Diné author Jennifer Nez Denetdale speaks at 2 pm, Sunday, Aug. 22, on “Diné/Navajo Women: At the Intersection of Nation, Gender and Tradition,” in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. Denetdale’s lecture falls on the final afternoon of the Santa Fe Indian Market of the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts, a fitting time to slow […]
The barbecue-and-live-music portion of this event has been postponed while the Cowden Cafe operators repair fire damage to their historic Plaza Cafe. In the meantime, the Cowden Cafe is open for business, serving soup, sandwiches, salads, luscious desserts and gourmet coffees from 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Sunday. Customers don’t have to be […]
During this time, 12noon-2pm, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your unidentified treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They prefer to work with objects from the Southwest […]
Thursday Sept. 16th and Friday the 17th from 10:30 am to 4pm in the MIAC Buchsbaum Gallery, Dr. Eric Blinman, OAS, will be demonstrating Rio Grande Glaze Ware pottery making techniques. The demonstration is part of experimental research on the Ancestral Tano and Keres pottery traditions that lapsed in the early 18th century after the […]
Friday the 17th from 10:30 am to 4pm in the MIAC Buchsbaum Gallery, Dr. Eric Blinman, OAS, will be demonstrating Rio Grande Glaze Ware pottery making techniques. The demonstration is part of experimental research on the Ancestral Tano and Keres pottery traditions that lapsed in the early 18th century after the Reconquest. Eric will be […]
Dance performances with Los Niños de Santa Fe at 2pm and The Maria Benitez Institute for Spanish Arts Youth Company at 3pm. Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda and A Century of Masters: NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico. By Museum Admission, New Mexico residents […]
The 2010 recipients of this life time achievement award are for individual artists Woody Gwyn (Galisteo), Tom Noble (Taos), David Scheinbaum (Santa Fe), Arlene Cisneros Sena (Santa Fe), Paul Shapiro (Santa Fe), and Wes Studi (Santa Fe). The awardees for Major Contributor to the Arts are Marian and Abe Silver Jr. (Santa Fe), Whited Foundation […]
Sunday, September 26, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Come enjoy a new event from Native Treasures on Sunday, September 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.! The Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale is a unique event featuring Native American art being sold by top collectors. The sale will take place at the Laboratory of Anthropology’s Meem […]
On Sunday, September 26, from 2 to 4 p.m., Santa Fe Poet Laureate, Joan Logghe and musician Jeremy Bleich will present a 40-minute program of international poetry and improvised music for children, and their adults. After the performance, children will be invited to write a poem of their own. The program is aimed at children […]
Michael Pettit, author of a book about the legendary JAL Ranch, will speak on “Historic and Contemporary Ranching in New Mexico” at 2 pm, Sunday, Sept. 26, in the History Museum Auditorium. After the event, visitors can enjoy coffee and fruit-and-piñon cobbler, with ingredients generously provided by New Mexico farmers and the state Department of […]
Tuesday, September 28th, 10:00 am, hosted at the MIAC Theater Free & Open to the public The Museum of New Mexico Foundation/Friends of Folk Art presents a lecture on Southern Folk Art with Susan Crowley, Curator of Folk Art at the High Museum in Atlanta. The High Museum is dedicated to supporting and collecting works […]
In 1519, Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish soldiers made first contact with the Aztecs. The stories they sent back to Europe detailing the wealth and sophistication of the Aztec empire astonished their countrymen – and fed 300 years of efforts to write and re-write the story of the Mexican Conquest. From Oct. […]
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