Events for February 2012
February 3, 2012
Artist Lecture By James DrakeSalon of a Thousand Souls
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Join artist James Drake us as he discusses his career and work now on view in his one-man exhibition Salon of a Thousand Souls .
New Mexico Museum of Art
February 5, 2012
Black History Month CelebrationA New Mexico Centennial Event
MOIFA kicks off Black history month with music, dance and literature.
Museum of International Folk Art
February 6, 2012
Members Monday: Museum of International Folk ArtMuseum of New Mexico Foundation
10:00 am to 12:00 pm Enjoy private, behind-the-scenes tours of the exhibitions and collections with museum directors and curators. Not a Museum of New Mexico Museum Foundation member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 100 or click JOIN !
Museum of International Folk Art
February 12, 2012
Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the RulesExhibit Opening
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Exhibit Opening: February 12, 2012, 1:00 -4:00 pm Lecture: Women’s World will be presented by Margarete Bagshaw in the Museum Theater, 2:00 pm Margarete Bagshaw – the third generation of the only three-generation female painting dynasty ever - started painting at age 25. Over the past 20 plus years she has taken the mantle of the two generations before her, which includes her grandmother Pablita Velarde and mother Helen Hardin, and, without any excuses, broken the rules too.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
February 12, 2012
Chocolate...A Love Affair, Ancient Meso-America to Modern TimesFriends of Folk Art Event
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Explore and taste the exotic world of chocolate! Meet the makers of specialty chocolate and share their passion for their craft. See demonstrations and sample fine hand-made chocolates and elixirs inspired by the Mayans and Aztecs. View Guatemalan Mayan Temple Rubbings. Celebrate Valentine's Day early at this chocolate lovers' odyssey. Event will be held at the Scottish Rite Temple . Not a Museum or Friends of Folk Art member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 100 to join !
Museum of International Folk Art
February 15, 2012
Mapping New MexicoA Centennial Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
Noon to 12:45 pm Join Dennis Reinhartz for "The Graphics of Statehood: The Mapping of New Mexico," part of the 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. A free event in the John Gaw Meem Room; enter through the Washington Avenue doors. Reinhartz is professor emeritus of history and Russian at the University of Texas at Arlington. His publications include Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier (University of Texas Press, 2005). He received the 1996 Adele Mellen Prize for The Cartographer and the Literati , a Friends of the UTA Libraries Faculty Award; and the 1987 Presidio La Bahia Award for The Mapping of the American Southwest.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
February 15, 2012
Let’s Take A LookCurators Look at Your Treasures
Noon to 2:00 pmThe third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. During this time, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. The event is always FREE and open to the public. Federal and State regulations prohibit the curators from appraising any artifact.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
February 17, 2012
Centennial Lecture Series 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm "The Arts in New Mexico's Journey to Statehood" Friday, February 17, 2012 5:30 in St. Francis Auditorium Tickets $15. Available in advance at the Lensic Box Office - 988-1234, or at the door that evening.
New Mexico Museum of Art
February 19, 2012
GranMary’s PlaceStory Hours of Native American Tales
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm MIAC presents a Series of Story Hours of Native American Tales, for all ages in the MIAC Discovery Room. During winter months, the dark and cold time of the year, it is traditional to share stories, so come and share in this tradition Programs are at 2:00 pm and repeated again 3:00 pm. The storyteller is Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia, of Pueblos of Tamaya (Santa Ana) and Walatowa (Jemez) , so bring the whole family. FREE admission for New Mexico residents on Sundays with ID, and always FREE admission for 17 and younger. GranMary’s Place storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is dedicated to and celebrates the memory of Docent, Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, loved children, and loved telling stories to children visiting the Museum.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
February 25, 2012
Calligraphy workshopThe Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
10:00 am to 4:00 pm This event is sold out. Thank you, everyone, for your support. Join Diane von Arx, special treatment artist for The Saint John's Bible , for a hands-on calligraphy workshop, "Oh My Gouache." The event costs $100; to reserve a spot, call (505) 476-5096. Part of the programming series for The Saint John's Bible and Contemplative Landscape.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
February 26, 2012
Special Treatment Illuminations for The Saint John’s BibleThe Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Artist, calligrapher and illuminator Diane von Arx will talk about her work for The Saint John’s Bible in the museum’s auditorium. Her lecture, “Special Treatment Illuminations for The Saint John’s Bible ,” is free with admission; Sundays are free to NM residents. Part of the programming series for The Saint John's Bible and Contemplative Landscape.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
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On Exhibit during February 2012
Through February 12, 2012
Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World
For the first time, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology presents a significant collection of Huichol art from the early part of the last century in Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. The exhibition opens at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture April 11, 2010 and has now been extended to run through February 12, 2012. There are important ties between Huichol work and Native American, prehispanic, and Hispanic art histories and cultures. Known today for colorful, decorative yarn paintings, the origins of modern Huichol art are found in the earlier Huichol religious arts of the Robert M. Zingg ethnographic collection at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Through February 20, 2012
How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico
How the West Is One : The Art of New Mexico, organizes key objects from the museum’s collections so that they outline an intercultural history of New Mexico art, from the arrival of railroads in 1879 to the present. This long term exhibition presents 70 works by Native American, Hispanic, and European-American artists which illustrate the changing aesthetic ideals that have evolved within southwestern art over the last 125 years.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Through March 4, 2012
