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Please join jeweler, Linda Cassidy, on Saturday, May 5 from noon to 2 pm for an artist's reception and demonstration of her fabulous jewelry making techniques.

The Harwood Museum's docent training is underway. We are always looking for fantastic volunteers to help in lots of different areas of the Museum. Click here for more information on becoming a docent and other ways you can help us.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents Tracking Agnes Martin: The Artist's Journey, a three-session class held on Friday May 18th, May 25th and June 1st from 1-3 in the museum's galleries.

Join Jeremy McDonnell, local artist, instructor, and former gallerist, for a lively course tracking and exploring Agnes Martin's development as an artist. The group will visit the exhibition and consider the ideas and goals of abstract art prevalent at the time. Readings, discussions, and presentations of other works from the period will add further insight into Agnes' development, mature work and its ongoing positive reception.

Jeremy McDonnell holds a M.F.A. from Ohio State University, where he was awarded a full fellowship. He has taught at several universities and museums, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. McDonnell served for eight years as Associate Director at Boston's Barbara Krakow Gallery, which focuses on Minimal, reductivist and conceptually-driven work. Since 2010 McDonnell has been an active adjunct instructor at UNM-Taos, which recognized him in 2011 as the Most Inspirational Instructor of the Year.

 $32 Harwood Alliance Members; $40 non-members. Click here for more information or to reserve your place. Tickets will be available at museum admissions desk one month in advance of the program. Class size limited. SIGN UP EARLY!

The Harwood Museum in collaboration with Emerging Cinema presents:

STEVE JOBS: THE LOST INTERVIEW
A documentary film directed by Paul Sen
USA - 70 mins - NR
Magnolia Pictures

In 1995, during the making of his TV series Triumph of the Nerds about the birth of the personal computer, Bob Cringely did a memorable hour-long interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died last October. The film was shot 10 years after Jobs had left Apple following a bruising struggle with John Sculley, the CEO he brought into Apple. At the time of the interview Jobs was running NeXT, the niche computer company he had founded after leaving Apple and would later sell to his old company, enabling Jobs return to his Apple roots.

During the interview, Jobs was at his charismatic best – witty, outspoken and visionary – already anticipating the digital future that one day he would do so much to make possible. In the end, only a part of the interview was used in the series and the rest was thought lost. But recently a VHS copy was found in the series director’s garage. Cleaned up with modern technology and put into context by Cringely, this is a unique and very candid interview that reveals as never before the burning passion of Steve Jobs, a passion that would go on to give us the iMac, the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

As he says in the interview, Jobs took the best and spread it around “so that everybody grows up with better things.”

"The only talking head people would pay to watch for more than an hour.
– Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"For someone known to loathe in-depth interviews, Jobs seems surprisingly eager here to expound on his technological philosophies and business strategies... There’s something raw and inspiring about the Jobs we see here, the anxious dreamer on the brink of greatness."
– Steven James Snyder, Time

Tickets are $8 for Alliance Members; $10 for Non-Members, and are available at the Admission's Desk or calling 575=758-9826 to reserve tickets in advance.

The Harwood Museum of Art in collaboration with Emerging Pictures presents Bright Stream

 From the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, Russia

Music: DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Choreography : ALEXEI RATMANSKY
Designer: BORIS MESSERER
Music Director: PAVEL SOROKIN
Lighting Designer: ALEXANDER RUBTSOV
Libretto: ADRIAN PIOTROVSKY and FYODOR LOPUKHOV

Tickets are $12 for Alliance Members; $15 for Non-Members: $8 for Children 12 and under and are available at the Admission's Desk one month before the screening.  For more information click here: education@harwoodmuseum.org  

Join artist June Julian for an Studio Art Class, Drawing From Nature. Students will be guided in careful observation and drawing of a wide selection of nature specimens using traditional drawing media. They will investigate art history examples showing how artists through time have drawn their inspiration from nature. Studio time will include carefully considered studies of various natural forms that are rendered alone and in groups, with emphasis on drawing technique, composition, scale, and content. At the end of the workshop students will have created a portfolio of nature drawings.

