Alcoves 20/20 #2 Gallery Conversations with Artists
2019-10-25 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Denver) | New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building, 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Artists:
Jen Pack, Heather McGill, Daniel McCoy, Marietta Patricia Leis, Sarah Stolar
Alcoves 20/20 #2 on view October 19, 2019 – December 15, 2019

Experiences in Fighting Drug Trafficking and Terrorism With D.E.A. renowned International agent
2019-10-24 18:30 - 20:00 | NM
Join us for a rare oppportunity to hear from one of the D.E.A’s most decorated agents Mike Vigil. Mr. Vigil has served around the world and developed several international programs including “Operation Containment” affecting 25 countries including Afghanistan and “the Centers for Drug Intelligence” allowing most countries in the world to share information about illlicit drugs. Tickets available at nmnaturalhistory.org Cost is $10 public, $7 members, $5 students.

Noche De Animas. Tzintzuntzan, A Documentary Film about Day of The Dead, 2pm The Noche De Animas film screening begins at 2 pm Vernick Auditorum Noche De Animas. Tzintzuntzan, Documentary Film
2019-10-23 14:00 - 17:00 | Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, 87504, United States
Noche de Animas. Tzintzuntzan is the culmination of a collaborative project of Metamorfosis Documentation Project (represented by Armando Espinosa Prieto and Craig Johnson) and the Centro Cultural Comunitario “Tzintzuntzan” in Tzintzuntzan to document the celebration of Day of the Dead in this community and to explore the relationships between the living and their dead.
Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a feast day celebrated in indigenous and mestizo communities throughout Latin America. Known as Todos Santos, Fieles Difuntos (All Souls), the celebrations have deep roots in pre-Hispanic indigenous cultures and in pagan and Catholic rituals. Each country, region and ethnicity has developed different ways of honoring their ancestors, always based on the same principles of responsibility and reciprocity that honor the role of the dead in the life of their families and communities.
The documentary investigates, as told through the voices of members of the community, how this agricultural ritual to celebrate the dead – the preparations for the celebration, the altars, and the sharing with the dead – strengthens ties of family, spiritual kinship and community.
Specifically highlighted in the film is the cultural legacy of the ancient P’urhepechas. In the celebration of Noche de Animas, family and community are regenerated in a ritual of cultural unity that features the generous sharing of abundance, evoking a feeling of belonging and well-being.
Metamorfosis Documentation Project
Metamorfosis Documentation Project (MDP) is a local nonprofit organization based on a belief in the richness and importance of cultural traditions, focusing on cross cultural rituals and dances in the Americas.
Through projects with mestizo and indigenous communities, MDP, in collaboration with their community museums, documents and supports rituals and dances in their own cultural settings and shares them with a wider audience, fostering an understanding of distinct cultures.
These collaborative projects typically involve three phases: 1) the documenting of the tradition through filming and interviews, resulting in a documentary film, with rights to reproduction and sale of the film being gifted to the Community Museum; 2) a related project sponsored by MDP in direct support to the community; and 3) public presentation of the results of the project including documentary film screenings, submissions to film festivals, lectures, photographic exhibitions, web presentations, and related art works that offer opportunities for wider audiences to experience an inside look at cultures and community rituals markedly different from their own.
Executive Director Armando Espinosa says the mission of MDP is “to help to protect, preserve and promote traditional cultures in the Americas.”
MDP began working with indigenous communities in the late 1990’s, collaborating on a small scale project with a small Rarámuri (Tarahumara) community in Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico to document their Semana Santa (Holy Week) celebration.
Beginning in 2007, MDP has completed collaborations on four large-scale documentary project
The Day of the Dead Tzintzuntzan Project, MDP’s current project, involved a collaboration with the Centro Cultural Comunitario “Tzintzuntzan” (Tzintzuntzan Community Cultural Center) to document the traditional celebration of Noche de Animas in the P’urhépecha community of Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán.
The first phase of this Project again included MDP’s apprentice program, with two apprentices chosen by the local Tzintzuntzan Preparatory School who participated in the filming and interviewing of community members. In an additional collaboration in this phase, with support from New Mexico Film Resource, the Santa Fe Community College Film Department sent two students to work with MDP as apprentices during the filming of the actual Day of the Dead celebrations. This phase culminated in the production of the documentary, Noche de Animas. Tzintzuntzan.
In the community support portion of this Project, MDP and the Centro Cultural Comunitario “Tzintzuntzan” collaborated to offer a workshop, “Techniques of Filming and Editing Cultural Documentaries”, to nine members of the community in an effort to stimulate and prepare members of the community to document their own cultural traditions. Workshop participants filmed and produced three short documentaries focused on different cultural traditions of the community, which were then screened for the community.
MDP is now in the third phase of this Project, and is presenting Noche de Animas. Tzintzuntzan in museums and universities in Mexico and the United States.

