BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Culture Affairs Media Center - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Department of Culture Affairs Media Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of Culture Affairs Media Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20090308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20091101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20110313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20111106T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20120311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20121104T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20140309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20141102T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111023T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20121230T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175229Z CREATED:20200501T075626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175229Z UID:10001355-1319364000-1356886800@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible An epic work of art DESCRIPTION:Exhibition’s run extended to December 30\, 2012. \nIn 1450\, Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of movable type revolutionized the way the world shared information. Its leap into what was then the cutting edge of technology sounded a death knell for a form of the book still cherished today: the handwritten\, illuminated Bible. \nSome 550 years later\, the senior scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Office at the House of Lords approached the Benedictine monks of Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville\, Minn.\, with a proposal. \nSince childhood\, Donald Jackson had dreamed of creating a handwritten and illuminated Bible in the pre-Gutenberg style. In the early 1990s\, while attending a retreat at New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch\, he sketched out a concept piece\, Christ in the Desert\, expanding on that dream. After showing it to the monks in 1995\, he received the go-ahead to create what is now known as The Saint John’s Bible – an entire handwritten Bible with illumination\, calligraphy\, the finest materials\, and the staying power of 2\,000 years. \nIn 2000\, Jackson and a crew of artists and calligraphers began the first of 1\,150 vellum pages. This fall\, the project achieved completion\, when Jackson wrote the word “Amen” on the final page of the Book of Revelation. Before being bound into volumes and placed on permanent exhibition at Saint John’s Abbey\, 44 pages from two of its seven volumes – Prophets and Wisdom Books – will be exhibited at the New Mexico History Museum. \nDownload high-resolution images from the exhibition by clicking on “Go to related images” at the bottom of this page. \nIlluminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible will be on display in the museum’s second-floor Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery from Oct. 23 through December 30\, 2012.  The exhibit shares its space and spirit with Contemplative Landscape\, an array of black-and-white photographs celebrating the ties between landscape\, art\, architecture and sacred rituals in the Land of Enchantment. \nAlso part of the exhibitions: \nA page from the 550-year-old Gutenberg Bible.Early editions of the King James Bible\, this year celebrating its 400th anniversary. \n \nThe Letter\, the Word & the Book\, a small exhibit of books and lettering in the Mezzanine Gallery from Nov. 18\, 2011\, to April 15\, 2012. \nFree lectures\, performances and calligraphy workshops. \nAn evening with Donald Jackson\, artistic director of The Saint John’s Bible and senior scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Office at the House of Lords. \n“I consider this to be the artistic equivalent of the Apollo moon mission\,” said Tom Leech\, curator of the Palace Press. ”The Saint John’s Bible sets a standard of excellence that will never again be approached in our lifetimes. Combined with Contemplative Landscape\, it offers visitors an opportunity to witness a historic burst of creativity and craftsmanship\, and to reflect on their own spirituality\, whatever form that may take.” \nProphets\, completed in April 2005\, includes 232 pages and 20 illuminations from the books of Isaiah\, Jeremiah\, Ezekiel\, Daniel\, Amos and Zechariah. Illuminated pages in the History Museum’s exhibition will include Vision of Isaiah\, Messianic Predictions\, Suffering Servant\, Vision at Chebar\, Valley of the Dry Bones\, Vision of the New Temple\, Vision of the Son of Man\, Demands of Social Justice\, and Rejoice. \nWisdom Books\, completed in July 2006\, includes 136 pages and 24 illuminations from the books of Job\, Proverbs\, Ecclesiastes\, Song of Solomon\, and Sirach. Illuminated pages in the History Museum’s exhibition will include the Job Frontispiece\, Wisdom Woman\, Garden of Desire\, Seven Pillars of Wisdom\, and Creation\, Covenant\, Shekinah\, Kingdom. \nIn commissioning the project\, the monks of Saint John’s revived a medieval tradition in which monasteries preserved knowledge and culture for the sake of the greater community. The Saint John’s Bible represents their commitment to the study of scripture and to educational\, artistic and spiritual pursuits. \nCrafted with turkey\, goose and swan quills\, century-old handmade inks\, hand-ground pigments\, and gold and silver leaf gild on calfskin vellum\, The Saint John’s Bible will collectively weigh over 350 pounds and measure roughly 2’ tall by 3’ wide when open. Guided by a combination of artistic skill and cutting-edge computer-assisted layouts\, the project takes its place among the milestones of sacred literature.  \n“I hope some of the emotion that we have collectively managed to put into the Bible will touch the hearts and emotions of those people who look at what we put onto the pages\,” said Jackson\, whose Ghost Ranch-era painting will be shown for the first time in this exhibit. \n Visitors will find themselves drawn into reading the words of the text rather than skimming past them. Observant readers will note a variety of details: The illuminated letters starting each chapter are individually unique – a goal that proved a challenge when devising decorative T’s\, given how often the word “the” begins a sentence in the English language. Artistic and clever techniques were also employed by the scribes and artists to deal with “errata” – those perfectly human mistakes that crop up in even the most divine texts. In addition\, each of those scribes had to learn a calligraphic script specially designed by Jackson for the project. \nAlong with members of the monastic community of Saint John’s Abbey\, Episcopalian\, Protestant and Jewish advisers helped form the vision of The Saint John’s Bible\, which blends scientific advancements and anthropological understandings with the traditional text of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Contemporary aspects include its reflections of science\, technology and space; its multicultural and interreligious imagery; and its depiction of women. Advanced technologies have also been used to create a digital template of the Bible. \n“It’s the one thing we’ll probably be remembered for 500 years from now\,” said Eric Hollas OSB\, a monk of Saint John’ Abbey and associate director of arts and culture at Saint John’s University. “The buildings will go. Most of the buildings that all of us see today are going to be gone 500 years from now. And oddly enough\, this one piece of human artistic achievement will probably still be here.” \n(More information about The Saint John’s Bible is available on The Saint John’s Bible web site; http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/.) \nIlluminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape are generously supported by the New Mexico Humanities Council\, the Scanlon Family Foundation\, and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. \n \nLectures\, workshops and performances for Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape will be held in the History Museum Auditorium and are free with admission unless otherwise noted. The schedule: \nSunday\, October 23\, 2011\, 2-4 pm: Opening reception in the museum’s second-floor Gathering Space. At 2 pm\, join photographer Tony O’Brien and writer Christopher Merrill (Light in the Desert: Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert\, MNM Press\, 2011) for a lecture and book signing in the auditorium. \nSunday\, November 6\, 2011\, 2 pm: “Lay Folk and the Psalms\,” lecture by Carol Neel\, medieval historian at Colorado College. \nMonday\, November 7\, 2011\, 6 pm\, The Lensic Performing Arts Center: “Donald Jackson: Illuminating the Word\,” a special evening with the lead artist and calligrapher of The Saint John’s Bible. $15. Private reception following\, $50. Tickets at www.ticketssantafe.org\, or call (505) 988-1234. \nFriday\, November 18\, 2011\, 6 pm: “Calligraphic Trails\,” lecture by artist and calligrapher Patricia R. Musick. \nSaturday\, November 19\, 2011\, 10 am-4 pm\, NMHM Classroom: “Irish Manuscript Bookhand\,” calligraphy workshop with Patricia R. Musick. Cost is $80. Limited seating; call (505) 476-5096 to register. \nSunday\, December 4\, 2011\, 2 pm: Sacred choral music by Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe and the monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery. \nSunday\, January 22\, 2012\, 2 pm: “On the Weight of Words\,” lecture by renowned artists Barry Moser and John Benson. \nSaturday\, February 25\, 2012\, 10 am-4 pm\, NMHM Classroom: “Oh My Gouache\,” calligraphy workshop by Diane von Arx\, special treatment artist for The Saint John’s Bible. Cost is $100. Limited seating; call (505) 476-5096 to register. \nSunday\, February 26\, 2012\, 2 pm: “Special Treatment Illuminations for The Saint John’s Bible\,” lecture by Diane von Arx. \nNEW EVENT: Sunday\, March 11\, 2012\, 2 pm: Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe and the monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery perform in the History Museum Lobby. \nSunday\, March 25\, 2012\, 2 pm: “Endangered Texts: Preserving Ancient Books the Benedictine Way in the 21st Century\,” lecture by Father Columba Stewart\, executive director of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John’s University in Minnesota. \nSunday\, April 29\, 2012\, 2 pm: Contemplative Landscape photographers panel discussion; Kirk Gittings\, Ed Ranney\, Janet Russek\, Sharon Stewart and Don Usner. \nCANCELLED: Friday\, June 1\, 2012\, 6 pm: “Fragile Faith\,” lecture by Contemplative Landscape photographer David Robin. \nFriday\, June 8\, 2012\, 6 pm: “Landscape and Memory\,” lecture by artist and calligrapher Laurie Doctor. \nSaturday and Sunday\, June 9 & 10\, 2012\, 10 am-4 pm\, NMHM Classroom: “Landscape and Lettering: Before the Separation of Drawing and Writing\,” calligraphy workshop with Laurie Doctor. Cost is $200. Limited seating; call (505) 476-5096 to register. \nFriday\, July 13\, 2012\, 6 pm: “Poetry & Photographs\,” discussion and poetry reading with Contemplative Landscape photographer Teresa Neptune and poet Miriam Sagan. \nSunday\, October 14\, 2012\, 2 pm: “Ritualized Naming of the Landscape through Photography\,” lecture by John Carter\, photography curator at the Nebraska State Historical Society. \nSunday\, November 4\, 2012\, 2 pm: Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist\, poetry reading by Lisa Gill; and Compassion Rising\, a film about Thomas Merton and the Dalai Lama. \nSunday\, December 2\, 2012\, 2 pm: Sacred choral music by Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe and the monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery. \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/439-illuminating-the-word-the-saint-johns-bible-an-epic-work-of-art/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/439_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111023T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20121230T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175231Z CREATED:20200429T042445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175231Z UID:10001369-1319364000-1356886800@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Contemplative Landscape DESCRIPTION:After covering the lives of drug addicts and prostitutes in America and the struggle of Afghan rebels fighting the Soviets – including a stint as a prisoner of war – Santa Fe-based photojournalist Tony O’Brien turned to Christ in the Desert Monastery in Abiquiu\, N.M.\, to restore his spirit. During the year he spent living with the Benedictine monks\, they allowed him to document their daily activities and rituals\, both contemplative and secular. \nO’Brien’s work from that era now forms the heart of a new exhibition at the New Mexico History Museum\, Contemplative Landscape\, Oct. 23\, 2011\, through Dec. 30\, 2012\, exploring how photographers see the state’s meditative topography: the land\, art\, architecture\, and people who build and populate the sacred. \nDownload high-resolution images from the exhibit by clicking on “Go to related images” at the bottom of this page. \nDrawing on the extensive holdings of the Photo Archives\, with the participation of contemporary photographers\, Contemplative Landscape’s black-and-white photographs explore the emotional and ceremonial practices of people as varied as Buddhists\, Catholics\, Protestants\, Jews\, and Sikhs\, to name just a few of the diverse faith-based communities who call New Mexico home. \nThroughout our time\, creativity and spirituality have blended in ways as monumental and communal as the world’s great cathedrals and as small and personal as a roadside descanso marking another person’s passage from the earth. \n“The idea is to think about the spiritual\, however it manifests for the viewer personally\,” said Mary Anne Redding\, curator of the Photo Archives. “What is considered sacred or contemplative varies. What these places have in common is that they draw people to them either in the built or natural environment. Each is infused with an energy that collects over time as people come together or seek enlightenment. New Mexico encompasses and encourages radically different religious practices. Each of these communities adds a different perspective to the meaning of religion and contributes their practices to the diversity of spiritual belief.” \nContemplative Landscape shares its space and spirit with Illuminating the Word: Saint John’s Bible (Oct. 23\, 2011\, through December 30\, 2012) in the museum’s second-floor Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery. As part of the exhibition design\, visitors will be invited to enter a contemplative area to pray\, meditate or simply sit in silence – opportunities too often lacking in the 21st-century world. \nIn addition to O’Brien\, photographers represented in the exhibit include: \nWyatt Davis\, Tyler Dingee\, Ferenz Fedor\, Miguel Gander\, Laura Gilpin\, Kirk Gittings\, Cary Herz\, Debora Hunter\, William Henry Jackson\, Ernest Knee\, Paul Logsdon\, Elliott McDowell\, Teresa Neptune\, Jesse L. Nusbaum\, T. Harmon Parkhurst\, Edward Ranney\, David Robin\, Janet Russek\, Sharon Stewart\, Don J. Usner\, Adam Clark Vroman\, Nancy Hunter Warren\, George Ben Wittick. \nThe photographers have used their work to explore and renew their faith\, even challenge their own and others’ beliefs. The result is an exhibit that marries an adobe morada abandoned by the Penitentes to processions of robe-clad monks carrying out the Stations of the Cross in desert canyons. For so many of these photographers\, their images illuminate their personal quests. \nAward-winning photographer Cary Herz\, who died in 2008\, was working on a project in the Las Vegas\, N.M.