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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 22, 2023
Folk Art Donation Days for the Folk Art Flea
Museum of International Folk Art
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Donate Folk Art Saturday, April 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 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 29, 2023
ID an Animal
Fort Selden Historic Site
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join Ranger Mike and learn to identify animals commonly found across New Mexico.
