Ever wanted to know what it’s like to work in an art museum? Artists, art historians, curators, journalists and others have written about things that museums do or should do. The New Mexico Museum of Art Library and Archives has professional publications that explain how things are supposed to work as well as case studies that show what happens when […]
Join author Diana Silva for a book reading and signing of Molé Mama; A Memoir of Love, Cooking and Loss about the intimate journey of Diana’s mother’s final thirteen months. She cooks her mother’s heirloom Mexican recipes every weekend while Rose presides from her nearby hospice bed and completes taste tests to ensure that Diana […]
This event for FOCA+P members will focus on the history and artistic and cultural influences that informed Zozobra. We will explore how Zozobra has been featured as a subject in the work of Southwestern artists from Shuster and Baumann to Tapia and Scholder and has been a reoccurring theme spanning from the early 20th century […]
Feb 16 2018 - 6:30pm to 11:00pm Location: Entire Museum Valentines Party; Write a love poem, and enjoy a cash bar and dancing. Price: $27 (ticket information coming soon)
1 to 4pm Tibetan Prayer Flag Hands-On Printing activity for all ages with Lama Gyurme 1 and 3:30PM Quang Minh Temple Lion Dance Group Parade 1:30 Mochi Tsuki Rice Cake Pounding presentation by Santa Fe JIN 2:30 pm Santa Fe Wadaiko, Taiko Drumming 1 to 4 pm Mochi Rice Cake & Tea Refreshments- Atrium Santa Fe […]
Please join us on Sunday, February 18 at either 2pm or 3pm for storytelling with Emmett Garcia (Santa Ana / Jemez). Free with museum admission.
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. These 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 […]
Ati Maier discusses her video work in the exhibition Contact: Local to Global with Merry Scully, Head of Curatorial Affairs for the New Mexico Museum of Art. People to People is an informal series of talks and creative interventions that allow for more intimate exchanges with creative themes and artwork on view at the New Mexico […]
Applying museum practices to your personal art collections and family heirlooms can be a great tool for documenting these special objects. Join the Collections team to discuss the different ways in which to document your collection.
Join us on Saturday, February 24 for a day of making beads with Cannupa Hanska Luger. Drop in and make a few beads to represent a handful of indigenous individuals lost to violence. For the most complete information - including video - on Luger’s proejct, visit http://www.cannupahanska.com/mmiwqtbeadproject Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Queer and Trans […]
Join us for a counterculture encore. Benjamin Klein shares the development of his project gathering and documenting the 80 known photographs by his late uncle Irwin Klein taken across northern New Mexico in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Pick up a copy of the University of Nebraska Press publication from our bookstore following the […]
Dr. Nancy Owen Lewis, scholar in residence at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), will discuss Edgar Lee Hewett’s role in establishing the Southwest Indian Fair and the artists’ relationship with Hewett. Archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett had a profound impact on art as it developed in New Mexico and beyond. During the early 1900s, he established a […]
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