Events - October 2023

In October, we will be creating cyanotypes and experiementing with pin hole cameras at the new Vladem Contemporary.

ACTIVITIES:
10:00AM–4:00PM - Education Classroom
Creative hands-on activities.

10:30AM–12:30PM - The Discovery Room
Loom warping by Daniel Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo/Diné) Daniel learned to warp looms with the help of his grandmother.

11:00AM–NOON - Milner Plaza
Oak Canyon Dancers, (Jemez Pueblo), a family of traditional Pueblo dancers who perform around the Southwest.

NOON–2:00PM - MIAC PORTAL
Pueblo-style lunch prepared by Evon Martinez (San Ildefonso/Cochiti Pueblo) and the Crespin Family (Kewa/Santo Domingo Pueblo)

1:00–2:00PM - Kathryn O’Keeffe Theatre
Ehren Kee Natay (Kewa/Diné), and Adrian Wall (Jemez Pueblo); “The History of Native American Flutes, Musical Storytelling.” Flute performance, and presentation. Ehren and Adrian are both
multi-media artists, and music performers celebrating their cultural values and traditions.

2:00–3:00PM - Milner Plaza
Oak Canyon Dancers, (Jemez Pueblo) Pueblo dances and Friendship dance.

On Museum Hill, off Old Santa Fe Trail,  710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505  (505) 476-1269
www.IndianArtsAndCulture.org

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is excited to announce the return of the Collectors’ Sale, October 21-22, 2023. This sale traditionally has been an important fundraiser for the museum as well as a wonderful way to celebrate the collecting prowess of local donors and the community at large. The Collectors’ Sale is a two-day event including a fixed-price sale, lectures from experts and demonstrations by artists. The Collectors’ Sale will take place at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We are asking for donations and consignments of Native artwork for this special fundraising event. Proceeds from the sale of the artwork will be donated to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture to support their ongoing outreach efforts with tribal communities across the Southwest. 

To donate or sell your pieces, please bring your item(s) to a drop-off day at the museum, or contact the event manager, Josh Rose, directly at collectorsale@museumfoundation.org. 

Please join David C. Beyreis, Author, Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saint Mary’s School, Raleigh, North Carolina, for an ONLINE talk as he shares the history of Charles Bent, New Mexico Governor, 1846, as part of our Friends of History ONLINE lecture series.

At the time of his violent death in 1847, Charles Bent was one of the most powerful men in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.  He first came to New Mexico in 1829 and rapidly became an economic powerbroker in the region.  Bent and his close associates used intermarriage with prominent local women to expand their business and political connections in New Mexico and the southern plains.  As Bent’s influence grew, however, other powerful factions arose to oppose him.  When the United States government made Bent governor of New Mexico in  September 1846 his possibilities seemed limitless.  His death four months later in the bloody Taos Revolt of 1847 exposed the deep rifts in the region’s communities and led to the rapid collapse of Bent, St. Vrain, and Company in 1849.

David C. Beyreis is the author of Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920 and articles on Southwest borderlands and Great Plains history.  His work has won awards from the Historical Society of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Trail Association, Westerners International, and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma and currently teaches history at Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Register for the ONLINE event here: Blood in the Borderlands: The Rise and Fall of Charles Bent, 1829-1847 - Friends of History (friendsofhistorynm.org)

Dr. Beyreis’ book, Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920, is available for purchase through the University of Nebraska Press at https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9781496202420/

Copies are also available at the New Mexico History Museum’s Spiegelberg Museum Shop or through your local bookstore at bookshop.org

Photo credit: Portrait of Charles Bent
New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM

Friends of History Donations Welcome!
  

Join us to celebrate the opening of our exhibition Rick Dillingham: To Make, Unmake, and Make Again.

Visit us for FREE Admission for all as we celebrate Art and History every First Friday evening of every month!

Join us tonight to view our exhibit “Setting the Standard” as we lead up to our Fred Harvey Weekend Oct. 27-29!

On October 7, Herb Marsh will present "The Capture and Death of Billy the Kid," this year’s last Lincoln Lecture. Mr. Marsh will talk about what Billy and his friends were doing after the Lincoln County War. The lecture will be in the San Juan Church from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

FOFA is seeking folk art donations of gently used textiles, clothing, ceramics, masks, wood carvings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and décor items to be sold at the 2024 Folk Art Flea. If you have folk, tribal, fine art, decorative art, clothing with an ethnic or folk art look, or art books that you are ready to recycle to other art lovers then please join us for our fall donation days.

Each year patrons, collectors and folk art lovers donate a variety of folk art items to be sold at the annual Folk Art Flea, organized by the Friends of Folk Art, to raise funds for the educational and exhibition programs of the Museum of International Folk Art.

Anyone can donate!  If you have friends who are Spring cleaning, downsizing, or holding an estate sale, please let them know about this special opportunity to make a difference at one of Santa Fe’s most celebrated institutions by recycling their art items to the Flea.

Fall Donation Days

Saturday, October 7

Saturday, October 21

All 11 am to 2 pm

Drive to the back of the Museum of International Folk Art parking lot and look for the pods. 

All folk art donations are tax deductible.

If you can’t come by our donation days but still would like to donate then call 505.476.1201 for pick-up or drop-off information.

Have you ever wanted to learn more about Bosque Redondo Memorial’s new exhibit? Have you ever wanted to know more stories about the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache)? Join Ranger Lily and Instructional Coordinator Rebekha on Saturday October 7, 2023 for a guided tour of the new permanent exhibition and exterior grounds at Fort Sumner Historic Site. These weekly tours will start at 1 p.m. and end at 3 p.m. We hope to see you there! This tour is included in general admission. $7/adult. Free for children 16 and under. Please call 575-355-2573 for more information.

Join Ranger Kevin as he opens Fort Selden Historic Site at 6:00am to allow for early morning birding, photography, artist inspiration, and wildlife viewing.

While birdwatching during the simultaneously run event "Sunrise and Inspiration Over the Ruins," join Ranger Mike for a guided tour of the Fort Selden ruins. 

We invite you to meet the Museum of Art’s new Curator of Contemporary Art, Alexandra Terry. 

Go behind the scenes with a Katie Doyle, Assistant Curator, to explore our collections storage for a deep dive into facets of the Museum’s rich holdings.

Please join us for Late Night Friday as we offer the public the opportunity to extend their visit at the museum and explore our amazing collections, and learn more about the historic people, places, and events, that over time touched New Mexico.

Tonight’s visit is FREE TO NEW MEXICO RESIDENTS

Photo credit: Lensic Theater, San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1935.

Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst Negative number: 051556

The Santa Fe High School Choir returns to the New Mexico Museum of Art’s St. Francis Auditorium for their fall concert. 

• Cautionary Tales: Climate Crisis & Indigenous Arts is a one-day symposium that brings Indigenous artists and advocates into conversation about the climate crisis, which disproportionately affects Native communities “first and worst.” Coastal erosion, flooding, drought, wildfires, and severe storms threaten the well-being, lands, livelihoods, and arts of Indigenous peoples, with the impact being felt right now.

Featuring Diné ethnobotanist Arnold Clifford, Northern Chumash visual artist Leah Mata Fragua, Iñupiaq parka maker and climate initiatives program director Qataliña Jackie Schaeffer, and curator Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo). With a reading by Iñupiaq poet dg nanouk okpik and a spoken word performance by IAIA students of Sheila Rocha’s Performance Poetry course.

Admission to both the symposium and the museum is free, and includes a Pueblo feast-style lunch for participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Time will be scheduled for viewing the annular solar eclipse. 

Full schedule:

• 9:00am            Blessing, John Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo)

• 9:20am            “An exploration of memory, resistance, and creativity amid environmental flux,” Leah Mata Fragua (Yak Tityu Tityu Yak Tiłhini (Northern Chumash))

• 10:20am          “Look Up!” and solar eclipse viewing, Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo), Curator of Ethnology, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture  

• 11:00am          Ethnobotany and Climate Change, Arnold Clifford (Diné)                            

• Noon-1:30pm  Pueblo feast lunch, catered by Rena Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo)

• Self-guided exploration of Ghhúunayúkata/To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka

• 1:00pm            Avan Nu Voices, a Performance Poetry Ensemble, Institute of American Indian Arts students and Sheila Rocha (Tarasco)

• 1:45pm            “Northern Light,” poetry reading by dg nanouk okpik (Iñupiaq)                              

• 2:00pm            “The Fashion & Climate Intersect,” Qataliña Jackie Schaeffer (Iñupiaq)

• 3:15pm            Group discussion, facilitated by Tony Chavarria, with Arnold Clifford, Leah Mata Fragua, and Qataliña Jackie Schaeffer

ASL interpretation will be provided throughout the program.

