Apr 1, 2023
Folk Art Donation Days for the Folk Art Flea
Museum of International Folk Art
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Donate Folk Art Saturdays, April 1st, 15th, and 22nd 11 am – 2 pm
Bring your gently-used folk art donations to the Museum of International Folk Art at 706 Camino Lejo (back parking lot) or call 505-476-1201 for other arrangements.
All donations are tax deductible
To become a sponsor of the Flea, please call 505-216-0829 or visit museumfoundation.org/flea sponsors
For more information, please visit museumfoundation.org/flea
Apr 1, 2023
Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture Series
New Mexico Museum of Art
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Join us for the second Annual Lecture in this series featuring keynote speaker Rebecca Solnit.
Apr 1, 2023
Indigenous Jazz Music
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Jazz Musician, Delbert Anderson (Diné) and jazz vocalist, Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) will grace the stage at the Museum of Indian Arts + Culture.
IAIA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (AiR) DELBERT ANDERSON AND THE ANDERSON RESIDENCY BAND WITH JAZZ VOCALIST JULIA KEEFE WITH MC AND COMEDY ACT BY JOVIAN HENIO (MESCALERO APACHE AND DINÉ)
Kathryn O’Keeffe Theatre - Free with Museum Admission. Come early seating is limited!
Apr 2, 2023
New Mexico Outdoor Pass: Birds and Insects
Los Luceros Historic Site
New Mexico Outdoor Pass returns! Join Los Luceros Historic Site and Pajarito Environmental Center for the April edition of New Mexico Outdoor Pass: plants! The site will also be open from 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. as part of our Dawn ’til Dusk program.
Apr 2, 2023
Family Mornings at Folk Art
Museum of International Folk Art
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for our monthly Family Mornings at Folk Art program featuring storytime, art activity, and explorations in the galleries. FREE Family Program!
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Apr 2, 2023
Family Art Making
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The first Sunday of each month we invite families to join us in a fun art-making session at the Museum.
Apr 2, 2023
Dawn ’Til Dusk
Los Luceros Historic Site
Los Luceros Historic Site will extend its hours from sunrise to sunset on the first Sunday of each month. During this time, entrance into Los Luceros will be FREE for New Mexico residents and includes access to the site’s visitor center, historic buildings, trails, and picnic areas.
Apr 2, 2023
Sunday, FUN DAY!
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
This event is free to New Mexico resident with a valid ID!
The first Sunday of the month is the Museum of Indian Arts and Cultures, Sunday, Fun Day! Sunday April 2nd Ricardo Caté (Kewa) and Ehren Kee Natay (Kewa, Diné) will be gracing the Kathryn O’Keeffe theatre. Ehren will be doing a storytelling performance and Ricardo will be doing a comedy sketch. This will be a special day highlighting these two amazing artists. There will be family friendly hands-on activities in the Education Classroom. Please join us for MIAC’s Sunday, Funday.
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Family-friendly hands-on pottery decorating activity.
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Ehren Kee Natay - Storytelling Performance.
1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m. Ricardo Caté - Comedy Sketch
Apr 2, 2023
Docent Tours with ASL Interpretation
Museum of International Folk Art
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
First Free Sundays of the month
Join us for a docent tour with ASL interpretation of Alexander Girard’s Multiple Visions exhibit.
Museum admission will be free for this First Sunday event.
Apr 5, 2023
Friends of History Wednesday Lecture Series
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860
Please join Michael J. Alarid, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and scholar of the Latino experience in the Southwest, as he shares this groundbreaking study, as part of our Friends of History (ON-LINE) Lecture Series. Historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico’s transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, trade between Mexico and the United States attracted wealthy Hispanos into a new market economy and increased trade along El Camino Real, turning it into a burgeoning exchange route. As landowning Hispanos benefited from the Santa Fe trade, traditional relationships between wealthy (patrónes) and poor (vecinos) Nuevomexicanos started to shift. Far from being displaced by US colonialism, wealthy Nuevomexicanos often worked in concert with new American officials after US troops marched into New Mexico in 1846, and in the process, Alarid argues, the patrónes abandoned their customary obligations to vecinos, who were now evolving into a working class. Ultimately wealthy Nuevomexicanos, the book argues, succeeded in preserving New Mexico as a Hispano bastion, but they did so at the expense of poor vecinos.
To register for this ON-LINE event, click here: https://bit.ly/3LjeGIW
Book Cover. Courtesy of UNM Press
Donations Welcome
Apr 7, 2023
First Friday: Drawing Lessons in the Galleries
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Starting at 5pm, Museum staff will be offering beginning drawing lessons in our galleries.
Apr 7, 2023
Opening: Post Fiesta Wares
Museum of International Folk Art
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
We are pleased to present Rick Phelps’ Post Fiesta Wares, an installation inside Axle’s mobile artspace. The exhibition is in conjunction with the exhibit Cartonería: The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste, now on view at the museum.
Opening in the Santa Fe Railyard shade structure by Farmers’ Market, Friday, April 7, 5–7 pm
Post Fiesta Wares will be on view from April 7th through May 28th. Check back soon to see the location Axle will be visiting.
More info on Axle Contemporary’s website here: https://www.axleart.com
Photo: Dodo by Rick Phelps
Apr 7, 2023
Palace Avenue First Friday Art Walk
New Mexico History Museum
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Silver and Stones: Collaborations in Southwest Jewelry
Please join us with FREE Admission to all as we celebrate Art and History every first Friday evening of every month with some of our additional museum and gallery friends located along Palace Avenue in the heart of the historic Santa Fe Plaza. Each month we will highlight something new and wonderful to share. Together, we hope to educate, inspire, and encourage a love and appreciation of history and the diversity of art that the city different is so well known for. For this month, the History Museum invites you to enjoy an unusual jewelry collection from the 1940s and 1950s that exemplifies a beneficial economic relationship between Diné (Navajo) silversmith, David Taliman (1901–1967), and Jewish merchant, William C. Ilfeld (1905–1979), and located in our Palace of the Governors building. Please enter by way of our main entrance at 113 Lincoln Avenue.
Photo credit: Necklace; David Taliman (Diné) 1940s–1950s, Commissioned by William C. Ilfeld-New Mexico History Museum (NMHM/DCA), 05355.45
Apr 8, 2023
Indian Market Lecture Series
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Art from the Soul: The work of Marla Allison (Laguna)
Please join us for a talk with Marla Allison, visual artist, who will share her art and experiences with Indian Market over the years. Lecture is Free WITH Admission.
About the speaker:
Marla Allison is a visual artist producing artwork inspired by traditions, cultural displacement and the human experience. Originally from Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, she is committed to participating in artist residencies that facilitate collaborations with artists from around the world. In her words, “Through the collaboration of artists, free thinkers and open-minded creative people, we can strengthen each other and build greater bridges…no matter where you come from or how you start, if you set a journey to learn, you will inspire and understand the essence of a strong human race.”
Allison maintains a lifestyle committed to travel and participation in cultural exchanges that have yielded lectures, murals, illustrations, and art exhibitions. Allison has produced art in Bristol, UK; Abu Dhabi, UAE; Riyadh, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Manama, Bahrain; Budapest, Hungary; and more locally in the USA in cities such as Salem, MA, Washington DC, New York, NY, Providence, RI, Tucson and Phoenix, AZ, and New Mexico.
You can find Marla’s work in Tulsa, OK at www.lovettsgallery.com, Rain Maker Gallery in the UK at www.rainmakerart.co.uk, and the Abu Dhabi Art Hub in Abu Dhabi, UAE at www.adah.ae, or you can view more on her
website www.marlaallison.com.
Apr 8, 2023
Fort Stanton Easter Egg Hunt
Fort Stanton Historic Site
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
On April 8, Fort Stanton Historic Site will host an Easter celebration, complete with more than 2,000 eggs hidden around the Site, Easter games to play, and the Easter Bunny! There will even be a golden egg, which will grant whoever finds it a special prize.
Apr 9, 2023
Funday at Giusewa
Jemez Historic Site
Explore the ways of Pueblo life through cooking, art demonstrations, dances, and much more at Jemez Historic Site, once a month. Visit with local artists, enjoy some pueblo food, or try a new skill. Learn the history of Guisewa with this engaging, hands-on opportunity!
Apr 11, 2023
Life Drawing at the Museum
New Mexico Museum of Art
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Looking for a creative outlet during your lunch break? Stop by the Museum for a casual session of life drawing.
Apr 12, 2023
Let’s Take A Look with Curators
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Every Third Wednesday of the Month.