Celebrate Red Ribbon Week Family event October 23-31, 2019
2019-10-23 09:00 - 2019-10-31 17:00 | NM
Children of all ages can draw or write a message about drug use and abuse or create an ofrenda (memorial) to family members lost to addictive illness. Their work will be on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science November 1-3. Hands-on projects are free with admission. Visit www.nmnaturalhistory.org for related lectures and upcoming events related to Red Ribbon Week.

Healing Power of Yoga Join the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science for this unique event
2019-10-19 17:30 - 19:30 | NM
Experience the healing power of yoga. Did you know that yoga has been proven to help with addiction recovery and traumatic brain injuries? Learn from our experienced yoga instructor from Hot or Not Yoga which techniques and positions can help you grow and heal. No previous experience is necessary to attend. Please bring your own yoga mat. 1801 Mountain Road Albuquerque. Visit the Museum website to purchase advanced tickets.

Annual Int’l Archaeology Day Celebration at the Center for NM Archaeology
2019-10-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
Please note this program takes place at the Center for NM Archaeology, located at 7 Old Cochiti Road, off the Caja Del Rio exit of 599. This event is free and open to all! For a printable map to CNMA, follow this link.
Join us for our annual family-oriented Archaeology Day at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology (CNMA)!
CNMA opens it doors to the public to learn about New Mexico’s fascinating 12,000-year cultural heritage through hands on activities and demonstrations.
This is also a great opportunity to view a new exhibit, Women in Archeology.
Make sure to tour the Center for New Mexico Archaeology (the storage facility for New Mexico’s archaeological collections), the research laboratories for the Office of Archaeological Studies, and meet the archaeologists behind the excavations at the Palace of the Governors, the Civic Center, Railyard, Santa Fe County Courthouse, and many other locations throughout the state.

Fiesta of Cultures
2019-10-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Coronado Historic Site, 485 Kuaua Road, Bernalillo, NM, 87004, United States
Come celebrate New Mexico’s diverse and unique cultures with over thirty demonstrators and four entertaining performances throughout the day. Learners of all ages can participate by exploring the event with a cultural passport to earn a special reward. There is no admission fee and the event is open to the public. Art and food will be available for purchase. Call 505-867-5351 for more information.

