Come celebrate the life, legacy, and art of icon Agnes Martin on her birthday!

Visit the world-famous Agnes Martin Gallery. Museum admission is free all day for Taos County residents.

Join us in the Arthur Bell Auditorium at 1:00 PM for a screening of Agnes Martin Before the Grid. Director Kathleen Brennan will introduce the film, and she will be joined by Marcia Oliver, artist and friend of Agnes, for a Q&A session after the screening.

Additional screenings will take place at 3pm and 4pm.

Stop by the Museum Store on your way out and join us for birthday cake, blueberry muffins, and beverages!

Image Courtesy of Mildred Tolbert Family archives.
 

In conjunction with the Taos Public Library Teen Art Contest, the Harwood is offering drop-in studio time for teens. Join one of our Teaching Artists and make space to work on your creative projects with full access to our studio supplies. This year’s theme is “Where We Live.”

Pay What You Can (Suggested $5). No one will be turned away.

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

El proyecto NEA Big Read es una iniciativa del National Endowment for the Arts (el Fondo Nacional para las Artes de Estados Unidos) en cooperación con Arts Midwest.

Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum. The April First Friday will celebrate the opening of Legacy in Line: The Art of Gene Kloss, a collaboration with the Couse-Sharp Historic Site. Enjoy refreshments and learn printmaking with Harwood Teaching Artists.

Known for her prints that feature high contrast, rising diagonal lines, and ethereal regions of light, Kloss’s works reflect the spirit of the Southwest with a rare combination of precision and emotion. Her prints often captured the dramatic landscapes and sacred ceremonies of Native American communities, conveying both the physical beauty and spiritual depth of New Mexico. Kloss constantly pushed the boundaries of her medium, striving for the exact effects she sought in each piece.

Image: Gene Kloss, Untitled, c. 1930, watercolor, 9 3/4 x 14 3/16 in. Gift of Ila McAfee Turner.  

Join local artist Kate Miller for a recycled papermaking workshop.

This program is open to families or small groups with children and home school groups. Designed for ages 5-12 but all are welcome. Advanced registration recommended. $5 suggested donation per child. Includes free museum admission. 

Please email education@harwoodmuseum.org for more information. Image courtesy of Kate Miller NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest

Join local artist Kate Miller for a recycled papermaking workshop.

This program is open to families or small groups with children and home school groups. Designed for ages 5-12 but all are welcome. Advanced registration recommended. $5 suggested donation per child. Includes free museum admission. 

Please email education@harwoodmuseum.org for more information. Image courtesy of Kate Miller NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest

Sit down with Nicholas Herrera and award winning journalist Carmella Padilla for an intimate conversation about Herrera’s life and career.

This is free event. Open to the public.

About Nicholas Herrera

Born and raised in El Rito, New Mexico, Nicholas Herrera is a folk artist whose family was among the earliest settlers in the region. Claiming Spanish, Native American, and Mexican ancestry, Herrera identifies as mestizo and descends from farmers and outlaws, landowners and soldiers, craftsmen and artists. He grew up around the Spanish traditions of Northern New Mexico and came of age with a fast-paced lifestyle that resulted in a serious car accident at the age of 26. After awakening in the hospital and recovering from a coma, Herrera felt called to become a saint maker.

Herrera’s work is held in the collections of the American Folk Art Museum, New York,  El Museo del Barrio, New York, the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

About Carmella Padilla

Carmella Padilla is a journalist, author and editor who explores intersections in art, culture and history. She has published extensively in newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, American Craft and El Palacio, and has written several books, including The Work of Art: Folk Artists in the 21st Century; El Rancho de las Golondrinas: Living History in New Mexico’s La Ciénega Valley; Low ‘n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico; and The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest. A native Santa Fean and multigenerational New Mexican, Padilla is a recipient of the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Literary Arts. She is currently at work on a book highlighting the historic makers and movements in twentieth-century New Mexican furniture.   

Image Courtesy of Beth Wald

This program is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Join Artist Nicholas Herrera and Curator Nicole Dial-Kay for this special tour of his current exhibition Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero. Space is limited. Purchase a ticket to reserve a spot.

Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero is a glimpse into the life and works of master santero Nicholas Herrera. Herrera, born and raised in El Rito, New Mexico, is a folk artist whose family was among the earliest settlers in the region. Claiming Spanish, Native American, and Mexican ancestry, Herrera identifies as mestizo and descends from farmers and outlaws, landowners and soldiers, craftsmen and artists. He grew up around the Spanish traditions of Northern New Mexico and came of age with a fast-paced lifestyle that resulted in a serious car accident at the age of 26. After awakening in the hospital and recovering from a coma, Herrera felt called to become a saint maker.

