Harwood will be closed from January 29 thru February 23, 2024 to install our exciting new exhibitions.
Bienvenidos / Welcome
The Harwood Museum of Art brings Taos arts to the world and world arts to Taos
The Harwood Museum showcases a diverse tapestry of over 100 years of art in Taos. We enhance learning, creativity, and cultural life for the Taos community by enabling the power of arts to honor the past and inspire the future.
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The Harwood Museum of Art is one of the best kept secrets in the Southwest. Founded in 1923 in Taos, New Mexico, the museum’s collections and exhibitions tell a comprehensive story of art in Taos and Northern New Mexico. You will explore notable art from contemporary to traditional in a John Gaw Meem historic building.
The Harwood Museum of Art’s impressive permanent collection also includes the world renowned Agnes Martin Gallery, often compared to the Rothko Chapel. This installation of seven paintings, the only one of its kind in the world, was gifted to the Harwood by abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin who called Taos her home.
In the 1940s-1950s Taos became one of the centers of modernist artistic activity in the United States. The Harwood’s extensive Taos Moderns and mid 20th century collection includes Andrew Dasburg, Marsden Hartley, Louis Ribak, Clay Spohn, Emil Bisttram, Dorothy Eugenie Brett, Edward Corbett and many more.
The Harwood Museum also features a significant collection of early 20th century artists including the Taos Society of Artists. See famous works by Victor Higgins, E. Martin Hennings, Joseph Henry Sharp, Ernest L. Blumenschein, E.I. Couse and others.
Our Native American collection includes original art by notable indigenous artists like John Suazo, Tony Abeyta, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Juan Tafiho Mirabal, Julian Martinez, Dwayne Wilcox and others.
Our Hispanic Traditions collection has a number of historic santos, bultos, retablos, and crosses including art by Jose Rafael Aragon. The Harwood Museum has the largest collection of santero artists Patrociño Barela and Gustavo Victor Goler.
Join us for insightful lectures and special artist presentations in our 95-seat Arthur Bell Auditorium. We open our doors and share a variety of special events and art exhibition receptions throughout the year.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Earth & Sky Interjected: Luchita Hurtado
Jul 27, 2024—Feb 23, 2025
Upcoming Events
17Jan3:00 pm5:30 pmTeen Art LabWorkshop

Event Details
In conjunction with the Taos Public Library Teen Art Council, the Harwood is offering drop-in studio time for teens. Join one of our Teaching Artists and make space to
Event Details
In conjunction with the Taos Public Library Teen Art Council, 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.
Pay What You Can ($5 Suggested Donation). No one will be turned away.
Time
(Wednesday) 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center, Harwood Museum
238 Ledoux Street
18Jan1:30 pm3:00 pmFamily Art LabWorkshop

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Every third Thursday and Sunday of the month, join a Harwood Teaching Artist for an in-depth look at a work of art in the museum followed
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Every third Thursday and Sunday of the month, join a Harwood Teaching Artist for an in-depth look at a work of art in the museum followed by a 45-minute art making activity in the Education Studio. 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.
Please email education@harwoodmuseum.org for more information. Image courtesy of Harwood Museum of Art.
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Time
(Thursday) 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center, Harwood Museum
238 Ledoux Street
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
January 21, 2024 1:30 pmFebruary 15, 2024 1:30 pmFebruary 18, 2024 1:30 pmMarch 17, 2024 1:30 pmMarch 21, 2024 1:30 pm
20Jan5:30 pm7:00 pmWinter ReverieTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

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Visual and musical arts are interwoven in this program to add some vibrancy and color to the serene, snowy landscape of winter in Taos. Debra Ayers (piano), Sally Guenther (cello),
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Visual and musical arts are interwoven in this program to add some vibrancy and color to the serene, snowy landscape of winter in Taos. Debra Ayers (piano), Sally Guenther (cello), Laura Chang (viola) and Elizabeth Baker (violin) bring us winter daydreams and Romantic musings in pieces by Johannes Brahms, Ernő Dohnányi and Caroline Shaw.
“While considering my love of Brahms’ piano quartets and my memory of playing them—and more generally how our memories of beloved music evolve over time—I began thinking about the history of still-life paintings.” – Caroline Shaw, Pulitzer prize-winning composer of Thousandth Orange.
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Saturday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
21Jan11:00 am1:00 pmTeen Art LabWorkshop