Alcoves 2020 #2 ON DISPLAY OCTOBER 19, 2019 - FEBRUARY 9, 2020
2019-10-19 - 2020-02-09 | New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building, 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
The alcove shows continue the tradition began in 1917 of exhibiting works made by living artists. These small, one-person exhibitions, called alcoves, were held in the original gallery space through the 1950s, resuming in the mid-1980s and again in the early 1990s and 2012. Alcoves 2020 continues this tradition with a series of six exhibitions featuring the work of artists living in New Mexico right now. These artist-centered showcases feature new ideas, artists at all stages of their careers and artwork that is being made by artists from across New Mexico.
Alcoves 2020 #2: October 19, 2020 – February 9, 2020
Jen Pack, Heather McGill, Daniel McCoy, Marietta Patricia Leis, Sarah Stolar
Jen Pack creates her prismatic string and fiber art to satisfy a compulsion. Her work is located in a transitional zone between color and form, and painting and sculpture. Pack says of her work: “I have always been profoundly responsive to color and the sensations color can provoke. My work has been described as an artistic oxymoron: both loud and quiet, solid and transparent, hand-made and precise, delicate and aggressive, exuberant and restrained, formal and emotional. It is a reflection of me, an artist of blended culture who is both loud and quiet, urban and rural, delicate and aggressive, masculine and feminine, adventurous and routine.” Born in Astoria, Oregon in 1976, Pack received a BFA from Art Center college of Design in Pasadena, California, in 1997 and an MLIS from San Jose State University in 2008. She is a librarian as well as an artist. Jen Pack currently resides in Silver City, New Mexico.
Exhibiting in museums and galleries nationally and internationally since 1984, Heather McGill has a unique ability and art making practice where opposing concepts come together and fuse into one successful union: hand-made and machine-made, low art and high art, nature and high tech, feminine and masculine. The laser cut paper she uses is exquisitely airbrushed using inexpensive readymade lace and textiles by the yard for stencils. These patterns are mostly from the natural world, including flowers, butterflies, spider webs and the like. They are also evocative of the 1960s and 70s trippy psychedelic patterns and artworks. These spectacular elements are then assembled and layered on a similarly painted backer board drilled with hundreds of holes so that the collaged pieces can be sewn together using beads for additional support and ornamentation. Heather McGill received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she refined her training in sculpture. McGill’s 26-year teaching career at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit where the automation and mass production of automobiles, development of novel plastics, resins, and other materials along with the spectacular autobody and paint colors and lacquers has had a long-lasting impact on her practice, and has become a recurring theme influencing her processes and work.
Daniel McCoy Jr.’s father was an Irish biker and his mother a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Tribe of Oklahoma. His paintings bear influences from both sides, the aesthetic of psychedelic counterculture melding easily with the modernist flat style of mid-century Native painters. The campy color palette and frantic, wavy line-work that the younger McCoy (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) perfected easily lend to comic, even ironic, meditations on everything from Aristotle’s Great Chain of Being to Allsup’s famed hot sauce. McCoy attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1993, and continues to be inspired by the vast disparity of creative expression he witnessed there. Pop culture, Americana, and punk rock find common ground in his work. His experiences vary just a widely as his influences, and each, it seems, comes into play in his paintings, including a stint as a sign and billboard painter. Sign painting gifted McCoy an affinity for lettering, and the ultra-realism of the billboard business drove him to go back to something organic and imperfect: cartooning. A cartoonish style set McCoy apart because at the time Native art was still dominated by realism. Since coming to New Mexico for college, McCoy continues to live and work in Santa Fe.
Marietta Patricia Leis says of her work: “My work encompasses multiple media, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installation. There is always an element of the sensory in my art- a texture, a color, a deep space- something to engage the senses of the viewer. The intention of the work is to contemplate boundaries, edges, and limits. My abstract color fields run the risk of invisibility, but silence, patience, and deep listening is fundamental to the satisfaction of the viewer.” Marie6tta Patricia Leis was born in Newark, New Jersey. She has worked as a professional artist for 30+ years. She has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Perugia (Italy), and now lives and works in New Mexico/ She is a painter whose work has evolved from very complex abstractions to reductive color fields inspired by my Eastern Studies and nature. She has participated in Artist Residencies both in the US and abroad. Leis has shown her work abroad in Thailand, China, Portugal, and England, as well as in the US in museums and galleries. Private and public collections hold her work. She has earned her MFA from the University of New Mexico.
Sarah Stolar is an interdisciplinary artist who works from a strong psychological and female perspective. The breadth of her work includes drawing, painting, multi-media installation, film, video and performance art. She also works collaboratively with notable performance artists and non-profit organizations. She has worked on two feature-length films, curated five gallery and museum exhibitions, and created wearable art for international performances. Sarah grew up in her mother’s art studio, received a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Selected exhibitions include the Donau Festival, Krems, Austria; Anti-Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland; Currents 2011, Santa Fe; 53rd Venice Biennale; and a solo exhibition at BGMoCA, Uruguay. A long-time educator, Sarah is currently contributing faculty at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design and the Chair of the Art Department at University of New Mexico – Taos.
Alcoves 20/20 is supported in part by the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography.

