Events - August 2010


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Aug 3, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA- Clay storyteller figures and vessels

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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Aug 5, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA- Clay stoyteller figures and vessels

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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Aug 10, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA- Applique welcome banners

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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Aug 12, 2010
Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair
New Mexico History Museum
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Free, family event

Aug 12-15, enjoy the Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair, a free event for the whole family. The Mountain Men (and women!) transform the Palace of the Governors Courtyard into an 1830s setting, wearing authentic clothing, selling their wares and demonstrating their crafts. Children's activities are included. On Thursday: moccasin making by Terry Conn at 10 am; history and design of Hawken rifles and Bowie knives by Bill Henaman at 2 pm.

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Aug 12, 2010
Arts Alive!
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
MoIFA- Applique welcome banners

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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Aug 13, 2010
Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Free, family event

Aug 12-15, enjoy the Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair, a free event for the whole family. The Mountain Men (and women!) transform the Palace of the Governors Courtyard into an 1830s setting, wearing authentic clothing, selling their wares and demonstrating their crafts. Children's activities are included. On Friday: Fire starting by Lynn Canterbury and Spirit Animals by Kathy Kershaw, 10am; Hands-on History: Mountain Man Makings, 12-1:30 pm; Manufacture/techniques of 19th-century ironwork by Gary Schluter, 2 pm; Live music by  J. Michael and Hickory Strongheart Combs, 5:30-7 pm.

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Aug 13, 2010
Breakfast with the Curators
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World

Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World

Friday, August 13:  8:30am- 10am. Breakfast with Dr. Jill Grady and Dr. Peter Furst, guest curators and anthropologists, followed by a tour of our newest exhibit Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World

Reservations are required for all Breakfast with the Curators presentations. Tickets cost $25/ $20 MNMF members, museum admission is included. Please call 476-1247 or 476-1271 for reservations and more information. Reservations are required and seating is limited. 

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Aug 14, 2010
New Foods from the Early West
New Mexico History Museum
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mountain Man Lecture and Tasting Party

Eat like a Mountain Man! Join Holly Arnold Kinney, proprietress of The Fort, Denver's landmark Western restaurant modeled on Bent's Fort, and author of Shinin' Times at The Fort, for a lecture on traditional Mountain Man fare, followed by a tasting party with a contemporary twist. The event is part of the museum's Mountain Man Week. Tickets cost $50 and are available at the Lensic Box Office, 505-988-5070 or www.TicketsSantaFe.org.

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Aug 14, 2010
Celebrate Ernest Thompson Seton’s 150th Birthday
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A Wild at Heart event

Celebrate Ernest Thompson Seton's 150th birthday with a tour of his castle's ruins and "campfire tales" at the Academy for the Love of Learning, site of the Seton Gallery. "Wild at Heart" Curator David L. Witt and Academy for the Love of Learning staff will lead a guided tour of Seton Castle and Seton Village, south of Santa Fe. The event is free, but reservations are required. Call (505) 995-1860.

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Aug 14, 2010
Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Free, family event

Aug 12-15, enjoy the Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair, a free event for the whole family. The Mountain Men (and women!) transform the Palace of the Governors Courtyard into an 1830s setting, wearing authentic clothing, selling their wares and demonstrating their crafts. Children's activities are included. On Saturday: Trade beads by Bob Blanchet, 10 am; animal visitors from the Wildlife Center, 11 am-1 pm; fire starting by Mark Wilke and Don Lankford, 2 pm; Hands-on History: Mountain Man Makings, 2:30-3:30 pm.  

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Aug 15, 2010
Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Free, family event

Aug 12-15, enjoy the Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair, a free event for the whole family. The Mountain Men (and women!) transform the Palace of the Governors Courtyard into an 1830s setting, wearing authentic clothing, selling their wares and demonstrating their crafts. Children's activities are included. On Sunday: Bone, horn and claw 19th-century implements by Frank Kahlbau, 10 am; moccasin making by Debbie Wheeler, 1 pm.

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Aug 17, 2010
Breakfast with the Curators
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Indian Market Highlights: Geronima Cruz Montoya

August 17-  Indian Market Highlights: Gerónima Cruz Montoya

Tuesday, August 17: 8:30am-10am. Breakfast with Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, followed by a talk entitled “Geronima Cruz Montoya Country: An Indigenous New Mexico Story ” and highlights of Geronima Cruz Montoya’s works in the MIAC Collections.

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Aug 18, 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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Aug 18, 2010
Fur, Fortune and Empire
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A lecture and booksigning

From Henry Hudson to the Mountain Men of the American West, the fur trade has built fortunes and forms the backbone of author Eric Jay Dolin's latest book, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (Norton, 2010). Join him in the John Gaw Meem Community Room for a lecture and booksigning. A free, famly event co-hosted by the New Mexico History Museum and the Santa Fe Public Library.