This is a free event. Entry is first come first serve and subject to venue capacity. 

To RSVP please click https://cautionarytalessymposium.eventbrite.com

Cautionary Tales is organized by the Museum of International Folk Art in collaboration with the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the School for Advanced Research, and in conjunction with the Museum of International Folk Art’s current exhibition Ghhúunayúkata/To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka. Funding for the symposium and the exhibition Ghhúunayúkata is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Come celebrate the inaugural Vladem Contemporary exhibition Shadow and Light with a solar eclipse! 

Support the Museum Library at a sale of art books, magazines, and catalogs.

Join Ranger Kevin as he opens Fort Selden Historic Site at 6:00am to allow for early morning birding, photography, artist inspiration, and wildlife viewing.

While birdwatching during the simultaneously run event "Sunrise and Inspiration Over the Ruins," join Ranger Mike for a guided tour of the Fort Selden ruins. 

Have you ever wanted to learn more about Bosque Redondo Memorial’s new exhibit? Have you ever wanted to know more stories about the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache)? Join Ranger Lily and Instructional Coordinator Rebekha on Saturday October 14, 2023 for a guided tour of the new permanent exhibition and exterior grounds at Fort Sumner Historic Site. These weekly tours will start at 1 p.m. and end at 3 p.m. We hope to see you there! This tour is included in general admission. $7/adult. Free for children 16 and under. Please call 575-355-2573 for more information.

On October 14, Fort Stanton Historic Site will help visitors travel back in time to the 19th century and get a taste of what military life was like at Fort Stanton, New Mexico. In addition to historical demonstrations, a tour of the Old Army Cemetery will be held at 11:30 a.m. Living History activities are included with the regular price of admission.

Join us this fall for Elements of Art: Story Time at the New Mexico Museum of Art Library.

Join us on Wednesday, October 18 at 12:30PM for a conversation between Oswaldo Maciá, artist-in-residence, and Curator of Contemporary Art, Alexandra Terry. Bring your lunch!

Please join us for Late Night Friday as we offer the public the opportunity to extend their visit at the museum and explore our amazing collections, and learn more about the historic people, places, and events, that over time touched New Mexico.

Tonight’s visit is FREE TO NEW MEXICO RESIDENTS

Photo credit: Mission church at McCartys, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: John Candelario, Date: 1940 - 1950?

Negative Number: 165882

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is excited to invite you to the return of the Collectors’ Sale.  This is an important fundraiser for the museum and a wonderful way to celebrate the art collecting community.

The Collector’s Sale will be a two-day event including a fixed-price sale, programming and demonstrations.  Proceeds benefit  the museum’s Native American education programs, outreach and exhibitions.

Saturday October 21 - Sunday, October 22    Fixed-price sale: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Milner Plaza

For more information, email: collectorsale@museumfoundation.org. Or call: 505-660-8622.

FOFA is seeking folk art donations of gently used textiles, clothing, ceramics, masks, wood carvings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and décor items to be sold at the 2024 Folk Art Flea. If you have folk, tribal, fine art, decorative art, clothing with an ethnic or folk art look, or art books that you are ready to recycle to other art lovers then please join us for our fall donation days.

Each year patrons, collectors and folk art lovers donate a variety of folk art items to be sold at the annual Folk Art Flea, organized by the Friends of Folk Art, to raise funds for the educational and exhibition programs of the Museum of International Folk Art.

Anyone can donate!  If you have friends who are Spring cleaning, downsizing, or holding an estate sale, please let them know about this special opportunity to make a difference at one of Santa Fe’s most celebrated institutions by recycling their art items to the Flea.

Last Fall Donation Day!

Saturday, October 21

Drive to the back of the Museum of International Folk Art parking lot and look for the pods. 

All folk art donations are tax deductible.

If you can’t come by our donation days but still would like to donate then call 505.476.1201 for pick-up or drop-off information.

The Santa Fe International Film Festival opens Oct 18, and comes to a close Oct 22, boasting more than 300 hours of programming, more than 100 visiting filmmakers, and red-carpet premieres, the annual festival flows throughout downtown Santa Fe and its Railyard District both day and night at 6 theaters screening independent and international films, plus receptions, panels, and discussions with movie makers.