Women in Archaeology at the Center for NM Archaeology
2019-10-19 - 2020-10-09 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
Please note this exhibit is on view at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology, at 7 Old Cochiti Road, off the Caja del Rio exit of 599.
This exhibit highlights the work of 11 pioneer women in archaeology who worked in the American Southwest as well as touches on some major early and modern contributors to archaeology throughout the world.
“The women highlighted in this exhibition made numerous contributions to their field and helped educate many students who went on to pursue careers in archaeology. Through their work, they have turned archaeology into the field it is, leaving a lasting legacy for the future of the discipline,” said exhibit co-curator Emily Hurley. “Early on in our field women were discouraged from pursing advanced degrees and conducting field work. By highlighting the work of 11 pioneer women in archaeology who worked here in the American Southwest, our hope to help inspire future generations of women to pursue a career in archaeology.”
For a printable map to CNMA, follow this link.

Voices From the Past: Moonlight Tours
2019-10-19 | Fort Selden Historic Site, 1280 Fort Selden Road, Radium Springs, NM, 88054, United States
Join us for a special moonlight tour and meet people visiting from the past. This year we will tell the story of the diphtheria outbreak of 1886. You will meet the women who worked to care for the sick, the families who lost children, and the soldiers who were busy renovating the fort. Tours leave every 15 minutes. Tickets are sold at the door. All of the activities for this event will be outside so please dress warmly!
The last tour will leave at 8:15pm. Admission: $8 for adults. Children 16 and under are free. Cash or check only. Sponsored by the Museum of NM Foundation.
Please call 575-202-1638 for more information.
NM I-25, Exit 19, Radium Springs – Follow the signs

Public Reception: Alcoves 20/20 #2
2019-10-18 17:00 - 19:00 | New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building, 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Alcoves 20/20 #2
Artists: Jen Pack, Heather McGill, Daniel McCoy, Marietta Patricia Leis, Sarah Stolar

These small alcove galleries are a tradition that dates back more than 100 years to the founding of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Artists from across the state, across media, and in all stages of their career will be featured over the course of a year as part of Alcoves 20/20. At the close of the year of exhibitions, we will have featured new work by thirty artists. The Alcove exhibitions reaffirm the Museum’s commitment to living artists and to exhibiting and championing contemporary art in New Mexico.
Alcoves 20/20 #2 on view October 19, 2019 – December 15, 2019
Alcoves 20/20 is supported in part by the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography

Public opening reception: Working on the Railroad
2019-10-18 17:00 - 18:00 | New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Free public reception celebrating the opening of the Working on the Railroad exhibition.
Working on the Railroad pays tribute to the people who moved the rail industry throughout New Mexico.
Using nearly forty images from the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives and the Library of Congress, this exhibition offers an in-depth look at the men and women who did everything from laying track to dispatching the engines. Wrenches, lanterns, tie dating nails and other objects from the New Mexico History Museum collections will be displayed to give additional life to the photos; many hands used those tools to ensure that each engine ran smoothly and successfully.
Refreshments available in the main lobby 5-6pm.

CreativeMornings Global theme: "Flow"
2019-10-18 09:00 - 10:00 | New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Please join Andy Otto, Executive Director of the Santa Fe Watershed Association, who will speak on the theme of “flow”.
Free event. Morning refreshments provided by Iconik Coffee Roasters.

