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Drop-In Drawing: Live Model

On the second Sunday of the month, explore your creative side in a fun and informal drawing session. Be inspired by the artists who lived and worked in northern New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, and who are featured in the exhibition New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. …

Read the West Book Club — Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather's best-known novel is an epic — almost mythic — story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the Southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, …

Kids Take Over the Cowboy – Holidays at the Museum

Come celebrate the season with Santa in Prosperity Junction, our turn-of-the-century frontier town. Find Howe and Dee the Cowboy Elves to earn your own special badge! Get photos with Santa and drop off your wish lists. Craft Western-inspired ornaments, pinecone birdfeeders, Christmas tree decorations and more. Interact with a cast of Western characters including Stagecoach …

Curator Conversations – Women Artists of New Mexico

Join Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art, on the first Tuesday of December for a discussion of New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. This major traveling exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of art in New Mexico, from …

Sunday Spotlight – Living Canvas Zonly Looman

Explore these traditions and artistic expressions in Tattooing: Religion, Reality and Regret. Grab a stool and listen to invited artisans discuss their craft. Hear from tattoo artists and tattooed living canvases as they discuss their art, influences and inspiration. From there venture into the galleries and enjoy the exhibition at your own pace. Free for …

Read the West Book Club—Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality

In 1917 Mabel Sterne (Mabel Dodge Luhan), patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of …

Drop-In Drawing: Portrait of a Taos Indian, Ernest L. Blumenschein

On the second Sunday of the month, explore your creative side in a fun and informal drawing session. Be inspired by the artists who lived and worked in northern New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, and who are featured in the exhibition New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. …

A Date with the Duke: Rio Grande (1950)

Enjoy a special evening at the Museum with dinner, drinks and a big screen showing of the 1950 classic “Rio Grande,” the third film in famed director John Ford’s “cavalry trilogy.” $55 per person; $50 per Museum member. Reservations are closed, for questions contact education@nationalcowboymuseum.org. 

Educators After Hours

Educators and a guest are invited to experience all that the National Cowboy Museum offers teachers and students! Museum education staff, curators and docents showcase available educational resources, preview student tours, tour the Museum Vault and learn about the Dickinson Research Center. Guests are also invited to explore Museum galleries on their own. Refreshments and …

Holiday Wine-Down

Relax from the stresses of the holidays! Visit the Museum for a Holiday Wine-Down painting class under instruction from Wine & Palette. Inspired by still-lifes in the exhibition, New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West, create your own still-life masterpiece. $45; $40 for Museum members. All supplies provided, includes light …

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