Join us for a day of art making, and, yes, love, with hands-on experience creating one-of-a-kind Valentine’s Day cards and collages! Westin McDowell and the Shiners Club get you in the mood with ragtime and vintage jazz. Explore the museum on a love-themed treasure hunt, enjoy live music and refreshments, and tour our galleries with someone […]
February is National Birdfeeding month and with 542 species on New Mexico’s bird list, we are in a great place to watch them. The winter can be difficult for wild birds. Individuals are encouraged to provide food, water and shelter to help wild birds survive. Come get a little messy making birdfeeders to take home […]
Snowflake Flower - a prolific Cochiti storyteller figure artist - visits MIAC for traditional storyteling in the Cochiti tradition. Program runs at 2pm, and again at 3pm. Free with museum admission.
Join award-winning screenwriter and producer Kirk Ellis and his wife Sheila, passionate folk art collector, for images and experiences from their recent visit to historic cities of Teheran, Yazd and Isfahan, Iran. The Iran that Kirk and Sheila will talk about is one famous for many things—among them its long tradition of Persian–Islamic arts and […]
In July and August 2016, Dr. James E. Snead, California State University-Northridge, invited me to join a research project on the Island of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. Located 6500 miles west of Los Angeles, Yap covers only 34 square miles and is the administrative and chiefly center of the Western Caroline Islands […]
Come learn about the history of the Santa Fe Japanese Internment Camp in the St. Francis Auditorium. This is Part Two of a three-part lecture series co-presented with El Rancho de las Golondrinas Nancy Bartlit is an author, oral historian, amateur photographer, and a Chautauqua lecturer listed with the N.M. Humanities Council and the Historical Society of New Mexico. A […]
This informal gallery conversation with the artists exhibiting in the museum alcoves is a combination of exhibition walk-through and dialog with the artists. It is open to all, and all are encouraged to participate in the conversation.
Ethran Chkhiro plays music rooted in classical guitar and profoundly inspired by the Moroccan sounds he grew up with as well as the environment he now inhabits. Free 5:30 - 7:30 PM
¡Aquí Estamos: The Heart of Arte! celebrates the NHCC Art Museum’s growing permanent collection with a revitalized vibe and a brand new selection of works. This exhibition was a collaborative project as the entire NHCC Visual Arts staff and interns combed through the collection and worked together to decide which pieces should welcome in 2017. This […]
The Museum of International Folk Art is FREE for New Mexico residents the first Sunday of each month.
A retired National Park Service archaeologist, Mathien proposed researching the field schools and asked that her colleague, Joyce Raab, and she be afforded space and use of UNM facilities during the project. She works with the Chaco Culture National Historic Park Museum Collections as a volunteer researcher and considers "this part of the cooperative relationship between the two institutions," UNM and Chaco […]
The Circles members will be first to see No Idle Hands: The Myths & Meanings of Tramp Art, which presents 150 examples of this art form, characterized by notched and layered wood to create various household objects. Made in the US and Europe (1870s-1940s), tramp art was an art of working class family men—despite what its […]
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