Dubbed “a young Sundance” by indieWire, SFiFF presents a program of top international films, Indigenous films, USA independents, its Green Earth Program special screenings, documentaries, masters discussions, and film panels. SFiFF’s five days of cinema and special events take place in Santa Fe’s beautiful, historic theaters and popular downtown restaurants.

Filmmakers and movie-goers take advantage of Santa Fe’s unique shopping and cultural experiences, as well as autumn hikes through golden aspen trees. SFiFF audiences delight in industry networking events and meeting established film professionals in a setting of creative focus. For ticketing information, please visit: boxoffice.santafe.film

NMHM Auditorium seating is limited, no food or beverages allowed-bottled water only please.

Fort Stanton has a long and fascinating history. Though it started as a military fort, it served as a tuberculosis sanatorium for many decades. An estimated 1,000 people have died here due to consumption.

Come and see three of our buildings at night, including the chapel and off-limits areas like the back of the hospital and the neighboring building, #4. Explore these spaces and experience Fort Stanton like you haven’t before. The tour is on Saturday, October 21 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The tour is limited to 20 people, and we can only admit visitors 12 years and older. Ticket cost is $20, non-refundable. Flashlights will be provided but you are welcome to use your own.

Fort Stanton has a long and fascinating history. Though it started as a military fort, it served as a tuberculosis sanatorium for many decades. An estimated 1,000 people have died here due to consumption.

Come and see three of our buildings at night, including the chapel and off-limits areas like the back of the hospital and the neighboring building, #4. Explore these spaces and experience Fort Stanton like you haven’t before. The tour is on Saturday, October 21 from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The tour is limited to 20 people, and we can only admit visitors 12 years and older. Ticket cost is $20, non-refundable. Flashlights will be provided but you are welcome to use your own.

Get started on your trick-or-treating a little early! On October 21, visitors can scour Fort Stanton Historic Site for light frights and candy. Costumes are highly encouraged!

Have you ever wanted to learn more about Bosque Redondo Memorial’s new exhibit? Have you ever wanted to know more stories about the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache)? Join Ranger Lily and Instructional Coordinator Rebekha on Saturday October 21, 2023 for a guided tour of the new permanent exhibition and exterior grounds at Fort Sumner Historic Site. These weekly tours will start at 1 p.m. and end at 3 p.m. We hope to see you there! This tour is included in general admission. $7/adult. Free for children 16 and under. Please call 575-355-2573 for more information.

The Santa Fe International Film Festival opens Oct 18, and comes to a close Oct 22, boasting more than 300 hours of programming, more than 100 visiting filmmakers, and red-carpet premieres, the annual festival flows throughout downtown Santa Fe and its Railyard District both day and night at 6 theaters screening independent and international films, plus receptions, panels, and discussions with movie makers.

Dubbed “a young Sundance” by indieWire, SFiFF presents a program of top international films, Indigenous films, USA independents, its Green Earth Program special screenings, documentaries, masters discussions, and film panels. SFiFF’s five days of cinema and special events take place in Santa Fe’s beautiful, historic theaters and popular downtown restaurants.

Filmmakers and movie-goers take advantage of Santa Fe’s unique shopping and cultural experiences, as well as autumn hikes through golden aspen trees. SFiFF audiences delight in industry networking events and meeting established film professionals in a setting of creative focus. For ticketing information, please visit: boxoffice.santafe.film

NMHM Auditorium seating is limited, no food or beverages allowed-bottled water only please.

Historic Santa Fe Foundation presents Brujería - A History of Witchcraft and Sorcery in New Mexico by State Historian Rob Martinez. The talk is scheduled for Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 3pm at the New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue in downtown Santa Fe.

