Celebrate the Lunar New Year and the opening of a New exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art! In the Atrium: 1-4 pm Hands-on art making activities for ages 3 to 103 include making Khamsas, a powerful form of personal protection; and Japanese Ema, decorate a plaque with your wish. Gamelan Encantada performs Javanse […]
We will caravan to the town of Nuevo Casas Grandes in our private vehicles and stay at the Hotel Hacienda while we make day trips to surrounding archaeological sites. We will also visit the famous pottery-making village of Mata Ortiz, home of Juan Quezada, the originator of the Mata Ortiz pottery tradition. Cost and exact […]
Pat Malone, Jazz and Classical Guitar Thursdays March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Thursdays April 7, 14, 21, 28 In Gallery of traveling exhibition Medieval to Metal: Art and Evolution of the Guitar Warm and virtuosic acoustic guitar playing with a blues heart with modern harmonies and a traditional jazz soul. Free with Museum Admission
Members of our Friends group, the Palace Guard, can enjoy a whirlwind day: Visit Dr. William Itoh’s home to see his collection of Civil War material; savor lunch at Los Poblanos and a tour of its John Gaw Meem–designed buildings; peek into the Center for Southwest Research’s collections; and tour UNM’s Zimmerman Library with John […]
Alcoves 16/17 opens March 4, 2016 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. This will be the first in a series of seven alcove exhibitions that concludes on March 26, 2017. Each of the seven rotations will highlight five artists at various career stages and working in New Mexico today. In this first of seven […]
The much anticipated return of the Alcove Shows is here. There is always something new and expected in this recurring series of exhibitions focused on art being made in New Mexico right now. The first of seven exhibitions Alcoves 16/17 #1 and will feature Scott Anderson, Gloria Graham, Scott Greene, Herbert Lotz, and Bonnie Lynch. […]
State Historian Rick Hendricks talks about the books Spanish colonists were reading in the year that Shakespeare’s First Folio was printed. (Shakespeare may have read them, too!) His lecture, "1623 in Print in New Mexico" is a Free First Friday Evening event. Free admission 5–8 pm. Rick Hendricks is a former editor of the University of […]
In Gallery of traveling exhibition Medieval to Metal: Art and Evolution of the Guitar World music on guitar and lute Free with Museum Admission
Family Archaeology Sundays at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Geared to families, this series allows visitors to learn about ancient technologies and traditional arts developed by Native peoples thousands of years ago using the natural resources around them. All four programs are on Sundays at 1pm and free with museum admission. New Mexico […]
On March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionist Pancho Villa and his army of 1,500 guerillas attacked Columbus, NM, killing 19 people and leaving the town in flames. President Wilson ordered General John J. (Black Jack) Pershing to lead 6,000 American troops (including a young lieutenant named George S. Patton Jr.) into Mexico to capture Villa. For […]
Language is not the most obvious of the data sources available to Southwestern archaeologists. We can’t hear the ancient ones speak, and there is no confident way to confirm (or deny) models of language history. But historical linguistics is relevant to archaeological models of deep culture history, and language is an important part of current […]
In 2009, photographer Alan Pearlman set out on a quest to capture the soul of Santa Fe in a series of staged portraits. Some of the results take center stage as archival pigment prints in the New Mexico History Museum’s Mezzanine Gallery, March 13–September 18, 2016. Santa Fe Faces: Alan Pearlman Photographs features a selection […]
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