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The Piñata Exhibit (Sure to be a Smash Hit!)

National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

The Piñata Exhibit (Sure to be a Smash Hit!) celebrates this popular art form with over 175 examples from Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. Traditional and iconic works, alongside creations by contemporary piñata artists, illustrate how piñatas maintain their historical and social importance while also reflecting transnational shifts in popular, political, and […]

Syria: Cultural Patrimony Under Threat

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

As Syria’s ongoing civil war, staggering death toll, and displacement of thousands of refugees threatens to destroy Syrian culture, the Palace of the Governors will display seven albums of photographs of historic sites in Syria taken between 1899 and 1909. Entitled Syria: Cultural Patrimony Under Threat, the exhibition will includes a multi-functional information kiosk with […]

Quilts of Southwest China

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

In southwest China, traditional bed coverings, clothing, and household items have long been made from patched and appliqued scraps to create artistic and functional textiles. A bi-national consortium of American and Chinese museums has worked together to document and research these quilts, an art form little known outside certain ethnic minority communities. Although the making and […]

On the Wing The Avian Photography of Nirmala Khandan

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM, United States

“On the Wing: The Avian Photography of Nirmala Khandan” is on display in the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum’s Arts Corridor through Dec. 3. Khandan began photographing birds in his native Sri Lanka before moving to Las Cruces 17 years ago. The drastic change in environment made his artistic journey challenging and fun. […]

Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West

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

Footwear is evocative. The shoe tells us if the wearer was a child or an adult, and can often tell us whether they were an adult man or woman, based on size and style. Shoes retain signs of the wearer, showing imprints of toes and heels and repairs made as much-needed or much-loved footwear became […]

Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts exhibition

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

The Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts were established in 1974 by Governor Bruce King and First Lady Alice King to celebrate the significant roles – both economic and cultural – that artists, craftspeople and arts supporters play in the life of New Mexico. The 2017 recipients of this life time achievement award are: Bayou […]

A Mexican Mirror Prints of the Taller de Gráfica Popular

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

Following the Mexican Revolution, artists came to see the ancient and folk art of Mexico in new light. Building on the foundation of their predecessors Jose Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla, the new generation printmakers of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, or the “People’s Graphic Workshop,” used their craft to promote the “progressive and democratic […]

Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar

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

From the 1880s into the early 20th century, cigar manufacturers provided an avenue for the lithographic arts to flourish. Layering up to 10 colors in a stone-lithography process and even adding gold embellishments and stamped embossings, the images sold cigars through romantic landscapes, Western adventures, and iconic representations of women. Historian Loy Glenn Westfall recently […]

Points Through Time

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

Projectile points are one of the most iconic images of archaeology in the American Southwest. This exhibition focuses on some of the projectile points that are commonly found here in New Mexico from Paleoindian times (13,500 years ago), through the Archaic, and into Puebloan times (1,260 to 110 years ago) as well as some of […]

Alzheimer’s Poetry Marble Paper Project

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

Three hands-on workshops on creating marbled paper were led by Tom Leech, curator of the Press at the Palace of the Governors, and took place at Art Street in Albuquerque, and Santa Fe Cares and Sierra Vista in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The artists and poets created original group poems inspired by the marble paper […]

Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art

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

Drawn primarily from the New Mexico Museum of Art’s extensive collection, Horizons shows the wide and dynamic range of styles, personalities, cultures, and forms that visual creative expression took in the 20th century, and combines to show the heart of a land that became a major center for artistic expression in a remarkable period of […]

Contact: Local to Global

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

Contact: Local to Global, like the other centennial exhibitions, highlights the engagement of artists with New Mexico, the Museum of Art with artists and collectors, and New Mexico’s engagement with the national and international arts community. Additionally the exhibition looks beyond those very literal intersections and implicates larger ideas about contact such as our engagement […]

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