June Julian has graduate art degrees from the Pennsylvania State University and New York University. An internationally exhibiting artist and a recipient of numerous awards, major recognition includes a Fulbright Grant and a recent grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior for her recent ecology art project in New Mexico. She teaches at the University of the Arts and lives in New York City.

This class is open to all abilities. $40 Harwood Museum Alliance Members, $50 non-members. $5 material fee. Click here for more information or to sign up.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

Join us for the return of our popular fun, free monthly Saturday morning art program especially for families with children of all ages.

Each class is designed to present a different theme and activity which uses an artwork in the Harwood's collection as the inspiration and the departure point for exploring the artistic process. The program includes a visit to the Museum Galleries for an interactive tour of artworks selected to encourage, teach and hone verbal and visual skills. The class then returns to the kid-friendly Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center for the hands on component creating art that stresses creativity, artistic exploration, collaboration and the unusual use of materials. No sign up necessary.

Program meets in the Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center. Click here for more information

The Invisible War

Investigative documentary "The Invisible War" will be screening at Harwood's Bell Auditorium on Saturday, in a program honoring women veterans as part of the Remarkable Women of Taos & Northern New Mexico series. The Sundance Audience Award-winning film heads an evening to raise awareness of Military Sexual Trauma that also features speaker retired Army Col. Ann Wright. The program will offer methods / local resources for Veterans healing from MST, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), and disabling injuries, that can bring positive results for anybody overcoming trauma.

The event co-sponsored by Taos Veterans for Peace, Code Pink and the Harwood Museum of Art. General admission is $5 and is Free for Veterans. Doors will open at 6pm and tickets are available at the door the evening of the event.

Call Carrie Leven at 575-586-1480 for details.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum's docent training is underway. We are always looking for fantastic volunteers to help in lots of different areas of the Museum. Click here for more information on becoming a docent and other ways you can help us.

Open Hearths Arts in collaboration with the Harwood Museum of Art presents the 5th Annual Verse ~ Converse Poetry Festival  featuring Patricia Smith Also Featuring Joaquin Zihuatanejo, Suzi Q Smith, Jessica Helen Lopez, The Taos High School Poetry Team, and HS teams from around NM and the Southwest.

 Please go to their website  below for all the details including the schedule for the weekend and to purchase Tickets:

www.verseconverse.org or Contact  vc@openheartharts.org or by calling 575 613 4717

The public is invited to a free reception to meet Susan Dilger and see her "must have" Taos Artwear, from noon to 2 pm on Saturday, June 2.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

Jenny Bird has been called "the most passionate performer in the new folk genre." The stage is her second home where she's been presenting her original songs since the age of ten. Professionally managed as a teenager, Jenny lived and recorded in Germany and Belgium. For the last 20 years, she's toured widely and consistently, playing festivals and clubs across Europe, Canada, and the United States. She is well respected in her home town of Taos, New Mexico where she records and teaches music.
 

Celebrating 25 years of recording in Taos with her 12th CD Jenny Bird will present her new songs as well as her other favorites with her acoustic full band of stellar players: Don Richmond, Omar Rane, Jeff Spicer and James Doyle.
 

Tickets are $12 for Alliance Members; $15 for Non-Members, and can be purchased at the admissions desk. CASH OR CHECK ONLY
 

For more information go to jennybird.com
 

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a summer Art Exploration Workshop where participants get to try  their hand creating their own art work and exhibition in response to the exhibition "Agnes Martin: Before the Grid"

Ever heard the words "My Kid Could Do That?" when in a gallery that is exhibiting contemporary art.  Well --- we will try our hands exploring this question - Children will work with Museum Educators visiting and learning about work in the "Agnes Martin: Before the Grid"  exhibition --- we will as a group select pieces to reinterpret and create in the Art Studio. The program will culminate with an exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings created during the program which will be exhibited in the Sidney & Gladys Smith Children's Art Gallery.

This program is designed for Children 6 & up. Children under 6 must have parent participation. $80 Alliance Members (a family level membership or above), $100 Non-Members; Available in the Museum Store.  Need Based Scholarships are available and made possible by Faith Mallams D’Amico Youth Scholarship Fund. Sibling Discounts available. Click here for more information.

The Harwood Museum in Collaboration with SOMOS present a book signing and talk with Photographer Paul O'Connor  in conjunction with his recently released book "Taos Portraits." Paul and the editor, Bill Whaley, will discuss the stories behind Taos Portraits, which includes 60 members of the art community and 60 profiles. “We’ll tell audience members the stories they wouldn’t let us print,” said Whaley. “Who knew our art community was both this colorful and this conservative?” said O’Connor.

Tickets are $6 for Members of SOMOS and/or the Harwood and Seniors; Non-Members $8.  These will be available at the door starting at 6:30 or contact lyn.bleiler@yahoo.com 575-776-7158 for more information.

Bookd will be available for sale at this event.

The Harwood Museum of Art in collaboration with the Santa Fe Opera, and the Taos Opera Guild present an evening with SF Opera's resident speaker Desiree Mays entitled The Conflict of Love and Duty which includes a discussion of this year's Opera season as well as Mays speaking on her recently published book "Opera Unveiled 2012"  the 14th in a series of books which focus on each unique SF Opera season. Booksigning to follow.

The Santa Fe Opera 2012 season offers a wide variety of wonderful operas set in exotic places, the plots of which, one way of another, deal with the issues of love and duty. Puccini’s Tosca, set in the heart of Rome in 1800, tells of a diva, Tosca, who loves a painter, Cavaradossi, who is interrogated and tortured by Scarpia, the evil chief-of-police who lusts after Tosca. This scenario can only end in tragedy, and it does.
 

King Roger, by Poland’s Karol Szymanowski, is set in Sicily long ago and imbued musically with the influences of Byzantine and Arabic cultures. The king struggles to come to terms with the ordered Apollonian and the sensual Dionysian sides of his nature when his wife runs off with a beautiful shepherd – Dionysus in disguise.
Bizet’s beautiful score for The Pearl Fishers describes the annual ritual, led by a virgin priestess, to protect the fishermen as they dive for pearls. Two men, best friends, seek her love; one condemns her, then assists her escape with the other as the villagers seek revenge and their sacrifice to appease the anger of their gods.
Maometto II, a serious opera by Rossini, tells of the siege of a Venetian-held island by the Conqueror of Constantinople, the larger-than-life Turkish Sultan, Maometto or Mehmed. Mehmed, while in disguise, fell in love with Anna, the Venetian commander’s daughter, now he is sacking their city and Anna must choose: to become Maometto’s Queen or to remain loyal to her father and countrymen.

Richard Strauss’ Arabella drops the drama back a bit and tells of an aristocratic family who have fallen on hard times in Vienna when the city itself was past its prime. The daughter, Arabella, must choose a rich husband, but she will only wed for love and chooses Mandryka, a man (of great wealth it turns out) from the forests of Croatia. But their happy ending cannot be reached until turmoil and confusion subside and Arabella offers her beloved a glass of water.

Born in Ireland, Desirée Mays moved to London to become a ballet dancer in the opera ballet as a young woman. She eventually came to the States, hung up her dancing shoes, happily raised two sons with her American husband in Utah, and gradually became immersed in the world of opera all over again – from the other side of the footlights.

Desirée is a globetrotter for opera; she lectures both live and on radio across the States, she writes books on the subject, she takes groups of people world-wide in search of that perfect opera in that perfect opera house somewhere on planet earth.

Her summers are spent at home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she has been the resident speaker and storyteller for The Santa Fe Opera since 1995.

Desirée writes a book every year called Opera Unveiled on the five operas of each Santa Fe season, this book is now in its 14th year.

Winters find her lecturing coast to coast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Los Angeles Opera in California.

She has spoken to Wagner Societies in Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, and Dallas and was the lead speaker for the Kirov Ring in Orange County in 2006.

Desirée hosted two radio shows: “Our Arts” in Salt Lake City where she co-produced the award-winning series “Life is a Creative Process.” She also produced and interviewed arts personalities on “CenterStage” for KSFR 101.1 in Santa Fe. Currently she produces “Yoga Moments” for KSFR.

Desirée holds a Master of Arts degree in the Humanities from the University of Utah where she taught a class, “ What Is Opera,” both there and at the University of New Mexico.

Desirée directs Art Forms Inc., an educational, non-profit organization, whose motto is: “Art forms through awareness.”

Booksigning & Reception to follow.

Tickets to this program are $8 for Harwood Museum Alliance Members & Members of the Taos Opera Guild; $10 non-members. Available at Museum Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

 

"William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today. With its rich historical references and undertones of political and social commentary, Kentridge's work has earned him inclusion in "Time" magazine's 2009 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

This documentary features exclusive interviews with Kentridge as he works in his studio and discusses his artistic philosophy and techniques. In the film, Kentridge talks about how his personal history as a white South African of Jewish heritage has informed recurring themes in his work—including violent oppression, class struggle, and social and political hierarchies. Additionally, Kentridge discusses his experiments with "machines that tell you what it is to look" and how the very mechanism of vision is a metaphor for "the agency we have, whether we like it or not, to make sense of the world." We see Kentridge in his studio as he creates animations, music, video, and projection pieces for his various projects, including Breathe (2008); I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008); and the opera The Nose (2010), which premiered earlier this year at New York's Metropolitan Opera to rave reviews.

This program is presented in collaboration with ART21. Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

Join art historian and arts writer Ann Landi for a lecture which examines the work of Agnes Martin in context of other contemporary artists. More details TBA.

Tickets $8 Harwood Alliance Members; $10 non-members.

The Harwood Museum of Art is pleased to partner with the Taos Farmers Market to present a free art making activity --- create something wonderful, using recycled materials -- designed for all ages. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

An overnight Art Event for kids 6 & up. Join Museum Educators for a wonderful, behind the scenes program --- spend the night at the Harwood Museum. Art making, dinner party, movie in the new auditorium, flashlight tour, camp out in art-room, morning yoga & lite breakfast. Drop kids off by 5pm on Friday the 22nd  and pick up scheduled for 9am Saturday 23rd. $48 for Alliance Family Member, $60 non-members, sibling discounts. Scholarships available through the generous support of the D'Amico Family Fund. Click here for more information or  to sign up.

The Harwood Museum's most popular workshop - Create a Parade is BACK for 2012, children of all ages, and parents are encouraged to participate in  this special program to create and entry for the Arroyo Seco 4th of July Parade. Thursday June 28, Friday June 29, Monday July 2, Tuesday 3 and Wednesday JULY 4th join us for an experience of a life-time. 

This program is designed for Children 6 & up. Children under 6 must have parent participation. $80 Alliance Members (a family level membership or above), $100 Non-Members;  Need Based Scholarships are available and made possible by Faith Mallams D’Amico Youth Scholarship Fund. Sibling Discounts available.This program is held in the Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center from 10-noon. Class Size Limited. Click here to sign up or for more information.

SÉRAPHINE is the story of Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41, self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector - he was one of the first collectors of Picasso and champion of naïve primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau - discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his house in Senlis outside Paris. A moving and unexpected relationship develops between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady leading to Séraphine’s work being grouped with other naïve painters – the so-called “Sacred Heart Painters” - with acclaimed shows in France, elsewhere in Europe and eventually at New York’s MOMA . Martin Provost’s poignant portrait of this now largely forgotten painter is a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit.

A sleeper hit in France, SÉRAPHINE went on to a surprise win of the Best Picture and Best Actress for Yolande Moreau along with five other awards at the Cesars - the French Academy Awards.

Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Admissions Desk 2 weeks before date of program. click here for more information.

A free reception and demonstration will be held from noon to 2 pm on Saturday, July 7.

Artist TO BE ANNOUNCED.

The Harwood Museum of Art Governing Board will hold a regular meeting.l

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood. More info TBA.

PINA is a feature-length dance film  by Wim Wenders with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer. Wenders  takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place, which for 35 years was the home and centre for Pina Bausch's creativity.

During the preparation of the documentary in 2009, Pina Baush died unexpectedly. Wenders cancelled the film production, but the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced him to make the film anyway. It showcases these dancers, who talk about Pina and perform some of her best-known pieces, inside the Tanztheater Wupperthal and in various outdoor locations around the city of Wuppertal.

The film presents extracts from some of the most noted dance pieces by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style of which Bausch was a leading exponent of Tanztheater. The extracts are from four pieces: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Café Müller, Kontakthof, and Vollmond. These are complemented with interviews and further dance choreographies, which were shot in and around Wuppertal, Germany; the film includes scenes showing the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated railway, and some dances sequences take place inside its carriages.

Tickets to this program are $8 for Harwood Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Tickets available 3 weeks prior to the program at the Museum Admisisons Desk.

for more information.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood. Tickets $8; $6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members and SOMOS members.

The Harwood Museum of Art is pleased to partner with the Taos Farmers Market to present a free art making activity --- create something wonderful, using recycled materials -- designed for all ages. Click here for more information.

This Art Exploration Workshop delves into the wonders of art from around the world. Join us as we explore images of works from various cultures, traditions and historical eras  and then find examples of works in the Museum's collection inspired by these far off  (and far out) objects. Children will then work with educators to create different projects exploring a variety of media. All work will be installed in a kid-curated exhibition in the Harwood's Sidney & Gladys Smith Childrens Art Gallery, with an opening exhibition on the last day of the program from 4-5pm.

This program is designed for Children 6 & up. Children under 6 must have parent participation. $80 Alliance Members (a family level membership or above), $100 Non-Members; Available in the Museum Store. Need Based Scholarships are available and made possible by Faith Mallams D’Amico Youth Scholarship Fund. Sibling Discounts available. Click here for more information.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood. Tickets $8: $6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members & SOMOS Members. 

Join us for the return of our popular fun, free monthly Saturday morning art program especially for families with children of all ages.

Each class is designed to present a different theme and activity which uses an artwork in the Harwood's collection as the inspiration and the departure point for exploring the artistic process. The program includes a visit to the Museum Galleries for an interactive tour of artworks selected to encourage, teach and hone verbal and visual skills. The class then returns to the kid-friendly Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center for the hands on component creating art that stresses creativity, artistic exploration, collaboration and the unusual use of materials. No sign up necessary.

Program meets in the Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center. Click here for more information

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood. Tickets $8, $6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members & SOMOS Members. 

We are pleased to welcome Donna Dufresne and her whimsical wooden creatures to the Museum on Saturday, August 4 from noon to 2 pm. The public is invited to come meet Donna and see a demonstration of her wood cutting and painting techiques.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood. Tickets $8, $6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members and SOMOS Members.

The Harwood Museum Alliance will hold its annual meeting.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood with Native American Poets Sherwin Bitsui and Santee Frazier.  Tickets $8; $6 Harwood Alliance Members & SOMOS Members.

The Harwood Museum of Art is pleased to partner with the Taos Farmers Market to present a free art making activity --- create something wonderful, using recycled materials  -- designed for all ages. Click here for more information.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood. Tickets $8; $6 for Harwoood Alliance Members & Somos Members. for more information www.somostaos.org 

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series @ The Harwood with Three Tall Women - play reading by Judith Kendall, Judith Rane and Heather Antoinessen, directed by Steven Parks. Tickets $8; $6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members & SOMOS Members.

Join us for the return of our popular fun, free monthly Saturday morning art program especially for families with children of all ages.

Each class is designed to present a different theme and activity which uses an artwork in the Harwood's collection as the inspiration and the departure point for exploring the artistic process. The program includes a visit to the Museum Galleries for an interactive tour of artworks selected to encourage, teach and hone verbal and visual skills. The class then returns to the kid-friendly Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center for the hands on component creating art that stresses creativity, artistic exploration, collaboration and the unusual use of materials. No sign up necessary.

Program meets in the Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center. Click here for more information

The Harwood Museum in collaboration with the Friends of Santa Fe Jazz present a special evening with Lis Henry Lisa a dynamic vocalist with a combination of swingin’ cool and down home class.

A Kansas City native, she began by singing gospel music in the Baptist church and by age 12 was singing the music of Billie Holiday and Miles Davis. Henry was winner of the 1994 Thelonius Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition and was later named an International Jazz Ambassador to Africa.

She toured Chile, Argentina and Peru with the Institute in 1998, performing for 34 Heads of State at the Summit of the Americas. In 2006 she participated in a U.S. State Department-sponsored tour of India and in 2007 she performed for an acclaimed presidential dinner at the White House celebrating the Institute’s 20th Anniversary.

Over the past 15 years, Henry has toured the globe, sharing the stage with such artists as Kenny Baron, Gerald Clayton, Robin Eubanks, Kenny Garrett, Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, Antonio Hart, Ingrid Jensen, Kevin Mahogany, TS Monk, Lou Rawls, Wayne Shorter, Clark Terry and Bobby Watson. Her latest recording Live from 18th and Vine has received critical acclaim.

More information tba.

Erica Collins will be available during a free reception to meet the public and talk about her wood cut art on Saturday, September 1 from noon to 2 pm.

The Harwood Museum of Art is pleased to partner with the Taos Farmers Market to present a free art making activity --- create something wonderful, using recycled materials -- designed for all ages. Click here for more information. 

Fine Art Services and the Harwood Museum of Art collaborate to present a Dual Demonstration with Carolyn Anderson & CW Mundy. “Demonstration” was first used in the 14th century. Its meaning has evolved through time to its current use, “an act, process, or means of demonstrating to the intelligence.”

Engaging their knowledge of light, color and composition, Carolyn Anderson and CW Mundy will simultaneously paint their chosen subject (still life or portrait) in the intimate Arthur Bell Auditorium at the Harwood Museum. Dialogue will be encouraged throughout the demonstration between artists and the audience in order to invite new thoughts and perspectives.

Carolyn Anderson, a nationally recognized pastelist and oil painter, was born and raised in the Chicago area. Anderson attended school at Illinois State University. She joined the Vista program (Volunteers in Service to America) in the early 70′s and was assigned to work on an Indian reservation in Montana, She eventually returned to Montana and now lives in Havre, a small community in north central Montana near the Canadian border.

She is a Master Artist with the American Impressionist Society (AIS) and a member of the Northwest Rendezvous (NWR). Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Southwest Art, Art of the West, American Artist and the Big Sky Journal. Some of her awards include the C.M. Russell Artists’ Choice, the NWR Award of Excellence, two CM Russell Best of Show Awards and most recently the 2010 Master Award of Excellence for AIS.

Anderson teaches numerous painting workshops across the country. She has taught for the Frye Museum in Seattle, Walt Disney Imagineering, The Scottsdale Artists School, and the Fechin Art Workshops. Her work is in the collection of many well-known artists and the Montana Historical Society.

C.W. Mundy, an American Impressionist Artist, was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated with a Fine Art Degree from Ball State University in Indiana in 1969 and then shortly thereafter traveled to California, making his home there through the 1970’s, painting, playing music, and working on his Masters of Fine Art at Long Beach State. In 1978, he returned home to Indiana, worked as a sports illustrator for more than a decade, then in the early 1990’s, took the challenge of painting in a more impressionistic style, going out of doors and painting “en plein air” and “from life”. This painting style led C.W. to a series of European Plein Air painting trips, beginning with a trip to France in 1995 and continuing up through the present. When not painting on location, C.W. paints in his studio, concentrating on Still Life and Figurative Work.

C.W. was invited in 2003 to become Master Signature Member in the national organization Oil Painters of America. In 2007, C.W. achieved Master Status in The

American Impressionist Society. He is also a Signature Member of The American Society of Marine Artists.

A Mid-Career Retrospective Exhibition was held for C.W. in 2001 at the Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana. In 2003, International Artist Publishing (Sydney, Australia) published and internationally distributed the book Memoirs: Charles Warren Mundy, American Impressionist.

C.W. teaches workshops and lectures throughout the country, and in 2005-2006 taught in a unique mentorship program, En Plein Air Masters, in France.

Tickets are: $45 per person, plus NM tax ; $36 per person, plus NM tax for Harwood Alliance Members
$25 per person, plus NM tax for students.  To purchase tickets or for more info  click here.

Taos Chamber Music Group 20th Anniversary Season Opener!

A festive program of music that combines TCMG's signature mix of classical, Spanish, Latin, jazz and folk music influences.

Advance tickets are $16 Alliance members; $20 nonmembers. Tickets at the door are $18 Alliance members, $22 nonmembers. Children under 16 are $12. For more information go to taoschambermusic.org

Taos Chamber Music Group is the Resident Chamber Music Group of the Harwood Museum

Join Arts Writer Ann Landi and Art Historian Dr. Richard Tobin for an afternoon Lecture celebrating the Harwood Museum's upcoming exhibition Machine Wilderness (In Zero Gravity) as part of ISEA 2012 TAOS DAY.

More than five decades after the U.S. launched its ambitious initiatives to send a man to the moon and explore outer space, artists are still finding a wealth of inspiration in the imagery of the heavens and the potential for space travel. Some, like Lee Bontecou and Christine Taylor Patten, use sculpture and drawing to channel the mysteries of celestial phenomena. But younger artists often have more ambitious goals: they stage their own fantastic voyages inside the walls of galleries and museums; photograph imagined landings on Mars and the moon; document the sinister travels of spy satellites or the ambitious building of the first spaceport (in southern New Mexico); and even play with the notion of selling fictive real estate in outer space.

The interview between critic Richard Tobin and journalist Ann Landi discuss the upcoming article Ms. Landi has written for a late summer ARTnews feature story integrating the Harwood exhibition Machine Wilderness (in zero gravity) and discussing artists in the exhibition which include artists Marc Baseman, Christina Sporrong, Joe Clower, Charles Luna, Paul Elwood and Steve Storz. Click here for more information.

The public is invited to a free reception on Saturday, October 6 from noon to 2 pm to meet the creative glass artist, Delinda Vann Brightyn. Delinda will be talking about her stunning glass work and giving a demonstration in a few of her techniques.

The public is invited to a free artist reception and demonstration on Saturday, November 3 from noon to 2 pm.

Artist TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Taos Chamber Music Group presents: Old Friends

Music from TCMG’s past seasons includes Brahms’ Piano Trio, opus 8 which was first performed in 1998 for TCMG’s opening concerts at the Harwood Museum!

Advance tickets are $16 Alliance members; $20 nonmembers. Tickets at the door are $18 Alliance members, $22 nonmembers. Children under 16 are $12. For more information go to taoschambermusicgroup.org

Taos Chamber Music Group is the Resident Chamber Music Group of the Harwood Museum

The public is invited to a free artist reception and demonstration on Saturday, December 1 from noon to 2 pm.

Artist TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Taos Chamber Music Group presents: A Mozart Holiday

An all- Mozart holiday program includes the Divertimento for string trio, the Flute Quartet in D Major and the Duo in Bb Major for violin and viola.

Advance tickets are $16 Alliance members; $20 nonmembers. Tickets at the door are $18 Alliance members, $22 nonmembers. Children under 16 are $12. For more information go to taoschambermusicgroup.org

Taos Chamber Music Group is the Resident Chamber Music Group of the Harwood Museum

Taos Chamber Music Group presents: Art of the Cello, Part Two: Cello Chicks!

A highly requested encore of cello music features four cellistas talking about their careers and performing works for multiple cellos.

Advance tickets are $16 Alliance members; $20 nonmembers. Tickets at the door are $18 Alliance members, $22 nonmembers. Children under 16 are $12. For more information go to taoschambermusicgroup.org

Taos Chamber Music Group is the Resident Chamber Music Group of the Harwood Museum

Taos Chamber Music Group presents: From the Land with Robert Mirabal

In conjunction with the Harwood Museum’s Jonathon Warm Day and Eva Mirabal exihibits, TCMG will present a program composed or influenced by Native Americans, with special guest Robert Mirabal.

Advance tickets are $16 Alliance members; $20 nonmembers. Tickets at the door are $18 Alliance members, $22 nonmembers. Children under 16 are $12. for more information go to taoschambermusicgroup.org

Taos Chamber Music Group is the Resident Chamber Music Group of the Harwood Museum