Event Details
In conjunction with the Taos Public Library Teen Art Council, the Harwood is offering drop-in studio time for teens. Join one of our Teaching Artists and make space to
Event Details
In conjunction with the Taos Public Library Teen Art Council, 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.
Pay What You Can (Suggested $10). No one will be turned away.
Time
(Sunday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center, Harwood Museum
238 Ledoux Street
21Jan3:00 pm4:30 pmWinter ReverieTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

Event Details
Special Holiday Matinee! Visual and musical arts are interwoven in this program to add some vibrancy and color to the serene, snowy landscape of winter in Taos. Debra Ayers (piano), Sally
Event Details
Special Holiday Matinee!
Visual and musical arts are interwoven in this program to add some vibrancy and color to the serene, snowy landscape of winter in Taos. Debra Ayers (piano), Sally Guenther (cello), Laura Chang (viola) and Elizabeth Baker (violin) bring us winter daydreams and Romantic musings in pieces by Johannes Brahms, Ernő Dohnányi and Caroline Shaw.
“While considering my love of Brahms’ piano quartets and my memory of playing them—and more generally how our memories of beloved music evolve over time—I began thinking about the history of still-life paintings.” – Caroline Shaw, Pulitzer prize-winning composer of Thousandth Orange.
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Sunday) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
21Feb3:00 pm5:30 pmTeen Art LabWorkshop

Event Details
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
Event Details
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.
Pay What You Can (Suggested $5). No one will be turned away.
Time
(Wednesday) 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center, Harwood Museum
238 Ledoux Street
23Feb6:30 pm8:30 pm'Raven Chacon: Three Songs' Opening CelebrationCommunity Event

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Join us for the opening reception for Raven Chacon: Three Songs which brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and
Event Details
Join us for the opening reception for Raven Chacon: Three Songs which brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual work. This is a FREE community event.
Kona Sunrise Mirabal and Masa Rain Mirabal (Taos Pueblo) will perform a piece from Chacon’s For Zitkála-Šá (2018) series during pop-up, in-gallery concerts. The For Zitkála-Šá musical arrangements are dedicated to different contemporary Indigenous, First Nation, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art.
Raven Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Kennedy Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2022 and the prestigious MacArthur Genius FellowshIp in 2023.
Image Credit: Raven Chacon, Three Songs, 2021. Sung by Sage Bond (Diné), Jehnean Washington (Yuchi), and Mary Ann Emarthle (Seminole). Courtesy of Raven Chacon.
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Time
(Friday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
24Feb6:00 pm7:00 pmFor Zitkála-Šá Performance: Kona Mirabal & Masa Rain Mirabal

Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Taos’s own Kona Mirabal and Masa Rain Mirabal (Taos Pueblo)
Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Taos’s own Kona Mirabal and Masa Rain Mirabal (Taos Pueblo) will perform a one-of-a-kind, in-gallery concert. This ticketed performance will include two pieces from Chacon’s For Zitkála-Šá series as well as a collection of peyote songs passed down through generations.
Raven Chacon created For Zitkála-Ša, a series of lithographs of musical arrangements dedicated to contemporary American Indian, First Nations, and Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, and sound art. Chacon envisioned the scores as portraits of the women and how they navigate the twenty-first century. The title of the series refers to the Yankton Dakota composer and musician Zitkála-Šá, who lived from 1876 to 1938.
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Kona Mirabal Masa Rain Mirabal
About the Exhibition
Raven Chacon: Three Songs brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual work. In the series For Zitkála-Šá (2018), Chacon created musical arrangements dedicated to different contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art. The video installation Three Songs (2021) features Indigenous women singing as they reoccupy sites of historic massacres, displacement, or relocation of tribal people. The final work, Silent Choir (2016-2017), is a field recording Chacon made while taking part in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, which captures the silent protest of 600 water protectors facing police and security forces. When presented in unison, these works resound the suppressed histories and present-day stories of Native resistance in the face of systemic power.
Raven Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Kennedy Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
For Zitkála-Šá Performances:
Feb 24: Kona Mirabal + Masa Rain Mirabal
Apr 6: Autumn Chacon
May 4: Laura Ortman
Jun 7: Marisa DeMarco (performing For Carmina Escobar)
Support for the For Zitkála-Šá Concert Series is provided by the Richard B. Siegel Foundation.
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Time
(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
25Feb11:00 am1:00 pmTeen Art LabWorkshop

Event Details
In conjunction with the Taos Public Library Teen Art Council, the Harwood is offering drop-in studio time for teens. Join one of our Teaching Artists and make space to
Event Details
In conjunction with the Taos Public Library Teen Art Council, 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.
Pay What You Can (Suggested $5). No one will be turned away.
Time
(Sunday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center, Harwood Museum
238 Ledoux Street
16Mar5:30 pm7:00 pmHommage à FauréTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

Event Details
The preeminent pianist and esteemed teacher, Robert McDonald, will join Sally Guenther (cello) and Ruxandra Marquardt (violin) in a tribute to Gabriel Fauré. Also included will be the Sonatina for violin and
Event Details
The preeminent pianist and esteemed teacher, Robert McDonald, will join Sally Guenther (cello) and Ruxandra Marquardt (violin) in a tribute to Gabriel Fauré. Also included will be the Sonatina for violin and cello by Fauré’s student, Arthur Honneger, as well as solo performances by Robert McDonald.
This program presents a logical progression from Romanticism to Fauré and his link to the beginnings of the modern era. Fauré, perhaps one of the most influential French composers, studied as a youth with Camille Saint-Saëns and together they cofounded the Société Nationale de Musique (1871) to promote new French music. This program honors not only Fauré but reminds us of the admiration and gratitude due to those that dedicate their lives to teaching others and forging new paths.
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Saturday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
17Mar5:30 pm7:00 pmHommage à FauréTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

Event Details
The preeminent pianist and esteemed teacher, Robert McDonald, will join Sally Guenther (cello) and Ruxandra Marquardt (violin) in a tribute to Gabriel Fauré. Also included will be the Sonatina for violin and
Event Details
The preeminent pianist and esteemed teacher, Robert McDonald, will join Sally Guenther (cello) and Ruxandra Marquardt (violin) in a tribute to Gabriel Fauré. Also included will be the Sonatina for violin and cello by Fauré’s student, Arthur Honneger, as well as solo performances by Robert McDonald.
This program presents a logical progression from Romanticism to Fauré and his link to the beginnings of the modern era. Fauré, perhaps one of the most influential French composers, studied as a youth with Camille Saint-Saëns and together they cofounded the Société Nationale de Musique (1871) to promote new French music. This program honors not only Fauré but reminds us of the admiration and gratitude due to those that dedicate their lives to teaching others and forging new paths.
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Sunday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
06Apr6:00 pm7:00 pmFor Zitkála-Šá Performance: Autumn Chacon

Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the
Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Autumn Chacon (Diné and Chicana) will perform a one-of-a-kind, in-gallery concert of the piece composed for her by Raven Chacon as part of his For Zitkála-Ša series, as well as her own work. As a conceptual, installation, and performance artist, Autumn Chacon often explores Indigenous futurisms where technology has a sacred relevance, highlighting her skills as a self-taught electronics engineer.
Raven Chacon created For Zitkála-Ša, a series of lithographs of musical arrangements dedicated to contemporary American Indian, First Nations, and Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, and sound art. Chacon envisioned the scores as portraits of the women and how they navigate the twenty-first century. The title of the series refers to the Yankton Dakota composer and musician Zitkála-Šá, who lived from 1876 to 1938.
About Autumn Chacon
Autumn Chacon is a Diné/Chicana activist and conceptual artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose work exhibits in the form of audio installation, electronic installation and performance art. Chacon was first exposed to activism and radical movements by her parents who were involved in both the American Indian and Chicano movements of the 1960s and ‘70s and their social and environmental justice values are present in the themes and causes of Autumn’s work. Autumn’s own activism work has been in pursuit of communication and media justice, environmental justice and economic justice. Much of her skill set including electronic engineering to community organizing has come from labor and workforce experience from working in public access TV to the securing of three FCC licenced Community Radio stations including one in the Navajo Nation bordertown of Gallup NM, before the age of 30. Chacon also has years of congressional lobbying to secure these rights for marginalized populations in between, and a stint in Norway and Switzerland meeting with the largest banks in the world in a successful effort to divest 3.8 billion dollars from the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Autumn’s artist Curriculum Vitae reflects the same work but as an abstract, conceptual, installation, and performance artist. The majority of her pieces have been curated and exhibited among First Nations communities in Canada in cities such as Toronto, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Brandon, and Calgary as well as her own region, traditional territory and broader United States including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Flagstaff, Maine, Philadelphia Los Angeles and New York. Autumn is known for making broadcast installations and “interference” pieces meant to question federal regulations and our own relationship with regulated spaces. Her performance pieces are a peak into which Autumn draws most inspiration from among her own friends, family and fellow artists, collaborating and often writing pieces specifically for those individuals to perform. Meanwhile Autumn’s current activism work has to do with equitable and autonomous internet access and social network development towards Indigenous Technological Liberation..
Many of Autumn’s traditional teachings as a Diné woman are reflected in art/activism praxis. Her communication tools are borne from our most basic teachings around language, speech and the act of speaking out loud; and the continuation of knowledge through technology is the involvement with many natural sciences and their ability to affect the world around us. With no lack of stories to be told Chacon strives to engage through new media technologies even if her stories are very old.

About the Exhibition
Raven Chacon: Three Songs brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual work. In the series For Zitkála-Šá (2018), Chacon created musical arrangements dedicated to different contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art. The video installation Three Songs (2021) features Indigenous women singing as they reoccupy sites of historic massacres, displacement, or relocation of tribal people. The final work, Silent Choir (2016-2017), is a field recording Chacon made while taking part in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, which captures the silent protest of 600 water protectors facing police and security forces. When presented in unison, these works resound the suppressed histories and present-day stories of Native resistance in the face of systemic power.
Raven Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Kennedy Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
For Zitkála-Šá Performances:
Feb 24: Kona Mirabal + Masa Rain Mirabal
Apr 6: Autumn Chacon
May 4: Laura Ortman
Jun 7: Marisa DeMarco (performing For Carmina Escobar)
Support for the For Zitkála-Šá Concert Series is provided by the Richard B. Siegel Foundation.
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Time
(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
10Apr11:00 am12:00 pmArtstreams: Meet Us at the MuseumAccess Program

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In collaboration with the Harwood Museum and Artstreams: From the Well of Memory,
Event Details
In collaboration with the Harwood Museum and Artstreams: From the Well of Memory, Meet us at the Museum harnesses the power of art and provides access to the museum for individuals with memory impairment and their caregiver. Explore a new work of art each month at the Harwood while engaging in meaningful conversations that build communication skills, stimulate social engagement, and deepen connections through art.
To register, please contact Kathleen Burg M.A.: 575-770-9874 or ktburg@newmex.com and www.artstreamstaos.com
Artstreams: From the Well of Memory has been in the forefront of creating programs for Taos Alzheimer’s family caregivers since 2008. Image courtesy of Kathleen Burg.
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Time
(Wednesday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
20Apr5:30 pm7:00 pmTCMG presents Taos School of Music on TourTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

Event Details
TCMG is delighted to present for the first time on its series Taos School of Music faculty and alumni in spring performances. TCMG has long held the honor of collaborating with TSofM, which for 60 summers
Event Details
TCMG is delighted to present for the first time on its series Taos School of Music faculty and alumni in spring performances. TCMG has long held the honor of collaborating with TSofM, which for 60 summers has brought to Taos elite, early-career musicians and prepared them to be artistic leaders. Today, its 1,000+ alumni can be found in leading chamber music ensembles, orchestras, and teaching positions throughout the world.
Following rehearsals led by cellist Nina Lee of the Brentano String Quartet with three selected TSofM alumni in New York City, the quartet will perform two high-voltage concerts in Taos.
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Saturday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
21Apr5:30 pm7:00 pmTCMG presents Taos School of Music on TourTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

Event Details
TCMG is delighted to present for the first time on its series Taos School of Music faculty and alumni in spring performances. TCMG has long held the honor of collaborating with TSofM, which for 60 summers
Event Details
TCMG is delighted to present for the first time on its series Taos School of Music faculty and alumni in spring performances. TCMG has long held the honor of collaborating with TSofM, which for 60 summers has brought to Taos elite, early-career musicians and prepared them to be artistic leaders. Today, its 1,000+ alumni can be found in leading chamber music ensembles, orchestras, and teaching positions throughout the world.
Following rehearsals led by cellist Nina Lee of the Brentano String Quartet with three selected TSofM alumni in New York City, the quartet will perform two high-voltage concerts in Taos.
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Sunday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
04May6:00 pm7:00 pmFor Zitkála-Šá Performance: Laura Ortman

Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), will perform a one-of-a-kind,
Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), will perform a one-of-a-kind, in-gallery concert of the piece created composed for her by Chacon as well as her own work.
Raven Chacon created For Zitkála-Ša, a series of lithographs of musical arrangements dedicated to contemporary American Indian, First Nations, and Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, and sound art. Chacon envisioned the scores as portraits of the women and how they navigate the twenty-first century. The title of the series refers to the Yankton Dakota composer and musician Zitkála-Šá, who lived from 1876 to 1938.
About Laura Ortman
A soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Martha Colburn, New Red Order, and as part of the trio, In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, and often sings through a megaphone. She is a producer of capacious field recordings. Ortman has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, The Stone residency, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008, She founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.
Ortman is the recipient of the 2023 Institute of American Indian Arts Fellowship, 2022 Forge Project Fellowship, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency in Cassis, France, 2017 Jerome Foundation Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship, 2016 Art Matters Grant, 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency, 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency, and 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room. Ortman was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About the Exhibition
Raven Chacon: Three Songs brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual work. In the series For Zitkála-Šá (2018), Chacon created musical arrangements dedicated to different contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art. The video installation Three Songs (2021) features Indigenous women singing as they reoccupy sites of historic massacres, displacement, or relocation of tribal people. The final work, Silent Choir (2016-2017), is a field recording Chacon made while taking part in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, which captures the silent protest of 600 water protectors facing police and security forces. When presented in unison, these works resound the suppressed histories and present-day stories of Native resistance in the face of systemic power.
Raven Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Kennedy Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
For Zitkála-Šá Performances:
Feb 24: Kona Mirabal + Masa Rain Mirabal
Apr 6: Autumn Chacon
May 4: Laura Ortman
Jun 7: Marisa DeMarco (performing For Carmina Escobar)
Support for the For Zitkála-Šá Concert Series is provided by the Richard B. Siegel Foundation
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Time
(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
08May(May 8)11:00 am09(May 9)12:00 pmArtstreams: Meet Us at the MuseumAccess Program

Event Details
In collaboration with the Harwood Museum and Artstreams: From the Well of Memory,
Event Details
In collaboration with the Harwood Museum and Artstreams: From the Well of Memory, Meet us at the Museum harnesses the power of art and provides access to the museum for individuals with memory impairment and their caregiver. Explore a new work of art each month at the Harwood while engaging in meaningful conversations that build communication skills, stimulate social engagement, and deepen connections through art.
To register, please contact Kathleen Burg M.A.: 575-770-9874 or ktburg@newmex.com and www.artstreamstaos.com
Artstreams: From the Well of Memory has been in the forefront of creating programs for Taos Alzheimer’s family caregivers since 2008. Image courtesy of Kathleen Burg.
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Time
8 (Wednesday) 11:00 am - 9 (Thursday) 12:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
18May5:30 pm7:00 pmLaura Metcalf with The OverlookTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

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Laura Metcalf returns to TCMG with The Overlook, an Uptown NYC string quartet amplifying the music of Black composers with a community building mission “to create a more representative and
Event Details
Laura Metcalf returns to TCMG with The Overlook, an Uptown NYC string quartet amplifying the music of Black composers with a community building mission “to create a more representative and relevant musical practice.”
Formed during the pandemic and born out of the need to share music at this time and make it accessible, The Overlook presented virtual performances with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, live performances at Lincoln Center and events in nontraditional spaces (click here to view a lovely clip).
Join us for the final program of our 31st season to meet The Overlook: Monica Davis & Ravenna Lipchik, (violins), Angela Pickett, (viola) and Laura Metcalf, (cello).
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Saturday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
19May5:30 pm7:00 pmLaura Metcalf with The OverlookTaos Chamber Music Group Concerts

Event Details
Laura Metcalf returns to TCMG with The Overlook, an Uptown NYC string quartet amplifying the music of Black composers with a community building mission “to create a more representative and
Event Details
Laura Metcalf returns to TCMG with The Overlook, an Uptown NYC string quartet amplifying the music of Black composers with a community building mission “to create a more representative and relevant musical practice.”
Formed during the pandemic and born out of the need to share music at this time and make it accessible, The Overlook presented virtual performances with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, live performances at Lincoln Center and events in nontraditional spaces (click here to view a lovely clip).
Join us for the final program of our 31st season to meet The Overlook: Monica Davis & Ravenna Lipchik, (violins), Angela Pickett, (viola) and Laura Metcalf, (cello).
Doors at 5:10pm.
All ticket sales for Taos Chamber Music Group Performances are Final Sale.
ABOUT TCMG
There is something different about making music in New Mexico – its endless vistas and open landscapes infuse creativity with a sense of spaciousness and possibility. For the past thirty years the Taos Chamber Music Group has tapped into the Land of Enchantment by presenting the imaginative and inspirational performances for which it has become known. Programs often reflect the beauty of our surroundings as well as the unique cultural diversity of the Taos area, earning TCMG a reputation as one of Northern New Mexico’s most innovative and successful music series.
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Time
(Sunday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street
07Jun7:30 pm8:30 pmFor Zitkála-Šá Performance: Marisa Demarco

Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Marisa Demarco will perform
Event Details
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Marisa Demarco will perform a one-of-a-kind, in-gallery concert. This ticketed performance will include the score For Carmina Escobar, as well as her own work.
Raven Chacon created For Zitkála-Ša, a series of lithographs of musical arrangements dedicated to contemporary American Indian, First Nations, and Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, and sound art. Chacon envisioned the scores as portraits of the women and how they navigate the twenty-first century. The title of the series refers to the Yankton Dakota composer and musician Zitkála-Šá, who lived from 1876 to 1938.
About Marisa Demarco
Marisa Demarco is an Albuquerque-based journalist and lifelong New Mexican whose work has won national and regional awards. She’s spent almost two decades as a reporter, producer and newsroom leader, co-founding the New Mexico Compass, and editing and writing for the Weekly Alibi, the Albuquerque Tribune and UNM’s Daily Lobo. She began a career in radio full-time at KUNM News in late 2013 and covered public health and criminal legal reform for much of the last seven years. During the pandemic, she was also the executive producer for “Your NM Gov” and “No More Normal,” shows focused on the varied impacts of COVID-19 and community response, as well as racial and social justice.
About Carmina Escobar
Carmina Escobar is an experimental vocalist, improviser, performer, multimedia artist, composer, and educator from Mexico City, living and working in Los Angeles. She has extensively explored the capacities of her voice, developing a wide range of vocal techniques that she applies not only to her performance and creative practice but also to investigate radical ideas and concepts regarding the voice
About the Exhibition
Raven Chacon: Three Songs brings together three of Raven Chacon’s projects that pay tribute to Indigenous women through sound, video, and visual work. In the series For Zitkála-Šá (2018), Chacon created musical arrangements dedicated to different contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art. The video installation Three Songs (2021) features Indigenous women singing as they reoccupy sites of historic massacres, displacement, or relocation of tribal people. The final work, Silent Choir (2016-2017), is a field recording Chacon made while taking part in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, which captures the silent protest of 600 water protectors facing police and security forces. When presented in unison, these works resound the suppressed histories and present-day stories of Native resistance in the face of systemic power.
Raven Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Kennedy Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
For Zitkála-Šá Performances
Feb 24: Kona Mirabal + Masa Rain Mirabal
Apr 6: Autumn Chacon
May 4: Laura Ortman
Jun 7: Marisa DeMarco (performing For Carmina Escobar)
Support for the For Zitkála-Šá Concert Series is provided by the Richard B. Siegel Foundation
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Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
From Our Collection
Harwood-Museum-Taos-Emil-Bisttram-Out-of-Space-1
Emil Bisttram, Out of Space, 1954, casein, Overall: 27 1/16 x 36 in. (68.8 x 91.5 cm) frame: 32 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. (81.9 x 104.8 cm), Gift of The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
Harwood-Museum-Taos-Kenneth-Adams-Harvest
Kenneth Adams, Harvest, 1950, print reproductions, Overall: 16 1/8 x 11 13/16 in. (41 x 30 cm), Gift of the Artist
Harwood-Museum-Taos-Brett-Christmas_Eve
Dorothy Eugenie Brett, Christmas Eve at Taos Pueblo, 1961, Oil on canvas, Framed: 49 3/4 × 41 1/2 × 3 in. (126.4 × 105.4 × 7.6 cm), Gift of John Manchester
Harwood-Museum-Taos-Taos-Society-of-Artists-Walter-Ufer-Winter-in-New-Mexico-1
Walter Ufer, Winter in New Mexico, c.1930, Oil painting, Overall: 22 1/4 x 20 1/16 in. (56.5 x 51 cm) frame: 28 x 25 3/4 in. (71.1 x 65.4 cm), Gift of the University of Notre Dame, Walter and William Klauer
Harwood-Museum-Taos-Fritz-Scholder-Mystery-Horse-at-Taos
Fritz Scholder, Mystery Horse at Taos, 1978, Color lithograph on Arches buff paper with deckle edge, Overall: 14 15/16 x 22 3/8 in. (37.9 x 56.9 cm), Gift of Romona Scholder
Harwood-Museum-Taos-Ribak-Red-and-Yellow-Abstract
Louis Ribak, Red & Yellow Abstract, c. 1960, Oil on canvas, Overall: 44 x 58 in. (111.8 x 147.3 cm), Gift of the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation

