• Museum Hill Community Day Bead Demo and Project, INNASTATE, Acoma Rain Dance

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

    Join us for the annual Museum Hill Community Day celebration! MIAC kicks off events at 10am, with our Native Treasures Collectors Sale. Other events include: 12 - 4: Make you own bead/s with polymer clay! 1pm: INNASTATE - Santa Fe’s contemporary reggae band performs 2pm: Acoma Rain Dance Group performs 3pm: INNASTATE - Santa Fe’s […]

  • Fourth Annual Museum Hill Community Day A collaborative event

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

    Join six Museum Hill partners for a traditional Matanza pig roast, Native dances, storytelling, bead sale and exchange, hands‑on activities, artist demonstrations, refreshments, and more! Admission and all hands-on activities are FREE for New Mexico residents and guests alike. 10:00 AM • Sky City Buffalo Elk Dance Group (Acoma Pueblo). Wheelwright Museum of the American […]

  • Pueblo Textiles and Embroideries Lecture

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

    Join Brian Vallo, Director of the Indian Arts Research Center, and a panel of former SAR Native American Artist Fellows as they explore the history and evolution of textile arts in Pueblo communities. Panel includes: Louie Garcia from the Prio Manso Tiwa tribe of Guadalupe Pueblo in Las Cruces, known for revitalizing historic pueblo weaving […]

  • ”Los Alamos Revisited: A Workers’ History”

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

    Join Chimayo author Peter Malmgren in a discussion of his new book, incorporating collected oral histories from Hispanic families displaced from their lives on the Pajarito Plateau, and the hundreds of unsung workers who helped to build and staff the Manhattan Project and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in its early years. Free Auditorium event […]

  • Dig Giusewa. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday between August 16 and October 6, 9AM – 3PM.

    Jemez Historic Site 18160 NM-4, Jemez Springs, NM, United States

      WHAT: Dig Giusewa. WHERE: Jemez Historic Site, 18160 Hwy 4, Jemez Springs, NM 87025. WHEN: Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday between August 16 and October 6, 9AM – 3PM. DESCRIPTION: Explore the ruins of Giusewa Pueblo with archaeologists from New Mexico Historic Sites and Native American tribal members from Jemez Pueblo. Watch as they […]

  • Palace in the Raw “A Future-Oriented Preservation”

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

    A Future-Oriented Preservation Is this an oxymoron? Can historic preservation be more about the future than the past? Atkin Olshin Schade Architects (Santa Fe, NM and Philadelphia, PA) believes so. Shawn Evans, AIA, Principal of AOS Architects, will explain their innovative approach to historic preservation and discuss the exhibition of their work currently up in […]

  • A Gathering for Gus

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

    The New Mexico History Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art host a two day-symposium commemorating the 100th Anniversary of artist Gustave Baumann’s arrival in New Mexico. “A Gathering for Gus” will be held Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, 2018 at the two museums located just off the Plaza in Santa Fe. Baumann […]

  • Gathering for Gus 2-Day Symposium Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Artist Gustave Baumann’s arrival in New Mexico

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

    .The New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection of more than 1,700 works by Baumann is the largest holding of the artist’s work in any public collection and illustrates Baumann’s breadth of artistic interest. Additionally, the New Mexico History Museum and its Press at the Palace of the Governors focuses on the artist’s process with a […]

  • Good Company: Five Artist Communities in New Mexico

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

    Since the end of the nineteenth century, when some of the first academically trained artists began to settle in Taos, later forming the Taos Society of Artists, New Mexico has continued to provide fertile ground for artists to gather together and create a forum for their individual visions. The role of artist communities in New […]

  • Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Poetry and Bookmaking Party

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

    Hosted by the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) and the New Mexico History Museum. The featured reader Santa Fe poet and winner of the 2017 Lummox Poetry Award, Mary McGinnis, will talk about her experience in being the guest artist for the APP. McGinnis led two workshops at local assisted living centers for people living with […]

  • Friends of History Lecture Series New Mexico, Slavery, and the Confederate Cause

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

    The election of 1860 turned on the issue of the expansion of slavery into the western territories–especially into the New Mexico Territory. Following Lincoln’s election, the white South, believing a Republican president would abolish the institution of slavery throughout the country, panicked and began making plans to secede. The 8,000 pages of documents produced by […]

  • Library Open House Legacy of the UNM Photography Department

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

    New Mexico’s landscape and culture have drawn photographers to the State since the invention of the medium, but it was the University of New Mexico that convinced photographers to stay here. The list of former students and faculty at UNM includes Beaumont Newhall, Patrick Nagatani, Joyce Neimanas and Joel-Peter Witkin to name just a few. The New Mexico Museum of Art Library […]