Working on the Railroad
2019-10-18 - 2021-10-18 | New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
They came from all over, and through back-breaking manual labor, railroad workers transformed the United States and impacted millions of lives. When the railroad came to New Mexico in 1879, it brought thousands of job opportunities for local people from rural villages, reservations, and larger towns. In addition to the homegrown workforce, the railroad also brought immigrant Chinese, European, and Mexican laborers to New Mexico. On a national scale, by the time women were granted the vote under the 19th Amendment in 1920, one out of every 50 citizens worked for the railroad; this number increased exponentially during US involvement in World War II.
Working on the Railroad tells another side of New Mexico’s locomotive history that makes no mention of passenger trains or tourism; visitors will leave the exhibition with a greater appreciation of the difficulty of this work. All workers are represented – women, people of color, immigrants, young and old – and most jobs are represented, both on and off the tracks.
From steel gangs to machinists and car cleaners to conductors, every role in the railroad industry served an important purpose.
Opening October 18 and running through a date to be determined in 2021. Working on the Railroad is featured in the Mezzanine Gallery of the History Museum near the Fred Harvey installation.
This exhibit is also viewable as a virtual tour: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=z9uNNHsiPED

Girard: Culture x Design symposium October 18-19, 2019
2019-10-18 - 2019-10-19 | Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, 87504, United States
The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) is home to one of few remaining examples of Girard’s designed environments, the exhibition Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, which Girard created and installed in 1982 from his 106,000-object folk art collection. Here, modern design and folk art converge. By inviting contributors to explore Girard through multiple disciplines—design, art history, folklore, anthropology, and museology—this symposium offers previously unexplored perspectives on Girard and insists on a more complex interpretation of his role in both worlds.
In conjunction with the exhibition Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe, organized by Vitra Design Museum, on view at MOIFA through October 27
Symposium Participants:
Amy Auscherman (Herman Miller)
Charlene Cerny (Museum of International Folk Art)
Jochen Eisenbrand, PhD (Vitra Design Museum)
Shawn Evans, AIA (Atkin Olshin Schade Architects)
Ira Jacknis, PhD (Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
Felicia Katz-Harris (Museum of International Folk Art)
Matthew J. Martinez, PhD (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture)
Monica Obniski, PhD (Milwaukee Art Museum)
Todd Oldham (Todd Oldham Studio)
Kymberly N. Pinder, PhD (MassArts)
Rachel Preston Prinz (Archinia + Architecture for EveryBody)
Khristaan Villela, PhD (Museum of International Folk Art)
Katherine White (The Henry Ford)

Symposium costs are:
$225 for non-members / $200 for MNMF members
$150 for students with valid ID, and Museum of International Folk Art docents and volunteers (with special code)

Price includes 2-day symposium, continental breakfast and lunch both days, Saturday Closing Party

$100 for Saturday Closing Party only

A limited number of student scholarships are available. Contact Leslie Fagre for more information: leslie.fagre@state.nm.us.
All other questions: folkartcuratorial@gmail.com

Register online, by October 7, 2019: https://museumfoundation.org/girard-symposium/

