A Future-Oriented Preservation Is this an oxymoron? Can historic preservation be more about the future than the past? Atkin Olshin Schade Architects (Santa Fe, NM and Philadelphia, PA) believes so. Shawn Evans, AIA, Principal of AOS Architects, will explain their innovative approach to historic preservation and discuss the exhibition of their work currently up in […]
The New Mexico History Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art host a two day-symposium commemorating the 100th Anniversary of artist Gustave Baumann’s arrival in New Mexico. “A Gathering for Gus” will be held Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, 2018 at the two museums located just off the Plaza in Santa Fe. Baumann […]
.The New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection of more than 1,700 works by Baumann is the largest holding of the artist’s work in any public collection and illustrates Baumann’s breadth of artistic interest. Additionally, the New Mexico History Museum and its Press at the Palace of the Governors focuses on the artist’s process with a […]
Since the end of the nineteenth century, when some of the first academically trained artists began to settle in Taos, later forming the Taos Society of Artists, New Mexico has continued to provide fertile ground for artists to gather together and create a forum for their individual visions. The role of artist communities in New […]
Hosted by the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) and the New Mexico History Museum. The featured reader Santa Fe poet and winner of the 2017 Lummox Poetry Award, Mary McGinnis, will talk about her experience in being the guest artist for the APP. McGinnis led two workshops at local assisted living centers for people living with […]
The election of 1860 turned on the issue of the expansion of slavery into the western territories–especially into the New Mexico Territory. Following Lincoln’s election, the white South, believing a Republican president would abolish the institution of slavery throughout the country, panicked and began making plans to secede. The 8,000 pages of documents produced by […]
New Mexico’s landscape and culture have drawn photographers to the State since the invention of the medium, but it was the University of New Mexico that convinced photographers to stay here. The list of former students and faculty at UNM includes Beaumont Newhall, Patrick Nagatani, Joyce Neimanas and Joel-Peter Witkin to name just a few. The New Mexico Museum of Art Library […]
WHAT: Dig Giusewa. WHERE: Jemez Historic Site, 18160 Hwy 4, Jemez Springs, NM 87025. WHEN: Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday between August 16 and October 6, 9AM – 3PM. DESCRIPTION: Explore the ruins of Giusewa Pueblo with archaeologists from New Mexico Historic Sites and Native American tribal members from Jemez Pueblo. Watch as they […]
Discover design thinking and how to apply it to learn more about user needs and develop more delightful, useable, and effective products, services, and systems. Lecturer Hugh Dubberly of Dubberly Design Office, San Francisco, with a list of clients that includes some of largest corporations including Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Google, and McDonalds. Dubberly has also taught design courses at Carnegie […]
Since the end of the nineteenth century, when some of the first academically trained artists began to settle in Taos, later forming the Taos Society of Artists, New Mexico has continued to provide fertile ground for artists to gather together and create a forum for their individual visions. The role of artist communities in New […]
Almost 800 people learned the latest information about Pluto and the New Horizon mission during PlutoPalooza hosted by the museum Sept. 21 & 22. The scientists and engineers from NASA have left, but the informational handouts, hands-on activities, and videos they brought will be used once more for the $5 First Friday event October 5, […]
Picturing the Past will feature juried selections from dozens of works submitted by paleo-artists working across the globe. The subjects span the range of life on this planet, from trilobites to dinosaurs to sabretooth cats, in paintings and sculptures and digital models. The museum’s collection of paleoart will also be highlighted, with important examples of […]
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