Mar 1, 2024
First Friday: Pottery Making with Tumbleroot Pottery Pub
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us in making pottery with our friends from Tumbleroot Pottery Pub!
Mar 2, 2024
Ranger Guided Tour
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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 March 2, 2024 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.
Mar 2, 2024
Sunrise Over the Ruins at Fort Selden
Fort Selden Historic Site
6:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Nature Hike and Build a Campfire
Join Fort Selden Historic Site staff to see the sunrise over the historic ruins and the Robledo Mountains.
Mar 3, 2024
Family Art Making
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
We invite families to join us in a fun art-making session at the Museum.
Mar 3, 2024
Dawn 'Til Dusk
Los Luceros Historic Site
6:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Mar 3, 2024
SUNDAY FUNDAY! FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH AT MIAC!
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
WEAVING and other fun art activities
Hands-on fun for the whole family!
FREE to NM residents with a valid ID. Come join us in the Education Classroom at MIAC.
Mar 6, 2024
Friends of History Wednesday ON-LINE Lecture Series
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
Please join Melissa J. Homestead, Professor, English, Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, as she gives an ON-LINE talk as part of our Friends of History Lecture Series.
Willa Cather and Edith Lewis lived together in New York City for nearly forty years. While Cather built her career as a novelist, Lewis worked as a magazine editor and advertising writer while also, behind the scenes, editing Cather’s fiction. This lecture will give an overview of their personal and creative partnership as recovered in The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (Oxford University Press 2021) and will also give special attention to their shared travels in the American Southwest that inspired Cather’s novels The Professor’s House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Dr. Melissa J. Homestead is professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, where she also directs the Cather Project, co-edits The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, and co-directs A Digital Library of Willa Cather’s Literary Manuscripts. In addition to her many publications on Willa Cather, Homestead has published widely on American women’s writing from the colonial era through the nineteenth century.
Dr. Homestead’s book, The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, is available from the Oxford University Press (global.oup.com/academic) or through your local bookshop ((bookshop, org).
Register for this ON-LINE event here: https://bit.ly/42C6dag
Photo credit: Book Cover. University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Photo: Willa Cather and Edith Lewis in New Mexico, 1925. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Archives & Special Collections.
Donations Welcome
Mar 6, 2024 - Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Walks with a Ranger at Fort Selden
Fort Selden Historic Site
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Join a Fort Selden Historic Site ranger for a guided tour of the Fort Selden ruins.
Mar 7, 2024
Art of the Bullfight: Elaine de Kooning’s Juarez Series
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Join Head of Curatorial Affairs Christian Waguespack for a talk about Elaine de Kooning’s abstract paintings inspired by the art of the bullfight.
Mar 9, 2024
World of Treasures Auction and Party
Museum of International Folk Art
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Special event for the Girard Legacy Endowment Fund.
Take the chill off winter and join fellow folk art fans at the festive World of Treasures Auction and Party. During our silent auction, you will be able to bid on more than 60 rare and high-value folk and fine art treasures from around the world. Enjoy international food and beverages and an after-hours viewing of Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, the Alexander Girard collection.
An enticing “Buy It Now” boutique, open throughout the evening, will offer more one-of-a-kind treasures, from ethnographic clothing to folk art pieces. “Buy It Now” shopping means it’s all yours once chosen and purchased!
Registration will be open to the public on January 25, 2024. Ticket price is $50 for members and $75 for non-members. Tickets will go fast, so purchase early. Purchase tickets for the World of Treasures Auction and Party at: https://WorldOfTreasures.eventbrite.com
For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.
Mar 9, 2024
HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS - NATIVE NARRATIVE SPEAKER SERIES
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
WOMEN LEADING IN THE ARTS
Kathryn O’Keeffe Theatre - Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
Purchase your ticket in advance to reserve your seat. SPACE IS LIMITED.Visit https://my.nmculture.org/overview/26827 or call (505) 476-1269 today.Members - use your promo code!
Generously funded by Edward and Maria Gale-Gale Family Foundation
Mar 9, 2024
How to Build a Bat Box
Fort Selden Historic Site
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join Fort Selden Historic Site to learn how to build your own bat box.
Mar 10, 2024
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 program!
This month’s theme: Let’s Make Music with Musician Charlie Lockwood
ASL Interpretation is provided for this program.
