• CANCELED: Cowden Cafe Grand Opening Barbecue buffet and a Cowden Ranch lecture

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The barbecue-and-live-music portion of this event has been postponed while the Cowden Cafe operators repair fire damage to their historic Plaza Cafe. In the meantime, the Cowden Cafe is open for business, serving soup, sandwiches, salads, luscious desserts and gourmet coffees from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Sunday. Customers don’t have to be […]

  • Let’s Take A Look with MIAC curators

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    During this time, 12noon-2pm, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your unidentified 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 […]

  • Rio Grande Glaze Ware Pottery Making Techniques Demonstration In Buchsbaum Pottery Gallery

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Thursday Sept. 16th and Friday the 17th from 10:30 am to 4pm in the MIAC Buchsbaum Gallery, Dr. Eric Blinman, OAS, will be demonstrating Rio Grande Glaze Ware pottery making techniques. The demonstration is part of experimental research on the Ancestral Tano and Keres pottery traditions that lapsed in the early 18th century after the […]

  • Rio Grande Glaze Ware Pottery Making Techniques Demonstration In Buchsbaum Pottery Gallery

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

     Friday the 17th from 10:30 am to 4pm in the MIAC Buchsbaum Gallery, Dr. Eric Blinman, OAS, will be demonstrating Rio Grande Glaze Ware pottery making techniques. The demonstration is part of experimental research on the Ancestral Tano and Keres pottery traditions that lapsed in the early 18th century after the Reconquest. Eric will be […]

  • Flores, Folklorico y Flamenco/Flowers, Folklorico and Flamenco An Afternoon of Dance

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Dance performances with Los Niños de Santa Fe at 2pm and The Maria Benitez Institute for Spanish Arts Youth Company at 3pm. Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda and A Century of Masters: NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico. By Museum Admission, New Mexico residents […]

  • Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The 2010 recipients of this life time achievement award are for individual artists Woody Gwyn (Galisteo), Tom Noble (Taos), David Scheinbaum (Santa Fe), Arlene Cisneros Sena (Santa Fe), Paul Shapiro (Santa Fe), and Wes Studi (Santa Fe). The awardees for Major Contributor to the Arts are Marian and Abe Silver Jr. (Santa Fe), Whited Foundation […]

  • Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale Meem Auditorium on Museum Hill

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Sunday, September 26, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Come enjoy a new event from Native Treasures on Sunday, September 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.!  The Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale is a unique event featuring Native American art being sold by top collectors.  The sale will take place at the Laboratory of Anthropology’s Meem […]

  • Joan and the Giant Pencil Poetry and music for children

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    On Sunday, September 26, from 2 to 4 p.m., Santa Fe Poet Laureate, Joan Logghe and musician Jeremy Bleich will present a 40-minute program of international poetry and improvised music for children, and their adults. After the performance, children will be invited to write a poem of their own. The program is aimed at children […]

  • Historic and Contemporary Family Ranching A lecture by author Michael Pettit – with cobbler

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Michael Pettit, author of a book about the legendary JAL Ranch, will speak on “Historic and Contemporary Ranching in New Mexico” at 2 pm, Sunday, Sept. 26, in the History Museum Auditorium. After the event, visitors can enjoy coffee and fruit-and-piñon cobbler, with ingredients generously provided by New Mexico farmers and the state Department of […]

  • Free Public Talk from the Friends of Folk Art Southern American Folk Art

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Tuesday, September 28th, 10:00 am,  hosted at the MIAC Theater Free & Open to the public The Museum of New Mexico Foundation/Friends of Folk Art presents a lecture on Southern Folk Art with Susan Crowley, Curator of Folk Art at the High Museum in Atlanta. The High Museum is dedicated to supporting and collecting works […]

  • Imagining Mexico opening reception The Mexican Conquest from the Aztec Empire to New Spain

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    In 1519, Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish soldiers made first contact with the Aztecs. The stories they sent back to Europe detailing the wealth and sophistication of the Aztec empire astonished their countrymen – and fed 300 years of efforts to write and re-write the story of the Mexican Conquest.From Oct. 1 […]

  • It’s Boots ‘n’Suits Night!

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    It’s Boots ‘n’ Suits Night!Free Friday Evening, October 1Live Band! Guys in Suits! Dancing Boots!Western rock band “Lawyers, Guns and Money,”will blow out the last bash for Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art. The summer has gone, and it’s time to celebrate at a Free Friday Night event at the New Mexico Museum of Art. […]