Jul 11 - Sep 26
Sunday-Sunday

Plein Air Painting on Sundays
Museum of Art Event
9 am - 12 pm
Plein Air artists are invited to paint in the New Mexico Museum of Art’s glorious central garden patio on Sunday mornings throughout the summer. Free admission to the museum for NM residents with ID. Because space is limited, reservations are required; call Martha Landry at 476-5068.
Contact Info:
Martha Landry, 505-476-5068. For more information, click here.

8
Wednesday

Palace Guard: Fiesta Lecture
Palace Guard Event
6:30 pm - 9 pm
The Santa Fe Fiesta has undergone numerous transformations, some subtle and others profound since its origin in 1712. These changes reflect the cultural shifts that have occurred in the city of Santa Fe during its rich and complex history. Dr. Andrew Lovato draws on the rich documentary and cultural history of Fiesta, as well as his own participation as a native Santa Fean. This lecture will be in the auditorium of the New Mexico History Museum. THIS LECTURE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Tickets are available at the door - $5 for non-members, FREE for Palace Guard members and children.
Contact Info:
Not a Palace Guard Member? Interested in joining this activity? Call the membership office today! 505-982-6366 x 100

11
Saturday

El Camino Real International Heritage Center, Socorro, NM
Monuments Event
11 am - 4 pm
A celebration of Hispanic culture features special performances, viode presentation, and more.
Contact Info:
For info: 575-854-3600

11 - 12
Saturday-Sunday

Fort Selden State Monument, Radium Springs, NM
Monuments Event
8:30 am - 5 pm
Enjoy living history demonstration and period military re-enactors.
Contact Info:
For info: 575-526-8911

11
Saturday

Freinds of Indian Art: The Navajo Textile Collection of Susan DeJong
Friends of Indian Art Event
Susan DeJong has been collecting Navajo textiles for over 40 years. We are invited to her home to view her fabulous collection and hear her talk about Navajo weaving from 1870 to the present, using her own pieces to illustrate.
Contact Info:
Not a member of Friends of Indian Art? Call 505-982-6366 x 100 to join!

11 - 12
Saturday-Sunday

Lincoln State Monument, Lincoln, NM
Monuments Event
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Arts in the Orchard.
Contact Info:
For info: 575-653-4372

12
Sunday

Chow Down at the Cowden Cafe
New Mexico History Museum Event
11:30 am - 4:30 pm
The History Museum's Cowden Cafe celebrates its grand opening September 12, with a ranch-style barbecue (11:30 to 3:30 @ $9.99/per person), live Western music and and free lecture (with museum admission) about the Cowden Ranch by award-winning author Michael Pettit at 3:30 pm in the History Museum Auditorium.
Contact Info:
505-476-5200

12
Sunday

FOCA Studio Tour in Taos
Friends of Contemporary Art Event
11 pm - 5 pm
Get on the bus for our annual tour of New Mexico artists' studios. Join New Mexico Museum of Art curator Laura Addison as she leads an excursion to Taos to visit with accomplished NM artists. This tour features Johnnie Winona Ross, in conjunction with his exhibition at NMMOA. The annual studio tour is a chance to see where artists hone and apply their craft and is always a resounding success!
Contact Info:
Not a member of FOCA? Call 982-6366 ext 100 to join!

13
Monday

Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
New Mexico History Museum Event
12 pm - 12:45 pm
Join Jon Hunner for a discussion on how a bomb made a town in his book Inventing the Bomb, Inventing Los Alamos. In the museum's Meem Community Room, 110 Washington Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Contact Info:
505-476-5053

13 - 16
Monday-Thursday

Palace Guard: Northern New Mexico, Southern Colorado Connections
Palace Guard Event
8 am - 5 pm
Due to low enrollment, this trip has been canceled.
Contact Info:
Not a Palace Guard Member? Interested in joining this activity? Call the membership office today! 505-982-6366 ext. 100

15
Wednesday

Let's Take a Look
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Event
12 pm - 2 pm
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and Laboratory of Anthropology curators will be in the museum lobby to look at your unidentified treasures. Free
Contact Info:
505-476-1250

18
Saturday

Archaeology of Gallina Site
Friends of Archaeology Event
8 am - 5 pm
Day trip to the Gallina archaeological sites located in the Llaves Valley, between Cuba and Coyote, NM. Between 1050 and 1250, this rugged beautiful country was the home of Ancestral Puebloans of the Gallina Culture who lived in small settlements along the mesa tops, river terraces, and steep hillsides. They are particularly noted for the stone towers and terraced gardens with water-control systems they left behind. Archaeologist Mike Bremer will be our leader. We will meet at 8 a.m. at the lower Museum Hill parking area where we will sign in and organize carpooling. We will be back around 5 p.m. Bring water, and appropriate clothing and footwear for hiking. Lunch will be provided. Trip is rated moderate to strenuous - activity will include walking into some of the sites up steep grades and uneven surfaces over distances up to a mile.
Contact Info:
Please call the FOA Reservation Hotline (505) 982-7799, ext. 5 to reserve. Sign up begins on August 9, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. Cost: $80 for FOA members and $95 for non-members of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Participation is limited to 20 people.

21
Tuesday

The Circles: Cocktail Party at the Home of Sydney and Andrew Davis
The Circles Event
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Enjoy an insider’s look at what’s happening at the Museum of New Mexico.
Contact Info:
505-982-6366 x116

26 - 30
Sunday-Thursday

3rd Annual Folk Art Flea Market
Friends of Folk Art Event
10 am - 4 pm
Want to donate your folk art to the The Friends of Folk Art's third community-wide Folk Art Flea Market? Bring items to the Museum of International Folk Art from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, September 26 through Thursday, September 30. The Flea Market is Oct. 2. If you have large items, or more than you are able to carry, please call the Folk Art Flea hotline at 505.476.1201 so we can make arrangements to help; early donations can also be made by calling the hotline.
Contact Info:
Folk Art Flea Hotline: (505) 476-1201 or Chris Vitagliano 476-1209

26
Sunday

Chiles and Sherds VIII at Piedras Marcadas
Friends of Archaeology Event
Join the Friends of Archaeology for their annual Chiles and Sherds celebration of the archaeology and cuisine of New Mexico. This year's event will be held at Piedras Marcadas, located in a beautiful bosque along the Rio Grande, on the grounds of the Open Space Center in Albuquerque. Coronado’s forces attacked and overwhelmed this pueblo, leaving behind cross bow bolts and obsidian blades. The obsidian blades belonged to the Mexican Indians who were brought up as part of Coronado’s army, adding a distinctive Mesoamerican flavor that we rarely glimpse in Rio Grande Valley archaeology. The event will include small group tours of the archaeological site, displays and demonstrations of 16th century archery and pottery, a tasty lunch and walks through the garden.
Contact Info:
Tickets are $95 and are on sale at www.ticketssantafe.org or at the Lensic 505-988-1234. If you have questions, please call 505-982-6366 x112

26
Sunday

Native Treasures Collectors' Sale
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Event
9 am - 4 pm
Shop Native American art from some of the top collectors. The sale is open to the public and takes place at the Laboratory of Anthropology's Meem Auditorium on Museum Hill. A portion of the proceeds benefit education and exhibitions at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
Contact Info:
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 505-476-1250 or www.nativetreasuressantafe.org

28
Tuesday

Friends of Folk Art Southern Folk Art Lecture
Friends of Folk Art Event
10 am - 12 pm
On September 28th at 10:00am, Susan Crowley, Curator of Folk Art at the High Museum in Atlanta will give a talk on Southern Folk Art. The High is dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists. The nucleus of the folk art collection is the T. Marshall Hahn Collection, donated in 1996, and Judith Alexander's gift of 130 works by Atlanta artist Nellie Mae Rowe. Other notable works include those of Reverend Howard Finster, Bill Traylor, Thornton Dial, Ulysses Davis, Sam Doyle, William Hawkins, and Mattie Lou O'Kelley. The collection of more than 750 objects also boasts extraordinary examples by artists from beyond the South, such as Henry Darger, Martín Ramírez, and Joseph Yoakum. This event will take place in the auditorium at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on Museum Hill. This event is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Contact Info:
505-982-7799 ext.7