Feb 1, 2012 - Apr 30, 2012
Submissions being accepted for Art on the Edge
New Mexico Museum of Art
Biennial juried FOCA exhibition
Feb 1, 2012 - Mar 12, 2012
Nominations for Governor’s Arts Awards 2012
New Mexico Museum of Art
Feb 3, 2012
Artist Lecture By James Drake
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Salon of a Thousand Souls
Join artist James Drake us as he discusses his career and work now on view in his one-man exhibition Salon of a Thousand Souls.
Feb 5, 2012
Black History Month Celebration
Museum of International Folk Art
A New Mexico Centennial Event
Feb 6, 2012
Members Monday: Museum of International Folk Art
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Enjoy private, behind-the-scenes tours of the exhibitions and collections with museum directors and curators.
Not a Museum of New Mexico Museum Foundation member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 100 or click JOIN!
Feb 12, 2012
Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Exhibit Opening
Exhibit Opening: February 12, 2012, 1:00 -4:00 pm
Lecture: Women’s World will be presented by Margarete Bagshaw in the Museum Theater, 2:00 pm
Margarete Bagshaw – the third generation of the only three-generation female painting dynasty ever - started painting at age 25. Over the past 20 plus years she has taken the mantle of the two generations before her, which includes her grandmother Pablita Velarde and mother Helen Hardin, and, without any excuses, broken the rules too.
Feb 12, 2012
Chocolate...A Love Affair, Ancient Meso-America to Modern Times
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Friends of Folk Art Event
Explore and taste the exotic world of chocolate! Meet the makers of specialty chocolate and share their passion for their craft. See demonstrations and sample fine hand-made chocolates and elixirs inspired by the Mayans and Aztecs. View Guatemalan Mayan Temple Rubbings. Celebrate Valentine's Day early at this chocolate lovers' odyssey.
Event will be held at the Scottish Rite Temple .
Not a Museum or Friends of Folk Art member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 100 or click JOIN!
Feb 15, 2012
Mapping New Mexico
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
A Centennial Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
Join Dennis Reinhartz for "The Graphics of Statehood: The Mapping of New Mexico," part of the 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. A free event in the John Gaw Meem Room; enter through the Washington Avenue doors.
Reinhartz is professor emeritus of history and Russian at the University of Texas at Arlington. His publications include Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier (University of Texas Press, 2005). He received the 1996 Adele Mellen Prize for The Cartographer and the Literati, a Friends of the UTA Libraries Faculty Award; and the 1987 Presidio La Bahia Award for The Mapping of the American Southwest.
Feb 15, 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.
Feb 17, 2012
Centennial Lecture Series
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
"THE ARTS IN NEW MEXICO'S JOURNEY TO STATEHOOD"
Friday, February 17, 2012
5:30 in St. Francis Auditorium
Tickets $15. Available in advance at the Lensic Box Office - 988-1234, or at the door that evening.
Feb 18, 2012
Historic Forts Day
El Camino Real Historic Trail Site
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Feb 19, 2012
Los Ciboleros - Spanish Buffalo Hunters
Coronado Historic Site
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Winter Lecture Series
Manuel Lopez, a noted historical interpreter, will discuss the hunting methods and stories of the Ciboleros, the Spanish buffalo hunters of the 1700-1800s who hunted on the open plains of the American Southwest for meat and hides.
Manuel Lopez has a B.A. from the University of New Mexico, and has been a member and board member of the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM). A seasoned presenter, he has participated in numerous events and made presentations at Bents Fort, El Camino Real International Heritage Center, the Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs, El Pueblo Museum in Pueblo Colorado and the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. He has worked with El Rancho de Las Golondrinas (living history ranch) in La Cienega for nearly 20 years.
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).
For info: 505-867-5351, www.nmmonuments.org, http://home.comcast.net/~friendsofcsm
Feb 19, 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. The storyteller is Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia, of Pueblos of Tamaya (Santa Ana) and Walatowa (Jemez) , 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.
Feb 25, 2012
Calligraphy workshop
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
This event is sold out. Thank you, everyone, for your support.
Join Diane von Arx, special treatment artist for The Saint John's Bible, for a hands-on calligraphy workshop, "Oh My Gouache." The event costs $100; to reserve a spot, call (505) 476-5096. Part of the programming series for The Saint John's Bible and Contemplative Landscape.
Feb 25, 2012
Agnes Martin: Before the Grid
Museum of New Mexico
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Members Preview
See the most anticipated museum exhibitions before they open to the public. Location: Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico
Not a Museum of New Mexico Foundation member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 100 or click JOIN!
Feb 26, 2012
Special Treatment Illuminations for The Saint John’s Bible
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
Artist, calligrapher and illuminator Diane von Arx will talk about her work for The Saint John’s Bible in the museum’s auditorium. Her lecture, “Special Treatment Illuminations for The Saint John’s Bible,” is free with admission; Sundays are free to NM residents. Part of the programming series for The Saint John's Bible and Contemplative Landscape.
