Mikio Toki Demonstrates Making Japanese Kites in conjunction with Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan. Hands-on Project for all ages. Museum Visitors are invited to help construct a kite to be flown at the Community Celebration Thurday evening July 11 at the Railyard Park.
1-2pm Panel discussion about the Use of folk arts to commemorate, memorialize and celebrate people who hve died from, or are living with HIV/AIDS with participating artists:abordino Mustafá Jethá, Mozambique Lulama Sihlabeni, South Africa Roberto Domingo Gil Esteban, Cuba Claudio Jimenez Quispe, Peru Andrew Montoya, New Mexico 2-4pm Hands-on community art art making projects iron […]
Independent scholar and curator Petra Giloy-Hirtz will talk about Hassel Smith (1915 - 2007).Smith was an innovative and widely appreciated West Coast-based artist during the significant early phase in the development of Abstract Expressionism in the United States.Smith was a highly influential teacher; from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s he taught at the California […]
1:00-2:00pm Panel discussion with exhibition artists about what is happening in communities, AIDS advocacy, education and awarenessCabordino Mustafá Jethá, Mozambique Janet Nkubana, Rwanda Roberto Domingo Gil Esteban, Cuba Claudio Jimenez Quispe, Peru Diana Moya Lujan, New Mexico2:00-4:00pm- Hands-on community art projects protest signs and story boxes
If you are looking for action, look no further than Fort Stanton where the annual Fort Stanton Live! event brings costumed re-eanactors from the Civil War and Indian Wars era to the Fort for demonstrations, presentations, a candlelight tour, concert and a military ball which will have visitors dancing into the night! Additionally, the event brings […]
Torres-Nez is Chief Operating Officer of SWAIA and Traugott is the New Mexico Museum of Art's Curator of 20th Century Art. They collaborated on the current exhibition, Back in the Saddle.
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. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They […]
Friends of Indian Art are invited to hear Jhane Meyers Noisecat (Commance/Blackfeet) share her knowledge of Plains Indian artifacts and her beadwork, jewelry, Plains dolls and dance regalia, much of which is represented in museum collections across the country. Not a FIA member? Join here!
FREE Friday evenings at the The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art. Enjoy our Museums and dine at the Museum Hill Cafe.
With hallmarks like Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang, author Edward Abbey crafted literature that endeared him to readers, environmentalists, and almost anyone who enjoys a good hike. His 1956 novel, The Brave Cowboy, was made into the movie Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas. Hitting theaters at the dawn of American awareness […]
Free admission. Join staff and the New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors for a couple of days of the dirtiest fun you’ll ever have without feeling guilty about it! If you have ever wanted to learn how to build in adobe, plaster with adobe or just play in the mud, come out the monument and […]
Joyce Begay-Foss is Director of Education at the Museum of Indian Art and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology
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