Following Dates:
Mar 12, 2024
Studio Workshop: Paper marbling with Tom Leech
New Mexico Museum of Art
12:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Taught by Tom Leech, this course will familiarize students with the traditional patterns of marbled paper and provide the basic instruction and hands-on experience for creating them.
Mar 15, 2024 - Mar 16, 2024
Seed Paper Making & Local Flower Tea Tasting Workshop
Los Luceros Historic Site
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Join us at Los Luceros for a hands-on workshop hosted by the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area.
Mar 16, 2024
Friends of Folk Art Trip To Chiapas, Mexico
Museum of International Folk Art
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
African Folk Art Collector Natalie Fitz-Gerald
SOLD OUT!
The Friends of Folk Art invite you to join us for a magical trip to Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico. March 16-23rd
The focus of this trip is to explore the wondrous state of Chiapas, understand its splendid past, honor and appreciate its present, and make a cultural connection from the past to the present. We are going to use different approaches to understand Chiapas-- from archaeology to folk art, traditional medicine, and popular religiosity. This trip experience will take you through 3000 years of history.
The trip itinerary includes: nine days and eight nights. We will visit four archaeological sites: La Venta, Palenque, Bonampak and Yaxchilan. Enjoy three indigenous villages: Zinacantan, Tenejapa, San Juan Chamula. Visit museums specializing in textiles, traditional medicine, archaeology, and history. Stay in the beautiful colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas for four days. Share with a local family at the Lacandona jungle. Tour the Sumidero Canyon by boat and enjoy a private concert with the Nandayapa family. Enjoy a gastronomical experience with the indigenous chef, Claudia Santiz, exploring the flavors of traditional regional cuisine, which differs from other parts of Mexico.
This trip is for FOFA members ONLY. FOFA members will receive an invitation by email which will include all of the details and the price. A single membership allows access to one ticket. A dual membership allows for two tickets.
For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.
For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com
Mar 16, 2024
My Life as a Collector
New Mexico Museum of Art
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Hear directly from the collectors who donated the photographs on view!
Mar 16, 2024
Henry Glassie: Field Work
Museum of International Folk Art
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
FREE with Museum Admission. Reserve Seats Here
Join us for a screening of " Henry Glassie: Field Work" followed by a Q & A with Henry Glassie, moderated by Carrie Hertz, Curator of Dress and Textiles. Dr. Glassie shares a long history with the Museum of International Folk Art and has worked on multiple projects over the years, including authoring "The Spirit of Folk Art" and curating a major exhibition of Turkish Folk Art in 1991
From Director Pat Collins, ‘Field Work’, is a portrait of the celebrated folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie and is an immersive and meditative film set among the rituals and rhythms of working artists in Brazil, Turkey, North Carolina and Ireland. The film displays the director’s trademark eye for details and the process of the artist’s work is awe-inspiring. Glassie’s subject is folklore and art but his deep abiding love for the people who create it resonates throughout the film. “I don’t study people” Glassie says, “I stand with people and I study the things they create.” Artists like the sculptor Edival Rosas from Salvador in Brazil describe their practice as one where body and spirit are integrated, where in Glassie’s words the creative act brings “a momentary fulfilment of what it is to be human.”
ASL interpretation is available by request. Please e-mail Patricia Sigala by March 13th at: patricia.sigala@dca.nm.gov
Mar 16, 2024
HERE, NOW AND ALWAYS - NATIVE NARRATIVE SPEAKER SERIES
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
JULIE O’KEEFE (OSAGE)
Julie O’Keefe (Osage) Lead Osage Clothing Consultant for the Oscar-Nominated Film Killers of the Flower Moon.
Purchase your ticket in advance to reserve your seat. SPACE IS LIMITED.
Visit https://my.nmculture.org/overview/26827 or call (505) 476-1269 today.Members - use your promo code!
Generously funded by Edward and Maria Gale/Gale Family Foundation
Mar 16, 2024
Mesilla Plaza Walking Tour
Taylor-Mesilla Historic Property
The Town of Mesilla is full of fascinating stories! From a rich priest with very particular demands, to Billy the Kid and his defense lawyer who disappeared, to a very unique name for the postal line and a deadly riot, the history of Mesilla is vital to understanding the history of New Mexico. Join New Mexico Historic Sites staff at 10:00am at the bleachers for a walking tour of the Mesilla Plaza.