ABOUT THE LECTURE:New Mexican enduring beliefs in witchcraft and the ways of sorcerers during the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods have been a lifelong fascination for State Historian Rob Martinez. As a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in the mid 1990s, while searching for a research topic for his Master’s thesis, a professor brought to Martinez’s attention an Inquisition case from the 1760s at Abiquiu about an outbreak of sorcery in that community. Martinez started researching deep into the topic of Spanish and Native American witch beliefs as well as steeping himself in the study of Church history in Spain, Mexico and New Mexico. Finally, when a colleague brought a copy of the Inquisition folios to Martinez from Mexico City, he began the long process of reading and using paleography to decipher the document. The result was a thesis titled Fray Juan Jose Toledo and the Devil in Spanish New Mexico. This presentation about brujería and hechicería, witchcraft and sorcery, examines the background and context for that case and many others. The talk also touches on why, even in current times, such beliefs still persist in New Mexico.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:State Historian Rob Martinez is a native New Mexican born and raised in Albuquerque. A graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.B.A. in International Business Management, Rob then went on to pursue his interest in New Mexican culture and history at U.N.M., earning an M.A. in Latin American history, with an emphasis on church, cultural, and social practices of the Spanish Colonial period in New Mexico. During his tenure as a graduate student, he was a research assistant for four years at the Vargas Project, learning research skills and paleography, abilities that would serve him well as a historian. Upon graduating, Rob pursued a teaching license and also worked for fourteen years as a research historian for the Sephardic Legacy Project, scouring civil and church archives in New Mexico, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, analyzing documents for a research and publishing project about the Crypto-Jewish phenomenon in New Mexico and the Caribbean. Rob has presented papers and lectures on his research at the University of New Mexico, as well as history conferences throughout the southwestern United States. He has also spoken to historical groups in New Mexico such as the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of 

New Mexico, the Albuquerque Historical Society, and the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies about research methodology, unique findings, New Mexico Hispanic culture, and general History of New Mexico. Rob was a teacher at Rio Rancho High School for ten years, educating young New Mexicans about World History, New Mexico History, and Language Arts. Rob has published articles on New Mexico genealogy and culture in periodicals as diverse as Herencia: The Quarterly Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center, IMAGEN magazine, Tradicion Revista, and the New Mexico Genealogist. Finally, Rob is also a folk musician, performing and promoting New Mexican Hispanic musical traditions for the past twenty years with his brother Lorenzo and their father Roberto Martinez in the group Los Reyes de Albuquerque. With his musical family, Rob has performed in all parts of New Mexico, and at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington, D.C., the NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship Awards, and also at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Purchase tickets at: https://www.historicsantafe.org/martinez-salon-2023

Seating is limited-no food or drinks-bottled water only please.

The New Mexico History Museum is thrilled to screen the 1946 Technicolor American musical film "The Harvey Girls" about Fred Harvey’s Harvey House waitresses. The film stars Judy Garland and features John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lansbury. 

NMHM Auditorium seating is limited. No food or beverages allowed-bottled water only please.

Please join us for the annual Fred Harvey history weekend. Learn more about Fred Harvey, the Harvey Girls, Mary Colter, the Santa Fe Railroad, and their roles in the Wild West and developing New Mexico. The three-day event will include Friday and Saturday talks at the museum, a ticketed dinner and auction on Friday night at La Fonda on the Plaza, along with additional activities in Santa Fe, Belen, and Las Vegas, NM. All net proceeds will benefit the New Mexico History Museum.

Pre-registration required. Limited Seating available.

Pre-register and all weekend event details at Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fred-harvey-history-weekend-2023-tickets-482003223617?aff=oddtdtcreator

Visit the Vladem Contemporary on the last Friday before Halloween for a Shadow and Light Scavenger Hunt and win some candy!

Your ticket to this event includes museum admission.  This program is expected to sell out - advance ticket purchase is recommended.  

Here is the URL:  https://my.nmculture.org/26827

USE YOUR MNMF PROMO CODE TO ACCESS YOUR MEMBER TICKET OR CALL LAUREN PAIGE (505) 982-2282 FOR ASSISTANCE.

Jody Naranjo is a contemporary potter from Santa Clara Pueblo. She comes from a family of traditional Tewa potters. She learned the craft of pottery from her mother, Dolly Naranjo, and other female relatives. She attended the Institute of American Indian Arts. She started selling her artwork at age fifteen at the Palace of the Governor’s portal. Jody’s work is traditionally made but her  shapes and scrafitto designs are whimsical and uniquely her own style with finesse and showcases her sense of humor. Jody has three daughters and two grandchildren and maintains her connection to home, her heritage, family and friends.

Working predominately with traditional Santa Clara Clay, artist Dusty Naranjo,has been able to contribute her take on Contemporary Santa Clara Pottery. Dusty’s work features themes of natureand animals. She incorporates abstract designs and is influenced by the creative work of not only her nephew and mom, but her extended family as well. She has won awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, Heard Museum, and Eiteljorg Museum of the American Indian. Dustywas born in Taos New Mexico. She has a Masters Degree in Art Therapy and continues to create pottery while working as a Behavior Health Clinician.

