Unanticipated forms of art emerged from the first Industrial revolution in the 1880s. Combining the art of stone lithography, the hand-rolled artisan cigar, and skilled makers of fine quality cedar cigar boxes are in exhibits currently on display at the New Mexico History Museum and the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. […]
Lecture, The Art of the Cigar and Its Boxes with Dr. Loy Glenn Westfall at the New Mexico History Museum. Co-presented by the Museum of International Folk Art and the New Mexico History Museum in conjunction with the exhibitions No Idle Hands (MOIFA) and Out of the Box (NMHM). New Mexico History Museum Auditorium, 113 […]
On Saturday, September 16 at 3:00 the New Mexico History Museum will present Letters Home from the Vietnam War: Herbert Lotz in conversation with Gregory Hinton in conjunction with the Lotz photography exhibit Sleeping During the Day: Vietnam 1968; in honor of Santa Fe Gay Pride weekend. The evocative photographs Herbert Lotz exhibits in Sleeping During […]
More formally known as “The Creston,” a prominent volcanic dike forms a curtain across the landscape in the southwestern portion of the Galisteo Basin. Famous in the pantheon of great New Mexico rock art locations, the south face of the top of The Creston is the canvas for a remarkable array of pecked images, most […]
(Alcalde, NM) – Set aside Sunday, September 17 for a family fun day at the Fall Festival at Los Luceros historic property in Alcade. The festival features demonstrations on heritage apple cooking, cider pressing, live music and tours of the property. Sponsored by New Mexico Historic Sites, the 2nd Annual Los Luceros Fall Festival is […]
Colorful tiles are popular in New Mexican kitchens and inlaid in adobe architecture. This month we will make some custom tiles of our own using stencils and acrylic paint to mimic traditional designs. Free.
The Museum of Art will be temporarily closed to all visitors for restoration. While we are at work restoring the floors, painting the walls, and installing new exhibitions, researchers will not be able to study in-person the holdings in our art collection, library or archives.
Despite nearly 4,000 years of ceramic technology in the Southwest, the common use of pottery for cooking only dates within the past 2,000 years. The history of innovation in cooking jar design is fairly sophisticated, starting with the simplest of forms and clay-temper combinations and ending with the use of micaceous clay for the ultimate […]
Friends of Indian Art members and their invited guests may join us for a private curated tour of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) by museum director Patsy Phillips and chief curator Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man. MoCNA holds the premier collection of contemporary Native American art by Native Americans, First Nations, and other indigenous […]
Bring your mat, your mind and your body for a free monthly third Thursday Kundalini yoga class in conjunction with Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. As was taught by Yogi Bhajan, Kundalini yoga is an ancient technology of developing harmony in body, mind and spirit through gentle yogic stretches, energizing breathing and calming meditation. […]
Inspired by the iconic 1966 Timothy Leary counterculture motto: Turn on, tune in, drop out, the New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors is sponsoring a series of unique storytelling workshops in concert with the museum’s Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest exhibition (open through February 11, 2018). To further glean the impact […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and artist N. Scott Momaday, will recall afternoons with Georgia O’Keeffe and read other poems inspired by landscapes of the Southwest. His poem Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu, recently published as a limited edition broadside by the Press at the Palace of the Governors, features a hand-colored and highly imaginative portrait […]
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