Event Type : Adult Programs

All are welcome to join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours and creative activities for all ages.

In honor of Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected, our August First Friday will feature Qigong with Nadine Lollino in the beautiful Harwood backyard, as well as screenings of Joie Estrella Horwitz’s lovely short film Green Turns Brown.

Come experience internationally acclaimed art in the historic setting of our local museum.

Harwood is excited to welcome Laura E. Pérez, Ph.D., Professor of Chicanx and Latinx Studies & Chair, Latinx Research Center, University of California, Berkeley for this exciting public lecture.

Thursday, August 15 at 6:00 pm

Pay-What-You-Wish Admission

Throughout her eight decade long practice, Luchita Hurtado (1920-2020) explored many styles of art-making. One of the unifying threads across much of her work was the expression of the intimate connection of humans to the natural world. Her work from the late sixties on particularly captures the natural world as animated and the female body as intimately part of this greater whole. Whether through self-representation as natural landscape, or landscape as animated, or through the painting of words, Hurtado blurs the line between self and surrounding world in some of her latest works to speak about and for our ecologically imperiled planet. 

About Dr. Laura Perez 

Laura Elisa Pérez is the author of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities (Duke University Press 2007); Eros Ideologies:  Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial (Duke University Press 2019), a National Chicana and Chicano Studies Association Book Award Honorable Mention 2021; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision (Duke University Press 2022), co-edited with Ann Marie Leimer, awarded the College Art Association’s Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publishing Grant and short-listed for the R. L. Shep Memorial Book Award from the Textile Society of America in 2023; and Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory (University of California Press and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2023), co-edited with María Esther Fernández, an ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award Honorable Mention, 2024. She curated Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas (2009), with Delilah Montoya; Labor+a(r)t+orio: Bay Area Latina@ Arts Now (2011); and the traveling retrospective Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory (2023-25), with María Esther Fernández. She is Professor in Chicanx, Latinx, and Ethnic Studies and Chair of the Latinx Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD at Harvard University and a BA/MA Joint Degree at The University of Chicago. 

Hey there, Taos! Are you ready for a second (or first) chance to enjoy Prom? 

Come dance the night away at Taos Pride’s Second Chance Prom!

Date: Friday, August 16th

Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Venue: Harwood Museum Backyard

Tickets: $20 (tickets will also be available at the door)

Get your groove on with the sensational Katy P. and The Business. Savor some delicious hors d’oeuvres and sip on refreshing beverages as you celebrate a magical night under the stars.

Be exactly who you are! All ages are encouraged to join!!

Mark your calendars and join us for an evening of fun, laughter, and second chances. Let’s make this prom a night to remember.

See you there!

Sincerely,

The Second Chance Prom Committee & Harwood Museum of Art

Join Taos based artist Izumu Yokoyama and the STEMArts team to experience a fun, easy way to paint together in a virtual space using MultiBrush. No tech skills required – just bring your creativity!

About STEMarts Lab

The STEMarts Lab mission is to design immersive and educational sci-art experiences that develop artistic, scientific and humanistic literacy to empower youth and communities to become creative participants in the 21st century workplace. They deliver innovative sci-art installations, STEAM programming, online curriculum tools, teacher training and professional development to schools, art/science organizations and festivals.

About Izumi Yokoyama

Izumi Yokoyama is a multi-media artist who lives and works in Taos, New Mexico. Born in Niigata, Japan, in 1980, Yokoyama graduated with an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Yokoyama’s artworks are presented locally and nationally. Birds of Appetite: Alchemy & Apparition, a 2019 exhibition which featured her work at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, NM, received critical accolades. Her current and upcoming projects range from book illustrations to a large-scale community mural to a haunting installation.

About MultiBrush

MultiBrush is a multiplayer implementation of the open source code for Tilt Brush. Now you can play, create, and enjoy art – with friends!

Enjoy seeing Luchita Hurtado’s diverse and compelling art works during extended open hours! 

Luchita Hurtado had a deep, enduring love of the Taos landscape, the tiny treasures it presents and its vast open spaces that can conjure multitudes. In honor of this passion, Taos Abstract Artist Collective invites you to enjoy a series of artist talks, demos, and hands-on art-making experiences in the Harwood Museum backyard as part of September’s First Friday. Local artists will present a variety of approaches to the practice of artmaking using materials provided to us by our natural surroundings. You are invited to use all the senses to discover the possibilities of collaboration with the incredibly rich natural world Taos generously offers.  

All are welcome to join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours and creative activities for all ages.

Come experience internationally acclaimed art in the historic setting of our local museum.

Following in Luchita Hurtado’s footsteps, this one-day workshop will combine guided sketching and meditation experiences in nature and at Harwood Museum, culminating in a studio-based project. The landscapes of Northern New Mexico deeply impacted Hurtado’s visual vocabulary and sense of wonder. You’ll spend the morning on one of Luchita’s favorite hiking trails with a series of exercises designed to tune the senses to the natural world. Following a lunch break, participants will draw inspiration from the exhibition Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected before entering the studio to create a work of art drawn from the day’s experiences. 

Limited to 15 participants (Ages 16+). Sketchbooks and basic materials provided. Participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchbook and any favorite materials. Lunch is on your own. 

About Sarah Stolar 

Sarah Stolar is an interdisciplinary artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The breadth of her work includes painting, drawing, multimedia installation, film, video, and performance art. She holds a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati (2000), and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2003). Her work has exhibited across the United States and internationally with solo exhibitions at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, New Mexico Museum of Art, Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, and BGMoCA in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is an internationally award-winning filmmaker, including Best Experimental Film at Synergy Film Festival, New York City and finalist for the Andy Warhol Award for Best Experimental Film in the US. Sarah has been featured in multiple media outlets including Yale University Radio Archive, Fifty Feminist States, The Nation Magazine, Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary, and CNN Style. A committed educator for over fifteen years, Stolar is currently Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Film and Digital Media at the University of New Mexico – Taos.