Carol Emaerthle-Douglas: The Art of Basketry a Friends of Indian Art Event
2019-10-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
Carol Emarthle-Douglas (Northern Arapaho/Seminole) is a Traditional/ Contemporary basket-weaver: traditional because of her coiling technique and contemporary because her materials include spring hemp twine, waxed linen thread, reed, rafﬁa, and silk. Working in this style for over 15 years, her unique creations have garnered numerous awards, including the 2015 SWAIA – Best of Show. Carol has also been the recipient of many Fellowships including the 2016 Dubin Fellowship from the School for Advanced Research. Her basketry is highly regarded among collectors and has been acquired by numerous museums throughout the US, most notably the Brooklyn Art Museum, the Montclair Art Museum, the Autry Museum of the American West, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Inspired By Nature: Gems That Rock
2019-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 | NM
This Inspired by Nature will teach you all about our state gem, turquoise! Learn all about this iconic Southwest stone and how you can trace specimens back to their mines and how you can tell natural turquoise from fake turquoise.
Create your own turquoise inspired soap. You will come away from this workshop with a full pound of homemade, nature inspired soap! This is a perfect way to get ready for the holidays as each pound of soap will make up to 6 bars of soap.
21+ only (bring your I.D.) tickets are $40. All tickets include a voucher for one free drink and additional drinks can be purchased at the cash bar.
A portion of every ticket sale will go to help support the Geology Program at the Museum.

Public Lecture: Agnes Pelton and Georgia O’Keeffe: Natural and Mystical Impulses
2019-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building, 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Dr. Sharyn Udall is an Art Historian, author, and independent curator who has written, taught and lectured widely on 19th and 20th century American and European art. The author of eight books, as well as many exhibition catalogs and scholarly articles, her special research interests include the art of the Southwest, American modernism, women in the visual arts, and the creative connections among visual artists, performing artists and writers. Her most recent book is Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace.
Free

Let’s Take a Look! Curators Examine Your Treasures
2019-10-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
MIAC Curators gather in the lobby of the Museum on the third Wednesday of each month awaiting whatever treasures may walk through the door. This is your opportunity to bring a family heirloom, something special from your collection, or a piece you know nothing about. Naturally, they prefer items from the American Southwest (in keeping with the museum’s focus), but they will check out anything you bring in.
Federal law prohibits curators from “appraising” any items, but they will direct you to appropriate resources. For more information, visit this page: http://indianartsandculture.org/lets-take-a-look.

Celebrate Earth Science Week
2019-10-16 10:00 - 13:00 | NM
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science at 1801 Mountain Rd NW is celebrating Earth Science Week. Explore fossils, minerals and rocks of New Mexico with experts who will offer demonstrations and displays. Visit the New Mexico Shake Out table learn about earthquakes and earthquake awareness. Free with Museum admission.

Annual Native Treasures COLLECTORS SALE to benefit MIAC exhibitions and education programs
2019-10-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
Annual Native Treasures COLLECTORS SALE to benefit MIAC exhibitions and education programs
Free Admission
Don’t miss this unique sale of Native American art from private collections!
You’ll find pottery, jewelry, textiles, paintings, baskets, carvings—vintage and contemporary. Whether you are a new or a seasoned collector, come find your own treasure!
Sale held at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture • Museum Hill • 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe

Annual Native Treasures COLLECTORS SALE to benefit MIAC exhibitions and education programs
2019-10-12 10:00 - 2019-10-13 17:00 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
Don’t miss this unique sale of Native American art from private collections!

You’ll find pottery, jewelry, textiles, paintings, baskets, carvings—vintage and contemporary. Whether you are a new or a seasoned collector, come find your own treasure!

Sale held at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Museum Hill • 710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe

Saturday and Sunday, 10 am–5 pm, Free Admission • Early Birds Saturday, 9–10 am, $25

History on Horseback
2019-10-12 | Fort Stanton Historic Site, 104 Kit Carson Road, Fort Stanton, NM, 88323, United States
BYOH – Bring Your Own Horse

Take part in a unique experience not available anywhere else in the country. Led by a historically uniformed guide, riders will be entertained by the history of Fort Stanton and a demonstration of soldiers’ horse skills. Put your horsemanship skills to the test as you’re immersed in the intricacies of military drill on horseback. Afterwards, enjoy a tour of the fort and then a trail ride in some of Fort Stanton’s most scenic back country.