\, Jewish Cemetery in 1985 when someone told her of other Jews in New Mexico – people who had practiced their faith in secret. As Herz began investigating\, she found slides of grave markers that appeared to contain Jewish symbols\, a discovery that led her to cover 10\,000 miles documenting the lives of people in Texas\, New Mexico\, Colorado and Arizona\, the descendents of a secret history that has its roots in the Spanish and Portugese Inquisitions. \nAnother example is photographer Kirk Gittings\, who was hired by New Mexico magazine to photograph the rapidly deteriorating historic churches of northern New Mexico. Through that work\, he and writer Michael Miller won a National Endowment for the Arts grant that for four years allowed Gittings to immerse himself in Catholic spirituality. Given the keys to a church to photograph at his leisure\, he would sit in the pews\, breathe the scent of candlewax and reconnect with the saints. A few years later\, he converted to Catholicism. \nOf his own work\, Edward Ranney says: “The petroglyphs associated with the ancient Pueblo sites in New Mexico’s Galisteo Basin give us an entry to the imaginative and religious world-view of these early Pueblo people. In addition\, as Lucy Lippard has observed\, they `focus space\,’ and make visible the Pueblo people’s concerns and beliefs\, and their relationship with their gods.” \nAnd\, says Teresa Neptune: “My camera serves as a tool for my own awareness; with it I challenge myself to constantly pay more attention and see the world in a more creative way. Every landscape\, every street has the potential to be seen contemplatively. What a joy to share and celebrate this way of seeing in “Contemplative Landscape.” \nThe Photo Archives at the Palace of the Governors recently acquired 20 of O’Brien’s images from his Monastery of Christ in the Desert portfolio. O’Brien’s experiences in the monastery are the subject of his new book with writer Christopher Merrill\, Light in the Desert: Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert (Museum of New Mexico Press)\, debuting with the exhibition. \nA New York City native\, O’Brien began his photography career in 1973 at the Santa Fe New Mexican\, the Santa Fe Reporter and the Albuquerque Journal North. His work has appeared in national and international publications\, including Life magazine\, Time\, Newsweek\, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He has also worked with the Ford Foundation on a land-use project on Zuni Pueblo\, as well as a water-works project in the colonias along the Texas border for the Pew Foundation. \nAmong the places that have exhibited his work: the Museum of Our National Heritage\, Massachusetts; the Southeast Museum of Photography\, Florida; the Adham Center of Photography\, Cairo\, Egypt; The Newseum in New York and the Sag Harbor Picture Gallery. In 1990\, O’Brien was awarded the first Eliot Porter Foundation Grant for his work in Afghanistan. He has taught documentary photography and was director of the Documentary Studies Program at the Santa University of Art and Design (formerly the College of Santa Fe)\, where he is on the faculty at the Narion Center of Photographic Arts.   \nIn 1989\, while on assignment for Life magazine\, he was taken prisoner in Afghanistan for six weeks\, an experience that led to his 1994-95 sojourn at Christ in the Desert as a practicing member of the contemplative community. \n \n“You sit in that chapel and the light dances throughout the day\,” O’Brien said. “It can go from just plain to pure beauty. I began to look at things a little differently. I began to be more aware of what it was that I was looking at and really taking my time. And the willingness to let things go.” \nFounded in the town of Abiquiu in 1964\, the Monastery of Christ in the Desert follows the Benedictine life with no external apostolates. It maintains a guesthouse for private retreats where men and women can share the Divine Office and Mass in the Abbey Church with the monks. Set in the Chama Canyon\, about 75 miles north of Santa Fe\, the monastery is surrounded by miles of wilderness\, assuring solitude and quiet. \nIlluminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape are generously supported by the New Mexico Humanities Council\, the Scanlan Family Foundation\, and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. \n \nLectures\, workshops and performances for Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape will be held in the History Museum Auditorium and are free with admission unless otherwise noted. The schedule: \nSunday\, October 23\, 2011\, 2-4 pm: Opening reception in the museum’s second-floor Gathering Space. At 2 pm\, join photographer Tony O’Brien and writer Christopher Merrill (Light in the Desert: Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert\, MNM Press\, 2011) for a lecture and book signing in the auditorium. \nSunday\, November 6\, 2011\, 2 pm: “Lay Folk and the Psalms\,” lecture by Carol Neel\, medieval historian at Colorado College. \nMonday\, November 7\, 2011\, 6 pm\, The Lensic Performing Arts Center: “Donald Jackson: Illuminating the Word\,” a special evening with the lead artist and calligrapher of The Saint John’s Bible. $15. Private reception following\, $50. Tickets at www.ticketssantafe.org\, or call (505) 988-1234. \nFriday\, November 18\, 2011\, 6 pm: “Calligraphic Trails\,” lecture by artist and calligrapher Patricia R. Musick. \nSaturday\, November 19\, 2011\, 10 am-4 pm\, NMHM Classroom: “Irish Manuscript Bookhand\,” calligraphy workshop with Patricia R. Musick. Cost is $80. Limited seating; call (505) 476-5096 to register. \nSunday\, December 4\, 2011\, 2 pm: Sacred choral music by Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe and the monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery. \nSunday\, January 22\, 2012\, 2 pm: “On the Weight of Words\,” lecture by renowned artists Barry Moser and John Benson. \nSaturday\, February 25\, 2012\, 10 am-4 pm\, NMHM Classroom: “Oh My Gouache\,” calligraphy workshop by Dianne Von Arx\, special treatment artist for The Saint John’s Bible. Cost is $100. Limited seating; call (505) 476-5096 to register. \nSunday\, February 26\, 2012\, 2 pm: “Special Treatment Illuminations for The Saint John’s Bible\,” lecture by Dianne Von Arx. \nNEW EVENT: Sunday\, March 11\, 2012\, 2 pm: Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe and the monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery perform in the History Museum Lobby. \nSunday\, March 25\, 2012\, 2 pm: “Endangered Texts: Preserving Ancient Books the Benedictine Way in the 21st Century\,” lecture by Father Columba Stewart\, executive director of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John’s University in Minnesota. \nSunday\, April 29\, 2012\, 2 pm: Contemplative Landscape photographers panel discussion; Kirk Gittings\, Ed Ranney\, Janet Russek\, Sharon Stewart and Don Usner. \nCANCELLED: Friday\, June 1\, 2012\, 6 pm: “Fragile Faith\,” lecture by Contemplative Landscape photographer David Robin. \nFriday\, June 8\, 2012\, 6 pm: “Landscape and Memory\,” lecture by artist and calligrapher Laurie Doctor. \nSaturday and Sunday\, June 9 & 10\, 2012\, 10 am-4 pm\, NMHM Classroom: “Landscape and Lettering: Before the Separation of Drawing and Writing\,” calligraphy workshop with Laurie Doctor. Cost is $200. Limited seating; call (505) 476-5096 to register. \nFriday\, July 13\, 2012\, 6 pm: “Poetry & Photographs\,” discussion and poetry reading with Contemplative Landscape photographer Teresa Neptune and poet Miriam Sagan. \nSunday\, October 14\,2012\, 2 pm: “Ritualized Naming of the Landscape through Photography\,” lecture by John Carter\, photography curator at the Nebraska State Historical Society. \nSunday\, November 4\, 2012\, 2 pm: Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist\, poetry reading by Lisa Gill; and Compassion Rising\, a film about Thomas Merton and the Dalai Lama. \nSunday\, December 2\, 2012\, 2 pm: Sacred choral music by Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe and the monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery. \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/774-contemplative-landscape/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/774_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111001T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130106T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175234Z CREATED:20160316T042407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175234Z UID:10001386-1317463200-1357491600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Young Brides\, Old Treasures Macedonian Embroidered Dress DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Young Brides\, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress is on line. Until the mid-twentieth century\, Macedonian women wove\, embroidered\, and wore magnificent ensembles of dress that indicated to a knowing eye what village and region they came from and where they were in the cycle of life. From puberty through betrothal\, marriage\, child bearing\, and old age\, dress changed to reflect status change. Historic ensembles\, no longer made but preserved in the museum\, also illustrate the tumultuous political history of the region; pan-Slavic\, Byzantine\, and Ottoman influences can be seen in embroidered motifs\, materials\, garments\, and jewelry. The outstanding collection the Museum has dates primarily from 1890 to 1920 with some later pieces from the 1950s. The exhibit featrured 27 mannequins in multi-layered ensembles as well as individual garments and pieces of jewelry belonging to Museum of International Folk Art; the Collection was made complete with a large donation from the Macedonian Arts Council» so that it is today the largest and most comprehensive museum collection in the United States. The exhibition was complemented by a catalog URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/1077-young-brides-old-treasures-macedonian-embroidered-dress/ LOCATION:Museum of International Folk Art\, 706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87504\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/brides.jpg GEO:35.6641155;-105.9265695 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill Santa Fe NM 87504 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill:geo:-105.9265695,35.6641155 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120530 DTSTAMP:20230614T175136Z CREATED:20200429T042650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175136Z UID:10001079-1316131200-1338335999@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:From a Distant Road DESCRIPTION:Blending an eclectic mix of Eastern and Western poetry and printing techniques\, From a Distant Road features hand-colored Japanese albumen prints and original haiga by Santa Fe poet John Brandi. The exhibit runs Sept. 16-March 4\, 2012\, in the John Gaw Meem Room. \nThe exhibit includes: Eighteen of Brandi’s contemporary haiga (haiku poems accompanied by brush art work) that find their source in the poet-painters of 17th-century Japan. The haiga will be displayed on papers marbled by Palace Press Curator Tom Leech in the Japanese technique of suminagashi (black ink floating).  Six hand-tinted albumen photographs from a collection of late 19th-century images of Japan from the Photo Archives at the Palace of the Governors\, paired with excerpts from the travel diaries of 17th-century haiku master Matsuo Basho. A new marbled broadside from the Palace Press featuring a prose poem by Brandi. \nDownload high-resolution images from the exhibit by clicking on “G to related images\,” below. \nTo kick off the exhibition\, poet John Brandi will speak on “Haiku Painting: The History of Haiga\,” and read haiku from his new book\, Seeding the Cosmos (La Alameda Press)\, a selection of 30 years of his work from New Mexico and abroad. The event begins at 6 pm on Friday\, Sept. 16\, in the John Gaw Meem Room. In this high-spirited program\, Brandi’s poems will be accompanied by JB Bryan on alto sax. \nThe event is free\, but seating is limited. \nBesides reading from his work\, Brandi will talk about the practice of haiku in everyday life\, the art of haibun (prose punctuated by a haiku)\, and aspects of haiga. Nonoguchi Ryūho\, a 17th-century poet\, was the first person to regularly include paintings alongside his calligraphy\, although Japanese poetry was often enhanced by images for centuries prior. \nBrandi\, a Southern California native\, was encouraged by his parents toward the art of traveling\, witnessing\, writing and painting. After graduating from Cal State Northridge\, he joined the Peace Corps and worked with Andean farmers. Returning home\, he made contact with Beat Generation poet Gary Snyder. In 1971\, he moved to New Mexico and\, in his early years here\, traveled with Japanese poet Nanao Sakaki\, and compiled That Back Road In\, the first of his many poetry collections. In 1979\, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. \nModern American haiku is said to have been given new life by Jack Kerouac\, author of the Beat classic\, On the Road. Brandi was a consultant for the museum’s 2007 Kerouac exhibit\, Jack Kerouac and the Writer’s Life. As a poet\, Brandi owes much to the West Coast Beat tradition\, but he also refers to poets as diverse as Federico Garcia Lorca\, Pablo Neruda\, and Matsuo Basho as influences. As a painter\, he says\, his practice as poet-painter-traveler harkens back to the 8th-century Chinese master Wang Wei.  \n  \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/from-a-distant-road-2/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1178_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120530 DTSTAMP:20230627T205249Z CREATED:20110916T060000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T205249Z UID:10001391-1316131200-1338335999@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:From a Distant Road DESCRIPTION: URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/from-a-distant-road/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110811T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111002T050000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175235Z CREATED:20110811T224758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175235Z UID:10001389-1313056800-1317531600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:New Native Photography\, 2011 DESCRIPTION:New Native Photography\, 2011\, opens Friday\, August 12\, 6 p.m. at the New Mexico Museum of Art in collaboration with the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA). The exhibition of contemporary Native photography is in conjunction with the 90Th Santa Fe Indian Market. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/1143-new-native-photography-2011/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1143_thumb.