Buy your tickets in advance for the 2017 International Folk Art Market| Santa Fe and save money! All tickets are limited and some events will sell out. Discount ticket sales end June 15, 2017
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture hosts a solo exhibition featuring the work of current Living Treasure, prolific Santa Clara pueblo potter Jody Naranjo, in the lobby of the museum. As this event falls on the first Sunday of the month, admission is free for New Mexico residents!
New Mexico residents are admitted free the first Sunday of each month.
Martha Wallace and Patricia Stoddard researched quilts and quilters in India in 2014 and 2015. Gandhi said "If you want to know India, go to the villages" and they did. Their research focused on the lives of quilters where education and technology are greatly changing the traditional craft. Representative quilts from Pakistan and Indian tezxtiles […]
Yucca fiber has been a staple of the Office of Archaeological Studies’ education outreach programs, and more recently we have explored its modern potential as part of an economic development exploration. This presentation reviews how yucca fiber and leaves were used in the past, based on archaeological materials from throughout the Southwest. It covers “old […]
Dr. Rowland Willard (1794-1884) was one of the first physicians to travel the Santa Fe Trail and El Camino Real. For two years from 1825, he practiced medicine in Taos before departing for Santa Fe, Las Cruces and El Paso, finally arriving in Chihuahua during a measles epidemic. He was the only medical professional to exam Hugh Glass (portrayed […]
Join us for a preview of the photography exhibit, Light Tight: New Work by Meggan Gould and Andy Mattern. Meet the artists, Meggan Gould and Andy Mattern, with an introduction by Curator of Photography, Katherine Ware. This two-person exhibition creates a visual conversation about how the tools and conventions of photography can be reconsidered and […]
There is no shortage of photographs documenting the horrors of the Vietnam War. In fact, between military photographers and the free press, millions of photographs of the Vietnam conflict were taken between 1962 and 1975. But, there are very few that document the war from the perspective of a young gay man serving in the […]
Cady Wells : Ruminations The New Mexico Museum of Art, in partnership with The Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK, presents the dynamic and psychologically penetrating watercolor paintings of Cady Wells (1904-1954). This group of more than 25 works features Wells’ uniquely modernist interpretations of Southwestern landforms and cultural-religious traditions. Born to a traditional, well-to-do New England […]
Volunteers will cheerfully accept your donation of gently used folk art items (ceramics, ethnic apparel, jewelry, small furniture, framed art, sculpture, linens, masks, figurines) in exchange for a tax-deductible donation receipt, beginning Saturday April 8 through Saturday April 15 from 9AM to 1 pm at the Museum of International Folk Art, on Museum Hill. If […]
Over the past century artists have imagined and reimagined New Mexico through their work. The New Mexico Museum of Art presents an exhibition of work from the collection that investigates how artists in New Mexico have responded to key themes as they relate to the state’s identity. New Mexico, like all places, is as much […]
Enjoy an afternoon with Still On the Hill, this unique concert of stories and songs focused on handmade instruments outside of what more people think of as a guitar, fiddle or banjo. These creations are adorned with marbles, bbs, paint and bones. Inside, there are metallic skeletons consisting of saw blades, door springs, chainsaw parts and […]
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