“The Ring” was a political and business combination that dominated New Mexico during much of the last half of the nineteenth century. While its very existence has been disputed, there is wide agreement among historians that the Ring was a dominant group of men who excelled at exercising political power to advance their own economic […]
New Mexico residents are admitted free the first Sunday of each month.
This Free First Sunday program is offered in collaboration with the Tom Lea Institute (El Paso, TX) during its annual Tom Lea Month. Lea spent almost three years in Santa Fe, and the surrounding area, in the early 1930s. One of his posts as a New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist was at the Museum of […]
The lecture considers the prints that served as sources of inspiration for the hide painters of eighteenth-century New Mexico. It considers how local artists came to use printed images in their work and how these paper objects both connected New Mexico to the rest of the Spanish empire and helped shape a distinctly local […]
Take a day-long insider’s tour of Acoma Pueblo and the Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum. Enroute by bus to Acoma, David Rasch, Chief of the Historic Preservation Division, City of Santa Fe, and a noted collector, will set the stage for our visit by sharing his extensive knowledge of Acoma Pottery. Upon arrival, Barbara Felix, architect of the Cultural Center complex, […]
Navajo, Laguna, Acoma, Zuni and other tribal people made an important but little known contribution to building and maintaining rail lines throughout the West. This presentation traces the origin, development, and present status of the Native American railroad workforce. Also examined will be the role of skilled Native railroad labor in the context of territorial […]
Just one month remains to see The Wonderful World of Opals at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This one-of-a-kind exhibit disbands after October 15. It features cut and uncut stones from around the world, including Australia, Mexico, Ethiopia and Peru and a one-of-a-kind rough opal specimen from Australia that weighs over […]
Acclaimed folklorist Nasario García returns to the now abandoned villages of his youth in New Mexico’s Río Puerco valley to revive stories and ghosts in a landscape that also remembers him. There will be a brief presentation before the screening and a Q&A after the screening. In addition, the film will be broadcast on New Mexico PBS on […]
Most archaeological enthusiasts venture north along US 550 on their way to explore the Ancestral Pueblo world, and most turn to the west, conscious only of the Great Houses of Chaco Canyon, Salmon Ruins, and Aztec Ruins. Few travelers turn to the east and take the less traveled path into the Dinetah, known best as […]
Just one month remains to see The Wonderful World of Opals at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This one-of-a-kind exhibit disbands after October 15. It features cut and uncut stones from around the world, including Australia, Mexico, Ethiopia and Peru and a one-of-a-kind rough opal specimen from Australia that weighs over […]
Local expert and collector Pam Nadjowski offers an assortment of quilts, textiles, and handwoven cloth at the Museum of International Folk Art for two days only: Friday and Saturday October 6 and 7. A slide show highlights the sale at 11:30 am both days.
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 “People’s Graphic Workshop,” used their craft to promote the “progressive and democratic interests […]
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