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Francisco Cantu, author of "The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border" details his experiences as a border patrol agent from 2008-12 in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Cantu illuminates issues of border crossings/immigration/sanctuary seekers and the toll in human lives; both physical and emotional. He will read and present a Q & A session.
Tickets are: $20 for public and $16 for SOMOS, Taos Unit...read more

Doel Reed Center for the Arts presents: Tyler Mills, a multidisciplinary writer, visual artist, and assistant professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University,
Free to Doel Reed Center students, Harwood Museum members and free with admission for general public.

Community reception: Sunday, June 2, 2019 – Noon to 5:00pm

JUDY CHICAGO: THE BIRTH PROJECT FROM NEW MEXICO COLLECTIONS. The artist collaborated with more than 150 needle workers between 1980 and 1985 to create images that celebrate the birth process. ALICIA STEWART: UNFINISHED . . . and EMBROIDERED HISTORY: COLCHAS AND THE STICH THAT DEFINED A REGION. The museum's three summer/fall exhibitions, all of which focus on the creativit...read more

In conjunction with The Couse Foundation's biennial Gala, Dr. Marie Watkins will present a lecture on the life and work of J. H. Sharp, focusing on his years painting in Montana.

Doors open at 9:30 and seating is limited. Tickets are $10 for the public, $8 for museum members.

Save the Date! The Harwood's third annual fundraiser at The Blake in Taos Ski Valley is sure to be a great event in 2019. Surrounded by The Blake's private collection of Taos art, guests will dine, dance, and bid on art objects, wine lots, experiences and more during silent and live auctions. Tickets will be available in spring 2019. Be sure to put June 22 on your calendar.

Sarah Stolar, feminist artist and Chair of the Art Department at UNM-Taos, invites three New Mexico artists - Nikesha Breeze, Jessamyn Lovell and c Marquez - to discuss the understanding of “gendered” imagery and how “feminine” aesthetics translates in today’s intersectional climate.
$10 for public , free for Museum members UNM students/staff.
 

 In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening -- women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. Feminists: What Were They Thinking? revisits those photos, those women and those times -- and takes aim at our current culture revealing all too vividly the urgent need for continued change.
Free to Museum members and with admissions to public.

 Influenced by American Modernism, as well as Chinese poets like Bei Dao, Arthur Sze’s work travels beyond “the restrictions of Imagism and classical Chinese poetry into new territory,Sze has emerged as one of America’s most thoughtful and experimental poets. His book Compass Rose (2014) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Tickets: $20, public and $16 for SOMOS and Harwood members.

Brian Fleetwood is an interdisciplinary jewelry artist currently based in northern New Mexico. Drawing from traditional stories that emphasize the intimate connection between all living things, past experience working in biology, and a personal interest in the connection between mind and body, Brian uses his work to explore parallels between the way ideas and living organisms grow, spread, and evolve.
Free to Doel Reed Center folks, Har...read more