Upcoming Events at the Museum of New Mexico
2/12/12, Sunday
1:00pm — 5:00pm
Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules
Exhibit Opening
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
2/12/12, Sunday
1:00pm — 4:00pm
Chocolate...A Love Affair, Ancient Meso-America to Modern Times
Friends of Folk Art Event
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 or click JOIN!
Museum of International Folk Art
2/15/12, Wednesday
12:00pm — 12:45pm
Mapping New Mexico
A Centennial Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
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
2/15/12, Wednesday
12:00pm — 2:00pm
Let’s Take A Look
Curators Look at Your Treasures
The 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
2/17/12, Friday
5:30pm — 7:00pm
Centennial Lecture Series
"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
2/19/12, Sunday
2:00pm — 4:00pm
GranMary’s Place
Story Hours of Native American Tales
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
2/25/12, Saturday
10:00am — 4:00pm
Calligraphy workshop
The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
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
