Join Santa Fe educator, photographer and camera obscura developer Jackie Mathey for a family workshop on building a take-home tabletop camera obscura that can be used as drawing aids. Explore how light moves and images are formed. Travel in your imagination to the age of the Renaissance where devices like these were used by artists. […]
Join historian Jon Hunner, interim director of the New Mexico History Museum, and curator Meredith Davidson for an exclusive workshop on gathering and archiving oral histories. This free, introductory course will be offered twice, from 10 am to noon on Wednesday, July 23, in the Meem Community Room. The class will be repeated from 1 […]
Native artists from different Southwest tribes, will discuss and demonstrate different techiniques, clays and styles of pottery. Pam Quintana from Cochiti Pueblo was taught as a child, the historic art and her family’s tradition of making story tellers by her parents Pablo and Margaret Quintana. Pamela hand forms and fires in a kiln. She uses micaceous clay […]
Join Larry D. Ball as he discusses Tom Horn, a legendary lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw and assassin, who has fascinated Americans since his death by hanging before his 43rd birthday. Ball is a professor emeritus at Arkansas State University and author of Tom Horn in Life and Legend (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014). […]
After Pancho Villa’s March 9, 1916, attack on Columbus, NM, Gen. John J. Pershing launched a Punitive Expedition with one goal: Get Villa. Given his failure to do so, Pershing’s effort could easily be chalked up as a military failure. But its long-term impact was significant. The surge into Mexico provided valuable training for Pershing […]
This lecture will take Chicago from her adoption of her birth city’s name, through her explosive breakthrough project, The Dinner Party, and into her multiple explorations of the human condition during the thirty years she has lived in New Mexico. Lois Rudnick is professor emerita of American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston.
Join curator Josef Díaz and guides Rosa Carlson and Nancy Benkof for a special day exploring the devotional art and places of worship in the Española Valley, a special event for Palace Guard members in conjunction with the exhibit Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World. Meet in Santa Fe and travel […]
Breakfast with the Curators Get a rare behind-the scene peek of Native American art with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s annual Breakfast with the Curators. This series of five breakfasts paired with talks, tours, and artist presentations in an exciting opportunity to meet artists curators, and scholars in an informal setting. 8:30am-10:30am. Full […]
The flagship event in Lincoln is Old Lincoln Days, held annually the first weekend in August. Various events and presentations are held including a parade, the Last Escape of Billy the Kid pageant, vendor booths, a working blacksmith, an authentic chuck wagon, gun fights, dancing girls, and much more. The parade is held on August […]
Ever wonder why there’s an obelisk in the middle of the Santa Fe Plaza? Have you noticed the gargoyles on top of the Catron Building? Where was the gambling hall? Which tucked-away building held a Manhattan Project secret? Find out by taking a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors […]
How did artists in Spain’s farflung colonies draw inspiration for the lavishly detailed artwork on display in Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World? Secular and sacred engravings were sent to New World colonies like Santa Fe, and inventories made in the viceroyalties confirm that these European prints were displayed in churches […]
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