Events - July 2010


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Jul 4, 2010
Opening Reception for Empowering Women
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities

1-4PM Reception 2PM Panel discussion with Co-op Artists This event kicks off International Folk Arts Week culminating with the 2010 Santa Fe International Folk Art Market July 9-11, 2010

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Jul 4, 2010 - Sep 26, 2010
Make a Date to Paint in Our Garden
New Mexico Museum of Art
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Plein Air Painting on Sundays

Artists are invited to paint in the the NM Museum of Art central garden on Sunday mornings throughout the summer.

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Jul 5, 2010
Breakfast with the Curators
Museum of International Folk Art
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
and Co-op Representatiives

Coffee and morning foods followed by a tour of collections

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Jul 6, 2010
Weaving & Beading
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Artist Demonstration + Hands On

Weaving and beading demonstrations with hands on

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Jul 6, 2010
Breakfast with the Curators
Museum of International Folk Art
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Asian Artist Co-op Representatives

Coffee and morning foods followed by a tour of collections

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Jul 6, 2010 - Jul 11, 2010
Huichol Artist Demonstration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Yarn Painting

Huichol Artist Demonstrations all week (Monday 5th through Sunday 11th) from 11 am- 5 pm in the MIAC Gift Shop and Lobby in honor of our Latest exhibit " Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World". Artist Demonstrations will be given by  world renowned yarn painting artists Mariano Valadez and Cilau Valadez.  See how this amazing art form is done, and you can purchase examples of their beautiful work through the MIAC giftshop all week.

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Jul 8, 2010
Breakfast with the Curators
Museum of International Folk Art
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
with African Artist Co-op Representatives

Coffee and a tour of collections

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Jul 8, 2010
Breakfast and Lecture by Karen LaMonte
New Mexico Museum of Art
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Friends of Contemporary Art presents a champagne breakfast and lecture by renowned sculptor Karen LaMonte in conjunction with SOFA WEST.

The breakfast will take place in the New Mexico Museum of Art’s central courtyard, 107 W. Palace Avenue, at 8:30am on Thursday, July 8, 2010. 

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Jul 9, 2010
International Folk Art Market Opening Party
Museum of International Folk Art
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Dancing & Shopping under the Stars

First pick shopping from more than 170 master folk artists from over 50 countries at the World's largest Folk Art Market!

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Jul 10, 2010
All Trails Lead to Santa Fe
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Santa Fe 400th Book Launch

Join us for the launch of All Trails Lead to Santa Fe (Sunstone Press, 2010), an anthology commemorating the City Different's 400th anniversary. Authors who contributed to the book include Marc Simmons, Orlando Romero, Joseph P. Sanchez and former Santa Fe Poet Laureate Valerie Martinez. A free, family event.

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Jul 10, 2010
Nature Journaling in the Seton Style
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A workshop for children

Children 10-14 years old are invited to learn how to draw from nature, in the Ernest Thompson Seton style. A free nature journaling workshop with celebrated artist Margy O'Brien. Space is limited; registration is required. Call 476-5106.

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Jul 10, 2010
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market
Museum of International Folk Art
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Early Bird Folk Art Market

Beat the heat and shop Earlybird market  from 7:30 to 9 am!

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Jul 10, 2010
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market
Museum of International Folk Art
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday Market

Regular market 9 am to 5 pm

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Jul 10, 2010
Catalog Booksigning by Curators
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World

At 2pm , Dr. Melissa Powell, Dr. Jill Grady, and Dr. Peter Furst curators of the newest MIAC exhibit "Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World" will be signing copies of the beautiful exhibit catalog in front of the MIAC shop. Come get a copy, have it signed and have a chance to speak with the curators of this fantastic exhibit 

And while you are visiting the Huichol Artist will be continuing their Demonstrations of yarn painting. Demonstrations of the huichol yarn painting run all week (Monday 5th through Sunday 11th) from 11 am- 5 pm in the MIAC Gift Shop and Lobby in honor of our Latest exhibit " Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World". Artist Demonstrations will be given by world renowned yarn painting artists Mariano Valadez and Cilau Valadez.  See how this amazing art form is done, and you can purchase examples of their beautiful work through the MIAC giftshop all week.

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Jul 11, 2010
"evaporations" Lecture by Jessica Loughlin
New Mexico Museum of Art
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
in conjunction with the museum exhibition Art on the Edge and the SOFA WEST art fair

On Sunday, July 11, Jessica Loughlin, a featured artist from Art on the Edge, 2010, will speak. Presented in conjunction with SOFA West

In the Saint Francis Auditorium (NM Museum of Art). $5 admission.