During Let’s Take a Look, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology wait in the lobby to look at your treasures. They will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. While our curators prefer to work with objects from the Southwest, they are willing to take a look at anything you might bring in. If they cannot identify an object an attempt will be made to find someone who can! Sometimes, the lively discussion among curators may provide as much insight as an accurate object identification itself.
The event is always free and open to the public, but please note Federal and State regulations prohibit the monetary appraisal of objects.
Museum Main Lobby at Musuem of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo - Museum Hill.
Apr 13, 2023
Insider Insights: Collections Tour
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
We invite you to go behind the scenes with a member of our Curatorial team exploring our collections storage for a deep dive into facets of the Museum’s rich holdings
Apr 13, 2023
Insider Insights: Collections Tour
New Mexico Museum of Art
We invite you to go behind the scenes with our Head of Curatorial, Christian Waguespack and explore artwork by Gustave Baumann in our collection’s storage.
Apr 14, 2023
2023 School for Advanced Research Native Arts Speaker Series: Grounded in Clay Conversations
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Conversation and Pottery Making: An Afternoon with Clarence Cruz and Samuel Villarreal Catanach
Join UNM professor Clarence Cruz (Ohkay Owingeh) and Pojoaque’s Tewa Language Department Director Samuel Villarreal Catanach (Pojoaque) for a pottery making demonstration and conversation about Pueblo pottery, language, and land, and the ways in which they intersect.
Apr 14, 2023
Ranger Guided Tour
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Apr 15, 2023
Folk Art Donation Days for the Folk Art Flea
Museum of International Folk Art
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Donate Folk Art Saturdays, April 15th and 22nd 11 am – 2 pm
Bring your gently-used folk art donations to the Museum of International Folk Art at 706 Camino Lejo (back parking lot) or call 505-476-1201 for other arrangements.
All donations are tax deductible
To become a sponsor of the Flea, please call 505-216-0829 or visit museumfoundation.org/flea-sponsors
For more information, please visit museumfoundation.org/flea
Apr 15, 2023
Ranger-Guided Tour
Fort Selden Historic Site
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join Ranger Mike for a guided tour of the Fort Selden ruins. Explore 1400 years of history from the Mogollon to the Spanish and the American military.
Apr 15, 2023
Slow Art
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
There is a lot to enjoy at the New Mexico Museum of Art, but in celebration of Slow Art Day we invite you to slow down and look at just a few works of art with us.
Apr 15, 2023
Conversation with Papier-Mâché Artist Óscar Becerra-Mora
Museum of International Folk Art
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Papier-Mâché Artist, Óscar Becerra-Mora will give a talk on Xólotl: Dios Perro along with Ericka Hernandez from the Mexican Cultural Center in Denver.
Oscar Becerra-Mora is one Mexico’s great contemporary artists. He has dedicated more than 10 years to the art of cartonería: vibrantly painted papier-mâché sculptures incorporating modeled cardboard.
Xólotl: Dios Perro is the first monumental alebrije that has been displayed throughout the United States since 2013. This 15 foot sculpture will be exhibited at the Southside Public Library as part of a three way collaboration between the Museum of International Folk Art, The Mexican Cultural Center in Denver, and the Southside Public Library in Santa Fe. The giant alebrije will be on display from April 17 – December 4, 2023.
Apr 16, 2023
Exhibition Opening-Free Admission
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Enchantorama! New Mexico Magazine Turns 100
Please join the New Mexico History Museum with FREE ADMISSION from 10-5pm, along with a free public reception from 1-3pm courtesy of the Women’s Board to celebrate our newest exhibition opening, Enchantorama! New Mexico Magazine Turns 100.
Learn why and how the publication began, view a selection from over one thousand magazine covers, and enjoy seeing over two hundred photographs published in the magazine since 1923. Visitors will enjoy a mid-century office space—replete with a rotary telephone—as they peruse previous editions of the magazine or type up an article on a 1970s typewriter.
Photo Credit: Tourists at Mesa Encantada near Acoma Pueblo, 1954. Photograph by Harvey Caplin. Palace of the Governors Photo Archives Neg. No. 058264
Apr 18, 2023
Opening of Óscar Becerra- Mora’s Giant Alebrije at Southside Library
Museum of International Folk Art
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Come and meet the artist Óscar Becerra-Mora who created Xólotl: Dios Perro, the giant alebrije and enjoy light refreshments.
Southside Branch Library - 6599 Jaguar Drive Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
Óscar Becerra-Mora is one Mexico’s great contemporary artists. He has dedicated more than 10 years to the art of cartonería: vibrantly painted papier-mâché sculptures incorporating modeled cardboard.
Xólotl: Dios Perro is the first monumental alebrije that has been displayed throughout the United States since 2013. This 15 foot sculpture will be exhibited at the Southside Public Library as part of a three way collaboration between the Museum of International Folk Art, The Mexican Cultural Center in Denver, and the Southside Public Library in Santa Fe. The giant alebrije will be on display from April 17 – December 4, 2023.
Apr 19, 2023
Ranger-Guided Tour
Fort Selden Historic Site
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join Ranger Mike for a guided tour of the Fort Selden ruins. Explore 1400 years of history from the Mogollon to the Spanish and the American military.
Apr 20, 2023
People to People with Christy S. Coleman and Dr. Mark White
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Join us on Thursday, April 20th at 5:30pm for a People to People conversation between Christy S. Coleman, Executive Director of the Taos Art Museum at Fechin House and Mark White, Ph.D., Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Apr 20, 2023
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR DRIVE-THRU FOLK ART DONATION DAYS!
Museum of International Folk Art
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
DONATE FOLK ART ANYTIME TO THE FOLK ART FLEA!
Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea. Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) are accepting donations of gently used decorative art, ethnic clothing, and jewelry throughout the year. Please call the Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) information line at 505-476-1201 or send an email to friendsoffolkart@gmail.com to arrange a pick-up or delivery time. Donations are tax deductible and benefit educational programs and exhibitions at the Museum of International Folk Art.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR DRIVE-THRU FOLK ART DONATION DAYS!
Drive-thru donation days will be Saturday, April 6 & Sunday, April 7 and Saturday, April 20 & Sunday, April 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Drop off is located behind the Museum of International Folk Art. FOFA volunteers will accept your folk art and present you with a tax deductible receipt.
For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com
Apr 21, 2023
2023 School for Advanced Research Native Arts Speaker Series: Grounded in Clay Conversations
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Untold Pueblo Stories: Hidden Histories and the Pueblo Diaspora
Diego Medina (Tiwa-Piro-Manso), Albert Alvidrez (Ysleta del Sur), and Jerry Dunbar (Ysleta del Sur) highlight underrepresented Pueblo stories in an exploration of the Ysleta del Sur and Tiwa-Piro-Manso histories. The panel discusses the effects of displacement on Pueblo communities and the larger Pueblo diaspora.
Apr 21, 2023
Ranger Guided Tour
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Apr 21, 2023
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR DRIVE-THRU FOLK ART DONATION DAYS!
Museum of International Folk Art
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
DONATE FOLK ART ANYTIME TO THE FOLK ART FLEA!
Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea. Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) are accepting donations of gently used decorative art, ethnic clothing, and jewelry throughout the year. Please call the Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) information line at 505-476-1201 or send an email to friendsoffolkart@gmail.com to arrange a pick-up or delivery time. Donations are tax deductible and benefit educational programs and exhibitions at the Museum of International Folk Art.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR DRIVE-THRU FOLK ART DONATION DAYS!
Drive-thru donation days will be Saturday, April 6 & Sunday, April 7 and Saturday, April 20 & Sunday, April 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Drop off is located behind the Museum of International Folk Art. FOFA volunteers will accept your folk art and present you with a tax deductible receipt.
For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com
Apr 22, 2023
Fort Selden Takes Flight!
Fort Selden Historic Site
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Join Fort Selden Historic Site this Earth Day for some all-day fun learning about birds and the human inventions that were inspired by bird flight.
Apr 22, 2023
An American in Paris Gallery Talk with Dr. Mark White
New Mexico Museum of Art
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join for us a gallery talk with executive directer Dr. Mark White.
Apr 22, 2023
Earth Day at Los Luceros
Los Luceros Historic Site
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Join Los Luceros Historic Site for a celebration of Earth Day!
Apr 26, 2023
POTTERY DEMONSTRATIONA Tribute to the Ancestors
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Presented by Jerry Dunbar (Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo) Buchsbaum Gallery · Free with museum admission
Jerry Dunbar’s family is from Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, located southeast of El Paso, Texas. Established in 1682 after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, its people originally came from Isleta Pueblo, south of Albuquerque. Dunbar speaks to his pieces and asks them to guide him as he works — each work taking the shape and direction the clay wants. He continues to strive and increase his knowledge and skill as a Pueblo potter, following in the footsteps of his Ancestors.
