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Embrace your love of art and culture while making a difference. Each winning bid helps support Harwood Museum of Art, ensuring it remains a vital hub in Taos, New Mexico.

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Online bidding:

May 11-17, 2025

In person preview at Harwood:

Friday, May 9, 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Saturday, May 10, 11:00 am–5:00 pm

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Artists include Larry Bell, Don Brackett, Jane Ellen Burke, Peter Chinni, Michelle Cooke, Ronald Davis, William Davis, Robert M. Ellis, Gus Foster, Bill Gersh, Gustavo Victor Goler, Bruce Gomez, Fran Larsen, Bea Mandelman, Terrie Mangat, Desirée Manville, Ginger Mongiello, Ed Moses, August Muth, Ken O’Neil, Louis Ribak, Melody Romancito, Johnnie Winona Ross, Jan Sessler, Leah Slator, William Stewart, Sasha vom Dorp, Rory Wagner, Zoe Zimmerman.

Also, more than a dozen lots of wine, two-night stay on historic Ledoux Street in Taos, two-night stay at The Blake, limo ride to and from Santa Fe Airport, a golf outing at Taos Country Club, a custom pen and ink drawing of your home and a one-night stay at Ojo Caliente Santa Fe.

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 very limited. Purchase a ticket to reserve a spot.

If you miss out on the tour, you can join Nicholas for a woodworking demonstration in the backyard from 3:30-4:30pm.

About the Exhibition 

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.

Taos Jazz Bebop Society & the Harwood Museum of Art present

Remembering Tootie Heath

FREE

Taos Jazz Bebop Society will present a free event in celebration of the life and music of the late, great drummer, Tootie Heath. The program will feature a video montage of selected interviews and clips of Tootie performing over the years with members of jazz “royalty”. There will also be a performance by New Mexico jazz elder statesman Pete Amahl, and 17 year old drummer Luca Boyles, who was blessed to be taken under Tootie’s wing and mentored during the last year of Tootie’s life.

Tootie Heath played with so many jazz giants that it would be a short list of those he didn’t perform or record with. He was the drummer on “Coltrane”, John Coltrane’s first recording as a leader. He also played on Nina Simone’s first album, “Little Girl Blue”. The list goes on to include Wes Montgomery, Art Farmer, Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Hancock, among many more. Tootie was also a devoted educator. For more than twenty years he taught at the Stanford Jazz Camp West and numerous mentorship programs. Hundreds of young musicians have benefitted from his expertise. They’ve also been charmed and dazzled by his personality and mischievous sense of humor. In fact, many who knew him said he could have been every bit as successful as a stand up comedian as he was a drummer.