015, the Wheelwright opened the Jim and Lauris Phillips Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry. Please join us for a docent tour of the Martha Struever Gallery where work on display includes the Anderman/Gallegos collection of New Mexican filigree; jewelry and hollowware by masters including Kenneth Begay, Morris Robinson, Lewis Lomay, and Charles Loloma; and contemporary work by Yazzie Johnson and Gail Bird, Norbert Peshlaki, Perry Shorty, and many others.
Not a FIA member? Join by calling 505-982-6366 ext. 100.
Oct 21, 2016 - Oct 28, 2016
Music at the Museum
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
October
Free Fridays in October 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Oct 25, 2016
Women on the Mother Road
New Mexico History Museum
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
A screening and discussion
Join project director Katrina Parks for this special screening and discussion reexamining Route 66 from the perspective of New Mexican women. Parks will be joined by the National Park Service’s Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program manager Kaisa Bartuli, librarian and archivist Rose Diaz (the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center) and author Sharon Niederman. The event is made possible by the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Please visit www.nmhum.org.
“As you might expect, women often worked in family businesses along Route 66, but they also struck out on their own as artists, anthropologists, architects, waitresses, entrepreneurs,
executives and real estate magnets.” – Katrina Parks
Oct 27, 2016
Member Preview
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
American Painting: Old and New
Many major American artists came to New Mexico to paint in the years between WWI and WWII. This exhibition will feature work by significant artists, their friends and students. Members will be first to see this stunning exhibition.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Oct 28, 2016
Be With Me, a Small Exhibition of Large Paintings
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Opening Reception
A group exhibition of reductive contemporary paintings by Nick Aguayo, Harmony Hammond and John Zurier
Oct 28, 2016 - Oct 30, 2016
Fifth Annual Fred Harvey Weekend
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Welcome back Fredheads and Mary Colter fans
$50 (includes $15 tax deductible donation) gets you a reserved seat for all of the talks Friday through Sunday. Seating is limited.
A special note: If you arrive the day of and care to attend any single talk admittance is free. The $50 ensures you have a saved seat at all the talks.
Call: (505) 982-7999 ext. 4
Join us for a full day of public talks from Fred Harvey family members, researchers and scholars on Friday. Santa Fe School of Cooking will host an educational cooking class on Friday evening. Model trains and Fred Harvey collectors will fill the Plaza Hotel ballroom in Las Vegas on Saturday and join us back at the museum on Sunday for a pancake brunch and afternoon lecture by Stephen Fried, author of Appetite for America.
Questions about the weekend? Want to volunteer or show off your collection during the day in Las Vegas? Email us at Meredith.davidson@state.nm.us
Oct 28, 2016
Conversations in Painting, Early 20th Century to Post-War American Art
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Opening Reception
Exploration of painting movements in 20th Century America from the New Mexico Museum of Art collection.
Oct 29, 2016
Author Reading and Book Signing - Families Welcome!
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
with V R Janis (Bay Mills Ojibwe)
Join author V R Janis for an afternoon of readings, storytelling, and a book signing. Described as Native American Harry Potter-esque, her books feature elves, dragons, fairies, and other magical creatures - perfect for this time of year!
With thanks to the First Peoples Fund for underwriting.
Free with museum admission.
Oct 29, 2016 - May 7, 2017
Conversations in Painting, Early 20th Century to Post-War American Art
New Mexico Museum of Art
An exhibition centered around painting movements in 20th Century America, beginning with Robert Henri , Portrait of Dieguito Roybal, San Ildefonso Pueblo and ending with Agnes Martin, Untitled #6. Between those two benchmarks we explore the evolution of abstraction, federal support for art and artists during the Depression Era, the Transcendental Painting Group, Abstract Expressionism, Hard Edge Painting and Minimalism through paintings from the New Mexico Museum of Art collection. Juxtaposition is used to promote a dialogue both within and between these painting movements to encourage a more individual and intuitive appreciation of the individual paintings by the viewer.
Artists included will be Robert Henri, John Sloan, Gene Kloss, Florence Pierce, Raymond Jonson, Frederick Hammersley, Agnes Martin, Han Hoffman and Mala Breuer.
Oct 29, 2016 - May 7, 2017
Be With Me, a Small Exhibition of Large Paintings
New Mexico Museum of Art
Centered around the experience of protracted looking at non-objective painting this exhibition features the works of artists Nick Aguayo, Harmony Hammond and John Zurier. All three artists produce compelling abstract works that utilize the physical and material qualities of paint as a means of subtle expression.
Oct 30, 2016
Day of the Dead/Dia de Los Muertos
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Seasonable celebration with live music, hands on art making and more!
FREE ADMISSION!
