Join us for the best book sale around the weekend of October 23rd and 24th from 10am-4pm. This fundraiser benefits and sustains the operations of the renowned LOA Library. The book sale includes a fine selection of quality out-of-print, used, collectible, rare and new books including Greater Southwestern, Latin America, Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Native American, […]
The 12th annual Celebration of the Book features shining examples of the book-arts craft and offers free, hands-on workshops to create your own. In the hands of an artist, books become more than sheets of paper between two covers. Pages pop up. Weavings appear. In Albuquerque artist Marilyn Stablein’s hands, packages of sewing notions are […]
oin us for the best book sale around the weekend of October 23rd and 24th from 10am-4pm. This fundraiser benefits and sustains the operations of the renowned LOA Library. The book sale includes a fine selection of quality out-of-print, used, collectible, rare and new books including Greater Southwestern, Latin America, Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Native American, […]
The 12th annual Celebration of the Book features shining examples of the book-arts craft and offers free, hands-on workshops to create your own. In the hands of an artist, books become more than sheets of paper between two covers. Pages pop up. Weavings appear. In Albuquerque artist Marilyn Stablein’s hands, packages of sewing notions are […]
Join a gathering of some of the Southwest’s finest poets for an eve-of-Halloween reading, along with a display of poetry broadsides produced by the Palace Press, 6-7:30 pm, Friday, Oct. 29, in the John Gaw Meem Room of the New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave. The event, “A Spirited Reading,” is free, but be […]
Decorate Sugar Skulls, Make Muertos Nichos (Memory Boxes), Eat Pan de Muerto, (Sweet bread), enjoy live music by Mucho Corazón, write a leaf for the Tree of Life for the Community Altar and more! By Museum Admission, New Mexico residents with I.D. Free on Sundays, youth 16 & under and Museum of New Mexico Foundation […]
When Jerry Gurulé and Enrique Lamadrid were translating centuries-old Spanish documents for the book accompanying The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States, they became fascinated by the pieces that related directly to their home state of New Mexico. “Is this the opposite of `exotic’?” asked Lamadrid. “I think so.” He and Gurulé will […]
Please join us for a lecture series by Huichol scholars and anthropologists to accompany the exhibition Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. The series starts Sunday October 31at 2pm: Dr. Hope MacLean will speak on The Origins of Huichol Yarn Paintings. All lectures will be held in the O’Keeffe Theater at the Museum […]
“Origins and Current Developments in Cuban Contemporary Art” will be presented by Helmo Hernandez, President, Fundación Ludwig de Cuba. The Fundación is Cuba’s premiere non-governmental organization for the promotion and study of Cuban contemporary art. Free Friday Evening, November 5, 2010, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. There will be an intermission with light refreshments served. New […]
To record their lives and discoveries, Spanish explorers first needed something to write on. Palace Press Curator Tom Leech will discuss the finer points of historical papermaking at a lecture and demonstration on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 2-3:30 pm in the museum’s Learning Center and the exhibit space of The Threads of Memory: Spain and […]
Join New York actor Chaz Mena for a Chautauqua performance as Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish Florida’s first governor, at 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 7, in the History Museum Auditorium. Part of the Threads of Memory Lecture Series, this event is free with museum admission (Sundays free to NM residents). Mena is a New York-based […]
Please join us for a lecture series by Huichol scholars and anthropologists to accompany the exhibition Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. Sunday November 7 at 2pm: Dr. C. Jill Grady and Dr. Peter T. Furst will speak on Huichol Art and Culture. All lectures will be held in the O’Keeffe Theater at the […]
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