Details
Total time investment for this unique activity is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Riders will be required to provide their own horses, equipment and transportation.
Riders and horses assemble on the old Army drill field across from the historic fort stables. Reservations are required for this endeavor and the cost is $25 per rider.
Tour begins at 10:00am.
For more information or to reserve your spot, call the Fort Stanton Museum at (575) 354-0341.

Pueblo Pottery Demonstration Series with Flo and Lee Vallo (Acoma)
2019-10-09 13:00 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
Flo and Lee Vallo have been making and painting pottery for over 20 years. She was taught by her mother and grandmother, and her mother-in-law has encouraged her to explore and expand her craftsmanship. The couple are fourth-generation potters and painters. With this exploration of pottery, they opened a small Pottery business on the Acoma Reservation. Tribal members and community members come to purchase their pottery for cultural and traditional use. They recently traveled with the New Mexico Tourism Bureau to Chicago to promote tourism to New Mexico. They were the featured pueblo pottery artists to promote the Native American culture in New Mexico.

Red Ribbon Rally 2019 Enjoy a live webcast at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
2019-10-07 09:00 - 10:00 | NM
Come to the Museum to see the live webcast kick-off from Washington D.C. The theme for 2019 Red Ribbon Week is “Send a message. Stay Drug Free.” All students, teachers and family members are invited to attend the webcast. The event is free at 9am on Monday October 7th at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science at 1801 Mountain Road in Albuquerque.

CAMALACHE - Música Buena Public Opening Exhibit Opening
2019-10-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, 87504, United States
About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/
Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human creativity and shape a humane world. The museum holds the world’s largest international folk art collection of more than 150,000 objects from six continents and over 150 nations, representing a broad range of global artists whose artistic expressions make Santa Fe an international crossroads of culture. For many visitors, fascination with folk art begins upon seeing the whimsical toys and traditional objects within the Girard Collection. For others, the international textiles, ceramics, carvings and other cultural treasures in the Neutrogena Collection provide the allure. The museum’s historic and contemporary Latino and Hispano folk art collections, spanning the Spanish Colonial period to modern-day New Mexico, reflect how artists respond to their time and place in ways both delightful and sobering. In 2010, the museum opened the Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience, where exhibitions encourage visitors to exchange ideas on complex issues of human rights and social justice.
706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, NM 87505. (505) 476-1200.
Hours: 10 am to 5 pm daily, May through October; closed Mondays November through April, closed Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day. First Sunday of Every Month is free to NM Residents.

Making History WOW! A Galaxy of Wonder
2019-10-06 10:00 - 16:00 | New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Join us in the WOW (Wonder on Wheels) van located in front of the museum on Lincoln Avenue to explore space related learning, see an Apollo space suit, pop culture toys from the Apollo 11 days, astronaut food, touch a moon and mars meteorite …….and much more. Then come inside the museum to scratch a petroglyph in clay, just like Native Sky watchers did during the 1066 celestial event.
All ages welcome, free.

Library Pop-Up Open House
2019-10-06 10:00 - 14:00 | Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, 87504, United States

Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico In the Hispanic Heritage Wing
2019-10-06 - 2022-09-05 | Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, 87504, United States
The exhibition will explore different forms of music such as special music played at different life stages (songs of birth, weddings, death), seasonal music (songs for Christmas, Lent, and Harvest seasons) ,as well as liturgical and secular plays and reenactments. For example, one such tradition is that of Moros y Cristianos, which is based on medieval folk plays that re-enact the final battle between a newly unified Spain and the Moors who ruled for 800 years. The play represents multiethnic heritage and influences in Spanish culture and is the only play today still performed entirely on horseback. Another popular folk play, Los Comanches, is based entirely on historical events in the Southwestern US. This play depicts the joining of forces between the Spanish settlers and Pueblo Indians to fight and keep the invading Comanches out of New Mexican lands. There are several versions of this reenactment, each with its own unique flavor. Another popular tradition is El Baile de los Matachines which is still practiced in both Hispano and Genízaro villages and Native Pueblos, from the Río Arriba (Northern New Mexico) all the way south to Mexico & Guatemala.