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Aug 20, 2010
Breakfast with the Curators
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
American Indian Basketry - A Preview Behind the Scenes at MIAC

Function to Fine Art: American Indian Basketry - A Preview Behind the Scenes at MIAC

Friday, August 20: 8:30am-10am. Breakfast with Larry Dalrymple, guest curator and well-known basketry expert, followed by a talk introducing our upcoming basketry exhibit “From Function to Fine Art: American Indian Basketry” and a behind the scenes tour of MIAC’s basketry collection.

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Aug 21, 2010 - Aug 22, 2010
Portal Artisans’ Celebration
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
An Annual Palace Courtyard Event

Members of the Palace of the Governors' Native American Artisans Program add to the annual Indian Market fun with their Celebration in the Courtyard -- Native American dances, art sales, food and beverages, and a different raffle each day. Free to the public; enter through the Blue Gate on Lincoln Avenue.

10am: Tony Duncan Dance Troupe (San Carlos Apache/Arikara Nation/Navajo). Traditional and contemporary Native American Song and Dance.

11am: Red Turtle Dancers (Northern Pueblos). Traditional Northern Pueblo Children’s Dance.

Noon: Tony Duncan Dance Troupe.

1pm: Ed Kabotie (Hopi/Santa Clara Pueblo). Singer/songwriter – traditional and contemporary Native American music.

2pm: Red Turtle Dancers (Northern Pueblos). Traditional Tewa Children’s Dance.

3pm: Tony Duncan Dance Troupe

4pm: Raffle drawing.

 

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Aug 22, 2010
Navajo Women at the Crossroads
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Telling New Mexico Inaugural Lecture Series

Diné author Jennifer Nez Denetdale speaks at 2 pm, Sunday, Aug. 22, on “Diné/Navajo Women: At the Intersection of Nation, Gender and Tradition,” in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. Denetdale’s lecture falls on the final afternoon of the Santa Fe Indian Market of the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts, a fitting time to slow down and consider that always-changing place where the ancient past meets the modern present.

The lecture completes the inaugural year of the Telling New Mexico Lecture Series. Tickets cost $10 at the Museum Shops or online at http://www.museumfoundation.org/tellingnm.

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Aug 22, 2010
Portal Artisans’ Celebration
New Mexico History Museum
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
An Annual Palace Courtyard Event

Members of the Palace of the Governors' Native American Artisans Program add to the annual Indian Market fun with their Celebration in the Courtyard -- Native American dances, art sales, food and beverages, and a raffle. Free to the public; enter through the Blue Gate on Lincoln Avenue.

10am: Tony Duncan Dance Troupe (San Carlos Apache/Arikara Nation/Navajo). Traditional and contemporary Native American Song and Dance.

11am: Red Turtle Dancers (Northern Pueblos). Traditional Northern Pueblo Children’s Dance.

Noon: Tony Duncan Dance Troupe.

1pm: Ed Kabotie (Hopi/Santa Clara Pueblo). Singer/songwriter – traditional and contemporary Native American music.

2pm: Red Turtle Dancers (Northern Pueblos). Traditional Tewa Children’s Dance.

3pm: Tony Duncan Dance Troupe.

4pm: Raffle drawing.

 

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Aug 27, 2010
Miners and Dukes: Baseball in New Mexico
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
A Brainpower & Brownbags lecture

Remember the Roswell Rockets! Go, Hobbs Drillers! Author Lynn Sutter delves into New Mexico's baseball past with "Miners and Dukes: Baseball in New Mexico." The event is free and open to the public in the museum's Meem Community Room, 110 Washington Ave.

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Aug 27, 2010
Breakfast with the Curators
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Lonnie Vigil: 2010 Native Treasures Artist Honoree

Lonnie Vigil: 2010 Native Treasures Artist Honoree.

Friday, August 27: 8:30am-10am. Breakfast with Lonnie Vigil, renowned micaceous potter and 2010 MIAC Native Treasures Artist Honoree, followed by a talk and viewing of  Lonnie Vigil’s work on display at the Museum.

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Aug 27, 2010
Bodacious Boots screening
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Movie night for Sole Mates

Screening of the full Bodacious Boots film. 45 minutes, starting at 6 p.m., and a second screening at 7 p.m. Part of the exciting Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art exhibition.

"Show Us Your Boots" and tell your boot story.

Free Popcorn on the Patio - Free Friday Evening Admission

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