Explore the colorful landscapes in New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West, then tear, shred and strip colored paper to design a unique layered landscape and create rain art. Kids will learn about background, middle ground and foreground in this fun activity. Enjoy storytime at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. …
Join us for our annual Holiday Open House in the Museum Store! Our store is decorated for the holiday season and stocked with unique items to check off your shopping list. Take advantage of our free gift wrapping station – we’ll make your gift look lovely and ready to give! Featuring two exclusive trunk shows: …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
