Jan 1, 2012
Closed for New Year’s Day
New Mexico History Museum
Jan 5, 2012
Between the Lines Exhibition Opening
New Mexico Museum of Art
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Governor’s Gallery is celebrating the New Mexico centennial with an exhibition of historic and contemporary maps tracing our state’s culture from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Jan 6, 2012
First-day-of-issue Centennial Stamp
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Opening event for 47 Stars exhibition
Jan 6, 2012
First Friday Art Walk
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us for music in the museum with Pedro Romero S. and his eclectic accordion.
Jan 7, 2012 - Feb 17, 2012
Journey Stories
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Smithsonian Exhibition
Journey Stories is a powerful Smithsonian exhibition that shows how the United States was forever changed by the expansion of mobility and transportation. Journey Stories illustrates the diversity of America’s story by immigration, migration, innovation, and freedom. Journey Stories is an exhibit about the search of the American dream through expansion and migration as well as the freedoms and joys of the open road. The exhibition will also explore the impact that roads and transportation had on different groups of people in the United States.
Journey Stories will engage the audience through historical imagery, audio and artifacts to help bring the stories to life.
An exhibit that explores travel and migration over the years in Fort Sumner will complement Journey Stories at the Bosque Redondo Memorial. Fort Sumner was selected by the New Mexico Humanities Council as one of the six communities in New Mexico to host this Smithsonian traveling exhibition. A series of programs and lectures to accompany the exhibition will be announced at a later date.
The exhibition at Bosque Redondo Memorial has been made possible by a generous $2,000 grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council.
Jan 8, 2012
An Afternoon of Andean Music
Museum of International Folk Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
with Mario Reynolds
Jan 8, 2012
GranMary’s Place
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Story Hours of Native American Tales
MIAC presents a Series of Story Hours of Native American Tales, for all ages in the MIAC Discovery Room. During winter months, the dark and cold time of the year, it is traditional to share stories, so come and share in this tradition
Programs are at 2:00 pm and repeated again 3:00 pm. This Sunday January 9th our storyteller will be Arnold Herrera of Cochiti Pueblo, so bring the whole family. FREE admission for New Mexico residents on Sundays with ID, and always FREE admission for 17 and younger.
GranMary’s Place storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is dedicated to and celebrates the memory of Docent, Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, loved children, and loved telling stories to children visiting the Museum.
Jan 11, 2012
Political Cartoons and New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
A Centennial Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
Jan 12, 2012
Dinner with the Artist: Tammy Garcia
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Behind the Lens: Ceramic Works
Join us for dinner with world famous Santa Clara artist Tammy Garcia at the Museum Hill Café and a multi-media presentation Behind the Lens: Ceramic Works by Tammy Garcia based on the edgy and risky works that she created for Indian Market this year, to be held in the Museum Theater afterwards.
$45 per person includes dinner with cash bar and presentation. Tickets may be purchased from the Lensic Theater box office, by phone at 505-988-1234, or online at www.TicketsSantaFe.org. Seating is limited. Co-sponsored by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and Blue Rain Gallery.
Jan 13, 2012
The Wild Frontier: Our Territory on the Threshold of Statehood
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us for a lively panel discussion with Hampton Sides, Paul Hutton and Mark Lee Gardner . These three evocative story tellers will explore traits that made our region famous and infamous in the 19th century.
Jan 13, 2012 - Apr 22, 2012
Repeat After Me
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Jan 15, 2012
Geology of the Sandia Mountains
Coronado Historic Site
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Winter Lecture Series
Popular, local geologist, Dirk Van Hart, will discuss the geology of the Sandia Mountains in lay terms. Find out how the people and history of the area were shaped by these beautiful, haunting peaks.
Dirk began his professional career in 1965 as a petroleum geologist. During the next two decades the geologist’s typical gypsy life took Dirk and his family to Oklahoma, Texas, California, Guatemala, and Ecuador. In 1986 he moved to Albuquerque where he contracted out for geological exploration projects in Italy and Belize. In 1994, Dirk joined a Sandia National Laboratories technical team tasked to characterize the geology of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. He is currently retired and loves sharing his knowledge of geology and the Sandia/Rio Grande area with the public.
Lecture $5/adult, free to Members of the Friends of Coronado State Monument.
Event will be held at The DeLavy House (Sandoval County Historical Society), 161 Edmond Rd, Bernalillo, NM. Located off Hwy 550, 1.7 miles west of I-25, Exit 242 (Just west of Coronado State Monument; turn north on the gravel road between the Phillips 66 Station and the new IHOP Restaurant).
Jan 18, 2012
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.
Jan 22, 2012
On the Weight of Words
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
Join renowned artists Barry Moser and John Benson for a lecture, "On the Weight of Words," at 2 pm, Sunday, Jan. 22, in the History Museum Auditorium. The presentation includes excerpts from films on both artists and will be in the museum auditorium. This event is free with admission; Sundays are free to NM residents. Part of the programming series for The Saint John's Bible and Contemplative Landscape.
Both men’s work can be seen in the museum’s Mezzanine-level exhibition, The Letter, the Word & the Book, which highlights 20th- and 21st-century practitioners of typography, calligraphy, engravings, enameling and more. The exhibit includes: six images from Moser’s The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, a contemporary Old and New Testament with phenomenally detailed relief engravings; and samples of lettering done by Benson, who carved the inscriptions on the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington Cemetery and on the FDR Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Jan 22, 2012
Demonstration by Hebrew prayer shawl painter
New Mexico History Museum
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A Saint John’s Bible event
Prayer shawl (Tallit) maker Beth Surdut will be painting Hebrew letters with gold and dyes on silk in the area outside the second-floor exhibit Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible and Contemplative Landscape from 11 am to 1 pm on Sunday, Jan. 22. The event is free with admission (Sundays are free to NM residents and children 16 and younger).
Ravens feature prominently in the Saint John's Bible exhibit as well as Surdut's orebim (ravens in Hebrew). Her silks are offered in the museum store and online at websites including www.newmexicocreates.com.
Jan 22, 2012
Lecture and booksigning by photographer Gay Block
New Mexico Museum of Art
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
In conjunction with her recently released publication About Love, renowned photographer Gay Block will present an overview of her career, talk about how her work as a portrait photographer has given her insight into life and love, and sign copies of her new book.
Jan 29, 2012
Secret Jews and Telltale Genes in New Mexico
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lecture and booksigning by Jeff Wheelwright
In 1999, breast cancer killed Shonnie Medina in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Medina was a vivacious Hispanic woman, a Catholic who had become a Jehovah’s Witness. But a genetic test revealed that her cancer was caused by a mutation that has followed Jewish people for 2,500 years across continents, oceans and cultures.
At 2 pm on Sunday, Jan. 29, science writer Jeff Wheelwright traces that gene through a story that begins in Babylonian captivity, travels to medieval Spain and then to Mexico and North America, where it combines Native beliefs, fundamentalist Protestantism, and shifting debates about the meaning of race and the ethics of genetic research. His lecture, “Secret Jews and Telltale Genes in New Mexico,” is free with admission; Sundays are free to NM residents.
Wheelwright will also be signing his new book The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA (W.W. Norton & Co., 2012).
Jan 29, 2012
Hot Glass
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
NMEGW Live Glassblowing Event
The NM Museum of Fine Art will host New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop’s mobile glass unit in the sculpture garden on January 29th from 10am to 5pm!
