FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 30, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)—The New Mexico State Library has announced the state level champions of the 2017 Letters About Literature competition. This annual writing contest for young readers in grades 4 through 12 is made possible by a generous grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and is administered nationally […]
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For Immediate Release: March 28, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)—A flashback to the social experimentation and activism that catalyzed the nation’s young people during the 1960s to today is captured in Be Here Now: Summer of Love Santa Fe, a multi-partner, multi-venue, multi-event collaboration coming to Santa Fe this Summer. Be Here Now: Summer of Love
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 17, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)—Embodying layers of history, identity, expertise, and culture, the Museum of International Folk Art announced today it will host the national touring exhibition of Quilts of Southwest China beginning July 9, 2017 through January 21, 2018. While both highly-valued and culturally significant, Chinese quilts have received little
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)—Cady Wells: Ruminations presents watercolor paintings from one of the Southwest’s most interesting modernists. The exhibition opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on March 25 and is on view through September 17, 2017. A public reception will be held on April 7, 2017 from 5:30 to
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For Immediate Release: March 9, 2017 (Albuquerque, NM)—Enrich your child’s summer this year with mind-expanding fun at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science’s (NMMNHS) popular Young Explorers Summer Camp program. Registration is now open for children from kindergarten through the eighth grade. Each Summer Camp session is one week long, with activities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 10, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)—The man known as the “the Godfather of Counterculture,” Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder ignites Santa Fe’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 5pm, with “An evening with Gary Snyder, Hosted by Jack Loeffler.”
2017 Admission Passes to Museums & Historic Sites Offered to Responding Media For Immediate Release: March 3, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM) – The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is pleased to offer responding media representatives free admission passes to state-run museums and historic sites once again in 2017. DCA offers these Media Passes
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 16, 2017, (Santa Fe, N.M.) Around the turn of the century, the Kiowa people experienced a radical shift from a buffalo hunting society to resettlement in individual family allotments in southwest Oklahoma. Silver Horn (1860-1940), a ledger artist of exceptional talent, illustrated Kiowa life and culture during this time of
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb 16, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)— There is no shortage of photographs documenting the horrors of the Vietnam War. In fact, between military photographers and the free press, millions of photographs of the Vietnam conflict were taken between 1962 and 1975. But, there are very few that document the war from the
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For Immediate Release: February 7, 2017 (Albuquerque, NM)— In 1977, artist Anna Sofaer visited Chaco Canyon as a volunteer recording rock art. There she rediscovered the now-famous Sun Dagger site, a set of spiral petroglyphs marked by dagger-shaped light forms on the summer and winter solstices and at the spring and fall equinoxes. The site
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