Aug 18, 2018 - Aug 19, 2018
Portal Artist Show
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Indian Market weekend relocation
The museums Portal Artists will re-locate to the courtyard for the duration of Indian Market weekend on Saturday and Sunday, August 18, 19 from 9am-4pm daily.
Please enter through the Blue gate on Lincoln Ave to visit with the artists.
Aug 18, 2018
“Photography and Navajo, Past and Present”
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This panel event from 2:00-4:00pm, will investigate the disposition of photographs of Navajo in museum archives and the relationship of historic photographs of Navajo to contemporary Navajo life, as well as considering the photography of contemporary Navajo photographers. Recent findings and the recovery of long lost photographs of the signing of the Navajo Peace treaty and other historical photographs, by members of the panel, will also be presented.
Participants include Devorah Romanek, Curator of Exhibits at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico (Navajo) Hannah Abelback, Photo Imaging Specialist, New Mexico History Museum, Rapheal Begay, Photographer (Navajo), Will Wilson, Photographer (Navajo)
Free "Meem" room event-bottled water only please
