Loie Fecteau

"A" is for Atget, "B" is for Baltz and "C" is for come join Katherine Ware, our New Mexico Museum of Art curator of photography, for the official launch of FOCA + P (the Friends of Contemporary Art Plus Photography).  Ware will take us on a journey through the museum's photography holdings and talk about […]

Explore the art of calligraphy during a demonstration by Zen master Shodo Harada Roshi.  After a brief overview of calligraphy's history, the Roshi will share his personal journey both as a monk and with this spiritual art form.   Creating large-scale scrolls in St. Francis Auditorium, he will demonstrate the process behind this Zen practice.A translator […]

During the final gallery talk in the year-long Alcove 12.0 project, the artists of Alcove 12.9 share a conversation about their, and each other's, work.  Meet Jeff Deemie, Teri Greeves, Joanne Lafrak and James Marshall and join in a lively conversation about contemporary art.  5:30 to 7:00 p.m.  Free.

Monday Gallery TalksEvery Monday in July and August12:15 to about 1:00Meet in the PatioThe museum has invited guests speakers to lead tours, emphasizing their unique points of view.  Lively conversation most welcome.July 1    Ligia Bouton.    Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Foundations at the University of New Mexico.  Her creative work combines sculpture with performance, digital video, […]

Enjoy the cascading sounds of Linda Larkin and Julie Hawley on Celtic harp, with Charly Drobeck on flute.   5:30 to 7:30 p.m.  Free

Use the power of the sun to make unique photo images.  A family-fun, hands-on art-making activity.  Supplies and instruction provided.  Light refreshments served.  Free.

Mary Tsiongas is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work addresses human relationships to technology and the natural environment. She is currently an Associate Professor in Electronic Media at the University of New Mexico.

Independent scholar and curator Petra Giloy-Hirtz will talk about Hassel Smith (1915 - 2007).Smith was an innovative and widely appreciated West Coast-based artist during the significant early phase in the development of Abstract Expressionism in the United States.Smith was a highly influential teacher; from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s he taught at the California […]

Torres-Nez is Chief Operating Officer of SWAIA and Traugott is the New Mexico Museum of Art's Curator of 20th Century Art.  They collaborated on the current exhibition, Back in the Saddle.

Joyce Begay-Foss is Director of Education at the Museum of Indian Art and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology

Mary Kershaw is the Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art

Robin Farwell Gavin is Senior Curator, Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts