• Music at the Museum Rio

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

    Rio performs Bossa Nova jazz for our First Friday Music at the Museum when the entire museum is open from 5-7PM. Included with the cost of admission.

  • $5 First Friday at New Mexico Museum of Natural HIstory & Science Friday night, February 2

    (Albuquerque, NM) – In anticipation of the February 10 opening of a blockbuster exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is offering enjoyable family activities to introduce visitors to this well-known Renaissance artist, inventor, engineer, scientist, naturalist, and life-long learner. This orientation to the topics that will be […]

  • First Friday Art Chats

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

    Celebrating the 100 year history of the Museum, volunteer guides present 15 minute pop up talks prompting conversations about the architecture of the building and art in the collection.  Included with the cost of museum admission. Museum Admission is free for NM residents with ID on the First Friday of the month after 5:00 pm

  • ¡Vamos al Museo!

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

    Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase suppliesThe National Hispanic Cultural Center is pleased to offer children’s programming on the first Saturday morning of every month. This is a fun and engaging docent and artist-led family program. Families (limited to 25 participants) get a 30-minute museum tour focused on an art […]

  • Frank Buffalo Hyde The Cultural Power of Native Art Series

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

    Join us as we celebrate the work of Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondoga/Nez Perce) starting with the screening of the film Basquiat, followed by a talk Hyde in which is discusses the ways the artist influenced his own work.

  • Cara Romero The Cultural Power of Native Art

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

    Join us as Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) discusses her photographic process and how her work has evolved through the years.

  • Friends of History Lecture Series Christmas Revels: The 1919 New Mexico Mounted Police Raid on Santo Domingo Pueblo

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

    Leo Crane was a Bureau of Indian Affairs official who wrote two books about his experiences in Arizona and New Mexico from 1911 to 1928. His “Christmas Revels” chapter on a little-known incident in 1919 inspired me to seek additional information, leading to the discovery of the remarkable resources in the Institute for Pueblo Indian […]

  • Library Open House Museum Issues

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

    Ever wanted to know what it’s like to work in an art museum? Artists, art historians, curators, journalists and others have written about things that museums do or should do. The New Mexico Museum of Art Library and Archives has professional publications that explain how things are supposed to work as well as case studies that show what happens when […]

  • Da Vinci—The Genius Exhibition at New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

    Da Vinci—The Genius opens at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque at 9am on Saturday, February 10, 2018.  This world class exhibition from Grande Exhibitions remains on display at the Museum daily from 9am-5pm through July 29, 2018. Da Vinci – The Genius demonstrates the full scope of Leonardo da […]

  • Reading & Booksigning: Diana Silva, Molé Mama; A Memoir of Love, Cooking and Loss

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

    Join author Diana Silva for a book reading and signing of Molé Mama; A Memoir of Love, Cooking and Loss about the intimate journey of Diana’s mother’s final thirteen months. She cooks her mother’s heirloom Mexican recipes every weekend while Rose presides from her nearby hospice bed and completes taste tests to ensure that Diana […]

  • Picturing Zozobra

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

    This event for FOCA+P members will focus on the history and artistic and cultural influences that informed Zozobra. We will explore how Zozobra has been featured as a subject in the work of Southwestern artists from Shuster and Baumann to Tapia and Scholder and has been a reoccurring theme spanning from the early 20th century […]

  • La Ultima Exhibición

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

    La Ultima Exhibición, curated by Augustine Romero, features visual interpretations of Rudolfo Anaya’s celebrated book, Bless Me, Ultima (1972)-a portrait of life in rural New Mexico as seen through the eyes of a young boy during World War II. Anaya tells of the spiritual healer, Ultima, as she guides young Antonio on a magical and moral journey […]