Friday June 8th will offer a once in a lifetime opportunity for Navajo and Mescalero Apache visitors to shape a museum’s interpretation of their cultural history. On Saturday, June 9th visitors will have a chance to participate in a recreation of the Navajo return to the homeland to promote solidarity and reconciliation. Also on […]
Join us for an in gallery discussion of Frederick Hammersley’s computer drawings from the late 1960’s with Nancy Zastudil, administrative director of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation. Zastudil will discuss these early examples of an artist working with a computer to create original artwork. In 1968, after Frederick Hammersley moved to Albuquerque, he took an Art1 […]
Saturday nights this June and July by students from the Hummingbird Music Camp performing at the Jemez Historic site in Jemez Springs. The concerts will happen every Saturday night between May 26 and July 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. San Jose de los Jemez Mission.
Marjorie Devon, former Director of the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, and the Museum’s Head of Curatorial Affairs, Merry Scully, discuss Frederick Hammersley’s lithography. Free with cost of admission, NM residents 60+ free with ID Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking programing provided with support from the Frederick Hammersley Foundation and the Museum of New Mexico […]
Our popular Pueblo Pottery series continues with the talented Hubert Candelario, who has been making pottery for the last 30 years. Made the traditional way, his early works were polished redward. Today he is famous for his precisely carved puzzle pots, swirl pots, and pots with circular or hexagonal holes. Candelario has won numerous awards […]
Saturday nights this June and July by students from the Hummingbird Music Camp performing at the Jemez Historic site in Jemez Springs. The concerts will happen every Saturday night between May 26 and July 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. San Jose de los Jemez Mission.
Fort Selden Historic Site, in southern New Mexico, is setting aside a special day to honor fathers. On Saturday, June 16, the Fort hosts a family fun day in honor of Fathers which includes a continental breakfast served outside by the fire from 9 – 11 a.m. along with games and activities for the whole […]
Curator of Photography Katherine Ware talks with artist Megan Jacobs about the complex topic of family and personal identity in the exhibition Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Meet in the Women’s Board Room Gallery on the second floor. Free with cost of admission. New Mexico residents 60 and older are admitted free on Wednesdays with ID. Image: Daniel […]
Rooted in indigenous abstraction and modernist aesthetics, Plains Cree artist Jeff Kahm represents a national and internationally recognized presence in the contemporary native art universe. Kahm is associate professor of studio art at the Institute of American Indian Arts. His work has been featured at U.S. Embassies in Colombia, Africa, Canada and the U.A.E.; exhibitions […]
This month’s global theme is CRAFT. Please join us for our bimonthly lecture series for creative professionals, and listen as Irvin Trujillo and his daughter Emily share the Rio Grande Weaving tradition with us. This time honored craft has been kept alive by Irvin’s family in the small town of Chimayo, New Mexico, since the […]
Fort Selden Historic Site is hosting a series of summer classes for children. Fort Selden also hosts a series of four classes for children this summer. Registration is required at least one week ahead for Fort Selden’s Summer Kid’s classes. Snacks are provided. $5 cash or check only. All activities are outside. All classes are […]
Art and photography historian Eugenia Parry will discuss Patrick Nagatani’s photography and her delight in writing the text for his book Nuclear Enchantment. In the exhibition Patrick Nagatani: Invented Realities. Free with cost of admission Image: Patrick Nagatani, "Fin de Siècle" Bat Flight Amphitheater, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico (from the series Nuclear Enchantment), 1989, Silver-dye bleach […]
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