As a modern santero, Herrera creates bultos, retablos, and large-scale mixed media works, many of which detail rich and often challenging chapters in his storied life. Through varied mediums, this exhibition surveys Herrera’s personal identity, family history, relationship to place, and political ideology. Still a “village artist,” Herrera continues to reside, regenerate, and create on the land of his family.

Harwood Museum of Art is proud to exhibit the first solo museum exhibition of Nicholas Herrera, which was recently profiled in the New York Times.

Image courtesy of Beth Wald.

This program is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Explore the exhibition “Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero” with a Harwood Teaching Artist, and be inspired to create your own work of art! This is a great opportunity to see the exhibition before it closes on June 1st.

Explore the exhibition “Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero” with a Harwood Teaching Artist, and be inspired to create your own work of art! This is a great opportunity to see the exhibition before it closes on June 1st.

Join Artist Nicholas Herrera and Curator Nicole Dial-Kay for this special tour of his current exhibition Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero. Space is limited. Purchase a ticket to reserve a spot.

Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero is a glimpse into the life and works of master santero Nicholas Herrera. Herrera, born and raised in El Rito, New Mexico, is a folk artist whose family was among the earliest settlers in the region. Claiming Spanish, Native American, and Mexican ancestry, Herrera identifies as mestizo and descends from farmers and outlaws, landowners and soldiers, craftsmen and artists. He grew up around the Spanish traditions of Northern New Mexico and came of age with a fast-paced lifestyle that resulted in a serious car accident at the age of 26. After awakening in the hospital and recovering from a coma, Herrera felt called to become a saint maker.

As a modern santero, Herrera creates bultos, retablos, and large-scale mixed media works, many of which detail rich and often challenging chapters in his storied life. Through varied mediums, this exhibition surveys Herrera’s personal identity, family history, relationship to place, and political ideology. Still a “village artist,” Herrera continues to reside, regenerate, and create on the land of his family.

Harwood Museum of Art is proud to exhibit the first solo museum exhibition of Nicholas Herrera, which was recently profiled in the New York Times.

Image courtesy of Beth Wald.

This program is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Join poet Dan Beachy-Quick for an expansive two-day workshop inspired by the paintings of Charles Ross. Participants will grapple with what it means to make art of cosmic care and work towards making an art-piece (be it poem, mico-fiction, micro-essay, painting, pottery, etc.) that considers the larger mystery of the world.

Space is limited in this collaborative workshop that will take place in the Harwood galleries and studio. Basic materials provided. Ages 16+. 

Dates: August 9 + 10, 2025

Time: 9am-12pm. Harwood Studio open to participants after the workshop.

Charles Ross creates cosmic art—the stars are one of his primary cares, but not only the stars themselves. He works towards a complex understanding of cosmic pattern, and the hidden mutability in what seems, over the course of a single human life, unchanging and eternal, but is not. Drawing from the disciplines of fine art, philosophy, astronomy, and astrology, Ross is an artist who reminds us that consideration and constellation are cognate, and that to learn to think is also to draw a shape in the night sky that tells us the story of who it is we are. Using Charles Ross’s paintings as our most immediate inspiration and considering a number of fragmented texts from some of our most ancient philosophers in the Western tradition—Thales (credited with creating ancient astrology), Heraclitus, Anaximenes, and Empedocles—on our first we’ll discuss art and art-making, and work toward a generative sense of possibility for each one of us. The second day will create space for sharing and reflection with the goal of leaving with the inspiration we always seek but seldom find: an urge to make what art we make because the world needs it, and so do we. 

About Dan Beachy-Quick 

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator, whose most recent book is How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and Writing (Michigan UP’s Poets on Poetry Series, 2024). His work has been long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, and supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations. He is Interim Chair of the English Department as Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.

About Charles Ross 

Charles Ross (b. 1937, Philadelphia, PA) discovered his passion for making sculpture while studying mathematics at UC Berkeley, where he received his BA in Mathematics in 1960 and an MA in Art in 1962. Ross is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant in 1999. He has also received grants from the NEA, the Thaw Charitable Trust, the McCune Charitable Foundation, The Frost Foundation, and many others for the construction of Star Axis. Ross has created 25 permanent solar spectrum artworks around the world including Solar Spectrum, at the Dwan Light Sanctuary, United World College, Montezuma, NM; Spectrum 14, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2024; Spectrum Chamber, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart, Tasmania; Conversations with the Sun, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan; and Spectrum 8, National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Washington DC. His artworks reside in the permanent collections of numerous institutions internationally, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

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Join us for an in-gallery reading by our special guest, Poet and Scholar Dan Beachy-Quick.

About Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator, whose most recent book is How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and Writing (Michigan UP’s Poets on Poetry Series, 2024). His work has been long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, and supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations. He is Interim Chair of the English Department as Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.