• FRIENDS OF FOLK ART PRESENTS A MEMBERS ONLY EVENT: MODERN MAYAN TEXTILES with Beverley Spears, FAIA

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Beverley Spears founded Spears Architects in 1981 offering commercial and residential design, historic preservation, urban design and landscape architecture. In 2011 the firm, reorganized as Spears Horn Architects, was recognized by the American Institute of Architects as the New Mexico Firm of the Year.   In 1974, after earning a Master of Architecture degree from […]

  • NMMNHS to host eclipse viewing event on May 15

    Join us at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) on the evening of Sunday, May 15 to catch the first total lunar eclipse that will be visible in New Mexico since 2019.  What: NMMNHS will be hosting an eclipse viewing party. Although the eclipse can be easily seen in the sky, […]

  • Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Catch our last virtual tour before we go on break!... Can’t wait to have a guided look at MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries? Here’s an opportunity to tour or even re-visit—virtually—Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your […]

  • Media Alert: Heritage Preservation Awards to commemorate NM’s heritage on May 20

    New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs NM, United States

    New Mexico Historic Preservation Division (HPD) will host the 2022 edition of the Heritage Preservation Awards virtually on Friday, May 20 at 1 p.m. The presentation will be held live on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/nmhistoricpreservation or on Zoom at https://bit.ly/3L2G0rb (passcode: awards).    What: Presented by the Cultural Properties Review Committee, the Heritage Preservation Awards commemorate […]

  • Audubon Day: A Celebration of Birds

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

    The event coincides with Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies, an exhibition currently on view at the Laboratory of Anthropology, and celebrates the importance of birds across the Southwest. The event schedule will be family friendly and includes live demonstrations and exhibit tours with the curator, as well as a visit with live raptors from […]

  • Crafting New Pathways: A walking-stick-making workshop with Sámi artists Jenni Laiti and Tilde-Ristin Kuoljok

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The Sámi people are inhabiting their ancestral territory in the Arctic which encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and most of the Kola Peninsula in the Russian side of Sápmi in particular. The Sámi people are the only Indigenous people in the European Union and there are approximately 100,000 Sámi. Traditional Sámi livelihoods include fishing, hunting […]

  • ENGAGING THE FUTURE: Conversations with Goodman Fellowship Artist Conversation with Carly Feddersen (Confederated Tibes of the Colville Reservation)

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

    Carly Feddersen was born and raised in Wenatchee, Washington and comes from a long line of creative people. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and of mixed European decent. Humor and irony are important elements in her work which is rooted in material culture and traditional stories of […]

  • Mesa Talks: The Lucero Legacy by Rebecca Ward

    Los Luceros Historic Site 253 County Road 41, Alcalde, NM, United States

    Welcome to the second Mesa Talks lecture of the season. This is a lecture series between Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project and Los Luceros Historic Site focusing on all things history and archaeology in New Mexico and the Southwest! This will be hosted in person at Los Luceros as well as streamed virtually on Facebook and […]

  • FRIENDS OF FOLK ART MEMBERS ONLY EVENT: DAY TRIP TO ALBUQUERQUE FOR FOLK ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ART OF THE NEW DEAL

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The group will meet at 9:30 am at the Historic Los Poblanos Inn where we will enjoy a docent led tour featuring the work of architect John Gaw Meem, new deal artists such as Gustave Baumann and Peter Hurd, and the private collection of folk art collected by the Rembe family, its current owners.  We […]

  • Community Day Celebration & Youth Open Mic

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

    Join us for a fulll day of events including a panel discussion with Poetic Justice artists Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, poetry readings by exhibition poets at 10:30 AM, a Youth Open Mic of original written work from 1-3 PM and a Library & Archives Open House featuring materials related to the […]

  • Bosque Redondo: A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival Grand Opening Event

    Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner 3647 Billy the Kid Drive, Fort Sumner, NM, United States

    Fort Sumner, NM - New Mexico Historic Sites (NMHS) announces the grand opening commemoration event for the permanent interpretive exhibition “Bosque Redondo: A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival” on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site. A full day of events is planned, including welcome speeches, music, and […]