Rose B. Simpson of Santa Clara Pueblo has a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Art, an MA in Creative Writing from IAIA and has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been included in many group exhibitions and solo exhibitions around the country. Her work is held in numerous museum collections and in 2022, Rose debuted her first large scale public work, titled Counterculture, at Field Farm, MA (commissioned by The Trustees of the Reservation). Simpson lives and works on her ancestral homelands of Santa Clara Pueblo, and is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Funded by Edward and Maria Gale, Gale Family Foundation.

Please join us for the annual Fred Harvey history weekend. Learn more about Fred Harvey, the Harvey Girls, Mary Colter, the Santa Fe Railroad, and their roles in the Wild West and developing New Mexico. The three-day event will include Friday and Saturday talks at the museum, a ticketed dinner and auction on Friday night at La Fonda on the Plaza, along with additional activities in Santa Fe, Belen, and Las Vegas, NM. All net proceeds will benefit the New Mexico History Museum.

Pre-registration required. Limited Seating available.

Pre-register and all weekend event details at Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fred-harvey-history-weekend-2023-tickets-482003223617?aff=oddtdtcreator

Have you ever wanted to learn more about Bosque Redondo Memorial’s new exhibit? Have you ever wanted to know more stories about the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache)? Join Ranger Lily and Instructional Coordinator Rebekha on Saturday October 28, 2023 for a guided tour of the new permanent exhibition and exterior grounds at Fort Sumner Historic Site. These weekly tours will start at 1 p.m. and end at 3 p.m. We hope to see you there! This tour is included in general admission. $7/adult. Free for children 16 and under. Please call 575-355-2573 for more information.

On October 28, Fort Selden Historic Site invites visitors on a moonlit tour! People of the past will be wandering the Fort’s footprint, allowing visitors to experience life in New Mexico from new perspectives. Visitors might meet an abuela and her box of toys and games, a cattle rancher on the Gila River northwest of Lordsburg, a bean farmer and her pesky sister from out of state, or even a patrolling soldier with a penchant for ghost stories!

¡Acompáñanos a celebrar el Día de los Muertos. Decora calaveras de azucar y prueba el pan de muerto tradicional, y trae una foto o recuerdo para agregar a nuestro altar comunitario.

Celebrate Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead. Decorate sugar skulls, sample traditional Pan de Muerto, and bring a photo or memento to add to our community altar.

• 1:00 pm - Disfrute de una charla en la galería con Leigh Thelmadatter, autora de Mexican Cartonería Mexicana: Papel, Engrudo y Fiesta en la exposición La Cartonería Mexicana.
  • Enjoy a Gallery talk with Leigh Thelmadatter, author of Mexican Cartonería: Paper, Paste and Fiesta in the Cartonería exhibit.
• 2:00 and 3:00 pm - Vea las actuaciones de danza de Los Niños de Santa Fe             
  • Watch Los Niños de Santa Fe Dance Performances
• 2:00 – 4:00 pm - Firma de libros con Leigh Thelmadatter, autora de Mexican Cartonería: Papel, Engrudo y Fiesta                           
  •  Book signing with Leigh Thelmadatter, author of Mexican Cartonería/Paper Paste and Fiesta. Books will be available for purchase in our Museum Shop.

Leigh Thelmadatter lives in Mexico City and works as a freelance writer specializing in Mexican culture. She has a regular column with Mexico Daily News and is the author of  Mexican Cartonería: Paper, Paste and Fiesta (Schiffer 2019). Her mission is to shed light on aspects of Mexican life and culture that do not get the attention they deserve.

To request ASL interpretation for the Gallery Talk, email Patricia Sigala by October 24, at: patricia.sigala@dca.nm.gov

Join the City of Santa Fe’s newest tradition, a Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration on the Santa Fe Plaza on Friday, October 27 from 4-10 pm and Saturday, October 28 from 10 am-10 pm. For more information visit https://burnzozobra.com/dia/

The New Mexico History Museum is thrilled to screen the 1946 Technicolor American musical film "The Harvey Girls" about Fred Harvey’s Harvey House waitresses. The film stars Judy Garland and features John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, and Angela Lansbury. 

NMHM Auditorium seating is limited. No food or beverages allowed-bottled water only please.

Every other Monday at 10:30 AM the Museum Library invites children ages 3-5 to learn about a basic element of art though story, song, and craft.