Friday, February 6, 5:30–7 pm: “Be Mine,” a Free First Friday event Bring your crafting skills to make old-timey Valentines, inspired by historic cards from the collection with a variety of Victorian-inspired papers. Kids and families welcome. This event is part of the exhibit Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past. Download images […]
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Santa Fe appears to be awash in gradations of adobe brown yet it is a city of rich colors found nowhere else – as seen by the generations of artists who’ve made this city their home. And color in its many shades and hues comes to the fore this summer when some of the city’s
Red, with its brilliant hue and broad cultural history, has inspired artists’ imaginations and seduced viewers for millennia. The exhibition, The Red That Colored the World opening at the Museum of International Folk Art, combines new research and original scholarship to explore the history and widespread use in art of cochineal, an insect-based dye source
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March 6 – September 20, 2015 The New Mexico Museum of Art opens Colors of the Southwest, March 6 through September 20, 2015, to coincide with the “Summer of Color” taking place on Santa Fe’s Museum Hill. Exhibition curator, Carmen Vendelin noted, “attention to color and light is a hallmark of artwork created in the
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Face jugs of the American South are the subject of a two-part public program at the Museum of International Folk Art on Sunday, March 22, 1-4pm. John Burrison will give a lecture on the history of this Southern tradition at 1pm, followed by a face jug demonstration by Georgia potter Mike Craven. The programs are
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North to South: Photographs by Edward Ranney On display Dec. 19, 2014 through April 19, 2015 A survey of remarkable images by this master of photography whose work ranges from the southern Andes of Peru to the Galisteo basin. A longtime New Mexico resident, Ranney has extensively explored the cultural landscape of ancient peoples as
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On display Dec. 19, 2014 through April 19, 2015 Photographers used to spend much of their time in the dark, processing film and developing pictures. Many have come into the light by switching to digital image-making but the mystique of the darkroom lingers. This group exhibition is a tribute to the tools of the trade
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Thursday, Jan. 1, Closed for New Year’s Day: Happy New Year. Enjoy some time with friends and family, then come see us when we reopen at 10 am on Friday, Jan. 2. Friday, Jan. 2, 5:30–7 pm, Free First Friday Evening Event: Procrastinators’ Card-Making Workshop: Did you forget to send holiday cards? The Palace Press
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Go behind-the-scenes for the making of our newest exhibit, Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and its Legacy. Peek into the mystery of the sealed-shut trunk. Check out a very old map. It’s all in the latest issue of The Museum Times, a publication of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors. Give
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Join us for a fun day of activities and be among the first to see this Mezzanine-area addition to the museum’s main exhibit, Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now. Curated by Meredith Davidson, Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy focuses on the rise of the Fred Harvey Company as a
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