From a Distant Road
Blending an eclectic mix of Eastern and Western poetry and printing techniques, From a Distant Road features hand-colored Japanese albumen prints and original haiga by Santa Fe poet John Brandi. The exhibit runs Sept. 16-March 4, 2012, in the John Gaw Meem Room. The exhibit includes: Eighteen of Brandi’s contemporary haiga (haiku poems accompanied by brush art work) that find their source in the poet-painters of 17th-century Japan. The haiga will be displayed on papers marbled by Palace Press Curator Tom Leech in the Japanese technique of suminagashi (black ink floating). Six hand-tinted albumen photographs from a collection of late 19th-century images of Japan from the Photo Archives at the Palace of the Governors, paired with excerpts from the travel diaries of 17th-century haiku master Matsuo Basho. A new marbled broadside from the Palace Press featuring a prose poem by Brandi.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
Through March 19, 2012
Gustave Baumann Printmaker
A permanent collection of works by one of New Mexico's legendary creative forces.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Through April 7, 2012
Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible
Considered the Sistine Chapel of the modern era and overseen by the Benedictine monks at Saint John's Abbey in Minnesota, Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible features portions of the first modern-day Bible entirely handwritten and illuminated in 500 years. World-renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson, senior scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Office at the House of Lords, serves as the project’s artistic director from his scriptorium in Wales. Also on exhibit will be a page from an original Gutenberg Bible. A series of lectures, musical performances and calligraphy workshops accompany the exhibit, which serves as a companion to Contemplative Landscape.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
Through April 15, 2012
The Letter, the Word & the Book
Set on our mezzanine level, The Letter, the Word & the Book is a small exhibition that complements Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible by highlighting other 20th- and 21st-century practitioners of a centuries-old craft. Using calligraphy, engravings, enameling and more, the artists featured put a contemporary twist on documents ranging from handbills to Bibles.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
Through April 22, 2012
James Drake: Salon of a Thousand Souls
One-person exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art Throughout his career, James Drake has examined the theme of humanity in all of its triumphs, failures, and follies—including war; love and desire; greed, gluttony, and vanity; and the realities of life along the U.S.-Mexico border. The New Mexico Museum of Art exhibition James Drake: Salon of a Thousand Souls includes 19 sculptures and works on paper by the Santa Fe-based artist spanning nearly 25 years. The exhibition opens with a free reception on Friday, October 28, 2011. It remains on view through April 22, 2012.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Through April 22, 2012
Repeat After Me
Repeat After Me brings together 21 prints, primarily from the museum’s collection, that relate to repetition on two different levels: as process and as image. Included are works by Garo Antreasian, Polly Apfelbaum, Charles Arnoldi, Frederick Hammersley, Joyce Kozloff, Sol LeWitt, Sheryl Oring, and Marie Watt, among others.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Through May 4, 2012
Between the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood
From a Spanish government that never quite knew where to draw its northern colony’s borders to a Mexican government that disagreed with where the lines eventually were drawn to a Texas Republic that wanted to claim the Rio Grande, Santa Fe, and much of eastern New Mexico, the U.S. government eventually managed to carve out the trusty rectangle we now know as New Mexico. Between the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood opens Thursday, January 5 and will be on view through May 4, 2012, in the Governor’s Gallery on the fourth floor of the state Capitol. The exhibition, part of the state’s 2012 Centennial celebration, explores explores how cartographers interpreted New Mexico’s land, its physical and political boundaries, and the cultural minglings of Native, Spanish, Mexican, and American people.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Through May 6, 2012
The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Natural Disaster
The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Natural Disaster explores how folk artists helped their communities recover from four recent natural disasters: the Haitian Earthquake; Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast; Pakistani floods; and the recent volcanic eruption of Mt. Merapi in Indonesia. Opening July 3, 2011 in the Museum of International Folk Art’s ‘Gallery of Conscience’ running through May 3, 2012. The Arts of Survival opens during International Folk Arts Week and culminates with the 8th Annual International Folk Arts Market running July 8 – 10, 2011. Highlights of the week will be artist demonstrations, artist talks, lectures, and more. A full schedule of events is on on the MOIFA website
Museum of International Folk Art
Through November 25, 2012
47 Stars
From January 6 through November 25, 2012, the New Mexico History Museum commemorates New Mexico's 1912 entry into the Union with 47 Stars , a collection of exhibits that includes the officially unofficial 47-star flag. 47 Stars includes long-term exhibits and a tongue-in-cheek front-window installation to help celebrate the state’s Centennial.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
Through December 30, 2012
Contemplative Landscape
Contemplative Landscape is a photographic exploration of how people have responded to and interacted with New Mexico’s landscape through art, architecture and sacred rituals. Drawing on works from the Photo Archives at the Palace of the Governors and contemporary photographers, the exhibition prominently features the work of Tony O’Brien, whose 1994-95 sojourn at a New Mexico monastery forms the heart of his new book, Light in the Desert: Photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert (Museum of New Mexico Press), debuting with the exhibition. A companion exhibit to Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
Through January 6, 2013
Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress
Macedonian ethnic dress has it all – it is full of meaning and significance, visually stunning, quite possibly overwhelming, and embodies the skill, expectations, hopes and fears, creative use of materials, and aesthetic sense of the individuals who made and wore it. Saturated with cultural meaning, these many-layered ensembles rank among the best examples of textile art anywhere.
