• Santiago Pueblo History and Tiguex War Friends of Coronado Lecture Series

    Coronado Historic Site 485 Kuaua Road, Bernalillo, NM, United States

    Speaker: Dennis Herrick - Santiago Pueblo History and Tiguex War Lecture is held at 2:00 pm at the Sandoval County Historical Society (DeLavy House, 161 Edmond Road, Bernalillo, NM). Doors open at 1:30 pm. Lectures are free for Friends organization members and $5 for guests. Come early because seating is limited, and per the Fire […]

  • What’s New Contemporary Native Artist Speak Jewelry with Ernest and Veronica Benally

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Lecture Series focusing on Jewelry with Veronica and Earnest Benally, Diné jewelers. In the MIAC theater, seating is limited.Ernest and Veronica Benally are both Diné (Navajo) jewelers. Ernest works with both silver and gold, and loves lapidary work. He is best known for his imaginative mosaic inlay work. Veronica approaches her jewelry designs with a motherly […]

  • Final Night of Contemporary Gallery Conversations Artists of Alcove 12.9 share their work.

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    During the final gallery talk in the year-long Alcove 12.0 project, the artists of Alcove 12.9 share a conversation about their, and each other's, work.  Meet Jeff Deemie, Teri Greeves, Joanne Lafrak and James Marshall and join in a lively conversation about contemporary art.  5:30 to 7:00 p.m.  Free.

  • Your Hands Will Always Be Covered with Ink: Nuns, Widows, Mavericks and Other Passionate Printers A Women’s HIstory Month Lecture

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Twenty years after Gutenberg invented movable type, Catholic nuns were setting type in Florence—pioneers in the history of women and publishing. They were followed by the inspiring stories of Charlotte Guillard, Anne Franklin, and Virginia Woolf, as well as the dispiriting story of U.S. women barred from working in union print shops in the 1970s. […]

  • Yucca Walking Stick Workshop

    Coronado Historic Site 485 Kuaua Road, Bernalillo, NM, United States

    Morning Session - 9:30am to 11:30am Afternoon Session - 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Led by Ranger Annie, $20 per person (Cash or Check only), all supplies furnished, call (505) 867-5351 for reservations. Workshops are held at Coronado State Monument.

  • Speaker Series: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Preservation of the Arts Joint Hosted by SAR and MIAC

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:00 pm, Free. Location: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Meem AuditoriumIs it Native American Art?: Authenticity and Self-determinationLara Evans, Art Historian, IAIA Art History FacultyIn the summer of 2012, the Southwest Association for Indian Arts hosted a lecture series on the topics of quality and authenticity. Series consultant Lara Evans […]

  • Museum closing at 5 pm today

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The History Museum will close early today. We'll be open Saturday, March 30, but will be closed on Sunday, March 31.

  • Museum closed Sunday, March 31

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The History Museum will be closed Sunday, March 31, for the Easter holiday. We'll reopen at 10 am Tuesday, April 2.

  • Speaker Series: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Preservation of the Arts Joint Hosted by SAR and MIAC

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Thursday, April 11, 2013, 12:00 pm, Free. Location: School of Advanced Research BoardroomTribal Archives: Ethics and the Right to Access Attorney Peter Chestnut talks about various issues and concerns that have impacted tribal archives and how these institutions and communities have solved or negotiated through these issues.Peter Chestnut is managing shareholder of Chestnut Law Offices in […]

  • Cowboys Real and Imagined

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    When America needed hard workers, the cowboy was there. The job was dirty and difficult, low-paid and lowly regarded. But when an America torn by the Civil War needed a hero to unite its soul, the unassuming cowboy was an unlikely—and ultimately lasting—pick.Since riding out of Spanish horse culture, he’s been an itinerant hired hand, […]

  • Grand Opening: Cowboys Real and Imagined

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Join us for a special day of music, refreshments, and family activities at the grand opening of Cowboys Real and Imagined on Sunday, April 14. At 2 pm, guest curator B. Byron Price, director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and […]