The exhibition will feature close to 75 objects from the museum’s permanent collection and from private collections around the state. Some of these items include: a Matachines danzante costume; a 19th century New Mexican-made violin; a hand carved wooden matraca (rattle) made by Cordova artist José Dolores López; an antique handwritten book of Alabados (religious chants sung during Holy Week and at Funerals); and contemporary instruments made by musician Cipriano Vigil and other local New Mexican artists. A New Mexico Music Living Treasure, Vigil served as special consultant for the exhibition. Photographs and memorabilia will accompany the objects. The exhibition will include a substantial amount of the newly-digitized sound footage from the museum’s archives. Video footage will also showcase contemporary practices of New Mexican traditions that continue today including the Baile de Los Matachines, Las Posadas and Los Pastores, Moros y Cristianos, Dar los días and Los Comanches. New recordings also include interviews and footage of traditions that are handed down from elder to younger generations. Sound and video stations will be included in the exhibition along with a space for live in gallery performances. Museum visitors will be able to access online materials and continue listening to the museum’s rich store of historic music long after they have left the museum.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
Virtual Exhibit
Visit our Online Experiences page-http://moifa.org/visit/online.html
WATCH:
New Mexican dramatic traditions can be religious, ceremonial, or secular-https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Dx1Qh-1tek5ZcvuXHNfDo47H3ErEDLK
The ’entriega’ celebrates or commemorates a rite of passage-https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Dx1Qh-1teljcY9Wpb50RM85aDoeUxYa
Contemporary musicians keep Hispano Folk Music alive and share their personal stories- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Dx1Qh-1telM1wlXyj5lb38VUZOZhrGL​
READ:
Proud Pageantry: How a play on horseback traveled to the new world- https://www.elpalacio.org/2020/02/proud-pageantry/
No Pueden Pasar! Explore the Christmas traditions of Los Pastores and Las Posadas-http://www.elpalacio.org/2019/12/no-pueden-pasar/
¡Buenas Melodías! Four centuries of New Mexican music tune up for an epic show.-http://www.elpalacio.org/2019/10/buenas-melodias/
Photo Caption: The Character of El Demonio smiling after chasing away a group of shepherds in La Gran Pastorela, or Los Pastores (The Shepherds), a holiday play performed by the Jarales Choir Group for the Our Living Hispanic Heritage Project of the Museum of New Mexico [ca. 1980]. Photo by Mark Nohl, Moifa Archives.

Diego Romero vs. the End of Art
2019-10-06 - 2021-01-02 | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, 87557, United States
Diego Romero vs. the End of Art will be a dynamic exploration of a Cochiti Pueblo artist’s journey through life as depicted through his work.
For decades, California born Cochiti potter Diego Romero has created renowned historical and autobiographical artworks. Acclaimed for his neo-Mimbres pottery illustrating Pueblo Indian history, his father’s Korean War stories, and his relationships with women, family, substances and art, Romero’s work lays bare the life of one Native artist and Native history.
The exhibition narrative will be a biographical and culture history in conjunction with a conflict against a shadowy figure known only as the End of Art. Throughout the exhibition video presentations will feature interviews with the artist and others detailing his path and the evolution of his art. This will be one of the largest assemblages of Romero’s ceramic works and his lesser known multi-media drawings. Per conversations with the artist, several family members will be included as part of his story and as necessary allies in his battle with the nebulous nemesis, the End of Art. In an effort to engage a younger audience and the non-traditional museum visitor, the catalog will be a hybrid of a traditional volume combined with elements of a graphic novel. This method will convey Romero’s stories of cultural and personal endurance. It is hoped that Native youth in particular will relate to their story through art.
The goals of this exhibition are to share Romero’s unique and engaging stories of life and struggle through a cultural and pop culture lens, and the visitor will learn of Native survival and ultimately celebration.
