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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. 

Taos Center for the Arts and Harwood Museum of Art present the Outriders Film Series exploring representations of Black cowboys on the big screen from the 1930s to today. Harlem Rides the Range features an all-Black cast starring Herb Jeffries’ as Harlem, a cowboy trying to help a homesteader from being cheated out of his property. Made when audiences and films were largely segregated by race, this was among the first Black westerns created during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Director: Richard C. Kahn

Runtime: 56 minutes

This project is supported in part by New Mexico Humanities Council and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Image: Still from Harlem Rides the Range courtesy of Sack Amusement Pictures

Taos Center for the Arts and Harwood Museum of Art present the Outriders Film Series exploring representations of Black cowboys on the big screen from the 1930s to today. Black Rodeo captures the exuberance surrounding the performance of the first all African-American rodeo at Triborough Stadium on Randall’s Island, New York. Featuring music by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Little Richard, among others, Jeff Kanauw’s film includes an interview with Woody Strode and footage of Muhammed Ali riding a horse down 125th Street.

Director: Jeff Kanew

Runtime: 1h 27m

This project is supported in part by New Mexico Humanities Council and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Image: Still from Black Rodeo courtesy of Jeff Kanew

Taos Chamber Music Group presents a multi-disciplinary program of music informed by art, poetry and letters that reflects love in its many forms, including Georgia O’Keeffe’s deep connection to the New Mexico landscape, Maya Angelou’s poem of human unity, and Robert and Clara Schumann’s immortal love affair. The program features Libby Larsen’s Black Birds, Red Hills for clarinet, viola and piano based on O’Keeffe paintings; Judd Greenstein’s A Moment of Clarity for flute and piano; Jesse Montgomery’s Peace for clarinet and piano; Valerie Coleman’s Fanmi Imnen (Human Family) for flute and piano with the poem by Maya Angelou; and a unique biographical portrait of Robert and Clara Schumann’s tragic romance that combines readings of their letters with performances of Robert Schumann’s Fairy Tales and Max Bruch Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano.

David Yang, viola, Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinet, Nancy Laupheimer, flute, Debra Ayers, piano

At the request of Taos Chamber Music Group, masks are encouraged at this program.

Image credit: (left to right) Debra Ayers, David Young, Graeme Steele Johnson, Nancy Laupheimer. Images courtesy of the artists.

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. 

As part of the Harwood Community Day, Steve Cormier will perform songs gathered from the open range. Some have been passed down from cowboys who worked the West in the 19th and 20th centuries while others are inspired by Cormier’s own experience as a ranch and farm hand. Full of adventure, love, death, and tributes to their mounts, tap your toes to these beats while learning something new about life in the West.  

Steve Cormier earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, with a dissertation on twentieth century New Mexico ranching. He has published chapters on ranching in two books, “Essays in Twentieth Century New Mexico History”(UNM Press) and “The Multicultural Southwest” (University of Arizona Press). From 1979 to 1988, he worked on ranches and farms in the Flint Hills of Kansas and around Santa Rosa and Fort Sumner, NM. His music derives from that experience. He also has played supporting roles in numerous television shows and films, including “Breaking Bad”, “Gunsmoke” and “Wyatt Earp.” He has recorded several albums. 

Tickets include free access to the museum and exhibitions as well as special activities throughout the day!

Harwood and StoryCorps are co-host a listening session in the Arthur Bell Auditorium on Tuesday, March 28th. This free, public event is an opportunity for the Taos community to learn more about StoryCorps and be the first to hear a selection of stories recorded here in Taos.

Founded in 2003 by award-winning documentary producer and MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay, StoryCorps has traveled to every corner of the country to record interviews in the organization’s effort to create a world where we listen closely to each other and recognize the beauty, grace and poetry in the lives and stories we find all around us.  

Now in its 19th year, the StoryCorps Mobile Tour has facilitated thousands of meaningful conversations between people who know and care about one another. From March 16th to March 29th, StoryCorps, in partnership with The Harwood Museum and KUNM, will be recording interviews of people from all backgrounds and beliefs, in the Taos area after which they will be traveling to Albuquerque, NM.

StoryCorps is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.  

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. 

Taos Jazz Bebop Society and the Harwood present 

Poetry & Jazz 

Jasmin Williams with the John Rangel Trio 

Sunday, April 16 – 2:30 pm Matinée 

John Rangel – Piano + Guitar 

Jasmin Williams – Vocals + Spoken Word 

Donald Bailey – Drums 

Michael Burt – Bass 

Tickets $25 / $20 – members of Harwood and Taos Jazz Bebop Society 

Jasmin Williams– vocalist, songwriter and performer of the spoken word– is an exciting new voice on the Santa Fe music scene. With a unique mixture of jazz, funk and soul, her performances pull her audience into a rich and intimate space. She began her jazz journey in Philadelphia, toured Europe and Japan, and recently arrived in Santa Fe from Harlem, NY to call The City Different home. Most notably, Williams has performed with Mercer Ellington in Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert. She has also performed in numerous jazz festivals, including the Afro-American Museum’s “Jazz ‘Till Sunrise, Jazz Under The Stars“, Mill Creek Jazz Festival, Jazz Vespers, Jambalaya Jam Jazz Festival, the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Yokohama, Japan, and at Antieau Gallery New Orleans during the 50th Jazz & Heritage Festival, among others. 

John Rangel is a multi-talented musician of the highest caliber. Jazz pianist, composer and guitarist, as well as movie-maker, Rangel has been a mainstay on the New Mexico jazz scene for more than 15 years. A classically-trained pianist, Rangel cites early influences from J.S. Bach and Stravinsky to Ray Charles, Errol Garner and Oscar Peterson. In the early 90’s, he immersed himself in the vibrant culture of Leimert Park. Known as the “African Greenwich Village,” it was the center of African-American Arts in LA, brimming with poets, artists, and musicians. That community has been a major influence on John’s spiritual intention and musical direction. Over his career he has explored a wide range of musical styles including Jazz, Classical, Film Music, Pop, Hi-Life, Salsa, Reggae, and Calypso. His versatility as a jazz pianist is evident in his work with artists as varied as Nat Adderly, Marcus Printup, Billy Higgins, Sam Rivers, Ravi Coltrane, Pharaoh Saunders, Bobby Shew, Tierney Sutton, Rosemary Clooney– and the full gamut of leading New Mexico jazz musicians.  

Taos Chamber Music Group celebrates the culmination of their 30th Anniversary Season with a ground-breaking commission. GRAMMY® Award-winning musician, actor, artist, storyteller, Taos Pueblo Elder and longtime TCMG collaborator, Robert Mirabal, comes together with his longtime collaborator, the GRAMMY® Award-winning, genre-defying, New York-based string quartet, ETHEL, to compose and premiere a new work for string quartet and Native American Flute, Song for Taos, a deeply personal tribute to the spirit and history of Robert’s ancestral home.

The world-premiere of this commission will be presented as part of a larger program of the same name. The quintet offers a unique expression celebrating twelve years of friendship and collaboration, as Mirabal and ETHEL come together gratefully to, yet again, reimagine the concert experience. Drawing from their previous programs, Music of the Sun, and The River, as well as selections from ETHEL’s vast library of contemporary masterworks, Mirabal and ETHEL offer a new ceremony full of original music, movement, and wisdom, in honor of Taos Pueblo and the greater Taos community.

This program is presented in conjunction with the Harwood Centennial celebrations. At the request of Taos Chamber Music Group, masks are encouraged at this program.

Image credit: Courtesy of the artists.

Taos Chamber Music Group celebrates the culmination of their 30th Anniversary Season with a ground-breaking commission. GRAMMY® Award-winning musician, actor, artist, storyteller, Taos Pueblo Elder and longtime TCMG collaborator, Robert Mirabal, comes together with his longtime collaborator, the GRAMMY® Award-winning, genre-defying, New York-based string quartet, ETHEL, to compose and premiere a new work for string quartet and Native American Flute, Song for Taos, a deeply personal tribute to the spirit and history of Robert’s ancestral home.

The world-premiere of this commission will be presented as part of a larger program of the same name. The quintet offers a unique expression celebrating twelve years of friendship and collaboration, as Mirabal and ETHEL come together gratefully to, yet again, reimagine the concert experience. Drawing from their previous programs, Music of the Sun, and The River, as well as selections from ETHEL’s vast library of contemporary masterworks, Mirabal and ETHEL offer a new ceremony full of original music, movement, and wisdom, in honor of Taos Pueblo and the greater Taos community.

This program is presented in conjunction with the Harwood Centennial celebrations. At the request of Taos Chamber Music Group, masks are encouraged at this program.

Image credit: Courtesy of the artists.