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Jul 11, 2010
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market
Museum of International Folk Art
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Family Day

Family day at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market

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Jul 11, 2010
Huichol Artist Demonstration
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Yarn Painting

Huichol Artist Demonstrations all week (Monday 5th through Sunday 11th) from 11 am- 5 pm in the MIAC Gift Shop and Lobby in honor of our Latest exhibit " Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World". Artist Demonstrations will be given by  world renowned yarn painting artists Mariano Valadez and Cilau Valadez.  See how this amazing art form is done, and you can purchase examples of their beautiful work through the MIAC giftshop all week.

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Jul 12, 2010 - Aug 30, 2010
Meet the Artists: Artist Gallery Talks
New Mexico Museum of Art
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

"Meet the Artists: Artist Gallery Talks" - Beginning July 12, local artists will talk about their work in the Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art show.  On Mondays, at 12:15 p.m., throughout the summer.

Meet up with the artist and museum staff at the front of the New Wing gallery at 12:15. By normal admission to the museum.

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Jul 14, 2010
Exploring Santa Fe’s Historic Houses
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
A Brainpower & Brownbags lecture

Margaret Booker, author of The Santa Fe House, speaks on "Exploring Santa Fe's Historic Houses" in this Brainpower & Brownbags lecture in the History Museum's Meem Community Room, 110 Washington Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

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Jul 15, 2010
Working the Line -- photography and controversy on the border
New Mexico History Museum
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Photographer David Taylor booksigning and panel discussion

Join photographer and Guggenheim Fellow David Taylor and a panel of photographers and border experts for a discussion of current issues along the U.S.-Mexico border as reflected in Taylor's new book, Working the Line (Radius Books, Spring 2010). The event is free and open to the public.

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Jul 15, 2010
Artist Lecture by Michael Rogers
New Mexico Museum of Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
in conjunction with the museum exhibition Art on the Edge, and the Art Santa Fe art fair

Michael Rogers is a professor at the School of American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Rogers’s approach to art is as “visual poetics.” His work on view in Art on the Edge is a tribute to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
By museum admission

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Jul 16, 2010
Museum to Close Early for Taste of Santa Fe
New Mexico History Museum
Fund-raiser heads to Palace Courtyard

The History Museum will close at 3 pm this Friday, July 16, to make way for the Taste of Santa Fe’s opening gala event. (The museum is usually open for free 5-8 pm on Fridays.) Sponsored by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s Business Council, the two-day event marks the return of a popular Santa Fe event, featuring celebrity chef John Rivera Sedlar, of Los Angeles’ Rivera Restaurant and R26.

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Jul 16, 2010 - Jul 17, 2010
Taste of Santa Fe
New Mexico History Museum
Fabulous food, silent auction and a celebrity chef

Get your tickets now for Taste of Santa Fe, a benefit for the New Mexico History Museum, Friday, July 16 and Saturday, July 17. The weekend opens with fabulous food, silent auction and celebrity chef John Sedlar. On Saturday, taste food from 50 restaurants and sip wine at the Santa Fe Railyard Park.

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Jul 17, 2010 - Jul 18, 2010
Young Native Artists Show and Sale
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
A free, family event

Get a glimpse of the next generation of Native American artists and craftspeople at the annual Young Natives Show. Children and grandchildren of artists associated with the Palace Portal Program will demonstrate their own arts and crafts in the Palace of the Governors' Courtyard. This program provides the children an opportunity to learn from their parents and grandparents and to continue the cultural economic development supported by the Portal. Free.

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Jul 17, 2010
Nature Journaling in the Seton Style
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
A workshop for adults

Rekindle a fresh interest in the natural world, in the style of Ernest Thompson Seton. A free nature journaling workshop with celebrated artist Margy O'Brien. Space is limited; registration is required. call 476-5106 to reserve a space and receive a list of materials to bring to class.

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Jul 20, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA- Mexican Folkloric dance

Arts Alive workshops are free all ages activies presented on Museum Hill by the Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art from June to August.

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Jul 21, 2010
Let’s Take A Look
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
with MIAC curators

During this time 12noon-2pm , curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your unidentified treasures. Free.

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Jul 22, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA- Mexican Folkloric dance

Arts Alive workshops are free all ages activies presented on Museum Hill by the Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art from June to August.

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Jul 27, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA-Maraca making

Arts Alive workshops are free all ages activies presented on Museum Hill by the Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art from June to August.

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Jul 28, 2010
Lecture on The Life and Work of Ceramist Nino Caruso
New Mexico Museum of Art
6:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Art writer and ceramic expert Garth Clark will present a lecture on the life and work of Italian master ceramic sculptor Nino Caruso. The event is jointly presented by The New Mexico Museum of Art and the 222 Shelby Street Gallery. It will be held in the St. Francis Auditorium Wednesday, July 28, at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 476-5068 for more information. www.nmartmuseum.org

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Jul 29, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA-Maraca making

Arts Alive workshops are free all ages activies presented on Museum Hill by the Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art from June to August.

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