Mar 16, 2024
Ranger Guided Tour
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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 March 16, 2024 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.
Mar 16, 2024
Campfire Kitchen at Fort Selden
Fort Selden Historic Site
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef and Cabbage
Join Fort Selden Historic Site staff for an outdoor campfire cooking demonstration.
Mar 16, 2024
"Slow Travel New Mexico: Unforgettable Personal Experiences in the Land of Enchantment" by Judith Fein
Museum of International Folk Art
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Award-winning travel journalists and Santa Fe residents Judith Fein and Paul J. Ross invite you to experience New Mexico in a completely different way. Their new book, Slow Travel, reveals the secret to opening doors, meeting people, participating in surprising events, experiencing joy, and making each trip — no matter how short or long — deeper, richer, and an adventure that is uniquely yours.
Crisscrossing New Mexico, Judith and Paul present unforgettable adventures readers can personally experience, such as painting with an abstract artist on the Navajo Reservation, visiting a wolf refuge, cruising in a lowrider, hiking in a volcano, gourmet dining at Zuni Pueblo, seeing a ghost, tracking the true Billy the Kid . . . and so much more.
MEET SOME OF THE STARS of Slow Travel New Mexico at a celebration Saturday, March 16, 1 pm — 3 pm at the Museum of International Folk Art auditorium. Judith and Paul will engage and delight as they illuminate how to show up in a place and let it reveal itself to you — on its own terms. It’s not about going off the beaten path. It’s about going off the beaten mental path by learning to look, see, open up, and explore differently. It’s a guide to unforgettable experiences.
Mar 17, 2024
"Folk Art: Continuity and Creativity" with Pravina Shukla and "The Global Sweep of Folk Art in Clay" with Henry Glassie
Museum of International Folk Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join us for two talks on Folk Art by two Folk Art Scholars and co-authors of Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian. A book signing with the authors will follow their talks.
FREE with Museum admission. Reserve Seats Here
Dr. Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has written twenty books, based on fieldwork in the United States, Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Brazil. Three of his books, Passing the Time in Ballymenone, The Spirit of Folk Art, and Turkish Traditional Art Today, were named among the notable books of the year by the New York Times. The film by Pat Collins, Henry Glassie: Field Work, was named the best Irish documentary of the year in 2020. Dr. Glassie also curated a major exhibition for MOIFA of Turkish Folk Art in 1991.
Dr. Pravina Shukla, Provost Professor, has won six teaching awards including the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is the author of The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India, winner of the Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies and the Davenport Award of the Costume Society of America. She also wrote Costume: Performing Identities through Dress and co-authored The Individual and Tradition.
Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian (Indiana University Press, 2023) Book Description: Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.
What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan.
This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.
ASL Interpretation is provided for this event.
Mar 18, 2024
Instagram Live virtual artist talk with Marcus Xavier Chormicle
Lincoln Historic Site
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The New Mexico Arts 2024 Lincoln Historic Site Artist-In-Residence
New Mexico Arts will be hosting an Instagram Live virtual artist talk with Marcus Xavier Chormicle, the New Mexico Arts 2024 Lincoln Historic Site Artist-In-Residence.
Mar 18, 2024 - Apr 1, 2024
Call for Zozobra Memories and Objects
New Mexico History Museum
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Call for Zozobra Memories and Objects for Community Exhibition at New Mexico History Museum
The tradition of Zozobra turns 100 this August and New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is telling this ten-decade story in the recently reopened Palace of the Governors. The Museum needs community help to bring this history to life.
Mar 20, 2024
Organ Recital Series - Part II
New Mexico Museum of Art
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the second installment of Pro Musica’s Organ Recital Series with Frederick Frahm.
Mar 20, 2024
Let’s Take a Look with MIAC Curators
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Third Wednesday of each Month
Let’s Take a Look takes place the third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. 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. The curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They prefer to work with objects from the Southwest but are willing to take a look at anything that is brought in. If they cannot identify an object an attempt will be made to find someone who can. Sometimes, the discussion among the curators may become as much or more informative than the identification of the artifact.
The event is always FREE and open to the public, but please note Federal and State regulations prohibit the monetary appraisal of objects
Mar 23, 2024
Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi Film
Museum of International Folk Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join us for a screening of Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi, a film by Michael Conti and produced by Holly Mititquq Nordlum. Presented in conjunction with Protection: Adaptation and Resistance, the film focuses on traditional Inuit tattooing as a way to find identity, healing, and strength in the face of Western society.
