Women Planting Seeds: Home, Healing and Horticulture A Two-Day Home Lands conference

Join the History Museum and the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for a conference on "Women Planting Seeds:  Home, Healing and Horticulture," from 9 am to 4:30 pm, on Monday, July 25, and 9 am to 12 pm, on Tuesday, July 26, in the History Museum Auditorium. The event is part of the exhibit Home Lands: How Women Made the West. Tickets: $25 at www.ticketssantafe.org, or at the door. (Seating is limited.) 

The conference schedule:

Monday, July 25, 2011

Welcome by René Harris,  Collections & Educations Program Manager at the History Museum

9:30–11:00 am: “Beyond Four Walls: How Women Shape the Idea of ‘Home’ in the West”

Victoria Price – Panel Moderator (Designer, art historian, author, screenwriter) Jan Hale Barbo, B.S. (Freelance garden columnist)

Robin Gray (Architect, rug designer)

Carol M. Olmstead, FSIA (Author, Feng Shui Master Practitioner)  

Beverley Spears, FAIA (Architect and landscape architect)

11–11:45 am:  “Writing the Patchwork of our Lives”

Led by Elizabeth Raby (Poet)

12-1:45 pm: Optional luncheon at Amavi Restaurant. “The House of the Three Wise Women,” a presentation by Bunny Huffman, Director of Acequia Madre House (Tickets $35, available at www.ticketssantafe.org; advance reservations only)

2-4:30 pm: “Cultivating the Inner Garden”

Rosemary Zibart, B.A. – Panel Moderator (Playwright, journalist, author)

Robyn Benson, D.O.M. (Energy medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncturist and herbalist, founder of Santa Fe Soul Health & Healing Center)

Sandra Ingerman, M.A. (Author, international teacher of shamanism)

Naomi Lake, B.S. (Healer, founder of Full Circle for Conscious Health)

Janet Schreiber, Ph.D. (Medical anthropologist; Program Director for the Grief, Loss, and Trauma Certificate Program at Southwestern College; author and researcher)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Welcome by Dr. Frances Levine, Director of the New Mexico History Museum

9:30–11:30 am: “Women Making Roots”

Sharon Niederman – Panel Moderator (Author, journalist, and photographer) 

Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D. (Chef, author, teacher, food historian, culinary anthropologist, photographer)

Anne Hillerman (Author, journalist, restaurant reviewer)

Agapita Judy Lopez (Director of Abiquiu Historic Properties, and Rights and Reproductions Manager, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum)

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D. (The Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; art historian and author)

12-1:45 pm: Dutch-treat luncheon at the Inn of the Anasazi

Home Lands: How Women Made the West, June 19-Sept. 11, is the centerpiece of the History Museum's exploration of women this summer. Originally organized by the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, it features additional materials from the History Museum’s collections. The largest of the summer’s four exhibits, it sweeps across the centuries in three regions: the Rio Arriba of northern New Mexico; Colorado’s Front Rage; and the Puget Sound.

Download high-resolution photos from the Home Lands exhibit by clicking on "Go to related images" at the bottom of this page.

Other summer exhibitions at the History Museum celebrating the unsung heroes of the West:

Ranch Women of New Mexico, April 15-Oct. 30 in the Mezzanine Gallery, highlights 11 women in this excerpt from an exhibit originally prepared by photographer Ann Bromberg and writer Sharon Niederman.

New Mexico’s African American Legacy: Visible, Vital and Valuable, May 15-Oct. 9 in the second-floor Gathering Space, tells the stories of the families who planted their roots and created a home in the Land of Enchantment following the Civil War.

Heart of the Home, May 27-Nov. 20 in La Ventana Gallery, spotlights historic kitchen items from the History Museum’s collections.

The full schedule of lectures and workshops supporting these exhibitions; all are free and in the History Museum auditorium unless other noted:

Sunday, June 12, 2-4 pm: Symposium on “The Journey of the African American North,” including stories from Santa Fe and Española.

Sunday, June 26, 2 pm: “Captive Women in the Slave System of the Southwest Borderland.” Lecture by James F. Brooks, president of the School for Advanced Research and prize-winning author of Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.

Sunday, July 10, 2 pm: “Fabiola Cabeza de Baca and The Good Life.” Lecture by Tey Diana Rebolledo, regents professor at the University of New Mexico.

Sunday, July 17, 2 pm: “Moving Around to Settle In: Women of the Plains and Range.” Lecture by Virginia Scharff, co-curator of Home Lands and director of UNM’s Center for the Southwest.

Monday, July 25, 9 am to 4:30 pm, and Tuesday, July 26, 9 am to 12 pm: "Planting Seeds:  Home, Healing and Horticulture." Conference in collaboration with the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. $25.

Sunday, Aug. 7, 2-4 pm: “Homespun: Northern New Mexico Spinning and Weaving Techniques.” Members of the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center demonstrate Pueblo, Navajo and Spanish techniques in the Palace Courtyard.

Friday, Aug. 12, 6 pm: “Through Her Eyes: An American Indian Woman’s Perspective.” Lecture by Eunice Petramala, park ranger at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.

Sunday, Sept. 25, 2-4 pm: Symposium on “Entrepreneurship in the African American Community,” from barbers to caterers, mechanics to artists.

Home Lands is generously supported by Cam and Peter Starret, Ernst & Young, Eastman Kodak Company, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Unified Grocers, Wells Fargo, KCET and the Friends of the Autry. Local support is provided by Stanley S. and Karen Hubbard, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, the Palace Guard and the Montezuma Ball.