Museum of International Folk Art
Through March 10, 2013
Folk Art of the Andes
Folk Art of the Andes opens Sunday April 17, 2011. This will be the first exhibit in the United States to feature a broad range of folk art from the Andean region of South America, showcasing more than 850 works of Andean folk art primarlity from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The exhibit runs through September 9, 2012, in the Hispanic Heritage Wing, and through March 10, 2013 in the Bartlett Wing. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalog,
Museum of International Folk Art
Open February 12, 2012 through December 30, 2013
Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules
Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules features more than 30 paintings (some on sculpted wood panels), bronze and clay as wall art and multi-colored ceramic vessels that demonstrate the breadth and multi-dimensionality of Margarete Bagshaw's work.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Through April 1, 2014
Woven Identities
Woven Identities features baskets woven by artists representing 60 cultural groups in six culture areas of Western North America: The Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, California, the Northwest Coast, and the Arctic.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
on long-term display
The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
The Buchsbaum Gallery features each of the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona in a selection of pieces that represent the development of a community tradition. In addition, a changing area of the gallery, entitled Traditions Today highlights the evolving contemporary traditions of the ancient art of pottery making.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
on long-term display
Here, Now and Always
Here, Now, and Always is a major exhibition based on eight years of collaboration among Native American elders, artists, scholars, teachers, writers and museum professionals. Voices of fifty Native Americans guide visitors through the Southwest's indigenous communities and their challenging landscapes. More than 1,300 artifacts from the Museum's collections are displayed accompanied by poetry, story, song and scholarly discussion.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
on long-term display
Segesser Hide Paintings
Though the source of the Segesser Hide Paintings is obscure, their significance cannot be clearer: the hides are rare examples of the earliest known depictions of colonial life in the United States. Moreover, the tanned and smoothed hides carry the very faces of men whose descendants live in New Mexico today...
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
on long-term display
Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time
Now 400 years old, Santa Fe was once an infant city on the remote frontier. Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time, on long-term exhibit in the Palace of the Governors, explores the archaeological evidence and historical documentation of the City Different before the Spanish arrived, as well as at the settling of the first colony in San Gabriel del Yungue, the founding of Santa Fe and its first 100 years as New Mexico’s first capital. Co-curated by Josef Diaz of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors and Stephen Post of the DCA/Office of Archaeological Studies, Santa Fe Found collects more than 160 artifacts from four historic sites, along with maps, documents, household goods, weaponry and religious objects. Together, they tell the story of cultural encounters between early colonists and the Native Americans who had long called this place home.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
on long-term display
Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now
Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now , the main exhibition of the New Mexico History Museum, sweeps across more than 500 years of stories - from early Native inhabitants to today's residents - told through artifacts, films, photographs, computer interactives, oral histories and more. Together, they breath life into the people who made the American West: Native Americans, Spanish colonists, Mexican traders, Santa Fe Trail riders, fur trappers, outlaws, railroad men, scientists, hippies and artists.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
on long-term display
Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción contains bultos, retablos, and crucifijos dating from the late 1700s to 1900 which illustrate the distinctive tradition of santo making in New Mexico introduced by settlers from Mexico.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors
on long-term display
Multiple Visions: A Common Bond
"I believe we should preserve this evidence of the past, not as a pattern for sentimental imitation, but as nourishment for the creative spirit of the present." - Alexander Girard
Museum of International Folk Art
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