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Christian Waguespack":MAILTO:christian.waguespack@state.nm.us GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110703T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120429T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175234Z CREATED:20160318T031854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175234Z UID:10001384-1309687200-1335718800@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Natural Disaster in the Gallery of Conscience DESCRIPTION:The Arts of Survival opened during 2011 International Folk Arts Week in Santa Fe\, a community celebration that culminates with the 8th Annual International Folk Art Market | Santa Fe Highlights of the week will be artist demonstrations\, artist talks\, lectures\, and more. \nDr. Marsha Bol\, Director Emeritus of the Museum of International Folk Art described the ‘Gallery of Conscience;’ “…as a forum where current issues facing folk artists around the world can be discussed. With The Arts of Survival we continued our examination of issues threatening the survival of the traditional arts\, bringing them to the attention of our visitors\,” Dr\, Bol continued; “As the largest folk art museum in the world we believe it is our responsibility to address issues that threaten to disrupt folk arts – and in the case of this exhibition – the effect of natural disaster on the folk art community.” \nThe Arts of Survival featured work by folk artists— poetry\, spoken word\, and photographic and video documentation to explore the many ways in which a country’s traditional arts and artists rally in times of disaster\, to rebuild and renew\, one day at a time. As tragic events and terrible forces become part of carnival masks\, scrolls\, paintings\, and vodou flags\, the events are memorialized and the pain they brought is brought to a manageable state. When the force of the Earth breaks the world into pieces\, the pieces can be collected and sold to bring an artist a step closer to economic recovery. \nVisitors to this second ‘Gallery of Conscience’ exhibit saw the devastation of the Haitian earthquake emblazoned into the carnival masks and sequined vodou flags; how a New Orleans quilter took the flood-stained bedclothes of her neighbors ruined home and made art that both restores and represents. Visitors heard the voices of the women whose centuries old tradition of ralli quilts bring comfort and color to the millions of flood refugees living in tent cities in Pakistan\, and the puppeteers of Indonesia who incorporate the news of recent volcanic eruptions into their wayang performances. \n  \n   URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/1056-the-arts-of-survival-folk-expression-in-the-face-of-natural-disaster-in-the-gallery-of-conscience/ LOCATION:Museum of International Folk Art\, 706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87504\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/survival.jpg GEO:35.6641155;-105.9265695 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill Santa Fe NM 87504 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill:geo:-105.9265695,35.6641155 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110624T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111106T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175234Z CREATED:20110422T002712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175234Z UID:10001385-1308909600-1320598800@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Kimono: Karen LaMonte and Prints of the Floating World DESCRIPTION:Kimono: Karen LaMonte and Prints of the Floating World juxtaposes contemporary artist Karen LaMonte’s life-sized cast-glass sculpture of a kimono with Japanese woodblock prints from the New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection and from a private collection. The exhibition runs June 24 through November 6\, 2011\, with a free public reception on “First Friday\,” July 1\, 2011\, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. \nAfter focusing for a decade on dress styles characteristic of Western society\, Karen LaMonte turned her attention to Japan and the clothing that most embodies that culture: the kimono. A Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission grant supported her seven month residency in Kyoto researching the kimono—its production\, form\, function\, and social significance—and spent another 3 ½ years producing a series of kimono sculptures cast in glass\, bronze\, or ceramic. The sculpture on display at the New Mexico Museum of Art\, Ojigi–Bowing (2010)\, is one of the cast-glass works. \nLaMonte’s kimono sculptures reflect a cultural norm in which the human figure is depleted of all curves becoming an idealized cylindrical form. “How the kimono is worn parallels the relationship between Japanese individuals and their society\,” LaMonte explained. “Putting on a kimono is literally about erasing the individual’s identity and joining the group.” Whereas for past castings LaMonte worked with live models\, for the kimono series she built a mannequin based on biometric data of the Japanese population as compiled by NASA. She selected the measurements for the 50th percentile of 40-year-old Japanese woman in the year 2000 in 1g (gravitational force). “My mannequin is the exact average Japanese female – the exact everywoman or no-woman\,” she states. The shorter sleeve length tells us the kimono belongs to a married woman\, and her posture is a bow from the waist called ojigi. It is a quintessential gesture of respect and humble greeting in Japan. \nAlso in the exhibition are a dozen Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Ukiyo-e translates to “pictures of the floating world\,” a reference to paintings and prints that depict the ephemeral or hedonistic aspects of life enjoyed in Japan’s pleasure districts\, embodied most often in the figures of courtesans and actors of Kabuki theater. These images of the “floating world” are typically associated with the rise of a merchant class and cities during the Edo period (1618-1868). The earliest print in the exhibition is from the Kaigetsudō “school” and dates from circa 1710—one of only 41 such prints extant in the world today. Other well-known practitioners of ukiyo-e are also included\, among them Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) and Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). The prints were selected for their emphasis on the kimono\, to explore the differing interpretations of this cultural object by different artists from different eras in different mediums. \nABOUT KAREN LAMONTE \nOriginally from New York\, where she was born in 1967\, Karen LaMonte has spent more than a decade in the Czech Republic challenging herself and the limits of cast glass to produce life-size dresses—and now kimonos—emptied of inhabitants. Since her graduation in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design\, where she studied sculpture\, glass\, and printmaking\, LaMonte has explored figuration through the motif of clothing as a stand-in for the human. \nAmong the many prestigious awards LaMonte has received are: Corning Museum of Glass/Kohler Arts Center Joint Artist-in-Residence Program; Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award; Virginia A. Groot Foundation Recognition Award; UrbanGlass Award for New Talent in Glass; Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award; a 1999-2000 Fulbright fellowship\, which allowed her to first work in the Czech Republic; and a Japan-United States Friendship Commission\, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship\, which made possible a residency in Japan over the course of 7 months to research kimonos and produce a series based on the kimono. \n  \nHer work is included in many museum collections\, including the Corning Museum of Glass\, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery\, the deYoung Memorial Museum\, Palm Springs Art Museum\, Musee des arts decoratifs\, National Gallery of Australia\, Chrysler Museum of Art\, Toledo Museum of Art\, and the Museum of American Glass. \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/1071-kimono-karen-lamonte-and-prints-of-the-floating-world/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Nail":MAILTO:chris.nail@state.nm.us GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110619T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110911T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175229Z CREATED:20200428T044735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175229Z UID:10001354-1308477600-1315760400@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Home Lands: How Women Made the West Homemakers\, cowgirls\, artists\, doctors and politicians DESCRIPTION:The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters\, dreamers\, hucksters\, and heroes—a tale that relegates women\, assuming they appear at all\, to the distant background. Home Lands: How Women Made the West upends this view to remember the West as a place of homes and habitations brought into being by the women who lived there. \n \nThe Autry National Center organized Home Lands\, a major exhibition that ventures beyond popular perceptions of the West as an empty wilderness where men struggled against nature to transform the land to offer a rich and real portrait of the West that is in large part unfamiliar. This dynamic re-thinking of the history of the West challenges stereotypes of women’s roles through the stories of the Native American women who first made their homes in the region as well as the women\, from many different cultures\, who have migrated to the West for hundreds of years.  \nFor a selection of high-resolution\, downloadable photographs from the exhibit\, click on “Go to related images\,” below. \n \n(For more on the Autry National Center\, log onto http://theautry.org/.) \nHome Lands is joined by three other exhibitions exploring the unsung heroes of the West: \nRanch 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. \nNew 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. \nHeart of the Home\, May 27-Nov. 20 in La Ventana Gallery\, spotlights historic kitchen items from the History Museum’s collections. \nCo-curated by Carolyn Brucken\, associate curator of women’s history at the Autry\, and Virginia Scharff\, Women of the West chair\, Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry\, Home Lands focuses on three regions: northern New Mexico\, the Colorado Front Range\, and Puget Sound\, Washington. Exploring a specific theme for each place—earth for Northern New Mexico; transportation for the Colorado Front Range; and water for Puget Sound— the exhibition highlights the West’s remarkable cultural diversity; the role of the environment in women’s lives; and the ways in which women responded to and inevitably shaped their environs. \nHome Lands challenges stereotypes of the Western woman\, such as the pioneer wife and the cowgirl\, with stories of such women as Dr. Justina Ford\, the first African American woman doctor in Colorado; noted educator\, home economist and author Fabiola Cabeza de Baca of New Mexico; and Bertha Knight Landes\, mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928 and the first female mayor of a major American city. \nThe exhibition illustrates their extraordinary stories and many more with nearly 200 objects spanning more than 1\,200 years. From a Mogollon metate (grinding stone)\, circa A.D. 750-1150\, to a 20th century station wagon— textiles and historic clothing from the 18th through the 20th centuries; ancient and modern pottery; paintings\, photography\, and sculpture by historic and contemporary women artists; books\, photographs\, and other ephemera will be featured throughout the exhibition. More than two-thirds of the exhibition is drawn from the Autry’s collections. \n“The history of the American West is often a male-dominated story. By examining the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal Western landscapes\, Home Lands explores not just what women have done\, but why it matters for the West—past present\, and future\,” said the exhibition curators\, Brucken and Scharff. “We believe that seeing women in history makes history look different.” \n \nThree Regions \nHome Lands examines the regions of Northern New Mexico\, the Colorado Front Range\, and Puget Sound\, exploring women’s homes\, habitats and environs over centuries and within many different cultures and communities. \nIn the Rio Arriba (the name the Spanish gave to northern New Mexico)\, women have inhabited and utilized the land for at least 10\,000 years and have a long history as builders\, creators and owners of homes. This section of the exhibition highlights women’s use of earth—as manifested in pottery\, adobe building traditions\, real estate\, and art—to see how women from different cultural backgrounds drew distinct sources of inspiration from the land. The flow of people and trade in the region lead women to create new\, hybrid traditions\, such as a Navajo banded blanket from the mid-1800s. Known as a “slave blanket\,” Navajo women living as captives in Hispanic homes first created this style of blanket\, combining Spanish materials and dyes with Navajo looms and weaving techniques. \nOther objects ranging from an ancient cooking pot\, more than 1\,000 years old\, to a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe highlight the long history of women who have made homes in this distinct region. This section of Home Lands also includes pottery by famed Pueblo potter Maria Martinez (1881-1980). \nThe Colorado Front Range section of the exhibition considers how people on the move—from the 18th century Cheyenne to the 20th suburban American family—make homes\, with a focus on powerful methods of transportation such as the horse\, railroad\, and automobile. \n The horse propelled Native women onto the Great Plains and into a nomadic way of life. A beautifully painted\, late 19th century Cheyenne parfleche—an “envelope” made of rawhide and used as a suitcase for supplies when moving camp—is an example of objects Cheyenne women of the time created for their own use. \nWhen Denver created its original streetcar system\, in the 19th century\, one of the first lines went into an area called Five Points\, an ethnically diverse neighborhood that quickly grew dense and bustling with businesses and residences along the tracks. By the 20th century\, women drivers have become the new icons of mobility and settlement in the West. On display in the exhibition\, a dissected 1960s station wagon highlights the importance of the automobile as a means for the modern American woman to independently navigate this new landscape. \nFinally\, the Puget Sound section looks at how women throughout the Pacific Northwest have worked with water\, using it to transform their homes and communities. From Coastal Salish fishing practices to women working in the salmon canneries in the 19th and 20th centuries to the construction of the Gorge Dam (1921) and the creation of utility systems that brought power and water into Seattle homes\, this section of the exhibition will show how women’s lives in the Puget Sound area have long been inextricably connected with water. \nThe power of waterscapes may be seen in native baskets for digging clams\, displayed alongside painted paddle by contemporary artist Susan Point\, or a 1924 silk Kimono depicting a traditional Japanese mountain and waterscape juxtaposed with contemporary artist Aki Sogabe’s portrayal of Washington’s Mt. Rainier in one of the original papercut studies for her Pike Place Market mural (1999). \nWomen Artists \nEach section of the exhibition features the work of renowned female visual artists from the 19th century to the present day\, including Pueblo potter Maria Martinez (1881-1980)\, painter Pablita Velarde (1918-2006); painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986); photographer Laura Gilpin (1891-1979); painter Henrietta Bromwell (1859-1946); painter Eve Drewelowe (1899-1989); painter Elizabeth Warhanik (1880-1968); and photographer Virna Haffer (1899-1974). \nIn addition to Aki Sogabe\, the contemporary artists featured in the exhibition are New Mexican santera Gloria Lopez Cordova; Santa Clara Pueblo artists Tammy Garcia and Nora Naranjo Morse; Colorado-based painter Elizabeth Elting; Coastal Salish sculptor Susan Point; and poet and playwright Joy Harjo\, who has been commissioned to create a video work especially for Home Lands that is inspired by a historic narrative of slavery and interracial marriage in 19th century New Mexico. \nRelated Book: \nIn April 2010\, to coincide with the opening of the exhibition\, the University of California Press published a 192-page fully illustrated book also titled Home Lands: How Women Made the West\, authored by the exhibition’s curators\, Brucken and Scharff. \n \nHome 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. \nA series of lectures and workshops supports the History Museum’s summer exhibitions. All are free and in the History Museum auditorium unless other noted: \nSunday\, June 12\, 2-4 pm: Symposium on “The Journey of the African American North\,” including stories from Santa Fe and Española. \nSunday\, 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. \nSunday\, 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. \nSunday\, 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. \nMonday\, 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. \nSunday\, 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. \nFriday\, 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. \nSaturday\, Sept. 25\, 2-4 pm: Symposium on “Entrepreneurship in the African American Community\,” from barbers to caterers\, mechanics to artists. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/438-home-lands-how-women-made-the-west-homemakers-cowgirls-artists-doctors-and-politicians/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/438_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110615T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111223T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175235Z CREATED:20110616T024953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175235Z UID:10001388-1308132000-1324659600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Gustave Baumann: A Legacy Honored in Santa Fe DESCRIPTION:The New Mexico Museum of Art is presenting two exhibitions this summer celebrating Baumann\, his prodigious creativity\, and his love for New Mexico. On view through September 2\, 2011 in the Governor’s Gallery at the New Mexico State Capitol is Gustave Baumann: Painter\, Printmaker\, and Puppeteer; and opening July 1\, 2011 at the New Mexico Museum of Art is The Prints of Gustave Baumann. Both exhibitions were curated by Merry Scully\, curator of the Governor’s Gallery. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/1104-gustave-baumann-a-legacy-honored-in-santa-fe/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1104_thumb.jpg GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110527T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111127T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175234Z CREATED:20200428T045247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175234Z UID:10001383-1306490400-1322413200@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Heart of the Home A celebration of the kitchen DESCRIPTION:The kitchen has long been called the heart of the home.  From cooking one-pot meals over an open fire to microwaving a pre-packaged dinner\, the kitchen is the focal point for family gatherings. Heart of the Home\, an installation in the front window of the History Museum features the hearth’s importance in our daily lives over time\, using kitchen-related items from our collections. \nAmong them: \nA ca. 1915 Monarch wood-burning stove made by the Malleable Iron Range Co. \nAn 1875 comal\, or tortilla griddle. \nA 1905 Wapak waffle iron. \nAn 1890 curling iron and stand made by Nicol and Co.\, Chicago. (Before electrical appliances\, curling irons were heated on a cast-iron stove for straightening or styling hair.) \nAn 1866 fluting iron used to put pleats into garments. \nA ca. 1800 French oak table. \nThe exhibit joins the museum’s Women of the West summer celebration\, highlighted by the exhibit Home Lands: How Women Made the West in the second-floor Albert and Ethel Herzstein Changing Exhibitions Gallery. Both exhibits feature noted New Mexico home economist Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert. \n“As a home economist\,” Cabeza de Baca wrote in her 1949 book The Good Life\, “I am happy to see modern kitchens and improved diets\, but my artistic soul deplores the passing of beautiful customs which in spite of New Mexico’s isolation in the past\, gave us happiness and abundant living.”  \nDownload high-resolution images from the exhibit by clicking on “go to related images\,” below. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/971-heart-of-the-home-a-celebration-of-the-kitchen/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/971_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110518T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110710T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175235Z CREATED:20110525T212951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175235Z UID:10001387-1305712800-1310317200@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:The Curve: Center Award Winners\, 2011 DESCRIPTION:The New Mexico Museum of Art partners this year with Center\, Santa Fe’s renowned organization supporting gifted photographers\, on an exhibition of photographs by Tamas Dezso and the collaborative team of Michel Palazzi and Alessandro Penso\, first-place winners in the 16th Annual Center Awards for Project Competition and Project Launch. The exhibition opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art May 20 and runs through July 10\, 2011. “Working with Center provides the museum an opportunity to share work by talented newcomers from all over the world with our audiences in New Mexico\,” said New Mexico Museum of Art Curator of Photography Katherine Ware. “It’s a wonderful chance to see what’s happening in photography internationally in a language we can all appreciate and understand.” Speaking about Center’s objectives in sponsoring the competition\, Executive Director Laura Pressley said\, “The Annual Center Awards offer a bird’s-eye view of the current state of contemporary photography and what inspires people from all over the world to make images. Center’s awards honor meaningful stories and bring to light new and effective photographic vocabularies.” For his series begun in 2009 Here\, Anywhere\, Tamas Dezso received first place in the Project Competition. Here\, Anywhere offers a desolate yet beautiful examination of a post-Communist town in Hungary\, his home country—streets and whole districts left behind\, frozen in their past\, by the country’s decades-long wrenching political transition. Dezso writes about the abandoned structures in this series\, “…what remains would either be silently reconquered by nature or enveloped by the lifestyles of tomorrow’s generations.” Dezso’s project was selected by an international trio of jurors: Simon Baker\, curator of photography and international art at the Tate Modern in London; Alexa Becker\, acquisitions editor at Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg; and Christina Cahill\, deputy director of editorial reportage at Getty Images in New York. This year’s first-place winners of Center’s Project Launch award are the Italian photographers Michele Palazzi and Alessandro Penso\, for their collaborative series Migrant Workers Journey. Selected for the prize by publisher Dewi Lewis\, of Dewi Lewis Publishing in England\, this body of work addresses the working conditions of migrant agricultural workers harvesting tomatoes in Basilicata\, in southern Italy. “A project such as this needs to go beyond the portrayal of the workers simply as victims\, it must reveal our common humanity\,” Lewis said of his reasons for supporting this ongoing series. This program is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts\, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/1084-the-curve-center-award-winners-2011/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1084_thumb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Christian Waguespack":MAILTO:christian.waguespack@state.nm.us GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110515T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111009T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175233Z CREATED:20200428T045442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175233Z UID:10001378-1305453600-1318179600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:New Mexico’s African American Legacy: Visible\, Vital\, Valuable DESCRIPTION:Since the 1860s\, African Americans have been a significant presence in our state. The exhibition\, New Mexico’s African American Legacy: Visible\, Vital and Valuable\, highlights the contributions of African Americans to New Mexico. Focused on Albuquerque\, Las Cruces\, and the brief\, 19th-century community known as Blackdom\, the exhibit reveals the iridescent threads African Americans have woven into this state’s cultural quilt. Curated by Clarence Fielder and Terry Moody\, along with Brenda Ballon Dabney and Rita Powdrell\, with graphics by Charlie Kenneson\, the show is presented in cooperation with the African American Museum of New Mexico in Albuquerque. It covers subjects as diverse as original families\, newcomers and descendants\, religion\, social organizations and more. \nThe 1850 U.S. Census lists 61\,525 Anglos and just 22 blacks in the New Mexico Territory. Near the end of the Civil War\, four black regiments–the famous Buffalo Soldiers–were sent to the area to protect settlers. Many returned to the south\, where they shared stories of the lands they had seen. \nThe advent of the railroad drew more black residents\, attracted by jobs in rail service and the hotels and restaurants that cropped up around train stations. Others brought their skills as farmers; some opened barber shops\, mechanics shops\, boarding houses and catering businesses. \nBy 1920\, 5\,733 African Americans lived in New Mexico. (The 2000 Census shows nearly 63\,000.) \nTold on a series of panels\, the exhibit focuses on migration\, families\, churches\, social organizations and entrepreneurs\, along with the struggles against segregation. Among the people it features: \nCedric and Merdest Billingsley Bradford\, longtime operators of the U-Tote-Em Grocery Store in Las Cruces. Merdest returned to college after her children were grown and earned a sociology degree from NMSU. She helped develop and lead Planned Parenthood in Dona Ana County and was president of the state chapter of the NAACP in the 1970s. Cedric worked briefly for the WPA during the Depression. In 1967 he led a citizens’ group to support public education. At the age of 60\, he earned his high school equivalency degree. \nElder Euland Greer migrated to Tampico\, Mexico\, as a boy\, with his parents and grandparents to escape oppression in the States. His family knew Gen. Pancho Villa and his army and\, at one point\, was suspected of harboring them in their home. They moved to New Mexico in 1913 after his grandmother and father disappeared. Along with his mother\, sister and brother-in-law\, Elder Greer helped establish God’s House Church in Albuquerque. \nClara Belle Drisdale Williams became the first African American to graduate from New Mexico State University in 1937. After a career of teaching others\, she was honored with an honorary law degree from NMSU in 1980\, along with an apology for how she was treated as a student. (Three of her grandsons became physicians.) \nSuch successes were hard-won against the forces of prejudice. From 1870 to the 1950s\, Albuquerque had segregated hotels\, restaurants and movie theaters. Las Cruces schools were segregated. Even in Albuquerque’s integrated schools\, social practices isolated African Americans. At graduation\, they were seated separately; their pictures were in the back sections of yearbooks; they were unwelcome at proms and so held their own parties.  \nBlack workers could only rise so far. African American men were generally relegated to jobs as porters\, janitors and cooks; women were limited to jobs as maids\, caretakers\, domestic cooks and caterers. \nThe Dona Ana County branch of the NAACP formed in the 1930s and was credited\, in part\, with the peaceful integration of Las Cruces schools in 1957. (Many people credited the smooth transition to the fact that Anglo\, Hispanic and African American children had always played together after school–a true-life example\, perhaps\, of how “a child shall lead them.”) \nThe 1964 Accommodations Act brought integration to all of New Mexico. \nTo download high-resolution images from the exhibit\, click on “go to related images\,” below. \nThe African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico was formed in 2002 by a consortium of African American organizations and concerned individuals. Though still seeking a permanent home\, the group has assembled several exhibitions and expanded its information base. African American Legacy represents its most recent exhibition. \nThe opening of the exhibit will be from 2-4 pm on May 15. The event includes speakers\, a dance performance and a poem by Doris Fields. \nTwo symposiums accompany the exhibit. They’re in the History Museum Auditorium and free with admission. Sundays free to NM residents and children 16 and under. \n2-4 pm\, Sunday\, June 12: “The Journey of the African American North\,” symposium by the African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico. \n2-4 pm\, Sunday\, September 25: “Entrepreneurship in the African American Community\,” symposium hosted by The African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico. \n  \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/931-new-mexicos-african-american-legacy-visible-vital-valuable/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/931_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110417T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130310T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175234Z CREATED:20160322T043729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175234Z UID:10001380-1303034400-1362934800@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Folk Art of the Andes DESCRIPTION:Folk Art of the Andes showcased weaving\, embroidery\, woodcarving\, ceramics and metalwork that reflect the interweacing of indigenous folk traditions with European art forms and techniques. Highlights included costumes\, jewelry\, houshold objects\, toys and more! The exhibit ran through September 9\, 2012\, in the Hispanic Heritage Wing\, and through March 10\, 2013 in the Bartlett Wing.  The exhibition was accompanied by a richly illustrated catalog\, URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/939-folk-art-of-the-andes/ LOCATION:Museum of International Folk Art\, 706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87504\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/andes.jpg GEO:35.6641155;-105.9265695 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill Santa Fe NM 87504 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill:geo:-105.9265695,35.6641155 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110415T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111030T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175233Z CREATED:20200428T045657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175233Z UID:10001379-1302861600-1319994000@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Ranch Women of New Mexico DESCRIPTION:From Evelyn Fite Tune’s famously monogrammed cowboy boots to Fern Sawyer’s irrepressible spirit\, Ranch Women of New Mexico celebrates an icon of the American West\, from a female point of view. \nFeaturing 11 women who have “cowgirled” or owned ranches in New Mexico\, the exhibit represents selections from work by photographer Ann Bromberg and writer Sharon Niederman. \nThe photos will be on display in the Mezzanine Gallery\, joining the History Museum’s celebration of Women of the West this summer. The celebration’s main exhibit\, Home Lands: How Women Made the West\, will be on exhibit June 19-Sept. 11 in the second-floor Albert and Ethel Herzstein Changing Exhibitions Gallery. \nIn Bromberg’s black-and-white photographs for Ranch Women\, the often-underestimated role of women in the West comes to life. The photos reveal their dynamic contributions to the environment\, their multicultural families\, and their economic survival in a “boots on the ground” way of life. \nWomen featured include: \nEvelyn Fite Tune. Born in 1919 to Saskatchewan pioneers\, Evelyn grew up near Magdalena\, NM\, during the Depression. In the early days of her marriage spent ranching outside Socorro\, she had no running water or electricity. “I was a ranch wife. You do everything. If you have to move cattle\, you get up very early. That’s what all ranch wives do. It was hard\, a lot of hard work\, but it was good work.” Her philosophy of life was on a sign that hung above her doorway. “No Sniveling\,” it read. \nFern Sawyer. A women’s rodeo pioneer\, Fern was named National All-Around World Champion Cowgirl in 1938 at Madison Square Garden. Inducted into the Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame\, Cowgirl Hall of Fame and National Cutting Horse Hall of Fame\, she was as known for her glamor as her pipe smoking and cussing. Fern passed away in 1993\, in the saddle\, with her boots on. \nMary B. Davis. Manager of the horse breeding operation of the Crow Creek Division of the CS Ranch\, this daughter-in-law of legendary cowgirl Linda Davis grew up on a Waynesboro\, Ga.\, ranch. A member of the younger generation of ranch women\, she carries on the traditions of ranching life with her husband\, Warren Davis\, in New Mexico. \nDorothea Begay. A Navajo sheep rancher in Cañoncito\, Dorothea lived in a traditional world and carried a deep understanding of desert plants and animals. In 1996\, she told Niederman\, “We need to bring back our livestock. To learn to survive off that; to learn to work and farm. We must care for the community together.” \nFelicia Thal. Born in South Africa and raised in English boarding schools\, Felicia later moved across the U.S. to accommodate her husband’s surgery career. In Kansas City\, she acquired 20 Angus steers\, and a rancher was born. The Thals settled in Watrous\, where Felicia began ranching in earnest. “I learned to be tough\, to swing with the boys\, to be one of them.” \nDownload high-resolution images of these women by clicking on “go to related images\,” below. \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/932-ranch-women-of-new-mexico/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/932_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110408T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111009T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175232Z CREATED:20110303T063549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175232Z UID:10001371-1302256800-1318179600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment DESCRIPTION:Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers and the Environment offers both a survey and a contemporary view of how artists working in photography have addressed our relationship to the environment. – April 8\, 2011 through October 9\, 2011. \nFree public opening 5:30-7:30 pm\, Friday April 8. Hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico. \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/857-earth-now-american-photographers-and-the-environment/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/857_thumb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Nail":MAILTO:chris.nail@state.nm.us GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110304T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110501T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175234Z CREATED:20200430T042234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175234Z UID:10001381-1299232800-1304269200@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Broadsides from the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project Honoring the soul of Baghdad’s literary community DESCRIPTION:On March 5\, 2007\, a car bomb exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad\, Iraq\, killing 30 people and wounding over 100 others. Al-Mutanabbi Street was for centuries the center of Baghdad bookselling\, the heart and soul of Baghdad’s literary and intellectual community. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition\, formed in April 2007\, sent out a call to letterpress printers to craft a visual response to this attack. The response was immediate\, and over 40 printers\, including three from New Mexico\, enthusiastically answered that first call with a powerful edition of broadsides. Since that time\, the number of broadsides has grown to 130\, and a complete set will be donated to the National Library in Baghdad. \nThe Press at the Palace of the Governors proudly presents 60 of these broadsides in the museum’s John Gaw Meem Community Room. Special opening event: 6 pm\, March 4\, Readings from the Broadsides\, in the auditorium. The event is free. After March 4\, the Broadsides from the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project exhibition can be viewed by appointment. Call Tom Leech at (505) 476-5096. \nTo download high-resolution images of the broadsides\, click on “go to related images” at the bottom of this post. \n \nReaders on March 4 include poets Anne Valley-Fox\, Lisa Gill and James Thomas Stevens\, bookstore owner Dorothy Massey\, poet and bookstore owner Leo Romero\, and poet-publishers Janet Rodney\, JB Bryan and John Brandi. Many of the readings will be translations of work by Iraqi poets. New Mexico printers who contributed to the project are Suzanne Vilmain of the Counting Coup Press\, Janet Rodney of Weaselsleeves Press\, and Tom Leech of the Palace Press. \nFrom Beau Beausoleil\, San Francisco bookseller\, poet\, and initiator of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition: “The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition is not an anti-war project\, nor is it a healing project. The coalition feels that until we truly see what happened on this one winding street of booksellers and readers\, on this one day in Baghdad\, until we understand all the implications of an attack on the printed word and its writers\, printers\, booksellers and readers\, until we see that this is our street\, until then\, we cannot truly move forward.” \nFor more on the project\, log onto http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/JaffeCenter/jaffemutanabbistreet.htm. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/943-broadsides-from-the-al-mutanabbi-street-project-honoring-the-soul-of-baghdads-literary-community/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/943_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111231T050000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175234Z CREATED:20110212T010132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175234Z UID:10001382-1297591200-1325307600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Creative Spark! : The Life and Art of Tony Da February 13\, 2011 through December 31\, 2011 DESCRIPTION:Creative Spark: The Life and Art of Tony Da is the artist’s first comprehensive museum retrospective. On view will be the largest group of Da’s paintings and pottery ever gathered in one place. \nThe exhibition opens at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on February 13\, 2011 running through December 31\, 2011. Come join us Feb. 13th for a wonderful opening from 1-4pm. \nCreative Spark! The Life and Art of Tony Da is a groundbreaking exhibition that features approximately 40 ceramic pieces and 20 paintings and offers an unprecedented exploration of Tony Da’s life and the works he created. \nThe grandson of famed potter Maria Martinez and the son of Popovi Da\, Tony rose to the legacy of his talented family while pioneering bold innovations in his dynamic but tragically short career. This exhibit will be his first comprehensive retrospective in a museum and will feature major works\, some never before seen by the public.  Spanning the 1950s to the 1980s\, the exhibit includes paintings and pottery\, from public and private collections\, ranging from red\, black and polychromatic jars and plates to sculptural bears and turtles.  The first book dedicated to Tony Da’s life and work\, written by Charles King\, owner of King Galleries in Scottsdale and Richard L. Spivey\, author of The Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinez\, will be available\, in conjunction with the exhibition\, in August 2011. The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture has in its permanent collection the works of Maria Martinez\, Julian Martinez\, and  Popovi Da. As a descendant of this renowned San Ildefonso family\, Tony Da took Native American art to new heights and having his work on display is especially relevant at this pivotal time in the Museum’s growth. \nTony Da left an impressive legacy in his short career.  Born in 1940\, he showed early enthusiasm and skill as a painter. As a youth he excelled in art\, even winning a Hallmark Card contest.  While attending Western New Mexico University in Silver City he was exposed to prehistoric Mimbres pottery which held great influence on his artistic future. Da started painting full time after his discharge from the United States Navy and was soon recognized for his talent\, winning top prizes for his artwork. \nTony Da used his favorite source\, prehistoric Mimbres designs\, as a subject for his paintings and pottery alike.  At other times he explored the traditional\, interspersing with the abstract\, realistic and semi-realistic.  During the six years that he lived with his grandmother\, Maria\, in the late 1960s\, he started making pottery.  His artistic skill in ceramics developed rapidly and in 1967\, Tony began to work on his sculptures\, creating an exciting new form of Pueblo ceramic art.  These sculptures included turtles\, owls\, and bears.  As a tireless experimenter and innovator\, he was the first to etch sgraffito designs into the clay; the first to incorporate the use of turquoise on pottery\, then adding coral\, jet\, mother-of-pearl\, shell and turquoise heishi\, and silver; and the first to use a torch to create his black and sienna pots.  All were fresh\, uses of materials and daring techniques. \nDa led a very modern life as he navigated between the two worlds of his Indian culture and the non-Indian world.  In 1982\, Tony sustained severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident. Although he was no longer able to make pottery\, Da continued to paint while living in a care facility until his passing on February 12\, 2008.  Tony Da’s artistic legacy is not isolated in the past\, but one which continues to inspire artists and challenge them to become transformational in their creative explorations. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/944-creative-spark-the-life-and-art-of-tony-da-february-13-2011-through-december-31-2011/ LOCATION:Museum of Indian Arts and Culture\, 708-710 Camino Lejo\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87557\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/944_thumb.jpg GEO:35.664337;-105.9252387 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo Santa Fe NM 87557 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=708-710 Camino Lejo:geo:-105.9252387,35.664337 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110204T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110504T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175233Z CREATED:20110107T031129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175233Z UID:10001377-1296813600-1304528400@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection DESCRIPTION:A new exhibition of photographic luminaries invites visitors to lose themselves in a variety of cloud formations\, from fluffy to enticing to intriguing to menacing. Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection\, opening Feb. 4\, features work by some of the masters of the medium\, including Alfred Stieglitz\, Paul Strand\, Laura Gilpin\, Eliot Porter\, and Edward Weston. Also featured more recent images by Paul Caponigro\, William Clift\, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison\, and Jim Stone. \nWhile the landscape of New Mexico holds great attraction for photographers\, its skies and their abundance of dramatic cloud formations also draw artists’ eyes. With an emphasis on New Mexico views\, the show brings forward more than 25 images of this popular subject while also examining them in the context of Stieglitz’s influential cloud series\, Equivalents. Taken during summer visits to his family retreat in Lake George\, N.Y.\, these studies of clouds allowed the artist to explore a more subjective aspect of photography. Photographer Jim Stone\, based in Albuquerque\, makes humorous reference to the series in his 1976 piece\, subtitled Equivalent Alaska Cloud. \nArtists have portrayed clouds in their work not only for their interesting and ever-changing shapes\, but also as symbols\, whether to convey the power and unpredictability of nature or to express human emotions such as loneliness\, unrest\, freedom\, or happiness. An unusual trio of images by Laura Gilpin reflects the time she spent living on a Navajo reservation by depicting the “He” rain\, the “She” rain\, and a rainbow in between. Eliot Porter used color film to beautiful effect in capturing the sunsets near his studio in Tesuque. The contemporary artistic pair Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison refer to environmental issues in their picture of clouds\, titled Patching the Sky. \n“Cloudscapes gives us a wonderful opportunity to remind visitors of the many stellar photographs in the collection\,” said exhibition curator Katherine Ware. “Photographs are very light sensitive and cannot remain on long-term view like paintings and sculpture. We hope our guests will see some famous favorites as well as discovering some new images.” \n The museum is pleased to present this group of photographs as part of a museum-wide installation of its permanent collection.To download high-resolution images from the exhibit\, click on "Go to related images\," below. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/907-cloudscapes-photographs-from-the-collection/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/907_thumb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Nail":MAILTO:chris.nail@state.nm.us GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110130T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110410T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175136Z CREATED:20200428T050228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175136Z UID:10001078-1296381600-1302454800@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:A Passionate Light: The Polaroids of H. Joe Waldrum DESCRIPTION:A rush to catch a plane and the convenience of a Safeway grocery store led to noted New Mexico artist H. Joe Waldrum’s long-term love affair with SX-70 Polaroid monoprints\, images that Waldrum referred to as “little jewels.” The late artist’s collection of nearly 8\,000 images was recently donated to the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. A selection of them will be displayed in a joint exhibition at the New Mexico History Museum and The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History\, Jan. 30-April 10. \nA Passionate Light: Polaroids by H. Joe Waldrum features a total of 1\,202 4½” x 3¼” images between the two museums (264 at the New Mexico History Museum; 938 at The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History). The images range from Waldrum’s study of the sturdy adobe and angular shapes of northern New Mexico churches to the delicate transiency of flowers. \nKnown primarily as a painter and print-maker\, Waldrum began working with the Polaroid when he was completing his annual summer painting trip to Taos. Set to return to New York the next day\, he knew he didn’t have time to sketch San Jose de Gracia Church in Las Trampas – drawings he would need to guide him on a future painting. Lacking even a camera to take some stills\, he sped to a nearby Safeway and bought a Polaroid One-Step and four boxes of film. He managed to barely beat the setting sun in exposing all the film\, which developed on the car seat next to him as he drove home to finish packing. \nUpon returning to his New York studio\, he pulled out his hurriedly snapped images and realized they captured more than shapes and colors; they documented his thinking and looking process. \nFrom the late 1970s until his death in 2003\, Waldrum faithfully carried the camera with him and captured images ranging from the spontaneously casual to the carefully composed. Nicholas Chiarella\, imaging specialist for the Photo Archives\, scanned the images into digital form\, realizing along the way\, he said\, that they “deftly assert the potential …to function dually as historic documents and artistic objects.” \nBorn in Texas in 1934\, Waldrum lived and made art in New Mexico from 1971 until his 2003 death in Truth or Consequences. His collection of SX-70 monoprints was given to the Archives by the Waldrum Estate and Rio Bravo Fine Art in Truth or Consequences. Among Polaroid aficionados\, the SX-70 holds special appeal for the stability of its prints. Waldrum’s monoprints\, some of them more than 40 years old\, are in nearly mint condition with true colors. \nThe artist himself considered the images an important body of art\, not mere documentation for his paintings. When anyone questioned their artistic merit\, Waldrum bristled. \n“One gallery said to me\, `Joe\, anyone can point a Polaroid camera and push a button\,’” Waldrum once wrote. “I will agree with him\, if he will agree with me that anyone with a scalpel can cut out your appendix.” \nBeyond using adobe churches as subject matter for his artwork\, Waldrum became a dedicated activist working with communities to raise funds for conservation of their churches. He made videos\, gave lectures\, established El Valle Foundation to raise restoration funds\, hosted exhibitions and spoke often about the importance of the churches not just as spiritual centers but as a means for maintaining the indigenous history and culture of Spanish New Mexico. \nMary Anne Redding\, curator of photography for the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors\, has put together the dual exhibition\, which is accompanied by a lecture series shared by the two venues. \nThe Albuquerque Museum will host a members-only preview on Friday\, Jan. 28\, at 5 pm. For press invitations\, contact Heather Shore at 505-338-8730; or 505-504-2009. Other events at The Albuquerque Museum include: \nSunday\, Jan. 30 \n1 pm: “Passionate Enterprises: Archives\, Photography & Collecting\,” lecture by Mary Anne Redding\, curator\, Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. \n1-3 pm: Bring\, scan and share your personal Polaroids on the instant online archive. \n3 pm: “Polaroid Minutes\,” performance by Ecotone Physical Theatre. \nSunday\, Feb. 13\, 1 pm: “Ansel Adams and Polaroid\,” lecture by Alan Ross\, photographer and assistant to Adams. \nSunday\, Feb. 27\, 1 pm: “How Polaroid Shaped Fine Art Photography\,” panel discussion by photographers Tom Barrow\, Joyce Neimanas\, Chris Enos and Sigfried Halus. Moderated Mary Anne Redding\, curator of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. \nSaturday\, March 12\, 1-4 pm: Family Day: Picture It! Explore how photographers see and create through engaging activities. Enjoy family scavenger hunts\, art projects and more. \nFriday\, March 18\, 6 pm (at the New Mexico History Museum) and Sunday\, March 20\, 1 pm (at The Albuquerque Museum): “Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land\,” lecture by Dr. Victor McElheny of MIT\, a noted science writer. \nSaturday\, April 9\, 8:30 am-7:30 pm: Churches of Northern New Mexico\, bus tour led by Albuquerque Museum Director Cathy Wright and Curator Andrew Connors from The Albuquerque Museum to Santa Fe. See the History Museum’s portion of the exhibit\, lunch at Rancho de Chimayó and visit several of the churches Waldrum photographed and painted. Reservations required; $55 members of The Albuquerque Museum or the Museum of New Mexico Foundation\, $60 nonmembers. Call 764-6517. \nFor downloadable\, high-resolution samples of Waldrum’s work\, click on “Go to related images” at the bottom of this page. \nEdwin H. Land\, the inventor of the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera\, spent more than $750 million to achieve “absolute one-step photography” and “dyes with unprecedented resistance to fading.” Land hired Ansel Adams to test Polaroid’s new cameras and film\, and many artists since have worked with various permutations of Polaroid technology\, among them: Robert Mapplethorpe\, Peter Beard\, David Hockney\, Andy Warhol\, David Levinthal\, Robert Frank\, Chuck Close\, Walker Evans\, Robert Rauschenberg\, Lucas Samaras\, William Wegman\, Joel Meyerowitz\, Mary Ellen Mark\, Olivia Parker\, Barbara Kasten\, Jan Groover and\, closer to home\, Thomas Barrow\, Chris Enos\, and Seigfried Halus. \nThe majority of Waldrum’s work consists of New Mexico’s adobe churches\, but also includes an extensive series of flowers. By altering the color behind the flowers\, Waldrum found he could change the colors of the petal by the reflected light. Also included are Polaroids of architectural details\, places and things the artists found compelling – his beloved mules\, horses\, dogs and cats\, fruits and vegetables\, and portraits of his family\, friends\, and lovers\, as well as a small series of self-portraits. \nIn his own words: \nThere is a beautiful place in the United States of America. It is in northern New Mexico between two mountain ranges. This place is called ’The Cradle.’ The people of this area have focused their collective thought on their churches. As an artist it is my job to distill that focus until it communicates. However\, my paintings of the Churches of northern New Mexico have nothing to do with my religious convictions. The churches were there\, they made wonderful shadows\, and they represent the collective aspirations of a devout and wonderful group of people. – H. Joe Waldrum (1934 – 2003) \n  \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/a-passionate-light-the-polaroids-of-h-joe-waldrum-2/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/882_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110130T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110410T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175233Z CREATED:20110130T170000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175233Z UID:10001375-1296381600-1302454800@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:882 -- A Passionate Light: The Polaroids of H. Joe Waldrum DESCRIPTION: URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/882-a-passionate-light-the-polaroids-of-h-joe-waldrum/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110123T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110509T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175233Z CREATED:20200430T065149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175233Z UID:10001376-1295776800-1304960400@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:A Noble Legacy: The USS New Mexico A soldier of World War II comes home DESCRIPTION:The proud history of the USS New Mexico stands front and center in La Ventana Gallery through May 9\, with A Noble Legacy: The USS “New Mexico.” The special exhibition includes a hand-crafted model of the New Mexico (BB-40)\, a battleship that saw significant action in World War II; items related to the new USS New Mexico (SSN-779)\, a nuclear submarine; photographs from both ships; and a short documentary by KNME-TV telling BB-40’s dramatic story. \n“The sailors who served onboard New Mexico (BB-40) are truly deserving of the recognition this exhibition provides\,” said George Perez\, commander of SSN-779\, who traveled to New Mexico for the exhibit’s opening ceremony. “Their legacy will continue to serve both the state and the nation onboard New Mexico (SSN-779) for decades to come.” \nThe History Museum’s collections include a 56-piece Tiffany service set\, originally commissioned by the state of New Mexico for the BB-40. Several of her pieces have been on display in the museum’s main exhibition\, Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now. Each piece was handcrafted to reflect different aspects of the state’s cultural heritage\, with engravings that detail events like Coronado’s expedition and a humidor in the shape of Taos Pueblo. \nAlso on display in Telling New Mexico is a piece of shrapnel from a attack and a diary kept by one of the crewmen. \nThe battleship\, commissioned in 1918\, served as a flagship of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and played vital roles during World War II. First sent to Pearl Harbor\, the ship was deployed to protect our eastern seaboard in mid-1941\, barely missing the attack on the Hawaiian port. In 1945\, during the pre-landing bombardment of Luzon\, the ship suffered a hit from a kamikaze plane\, killing the commanding officer and 29 crewmen. After repairs at Pearl Harbor\, the ship sailed to Okinawa for the invasion and\, on May 12\, was hit by a kamikaze plane and a bomb. The resulting fire killed 54 men and wounded 119; the remaining crewmen continued to fight. On Sept. 2\, 1945\, the ship and her crew entered Tokyo Bay to witness Japan’s surrender. \nThe ship was decommissioned on July 19\, 1946\, and sold for scrap the next year. For her World War II service\, the ship received six battle stars. \nCecil Whitson\, an engineer for Sandia National Laboratories\, began hand-crafting a 7½-foot model of the ship some years back. Every piece on the model was hand-fabricated by Whitson to scale\, including the anchor chain and anti-aircraft guns. The model mimics the ship’s 1944 incarnation. A recent illness stopped his work\, but fellow modeling enthusiast and U.S. Navy veteran Keith Liotta recently picked up the charge. \n“Once I saw it\, I said\, `There’s no way I’m going to let this die\,’” Liotta said. “It’s a tremendous piece of work in honor of people who fought for us through the war.” \nOnce completed\, the model of BB-40 will be donated to the History Museum. \nThe SSN-779 was commissioned last year and it carries two of the Tiffany plates from the original ship’s collection\, on loan from the History Museum. \n“When the Navy named one of its new fast-attack nuclear submarines after New Mexico\, it bestowed a great honor upon our state\,” said Dick Brown\, chairman of the USS New Mexico Commissioning Committee\, which worked hard to persuade the Navy to name the submarine for our state. “USS New Mexico (SSN-779) is a tribute to all who served onboard our namesake battleship and is a salute to all New Mexicans who have served\, and are serving\, in our Armed Forces.” \nHigh-resolution photos: Click on “Go to related images” below. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/891-a-noble-legacy-the-uss-new-mexico-a-soldier-of-world-war-ii-comes-home/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/891_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20101119T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110320T050000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175232Z CREATED:20101020T000320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175232Z UID:10001372-1290157200-1300597200@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Case Studies From The Bureau Of Contemporary Art DESCRIPTION:The New Mexico Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works from its Bureau of Contemporary Art\, a fictitious entity created for this exhibition in order to emphasize contemporary art’s prominent place within the museum’s permanent collection. Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art will be on view November 19\, 2010 through March 20\, 2011. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/858-case-studies-from-the-bureau-of-contemporary-art/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/858_thumb.jpg GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20101017T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110109T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175231Z CREATED:20200430T045219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175231Z UID:10001367-1287309600-1294592400@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:El Hilo de la Memoria: España y los Estados Unidos The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n \nThe New Mexico History Museum and Department of Cultural Affairs proudly announce that El Archivo General de Indias (the General Archive of the Indies) in Seville\, Spain\, has chosen Santa Fe for the American debut of El Hilo de la Memoria  (“The Threads of Memory”) an exhibit of rare documents\, illustrations and maps detailing Spain’s early presence in North America. \nThe exhibit – nearly 140 documents spanning Ponce de León’s first contact in Florida through New Mexico’s incorporation as a U.S. Territory – will premiere in the museum’s Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery from Oct. 17\, 2010\, to Jan. 9\, 2011\, before traveling to the El Paso Museum of History and the Historic New Orleans Collection. \nThe exhibition is sponsored by the Fundación Rafael del Pino and\, along with the Archivo General de Indias (General Archive of the Indies)\, is co-organized with the State Corporation for the Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior\, or SEACEX)\, in collaboration with Spain’s Ministries for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Culture. \nIn New Mexico\, the exhibition and lecture series are presented with special support from BBVA Compass Bank\, the city of Santa Fe\, Wells Fargo Bank\, Heritage Hotels\, Santa Fe University of Art & Design and the Palace Guard. \nA full set of lectures and performances accompanies the exhibit. See schedule below. \n“As Santa Fe celebrates its 400th anniversary this year\, this exhibit underscores a part of American history too often overlooked in our classrooms\,” said Dr. Frances Levine\, director of the New Mexico History Museum. “Before Jamestown was settled and long before Western Expansion defined us\, Spanish explorers began documenting and colonizing the nation. They gave Europeans some of their first glimpses of a far-away land and planted the seeds of a culture that flourishes today.” \n“It is fitting that this singular and historically significant exhibition from Spain debut in New Mexico’s high-profile new state History Museum\,” said Department of Cultural Affairs Secretary Stuart Ashman.  “What better place to further understand Spain’s impact in North America than in the shadow of the venerable Palace of the Governors\, where much of Spain’s influence in our nation began.” \nMost of the documents have never been seen in North America. Their journey to Santa Fe began when Tom Aageson\, director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation\, was visiting museums in Spain in 2008 as a guest of the Spanish Embassy. After seeing El Hilo\, he urged Dr. Levine to see it\, too. Equally impressed\, she and Secretary Ashman joined Aageson in conversations with Spanish officials\, who were considering which U.S. museums to display the exhibit and liked the idea of staging it during Santa Fe’s 400th anniversary celebration. \n“This is truly a national story\,” Aageson said. “The University of New Mexico’s library only has copies of these documents\, and a retired librarian told me she could not believe they were releasing the originals from Spain.” \nJames T. Ortiz\, a trustee of the foundation and a direct descendant of Beatriz Ortiz\, who came to Spain’s far northern colony from Mexico City in 1598\, said the exhibit holds special meaning for his family. \n“Over our 14 generations\, few family members had the chance to return to Old Spain or were even aware that such a collection existed\,” he said. “To be able to spend time with so much of our ancestors’ history is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Of all the recorded history in all of the world and in all of the museums\, archives and national vaults\, none has the significance for my family as this singular exhibition.” \nThe exhibit\, which will be presented in Spanish and English and includes a newly published catalogue\, features such documents as Pedro de Peralta’s orders to establish Santa Fe\, a letter signed by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado detailing his travels through the Tiguex province\, and documents that detail the aid given by Spain to the United States during the Revolutionary. A small illustration of a buffalo\, drawn in 1598 by Vicente Zaldivar\, introduced Europeans to an animal whose herds then covered hundreds of miles. \nAlso accompanying the exhibit is a full schedule of lectures and performances. Events in The Threads of Memory Lecture Series are free with museum admission. (Fridays 5-8 pm free to everyone; Sundays free to NM residents; children 16 and under always free.) The events will be held in the museum auditorium\, unless otherwise noted. The schedule: \nSunday\, Oct. 17 \n1:30-3 pm: “Setting the Context of El Hilo de la Memoria: Cartography of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro\,” lecture by Dr. Luis Laorden of Madrid\, Spain. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Trail Association. \nFriday\, Oct. 22 \n6 pm: Tomás Lozano and ¡Viva la Pepa! in concert. Lozano is a singer\, musician\, scholar and writer\, born in Barcelona. With his wife\, Rima Montoya\, and Juan Wijngaard and Sharon Berman\, he performs as part of ¡Viva la Pepa! \nSunday\, Oct. 24 \n2 pm: “Following the Paper Trail: The Daily Life of a Spanish Colonial Document\,” lecture by Dr. Alfred E. Lemmon\, an authority on French and Spanish colonial history. Lemmon is director of the Williams Research Center at the Historic New Orleans Collection and is its curator of manuscripts. \nSunday\, Oct. 31 \n2 pm: “Finding New Mexico in El Hilo de la Memoria\,” lecture by Jerry L. Gurule and Enrique Lamadrid. Gurule\, retired historian-linguist for the National Park Service\, has conducted research in various archives in Spain and Mexico\, including the Archivo General de Indias in Sevilla. His publications include articles\, books and other works on Spanish colonial history. Lamadrid is a literary folklorist and cultural historian known for his work on Indo-Hispano cultural traditions\, ballads\, folk music\, and literary recovery projects. \nSaturday\, Nov. 6 \n2 pm: “Por el Amor de Papel: For the Love of Paper\,” a demonstration by Tom Leech\, curator and director of the Palace of the Governors’ Print Shop and Bindery. Leech has more than 35 years experience in printing\, papermaking and related book arts; he demonstrated paper marbling at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. (This event begins in the exhibit space and moves to the classroom.) \nSunday\, Nov. 7 \n2 pm: “An Afternoon with Pedro Menéndez\,” performance by Chaz Mena\, a New York-based actor\, scholar and Chautauqua performer\, on Pedro Menéndez de Aviles\, first governor of Florida. \nFriday\, Nov. 12 \n6 pm: “Scientists in New Spain: Eighteenth-Century Expeditions\,” lecture by Dr. Iris Engstrand\, a California-based historian recently awarded the prestigious medal of the Order of Isabel la Católica by King Juan Carlos of Spain for her contributions to the history of Spain in the Americas. \nSunday\, Nov. 21 \n2 pm: “Murder\, Martyrdom\, and the Struggle for La Florida: Rethinking Spanish Florida’s Mission History\, 1565-1606\,” lecture by Dr. J. Michael Francis\, a history professor at the University of North Florida and the Jay I. Kislak scholar at the Library of Congress\, where he will be scholar-in-residence for the 2010-2011 academic year. \nSunday\, Dec. 19 \n2 pm: “Navio Quebrado: The Wreck of La Belle and the Failed French Colony in the Southwest\,” lecture by Eric Ray\, a maritime archaeologist working on the La Belle project at the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. \nSunday\, Jan. 2 \n2 pm: “Instrumental Music from the Age of Discovery\,” performance by composer\, guitarist and educator Greg Schneider\, teaching artist and former artist-in-residence with the Santa Fe Opera. \nSunday\, Jan. 9 \n2 pm: “Tejiendo el Hilo: Weaving the Threads of History\,” lecture by New Mexico State Historian Rick Hendricks. \n  \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/674-el-hilo-de-la-memoria-espana-y-los-estados-unidos-the-threads-of-memory-spain-and-the-united-states/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/674_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20101001T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110123T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175232Z CREATED:20200430T044450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175232Z UID:10001370-1285927200-1295802000@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Imagining Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to Colonial New Spain Exploring various views of the Mexican Conquest DESCRIPTION: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. \nFrom Oct. 1 through Jan. 23\, 2011\, the History Museum’s Triangle Gallery will present Imagining Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to Colonial New Spain\, an original exhibit featuring books\, prints and maps from the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library’s John Bourne Collection of Meso-Americana\, the Rare Books Collection\, and the Map Collection. Created mainly for people who would never cross the Atlantic but live their adventures vicariously\, the works formed perceptions – fictitious at times – of the land of Cortés\, Moctezuma\, amazing temples and important battles. \nAn opening reception will be held from 5:30-7 pm on Friday\, Oct. 1. The Museum of New Mexico Women’s Board will serve light refreshments in the museum lobby. \n“Beginning shortly after the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan\, the story of the Conquest of Mexico has been told and retold countless times\, in both word and image\,” said Khristaan D. Villela\, scholar-in-residence at the museum and a curator of Imagining Mexico. “Each version built upon and elaborated those before\, resulting in a range of imaginations of the Conquest and ancient Mexico that are reflections\, and sometimes refractions.” \nThe players in the conquest and European colonization of Mexico had direct ties to what would later be called New Mexico. Juan de Oñate married a woman who was Cortés’ granddaughter and the great-granddaughter of Moctezuma II\, the Aztec emperor. Cortés’ most steadfast allies\, the Tlaxcalans\, are reputed to have accompanied the first colonizers of New Mexico as mercenaries who settled near the San Miguel church in the Barrio of Analco. (In Nahuatl\, Analco means “near the water.”) \nNew Mexico’s history parallels Mexico’s in its cycles of conquest and colonization. Descendents of both Native peoples and colonizers continue to inhabit both places in large numbers\, and we do not agree on our history. The books\, prints\, and maps in this exhibition show that history is in flux\, and that one generation’s image of the Aztecs was\, in the next\, deemed inaccurate and fanciful. \nAmong the items on display: \nImages of the Aztec Templo Mayor. The main shrine in the capital of Tenochtitlan\, the Templo Mayor’s size and appearance was forgotten soon after the last battles of the conquest in 1521. Some of the images show it with twin staircases and shrines; others imagine a vast platform with staircases around its base – a veritable Tower of Babel. The variance between the images epitomizes the range of interpretations about the conquest and Pre-Columbian Mexico. \nEarly maps of New Spain. A 1769 map by Antonio Alzate of Mexico was one of the earliest to use the names Texas and California (though it shows the latter as an island). An 1803 map by Alexander von Humboldt of Germany shows the route of El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe. \nFour images from Lienzo de Tlaxcala. Originally painted on a large linen sheet in 1550\, the Lienzo tells the story of the conquest from the point of view of the Tlaxcalans\, native Mexicans whose alliance with Cortés was perhaps the deciding factor in his victory over Moctezuma II and the Aztec Empire. Besides the four images\, the complete Lienzo de Tlaxcala Codex will be presented digitally in the exhibit. \nThe first book about the Aztec Calendar Stone. Buried about 1550 by order of the Archbishop of Mexico\, the stone was rediscovered in 1790 in Mexico City. A proposal to turn it into a cathedral step to symbolize the triumph of Christianity over the pagan Aztecs was rejected after authorities became convinced it was an astronomical and mathematical device worthy of preservation. It was\, in fact\, a sacrificial altar commissioned by Moctezuma II\, and remains the best-known Native American artwork of the period. \nThe exhibit also presents the first engraving of the sculpture\, made by a Mexican artist best-known for his images of the Virgin Mary and Catholic saints. \n“These are amazing books with even more amazing prints and fold-out maps hidden between their covers showing Spain’s – and by extension Europe’s – understanding of the new world\,” said Tomas Jaehn\, director of the Chávez History Library. \nBeyond their content\, the books themselves stand as impressive artifacts. \n“The books in this well-preserved collection\, some in their original bindings and some beautifully re-bound\, along with their fine marbled and handmade papers\, are beautiful examples book-making history\,” said Tom Leech\, curator of the Palace Press. \nPart of Imagining Mexico’s run coincides with another History Museum exhibit\, Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States\, featuring nearly 140 rare documents\, maps\, prints and paintings on loan from Spain from Oct. 17-Jan. 9\, 2011. Taken together\, the exhibits portray how European explorers and colonists interpreted what they found here. \nThe Triangle Gallery is on the mezzanine level of the museum\, next to the Auditorium. \nTo download high-resolution images from this exhibit\, click on “Go to Related Images” below. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/821-imagining-mexico-from-the-aztec-empire-to-colonial-new-spain-exploring-various-views-of-the-mexican-conquest/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/821_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100813T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100813T100000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175233Z CREATED:20101104T042142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175233Z UID:10001374-1281693600-1281693600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Drip Tease: John Tinker’s Narrative Sculptures DESCRIPTION:In Drip Tease John Tinker challenges the public with sixteen sculptures that offer droll comments about politics\, survival\, and popular culture. These works focus on the contradictions of the present moment through allusions to liquids that leak\, ooze\, or pool. Materials that melt provide the perfect medium for demonstrating the transitory nature of contemporary life. \n  \n Drip Tease opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art August 13\, 2010 and runs through January 9\, 2011. URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/868-drip-tease-john-tinkers-narrative-sculptures/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100813T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100813T100000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175233Z CREATED:20101104T041816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175233Z UID:10001373-1281693600-1281693600@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Traces: Johnnie Winona Ross DESCRIPTION:Place and process are integral to the works of Arroyo Seco artist Johnnie Winona Ross\, who is known for his reductive and luminous paintings that are comprised of layers upon layers of paint brushed\, dripped\, scraped and burnished to an extraordinary finish. The exhibition opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art August 13\, 2010 and runs through January 10\, 2011 URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/867-traces-johnnie-winona-ross/ LOCATION:New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building\, 107 West Palace Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition GEO:35.6878097;-105.9381003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=107 West Palace Avenue:geo:-105.9381003,35.6878097 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100704T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110508T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175231Z CREATED:20160318T031242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175231Z UID:10001368-1278237600-1304874000@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities DESCRIPTION:Inaugural exhibition opening the Gallery of Conscience\, guest curated by Dr. Suzanne K. Seriff\, Chair of the International Folk Art Market’s Artist Selection Committee. Dr. Marsha Bol\, Director Emeritus of the Museum of International Folk Art explained the concept of the gallery of conscience “As the largest folk art museum in the world\, there is a responsibility to create a forum to discuss current issues that folk artists are facing around the world. This Gallery of Conscience is devoted to the examination of issues that threaten the survival of the traditional arts\, bringing them to the attention of our visitors.” All of the cooperatives featured in the exhibit had artist booths at the 2010 International Folk Art Market| Santa Fe. Exhibition highlights included weaving\, beadwork\, painting\, baskets\, embroidery and other traditional folk arts from Bolivia\, Rwanda\, Peru\, Swaziland\, India\, Kenya\, Laos\, South Africa\, Morocco and Nepal.  The exhibition closed in Santa Fe May 8\, 2011  and then began to travel through Guest Curator URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/682-empowering-women-artisan-cooperatives-that-transform-communities/ LOCATION:Museum of International Folk Art\, 706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87504\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/empowering.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Rebecca Ward":MAILTO:rebecca.ward@state.nm.us GEO:35.6641155;-105.9265695 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill Santa Fe NM 87504 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill:geo:-105.9265695,35.6641155 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100606T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110106T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175231Z CREATED:20160322T044200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175231Z UID:10001364-1275818400-1294333200@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda DESCRIPTION:In the mountain town of Taxco in Mexico’s state of Guerrero\, large-scale mining can be dated to the sixteenth century\, and silver is a way of life. In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910–20)\, jewelry and other silver objects were crafted there with an entirely innovative approach\, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity. Antonio Pineda was a member of the Taxco School and is recognized as a world-class designer.  He lived a long and creative life\, passing away at the age of 90 on December 14\, 2009. \n Nearly two hundred examples of Pineda’s acclaimed silver work were displayed in Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda\, a traveling exhibition opening at the Museum of International Folk Art June 6\, 2010 through January 2\, 2011. \nFrom its inception\, the Taxco movement broke new ground in technical achievement and design. While American- born\, Taxco-based designer William Spratling has been credited with spearheading the contemporary Taxco silver movement\, it was a group of talented Mexican designers who went on to establish independent workshops and develop the distinctive “Taxco School.” Pineda\, internationally renown for his silver work identified himself primarily as a taxqueño\, or Taxco\, silversmith. These designers incorporated numerous aesthetic orientations—Pre-Columbian art\, silverwork\, religious images\, and other artwork from the Mexican Colonial period\, and local popular arts—merging them within the broad spectrum of modernism. \nPineda himself is lauded for his bold designs and ingenious use of gemstones. Silver Seduction traced the evolution of his work from the 1930s–70s\, and included more than a hundred necklaces and bracelets\, as well as numerous rings\, earrings\, and diverse examples of his hollowware and tableware. All of the works feature Pineda’s hard-to-achieve combination of highly refined execution and hand-wrought appeal. \nPineda’s jewelry is especially known for its elegant acknowledgment of the human form. It is often said that a Pineda fits the body perfectly\, that it feels right when it is worn. For example\, a thick geometric necklace that might at first glance seem too weighty or rigid to wear comfortably is\, in fact\, faceted\, hinged\, or hollowed in such a way that it gracefully encircles the neck or drapes seductively down the décolletage. \n In addition\, no other taxqueño jeweler used as many costly semiprecious stones or set them with as much ingenuity\, skill\, and variety as did Pineda. Only the most talented of silversmiths could master the unique challenges posed by setting gemstones in silver at the high temperature necessary to work the metal. Pineda\, however\, managed to set gems with as little metal touching them as possible\, giving them a free or floating look while still holding them firmly in place. In Pineda’s hands\, some stones were embedded; rows of gems were set close together to emphasize the structural lines of a design; or stones were cut to fit irregular shapes in a design. Pineda often used cultured pearls\, large amethyst drops\, and onyx in his designs\, many examples of which are on display in the exhibition. \nThe remarkable creativity of this “Silver Renaissance” era represents a unique moment in the design of Mexican jewelry. Pineda’s and his colleagues’ modernist works lives on today in Taxco with a thriving industry in silver smithing. \nSilver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda and its publication are made possible through the generosity of the Donald B. Cordry Memorial Fund and Jill and Barry Kitnick.  The exhibition was developed by the curatorial team of the Fowler Museum with consulting curator Gobi Stromberg. All works presented are either from the collections of Cindy Tietze and Stuart Hodosh or the Fowler Museum at UCLA.  Exhibition images may be found at http://media.museumofnewmexico.org/. \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/656-silver-seduction-the-art-of-mexican-modernist-antonio-pineda-the-art-of-mexican-modernist-antonio-pineda/ LOCATION:Museum of International Folk Art\, 706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87504\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/silver-seduction.jpg GEO:35.6641155;-105.9265695 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill Santa Fe NM 87504 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=706 Camino Lejo\, on Museum Hill:geo:-105.9265695,35.6641155 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100523T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110508T170000 DTSTAMP:20230614T175231Z CREATED:20200428T050853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T175231Z UID:10001363-1274608800-1304874000@test-dca-mc.nmdca.net SUMMARY:Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton How One Wolf’s Death Led to a Century of Wildlife Conservation DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n \nWild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton dedicates itself to telling the often overlooked story of the conservationist\, author\, artist\, lecturer and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Ernest Thompson Seton’s impact on America’s conservation movement was immeasurable but\, today is largely forgotten. Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton sets out to change that. \nRunning through May 8\, 2011\, this original exhibition replaces Fashioning New Mexico in the museum’s second-floor Albert and Ethel Herzstein Changing Exhibitions Gallery. It’s accompanied by a catalog\, Ernest Thompson Seton\, The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist (Gibbs Smith\, Publisher\, 2010)\, with a foreword written by Sir David Attenborough. \nCurated by New Mexico art historian David L. Witt\, director of the Seton Legacy Project for the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe\, Wild at Heart marks the first major exhibition about Seton. Most of the art and artifacts – more than 30 original paintings and drawings by Seton\, books\, personal memorabilia\, and photographs – have been seldom if ever seen. Most of the items on loan to the exhibit come from the Academy for the Love of Learning and from the Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial Library at the Philmont Ranch in Cimarron\, N.M. \nBorn in England in 1860\, Seton moved to Canada with his family when he was six\, and eventually settled in the United States as an adult. As a young man\, he immersed himself in the study of the natural world\, becoming one of the first important experts on animal behavior. Schooled in fine art\, Seton was a prolific writer and illustrator. \nIn 1893\, Seton was sent to Clayton\, N.M.\, by an Easterner who owned the L Cross F in the northeastern part of the state. Seton’s assignment: track and kill marauding wolves. After a brutal encounter with a wild wolf named “Lobo\,” Seton experienced a profound change of heart. He wrote “The King of Currumpaw\, A Wolf Story\,” published to worldwide acclaim in Scribner’s Magazine the following year. Through that story\, Seton invented the genre of the realistic animal story\, portraying animals as they actually live in the wild and changing forever the way Americans looked at nature. \n“Seton is a godfather to today’s environmental movement\, as important to the early development of wildlife conservation as John Muir is to wilderness preservation\,” Witt said. \nIn 1902\, Seton founded an outdoor youth-education program known as “Woodcraft” that provided a model for all subsequent summer camps in the United States. In 1910\, Seton co-founded the Boy Scouts of America. \n“His contributions to the environmental movement and to science\, literature\, art and youth education have enriched the lives of hundreds of millions of boys\, girls and their families for more than a century\,” said Witt\, who himself earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1967. \nSeton was the most important and technically accomplished wildlife illustrator since Audubon\, and his concepts for bird identification influence the field guides of Roger Tory Peterson and others. In all\, Seton wrote some 40 books and more than 1\,000 magazine articles and short stories\, and drew or painted some 6\,000 works of art. His book Wild Animals I Have Known has been continuously in print since it was first published in 1898. (Rudyard Kipling once wrote to Seton that the book inspired him to write the Jungle Books; in his foreword to the Seton catalog\,  Attenborough recounts receiving a copy of the book at the age of 8: “I still have it. It was the most precious book of my childhood.”) \nMuch of Seton’s understanding of nature came not from Western science\, but from his extensive studies with First Nations peoples in Canada. Seton was a vocal supporter of Native people’s political rights and a passionate advocate for the study of their culture\, ethics and history. \nIn 1930\, Seton moved to a 2\,500-acre ranch in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains outside of Santa Fe\, founding the Seton Village neighborhood\, where he lived until his death in 1946. He designed Seton Castle as his residence on the property\, which included a museum\, library\, art gallery and library/lecture hall for the Seton Village community that developed as friends and colleagues settled on the original property. It was there that Seton established his final educational project\, the College of Indian Wisdom (later\, the Seton Institute). Classes focused on the arts\, crafts and ethics of Native peoples. \nThe Academy undertook the Seton Legacy Project after acquiring Seton’s house and remaining art collections in 2003. In 2005\, a fire devastated the castle\, leaving only a shell. But the Academy has continued its work\, and as part of Wild at Heart will host tours of the castle and village from 10 am to 1 pm Aug. 14\, Oct. 9\, 2010\, and April 9\, 2011. A one-day workshop\, “The Wilderness in Your Heart\,” will be held from 10 am to 4 pm on Sept. 18\, 2010\, and March 5\, 2011. For details\, go to www.aloveoflearning.org. \nThis fall\, the Academy will unveil the Seton Castle Contemplative Gardens\, the Ernest Thompson Seton Gallery\, and the new Center\, a LEED-registered\, environmentally responsible facility. \nParticipants in the Seton Legacy Project include Seton family members\, historians and others\, including Witt\, a naturalist\, writer\, historian and museum curator who has studied the Seton legacy for more than 35 years. He assisted on the BBC/PBS Nature television series feature called Lobo\, The Wolf That Changed America\, which premiered in both the U.S. and the U.K. in 2008. \nFunding for the exhibit was made possible by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs; Academy for the Love of Learning; National Park Service/Save Our Treasures Grant Program; Museum of New Mexico Foundation; New Mexico History Museum Opening Gala Committee; Phyllis and Edward Gladden Endowment Fund; Herzstein Family Endowment Fund; and the Palace Guard. \nWild at Heart lectures and workshops: \nSaturday\, May 22\, 2010\, noon to 2 pm: Meet the winged and four-footed envoys from The Wildlife Center in Espanola\, one of the largest and most successful rehabilitation services of its kind in New Mexico. (Sneak peek of the Wild at Heart exhibit 12-5 pm.) Free admission to the museum. \nSunday\, May 23\, 2010: \n12-4 pm: First anniversary celebration in the Palace of the Governors Courtyard. Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary will bring wolf ambassadors\, with a program at 1:30 pm. Free. \n2-4 pm: Opening reception hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico; booksigning of Ernest Thompson Seton: The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist with author and guest curator David L. Witt. Free admission to the museum. \nSaturday\, July 10\, 2010: 10 am – 1 pm: Nature journaling workshop for children 10-14 with Margy O’Brien. Call 505-476-5106 for reservations and materials; free with museum admission. \nSaturday\, July 17\, 2010\, 10 am – 5 pm: Nature journaling workshop for adults with Margy O’Brien. Call 505-476-5106 for reservations and materials; free with museum admission. \nSaturday\, Aug. 14\, 2010\, 10 am – 1 pm:  Celebrate Seton’s 150th birthday with tours of the ruins of his castle and campfire tales. Join guest curator David L. Witt and Academy for the Love of Learning staff in Seton Village. Call 505-995-1860 for reservations; free. \nSaturday\, Oct. 9\, 2010\, 10 am – 1 pm: Seton Castle tours. Join guest curator David L. Witt and learn how the Academy for the Love of Learning is carrying on the Seton legacy in Seton Village. Call 505-995-1860 for reservations; free. \nSaturday\, Oct. 9\, 2010\, 1 – 2 pm: Zoo to You. Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Zoo brings its interactive educational program about wildlife conservation to the museum classroom with animal bones\, pelts\, feathers and more. Free with museum admission. \nSaturday\, Nov. 13\, 2010\, 10:30 am: Storyteller Joe Hayes brings his talents to the Wild at Heart exhibit area. Nationally recognized for his stories about American Indian\, Hispanic and Anglo cultures\, Hayes is a bilingual author and storyteller. Free with museum admission. \nSaturday\, Dec. 18\, 2010\, 10:30 am: Storyteller Sunny Dooley tells American Indian Din’e stories in the Wild at Heart exhibit space. Free with museum admission. \nSaturday\, Jan. 15\, 2011\, 10:30 am: Storyteller Nasario Garcia shares stories of yesteryear — “Tales of My Childhood: Rattling Chains\, Flying Goats and Talking Lizards” — in the Wild at Heart exhibit space. Free with museum admission. \nSaturday\, April 9\, 2011\, 9 am: Urban Bird Hike in downtown Santa Fe with the Randall Davey Audubon Center. Call 505-476- 5106 for reservations; free. \nSaturday\, April 9\, 2011\, 10 am – 1 pm: Seton Castle tours. Join guest curator David L. Witt and learn how the Academy for the Love of Learning staff is carrying on the Seton legacy in Seton Village. Call 505-995-1860 for reservations; free. \nFriday\, April 29\, 2011\, 6 pm: William deBuys on “Growing Up with Uncle Ernest’s Wildlife Stories\,” a lecture in the History Museum Auditorium. Free with museum admission (Sundays free to NM residents). \nSunday\, May 1\, 2011\, 2 pm: Guest curator David L. Witt on “Woodmythe & Fable: A Look Back at an Artist-Naturalist\,” a lecture in the History Museum Auditorium. Free with museum admission (Sundays free to NM residents). \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/dca-event/644-wild-at-heart-ernest-thompson-seton-how-one-wolfs-death-led-to-a-century-of-wildlife-conservation/ LOCATION:New Mexico History Museum\, 113 Lincoln Avenue\, Santa Fe\, NM\, 87501\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test-dca-mc.nmdca.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/644_1200.jpg GEO:35.6883465;-105.9381345 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue Santa Fe NM 87501 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=113 Lincoln Avenue:geo:-105.9381345,35.6883465 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR