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Harwood Education and Public Programs offer opportunities to engage deeply with museum exhibitions and collections. Learn more about programs for students, teachers, families, and adults.

Community Day, October 13, 2025, Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected, July 27,2024-February 23, 2025. Photo by Shayla Blatchford Photography.

School Tours: School Tour, April 2024, Indigenized: Works on Paper, 1970s-2000s. Photo by Harwood Museum of Art.
Harwood Museum welcomes students and teachers to visit the museum through 90-minute educator-guided experiences.
All tours are led by Harwood Teaching Artists and include a 45-minute art activity. Guided tours are available Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Self-guided tours are available during regular museum hours, Wednesday through Sunday from 11am-5pm. Bus grants are generously supported by Uplift Youth Fund by Taos Ski Valley, Inc.
All tours are aligned with National Common Core and Visual Art Standards as well as New Mexico State Core Standards, Social and Emotional Learning Core Competencies, and Studio Habits of Mind.
2024-2025 School Tour themes

Nicholas, Herrera, El Rito Santero, acrylic on hand carved wood, 12 x 20 x 13.5. Courtesy of Michael and Jennifer Travis.
Storytelling Through Art
Students will develop visual literacy skills while exploring the work of modern Santero, Nicholas Herrera. Born and raised in El Rito, New Mexico, Herrera is a folk artist who uses storytelling to process difficult events in his life and honor his community, family, and cultural traditions.
Available through May 30, 2025

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The Science of Color
Explore the science behind how artists use color in this STEAM tour. Students will be introduced to color theory and the light spectrum through conversations in front of art and a hands-on project. This tour will include the work of Charles Ross.
Available March 17 – September 5, 2025

Mother and daughter, Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected, Harwood Community Day, October 13, 2025, Harwood Museum of Art. Photo by Shayla Blatchford Photography
Harwood Education is committed to supporting and engaging families through accessible and engaging art programming.
Family Art Lab is a monthly teaching artist-led workshop that combines a conversation in front of a work of art in the museum with a hands-on project in the Education Studio. Family-friendly community events like Lighting Ledoux, First Friday, Block Party, and Community Day offer art making and interactive activities for all ages. If you can’t make it to one of these events, every Sunday the museum is free to Taos County residents and youth under 18 are always free.
Upcoming Family Programs
21Jun11:00 am5:00 pmThird Annual Block Party
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations,
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations, local food vendors, an artist market, storytime, and creative activities for all ages. Featuring free museum admission all day for everyone!
This years musical lineup will feature The Neighbors, The Arellano Brothers, and Katy P. & the Business.
Time
June 21, 2025 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
21Jun11:00 am5:00 pmThird Annual Block Party
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations,
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations, local food vendors, an artist market, storytime, and creative activities for all ages. Featuring free museum admission all day for everyone!
This years musical lineup will feature The Neighbors, The Arellano Brothers, and Katy P. & the Business.
Time
June 21, 2025 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
21Jun11:00 am5:00 pmThird Annual Block Party
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations,
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations, local food vendors, an artist market, storytime, and creative activities for all ages. Featuring free museum admission all day for everyone!
This years musical lineup will feature The Neighbors, The Arellano Brothers, and Katy P. & the Business.
Time
June 21, 2025 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
21Jun11:00 am5:00 pmThird Annual Block Party
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations,
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations, local food vendors, an artist market, storytime, and creative activities for all ages. Featuring free museum admission all day for everyone!
This years musical lineup will feature The Neighbors, The Arellano Brothers, and Katy P. & the Business.
Time
June 21, 2025 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
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June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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06Jun4:00 pm7:00 pmFirst Friday
Event Details
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum! This months program will celebrate the homecoming of two Taos treasures by Taos
Event Details
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
This months program will celebrate the homecoming of two Taos treasures by Taos Society of Artists Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp—Aspens and Oklahoma Cheyenne (also known as Indian Boy in Full Dress), stolen off Harwood Museum walls in 1985.
The stolen works will be revealed to the public on June 6 at 4:30 pm MST.
There will be a Q & A featuring Harwood Executive Director Juniper Leherissey, art heist reporter Lou Schachter, David van Auken, co-owner of Manzanita Ridge Furniture and Antiques, who helped break open this story with the discovery of the University of Arizona’s Art Museum’s missing Woman-Ocher by Willem de Kooning, and David Witt, who was Harwood Museum’s curator at the time of the 1985 Harwood art heist. The panel will be followed by a special screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the couple that stole of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, as well the two paintings from Harwood Museum.
Program Schedule
4:30pm Public Unveiling and Remarks
5:00pm Q & A
5:30pm Screening of The Thief Collector
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Time
June 6, 2025 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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21Jun11:00 am5:00 pmThird Annual Block Party
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations,
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations, local food vendors, an artist market, storytime, and creative activities for all ages. Featuring free museum admission all day for everyone!
This years musical lineup will feature The Neighbors, The Arellano Brothers, and Katy P. & the Business.
Time
June 21, 2025 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
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Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Related Events
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
more
Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Related Events
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
more
Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Related Events
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
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Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Maja Ruznic, Her Arrival III, 2020. Oil on linen, 94 x 76 in. (238.8 x 193 cm) © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma
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Harwood Education and Public Programs team curates a variety of adult education opportunities
These programs including tours, lecture series, gallery talks, films, concerts, and art workshops. Become a Member and enjoy a 20% discount on all programming.
Upcoming Adult Programs
10Aug2:00 pm3:00 pmPoetry Reading with Dan Beachy-Quick
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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
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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.
Image Credit: Dan Beachy-Quick in Marfa, by Kristy Beachy-Quick
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August 10, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
10Aug2:00 pm3:00 pmPoetry Reading with Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
Join us for an in-gallery reading by our special guest, Poet and Scholar Dan Beachy-Quick. About Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
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.
Image Credit: Dan Beachy-Quick in Marfa, by Kristy Beachy-Quick
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Time
August 10, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
10Aug2:00 pm3:00 pmPoetry Reading with Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
Join us for an in-gallery reading by our special guest, Poet and Scholar Dan Beachy-Quick. About Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
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.
Image Credit: Dan Beachy-Quick in Marfa, by Kristy Beachy-Quick
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Time
August 10, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
10Aug2:00 pm3:00 pmPoetry Reading with Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
Join us for an in-gallery reading by our special guest, Poet and Scholar Dan Beachy-Quick. About Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
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.
Image Credit: Dan Beachy-Quick in Marfa, by Kristy Beachy-Quick
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Time
August 10, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
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Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Related Events
06Jun4:00 pm7:00 pmFirst Friday
Event Details
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum! This months program will celebrate the homecoming of two Taos treasures by Taos
Event Details
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
This months program will celebrate the homecoming of two Taos treasures by Taos Society of Artists Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp—Aspens and Oklahoma Cheyenne (also known as Indian Boy in Full Dress), stolen off Harwood Museum walls in 1985.
The stolen works will be revealed to the public on June 6 at 4:30 pm MST.
There will be a Q & A featuring Harwood Executive Director Juniper Leherissey, art heist reporter Lou Schachter, David van Auken, co-owner of Manzanita Ridge Furniture and Antiques, who helped break open this story with the discovery of the University of Arizona’s Art Museum’s missing Woman-Ocher by Willem de Kooning, and David Witt, who was Harwood Museum’s curator at the time of the 1985 Harwood art heist. The panel will be followed by a special screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the couple that stole of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, as well the two paintings from Harwood Museum.
Program Schedule
4:30pm Public Unveiling and Remarks
5:00pm Q & A
5:30pm Screening of The Thief Collector
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Time
June 6, 2025 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Related Events
21Jun11:00 am5:00 pmThird Annual Block Party
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations,
Event Details
You are invited Saturday, June 21 from 11am-5pm for the Third Annual Ledoux Street Block Party. Come celebrate our incredible community with live performances, art making and demonstrations, local food vendors, an artist market, storytime, and creative activities for all ages. Featuring free museum admission all day for everyone!
This years musical lineup will feature The Neighbors, The Arellano Brothers, and Katy P. & the Business.
Time
June 21, 2025 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
09Aug(Aug 9)9:00 am10(Aug 10)12:00 pmStar Map Workshop with Poet Dan-Beachy Quick
Event Details
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
Event Details
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.
Image Credit: Charles Ross, Mansions of the Zodiac, 1973-76/2012, acrylic paint and collage using bakelite powder xeroxes of Verenberg photographic star atlas images on canvas, 190 x 63.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist. © Charles Ross / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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August 9, 2025 9:00 am - August 10, 2025 12:00 pm
10Aug2:00 pm3:00 pmPoetry Reading with Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
Join us for an in-gallery reading by our special guest, Poet and Scholar Dan Beachy-Quick. About Dan Beachy-Quick
Event Details
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.
Image Credit: Dan Beachy-Quick in Marfa, by Kristy Beachy-Quick
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Time
August 10, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
more
Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Related Events
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
more
Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Related Events
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
more
Time
June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Related Events
06Jun5:30 pm7:30 pmThe Thief CollectorFilm
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre,
Event Details
Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A
This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!
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June 6, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Education Center: Community Day, March 2022. Photo by Sam Joseph Photography.
The Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center
The Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center is a dedicated area for art-making programs housed in a sun-filled space that was once the living room of the original home of Burt and Lucy Harwood.
In addition to the studio, the Sidney and Gladys Smith Children’s Art Gallery offers an extension gallery where student art can be showcased. Taos’ original children’s library, part of the Harwood Public Library from the 1920s to the 1990s was once housed in the studio. Thanks to the generosity of Orin and Stephanie Smith the studio has been restored to its original splendor and named for Stephanie’s grandmother, the beloved Taos schoolteacher, Fern Hogue Mitchell.

Community Day, March 2022. Photo by Sam Joseph Photography.
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For more information or inquires please email education@harwoodmuseum.org
Harwood Education programs are made possible by the generous support of J3 Advised Fund, Fasken Foundation, Taos Community Foundation, Nusenda Credit Union, the National Endowment for the Arts, and 38 individuals. Harwood Education programs serve thousands of Taos youth and adults every year. Nearly all these programs are offered free of charge thanks to the generous support of our community.
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