Friends of Indian Art members and their invited guests may join us for a private curated tour of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) by museum director Patsy Phillips and chief curator Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man. MoCNA holds the premier collection of contemporary Native American art by Native Americans, First Nations, and other indigenous […]
Bring your mat, your mind and your body for a free monthly third Thursday Kundalini yoga class in conjunction with Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. As was taught by Yogi Bhajan, Kundalini yoga is an ancient technology of developing harmony in body, mind and spirit through gentle yogic stretches, energizing breathing and calming meditation. […]
Inspired by the iconic 1966 Timothy Leary counterculture motto: Turn on, tune in, drop out, the New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors is sponsoring a series of unique storytelling workshops in concert with the museum’s Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest exhibition (open through February 11, 2018). To further glean the impact […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and artist N. Scott Momaday, will recall afternoons with Georgia O’Keeffe and read other poems inspired by landscapes of the Southwest. His poem Forms of the Earth at Abiquiu, recently published as a limited edition broadside by the Press at the Palace of the Governors, features a hand-colored and highly imaginative portrait […]
The seventh annual Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2017, from 10am to 5pm at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. The sale is free and open to the public with early bird shopping from 9am to 10am on Saturday for a $25 admission fee. A percentage […]
The seventh annual Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2017, from 10am to 5pm at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. The sale is free and open to the public with early bird shopping from 9am to 10am on Saturday for a $25 admission fee. A percentage […]
The popular Museum Hill Community Day returns for the third consecutive years, but this year involves a few twists! It just so happens to be the 30th anniversary of the museum, itself; and the 80th anniversary of the Laboratory of Anthropology! Concurrent with the day is our annual Collectors’ Sale, which will be held in […]
The Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, The Santa Fe Botanical Garden, The National Park Service, The Museum of International Folk Art, and The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian are All FREE for this annual celebration. The Museum of International Folk Art celebrates the 3rd Annual Museum Hill […]
Lecture by Tom Chavez and Mark MacKenzie “Looking Over the Artist’s Shoulder: Multi Spectral Imaging Reveals hidden details of the Segesser Paintings” The lecture will discuss how conservation forensic examination reveals details of pigments used, color preparation and use, drawing and layout, genetic testing for hide identification, and expands on the details of the “life” […]
“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 […]
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