Free admission to film. Reserve Seats Here
Mar 23, 2024
Ranger Guided Tour
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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 March 23, 2024 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.
Mar 23, 2024
Fort Stanton Easter Egg Hunt
Fort Stanton Historic Site
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fort Stanton Historic Site will host its annual Easter celebration, complete with more than 2,000 eggs hidden around the Site.
Mar 24, 2024
Film Screening by Femme Frontera - Free Admission
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join the Museum for film screenings by Femme Frontera, a Latine-led film organization composed of and founded by predominantly women and non-binary filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México.
Mar 24, 2024
Friends of Coronado & Jemez Historic Sites Lecture
Coronado Historic Site
2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture about The Penitentes of New Mexico
The Friends of Coronado & Jemez Historic Sites present a lecture by bilingual author Ray John de Aragon about The Penitentes of New Mexico at the Martha Liebert Public Library in Bernalillo.
Mar 26, 2024
The Diplomacy of Independence: Benjamin Franklin and Spain
New Mexico Museum of Art
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us on March 26 for the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series. This long running collaboration explores exciting corners of New Mexico’s history and culture as presented by engaging authors and historians.
Mar 28, 2024
Artist Talk with Marcus Xavier Chormicle at Lincoln Historic Site
Lincoln Historic Site
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join New Mexico Arts (NMA) for an in-person talk at Lincoln Historic Site with NMA 2024 Artist-in-Residence, Marcus Xavier Chormicle (Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians/Chicano). Chormicle is a Las Cruces-based multidisciplinary photographer who has been in residence at Lincoln Historic Site in Lincoln, New Mexico, since late February.
Mar 29, 2024
Final Friday: Artist Talk with Angela Ellsworth
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Join artist Angela Ellsworth for a talk about her work on view in the exhibition Shadow and Light at the Vladem Contemporary.
Mar 30, 2024
50 Years, 7 Families: The Legacy of Rick Dillingham and Pueblo Pottery
New Mexico Museum of Art
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Join us for a lively conversation about the lasting impact of Rick Dillingham’s 1974 publication 7 Families in Pueblo Pottery, featuring a panel of experts in contemporary ceramics, pueblo pottery, and anthropology.
Mar 30, 2024
Ranger Guided Tour
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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 March 30, 2024 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.
Mar 30, 2024
Lincoln After Dark
Lincoln Historic Site
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Journey back in time at "Lincoln After Dark," a mesmerizing event hosted by The Friends of Historic Lincoln and Oso Production in partnership with New Mexico Historic Sites.
Mar 30, 2024
Call for Zozobra Memories and Objects
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Call for Zozobra Memories and Objects for Community Exhibition at New Mexico History Museum
The tradition of Zozobra turns 100 this August and New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is telling this ten-decade story in the recently reopened Palace of the Governors. The Museum needs community help to bring this history to life.
What: Old Man Gloom’s demise has been one of Santa Fe’s most iconic celebrations since its inception in 1924, offering an annual opportunity for emotional and spiritual cleansing through the torching of worries. The Museum wants to see the community’s favorite Zozobra memories to consider for inclusion in this exhibition. Whether in the form of vintage merch, goofy family movies or sentimental elementary school sculpture, the Museum wants to see it all. Community members can bring their materials directly to NMHM on Lincoln Street to have them examined and photographed on-site. Objects that are chosen for the exhibition will be on loan to NMHM for the duration of the exhibition.
Who: New Mexico History Museum and Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe
Where: New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501
When: Drop-in hours at NMHM:
Saturday, March 30, 2 – 4 p.m.
Monday, April 1, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Can’t make it to the drop-in session? Submit your entry online at https://burnzozobra.com/lend/.
Why: The involvement and participation of the community is the true igniting force behind Zozobra’s repeated defeat, and we can’t think of anything else better to honor this vital, cathartic tradition than to highlight the faces and objects of those who make this performance possible. Questions? E-mail DCA-HistoryCollections@state.nm.us directly.
Image caption: Kids with their own Zozobra during Santa Fe Fiesta, Santa Fe, New Mexico [Leroy F. Ramirez, Carlos Ramirez, and Ralph Love], 1955. Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, 136981.
