Calendar of Events
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 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.
Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules
Exhibit Opening
1:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 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.
Let’s Take A Look
Curators Look at Your Treasures
12:00 pm
The third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 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.
GranMary’s Place
Story Hours of Native American Tales
2:00 pm
SUNDAY, MARCH 11
A Conversation with Margarete Bagshaw and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
2:00 pm
Join us as Shelby Tisdale, Director of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, and Carolyn Kastner, Associate Curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, talk with Margarete Bagshaw and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith about their artistic practice and the importance of mentoring. The conversation is held in conjunction with the exhibitions: Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture; and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: An American Modernist at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
SUNDAY, MARCH 11 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 Jonathan Warm Day of Taos Pueblo, 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.
GranMary’s Place
Story Hours of Native American Tales
2:00 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 15 Les Namingha's work is as complex as his personal experience being a Native artist inhabiting a contemporary world. His work evokes concepts of time and space as he weaves color, line, image and pattern into intricate work on structural ceramic pieces as well as the flat plane of his painted work. Join Les as he demonstrates the physical process of working with native ceramic materials, as well as his story of personal exploration within the contemporary realm of art.
Les Namingha Ceramic Demonstration
Friends of Indian Art Event
12:00 am
All events are subject to change. Specific details, such as time, location, maps and information about transportation, will be included in the letter of invitation which all Friends of Indian Art members will receive prior to each event.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 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.
Let’s Take A Look
Curators Look at Your Treasures
12:00 pm
The third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24 See the most anticipated museum exhibitions before they open to the public. Location: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
They Wove for Horses: Navajo Saddle Blankets
Members Preview
5:30 pm
TUESDAY, APRIL 10
Museum Closed For Easter Holiday
10:00 am
All state Museums are closed Easter Sunday and re-open on Tuesday April 10. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 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.
Let’s Take A Look
Curators Look at Your Treasures
12:00 pm
The third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm.