Exhibits To Inspire and Delight
A great cultural escape from the winter blahs
Winter blahs got you down? Here’s a great way to escape the winter – art and cultural exhibits. From the influence on the world of jewelry with the Santa Fe style, to photography, you're sure to find an exhibit to inspire and delight you. Here's a sampling:
Santa Fe – Santa Fe style represents a state of mind held by those who live in this town either as full-time or part-time residents. Santa Fe style influenced fashion and design worldwide. It is not just jewelry and clothing but a feeling inside, a sense of place and that total belief in the Navajo saying, “Walk in beauty.”
The spirit of Santa Fe style has inspired an exhibit with the same name at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Native Couture opens Dec.16, and runs through Sept. 1, 2008. Drawing from the museum’s incomparable collections, this exhibition showcases both old and new jewelry - 1880 to the present. The exhibition will explore the history of Santa Fe style and what it incorporates.
The focus of Native Couture revolves around the Dicky Pfaelzer Jewelry Collection donated to the museum by her children in 2005.
Dicky, a style-setter, was known throughout town for creating a statement with her beautiful jewelry and exquisite clothing and a fixture on the Santa Fe gallery scene for more than eighteen years. (She also drove a station wagon painted with lizards and other Southwest iconography)
Even today, in the spirit of Dicky Pfaelzer, vibrant individuals celebrate local culture by adorning themselves in jewelry and fashions influenced by Native American, Hispano and Western Frontier aesthetic traditions. Unique and eclectic, Santa Fe style is emblematic of the American Southwest.
Native Couture: Santa Fe Style, while focusing around Dicky Pfaelzer and her jewelry collection, is the ever-changing story of jewelry and fashion in the American Southwest, especially Santa Fe.
Yet some elements remain timeless, such as the imagery: bears represent hunting and the prayers associated with a successful hunt along with the power of the animal.
The naja at the end of the squash blossom is a Moorish symbol with hands encompassing good spirits along with the squash blossoms signifying a good harvest.
The religious cross and sacred heart symbols are used in the Catholic Church. The inner gems demonstrated in the pair of coral bracelets by Dan Jackson are a later representation of the turquoise bracelet with turquoise stones at the wrist as well as the top. The western tradition of cows heads, stars, hearts and badges is everywhere in the iconic popular culture of the west.
Santa Fe style is a tradition of jewelry making by Native Americans, Anglo Americans, and Spanish Americans alike that utilize easily attainable or local materials such as coins, copper, silver, and turquoise and traded materials such as precious and semi-precious gems, coral, and shell. An example of this style evolution is seen in the jewelry tradition of bow guards. Here the functionality of protecting the wrists while using a bow and arrow in earlier times developed into a purely aesthetic use of the longer 1950s bow guard which has just as ornate silverwork but the usefulness of the item is less important than its beauty. Also on view will be richly decorated concha belts, necklaces, ear rings, bracelets, hat bands, dresses, and jackets.
Functional items can also be fashionable. The bow-guards, purse, hair combs and barrettes, buttons, and dress ornaments exhibited are both beautiful and serve a multi-faceted daily function. Overtime, the look of these functional yet fashionable items has changed as we see with the contemporary bracelet and necklace from the twenty-first century compared to the bracelets and necklaces from the late- nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries to a contemporary neck collar.
Santa Fe style can be seen on individuals throughout the world today thanks to internationally known contemporary designers such as Ralph Lauren and local Native American designers such as Virgil Ortiz, Patricia Michaels, and Pilar Agoyo. Unique and eclectic, Santa Fe style is emblematic of the American Southwest.
Santa Fe style for me, is the exuberant self expression of the individual. Perhaps other people of the world can bring this look into being, but I doubt that any city on earth does it as distinctively as do the residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico. We Santa Feans not only fill our homes and gardens with art, but we make ourselves a moving canvas, blending artist-driven clothing, jewelry and accessories to make a statement of who we are,” said Helene Singer Merrin, a donor to the exhibition and one of these “vibrant” individuals herself.
“I think Dicky Pfaelzer was the best example of this same spirit. She expressed Santa Fe style in her own unique way. She wore outstanding Native American Jewelry and fabulous clothes with real panache. She was an inspiration to all who had the pleasure of knowing her.
Located on Museum Hill, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture shares the beautiful Milner Plaza with the Museum of International Folk Art. Here, Now and Always, a major permanent exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, combines the voices of living Native Americans with ancient and contemporary artifacts and interactive multimedia to tell the complex stories of the Southwest. The Buchsbaum Gallery displays ceramics from the region’s pueblos. Five changing galleries present exhibits on subjects ranging from archaeological excavations to contemporary art.╩ In addition, an outdoor sculpture garden offers rotating exhibits of works by Native American sculptors.
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Other exhibit possibilities include:
Albuquerque –Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th Street NW, 505-843-7270, www.indianpueblo.org (http://www.indianpueblo.org/). Take a Bite Out of This! From Corn to Commodity. This multi-sensory exhibit examines the many ways food and water shape indigenous communities. Featured works include art by Neal Ambrose Smith, Dominic Arquero, Steven Deo, Carmelita Dunlap, Eric Gansworth, Tom Jones, Alan Lasiloo, Alan Lechusza, James Luna, Ira Lujan, Lee Marmon, Maria Martinez & Popovi Da, Les Namingha, Andrew Padilla, Diego Romero, Rose Simpson, Roxanne Swentzell, Lonnie Vigil and many more.
Albuquerque –Jonson Gallery, 1909 Las Lomas NE, 505-277-4967, www.unm.edu/~jonsong (http://www.unm.edu/~jonsong), Alan Paine Radebaugh - Mass: of our world, Solo Exhibition; thru Dec. 22
Albuquerque – 516 Arts 516 Central Ave SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org (http://www.516arts.org/): R. A. i. R. Works 40 / Loosely Joined., thru Dec. 29. Selected Alumni from 40 Years of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. The exhibition features nationally and internationally renowned artists who live in or have ties to New Mexico, including Stuart Arends, Eddie Dominguez, Stephen Fleming, Christina Gonzales, Scott Greene, Diane Marsh, Frank McCulloch, Robert ParkeHarrison and Raissa Venables. Also, Loosely Joined presents New Mexico Artists from the Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop, including Madelin Coit, Donna Loraine Contractor, Sydney Cooper, RoseMary Diaz, Christy Hengst, Chris Jonas, Joanne Lefrak, Debbie Long and Timothy Nero.
Albuquerque – Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE, 505-268-0044 www.outpostspace.org (http://www.outpostspace.org/). Thru. Dec. 31: Recycle 2007 Group Exhibit featuring Albuquerque artists working with recycled materials.
Santa Fe – Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 www.IndianArtsandCulture.org (http://www.indianartsandculture.org/). Thru Jan. 6. Golden Dawn: The legendary art of Santa Clara Pueblo artist Pablita Velarde. Velarde was 19 when she commissioned by the National Park Service, under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to create scenes of traditional Pueblo culture for the visitor center being built at Bandelier National Monument. She produced over 84 paintings in casein on masonite, matte board and glass between 1939 and 1945. This new exhibition provides a glimpse into this period of Pablita Velarde’s life.
Thru January, 2008
Albuquerque –UNM Art Museum, University of New Mexico Center for the Arts, 505-277-4001. Touch and Be Touched by Photography, guest curator Shawna Cory Reeves explores the sense of touch using passages from the Oxford English Dictionary and nineteenth and twentieth-century photographs from the UNM Art Museum collection; Thru Feb. 10: Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, traveling exhibition from the Palm Springs Art Museum with over 50 photographs from 26 American photographers including Thomas Barrow, Patrick Nagatani, Mark Klett, Wanda Hamerbeck, and Lee Friedlander.
Albuquerque – 516 Arts 516 Central Ave SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org (http://www.516arts.org/) 20 Years 20 Artists, Jan. 19 ą Feb. 23. Celebrating 20 years of Working Classroom, a nonprofit organization promoting a collective identity through free, high quality training to aspiring artists from historically ignored communities. The exhibition features the work of 20 artists č from New Mexico and around the globe č who have invested their time and talents to build and sustain this organization
Albuquerque –National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth Street SW, 505-246-2261 www.nhccnm.org (http://www.nhccnm.org/). Thru Jan. 13: Mayan Textile Art: Collections of the Centro de Textiles del Mundo Maya, contemporary Maya textiles including 20thcentury works designed by some of the leading artists of Mexico and Guatemala, dozens of huipiles (embroidered women’s dresses), and paintings by artists such as Carlos MÄrida and Rufino Tamayo.
Albuquerque –The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 2000 Mountain Road NW, 505-243-7255 www.cabq.gov/museum (http://www.cabq.gov/museum). Water Library: Volume by Volume. Projects by Artist Basia Irland over the 30 years in Africa, Canada, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Thru Feb. 10: Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum, a rare opportunity to view renowned Egyptian masterworks and lesser-known treasures before their final return to The British Museum.
Bernalillo – Art Gallery 66, 373 N Camino del Pueblo in Bernalillo, 505-867-8666, www.artgallery66.net (http://www.artgallery66.net/). 5’’x5’’ on Route 66, Thri Dec. 22. Small pieces by Darryl Willison, Marjie Bassler, Del Lack, Rex Barron, Annie Hooten and more. Original art by well-known local and regional artists.
Corrales – Corrales Bosque Gallery, 4685 Corrales Road; 505-898-7203 www.collectorsguide.com/cbosque (http://www.collectorsguide.com/cbosque) O Tannenbaum: The Holiday Show, decorated with art ornaments made by the Gallery artists. A member-owned cooperative of 23 local artists in the heart of Corrales.
Santa Fe – Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street, 505-946-1000, www.okeeffemuseum.org (http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/). Thru Jan. 13. Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle. More than 80 images which reveal for the first time how various women artists in the Stieglitz circle paved the way for O’Keeffe’s emergence in 1916. Includes Gertrude Kasebier, Anne Brigman, Pamela Colman Smith, Georgia Englehardt, and Katharine Nash Rhodes, among others
Santa Fe – Wheelwright Museum of American Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-982-4636, www.wheelwright.org (http://www.wheelwright.org/) Native American Modern, 1960 to the Present. Features more than 300 objects that represent the strengths of the Wheelwright’s permanent collection, and which illuminate the museum’s unique focus. Includes incredible jewelry & paintings, whimsical baskets & folk art, and Cochiti figurines & Zuni fetishes. ╩
Santa Fe – College of Santa Fe, 1600 St Michael’s Dr; 505-473-6555; www.csf.edu (http://www.csf.edu/) Fernando Traverso: Puede No Haber Banderas (There Could Be No Flags) Thur Jan. 20. Fernando Traverso’s art can be considered the art of the streets. Growing up in Rosario, Argentina during the military rule of the 1970s and ‘80s, Traverso witnessed the brutality of disappearance. Part of a three-month regional partnership program, The Disappeared Collaborative Project, presenting exhibitions, films, lectures, readings, workshops, and discussions with artists whose lives have been profoundly affected by the political upheavals in Latin America over the last 30 years. More info: www.thedisappearedsantafe.org (http://www.thedisappearedsantafe.org/)
Santa Fe – Institute of American Indian Arts / IAIA, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, 505-424-2300, www.iaia.edu (http://www.iaia.edu/) Thru Jan 25 Converging Cultural Concepts, The 2007 Student Winter Exhibition features art selected by the upper class members of IAIA’s Museum Studies Program. In the Primitive Edge Gallery on IAIA campus.
Santa Fe – Institute of American Indian Arts Museum / IAIA, 108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1777 www.iaiamuseum.org (http://www.iaiamuseum.org/) The Haiti Project, a look at the daily lives, aspirations, living conditions and families residing in the mountainous Haitian community of Ridore La VallÅe de Jacmel, by Santa Fe photographer Jeane LaRance’s (Little Shell Tribe of Montana) one-artist exhibition in the Lloyd Kiva New Gallery of the IAIA Museum Store. Thru Feb. 4
Santa Fe – Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill; 505-476-1200 www.internationalfolkart.org (http://www.internationalfolkart.org/). Thru May 11, 2008: Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond: Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph, Thornton Dial, and Lonnie Holley. Twelve dramatically designed, richly colored, improvisational quilts created by Mary Lee Bendolph and her family members - her mother Aolar Mosely, her daughter Essie B. Pettway, and her daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph; plus complex and evocative found object sculptures by noted African American self-taught artist Thornton Dial and visionary ‘’yard art’’ artist Lonnie Holley.
Santa Fe – Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 www.spanishcolonial.org (http://www.spanishcolonial.org/). Thru April 30: Sitting Pretty: Seating in 19th Century New Mexico, an exhibition of chairs, stools, and benches from the museum collections.
Santa Fe - Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 www.IndianArtsandCulture.org (http://www.indianartsandculture.org/). Heart Beat: Music of the Pueblos. Dec. 2, 2007 ą Oct. 5, 2008. The music of the Pueblos with examples of the musical instruments and the different sounds and compositions from ceremonial and social use of the drum and rattles to entertainment.
A great cultural escape from the winter blahs
Winter blahs got you down? Here’s a great way to escape the winter – art and cultural exhibits. From the influence on the world of jewelry with the Santa Fe style, to photography, you're sure to find an exhibit to inspire and delight you. Here's a sampling:
Santa Fe – Santa Fe style represents a state of mind held by those who live in this town either as full-time or part-time residents. Santa Fe style influenced fashion and design worldwide. It is not just jewelry and clothing but a feeling inside, a sense of place and that total belief in the Navajo saying, “Walk in beauty.”
The spirit of Santa Fe style has inspired an exhibit with the same name at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Native Couture opens Dec.16, and runs through Sept. 1, 2008. Drawing from the museum’s incomparable collections, this exhibition showcases both old and new jewelry - 1880 to the present. The exhibition will explore the history of Santa Fe style and what it incorporates.
The focus of Native Couture revolves around the Dicky Pfaelzer Jewelry Collection donated to the museum by her children in 2005.
Dicky, a style-setter, was known throughout town for creating a statement with her beautiful jewelry and exquisite clothing and a fixture on the Santa Fe gallery scene for more than eighteen years. (She also drove a station wagon painted with lizards and other Southwest iconography)
Even today, in the spirit of Dicky Pfaelzer, vibrant individuals celebrate local culture by adorning themselves in jewelry and fashions influenced by Native American, Hispano and Western Frontier aesthetic traditions. Unique and eclectic, Santa Fe style is emblematic of the American Southwest.
Native Couture: Santa Fe Style, while focusing around Dicky Pfaelzer and her jewelry collection, is the ever-changing story of jewelry and fashion in the American Southwest, especially Santa Fe.
Yet some elements remain timeless, such as the imagery: bears represent hunting and the prayers associated with a successful hunt along with the power of the animal.
The naja at the end of the squash blossom is a Moorish symbol with hands encompassing good spirits along with the squash blossoms signifying a good harvest.
The religious cross and sacred heart symbols are used in the Catholic Church. The inner gems demonstrated in the pair of coral bracelets by Dan Jackson are a later representation of the turquoise bracelet with turquoise stones at the wrist as well as the top. The western tradition of cows heads, stars, hearts and badges is everywhere in the iconic popular culture of the west.
Santa Fe style is a tradition of jewelry making by Native Americans, Anglo Americans, and Spanish Americans alike that utilize easily attainable or local materials such as coins, copper, silver, and turquoise and traded materials such as precious and semi-precious gems, coral, and shell. An example of this style evolution is seen in the jewelry tradition of bow guards. Here the functionality of protecting the wrists while using a bow and arrow in earlier times developed into a purely aesthetic use of the longer 1950s bow guard which has just as ornate silverwork but the usefulness of the item is less important than its beauty. Also on view will be richly decorated concha belts, necklaces, ear rings, bracelets, hat bands, dresses, and jackets.
Functional items can also be fashionable. The bow-guards, purse, hair combs and barrettes, buttons, and dress ornaments exhibited are both beautiful and serve a multi-faceted daily function. Overtime, the look of these functional yet fashionable items has changed as we see with the contemporary bracelet and necklace from the twenty-first century compared to the bracelets and necklaces from the late- nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries to a contemporary neck collar.
Santa Fe style can be seen on individuals throughout the world today thanks to internationally known contemporary designers such as Ralph Lauren and local Native American designers such as Virgil Ortiz, Patricia Michaels, and Pilar Agoyo. Unique and eclectic, Santa Fe style is emblematic of the American Southwest.
Santa Fe style for me, is the exuberant self expression of the individual. Perhaps other people of the world can bring this look into being, but I doubt that any city on earth does it as distinctively as do the residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico. We Santa Feans not only fill our homes and gardens with art, but we make ourselves a moving canvas, blending artist-driven clothing, jewelry and accessories to make a statement of who we are,” said Helene Singer Merrin, a donor to the exhibition and one of these “vibrant” individuals herself.
“I think Dicky Pfaelzer was the best example of this same spirit. She expressed Santa Fe style in her own unique way. She wore outstanding Native American Jewelry and fabulous clothes with real panache. She was an inspiration to all who had the pleasure of knowing her.
Located on Museum Hill, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture shares the beautiful Milner Plaza with the Museum of International Folk Art. Here, Now and Always, a major permanent exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, combines the voices of living Native Americans with ancient and contemporary artifacts and interactive multimedia to tell the complex stories of the Southwest. The Buchsbaum Gallery displays ceramics from the region’s pueblos. Five changing galleries present exhibits on subjects ranging from archaeological excavations to contemporary art.╩ In addition, an outdoor sculpture garden offers rotating exhibits of works by Native American sculptors.
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Other exhibit possibilities include:
Albuquerque –Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th Street NW, 505-843-7270, www.indianpueblo.org (http://www.indianpueblo.org/). Take a Bite Out of This! From Corn to Commodity. This multi-sensory exhibit examines the many ways food and water shape indigenous communities. Featured works include art by Neal Ambrose Smith, Dominic Arquero, Steven Deo, Carmelita Dunlap, Eric Gansworth, Tom Jones, Alan Lasiloo, Alan Lechusza, James Luna, Ira Lujan, Lee Marmon, Maria Martinez & Popovi Da, Les Namingha, Andrew Padilla, Diego Romero, Rose Simpson, Roxanne Swentzell, Lonnie Vigil and many more.
Albuquerque –Jonson Gallery, 1909 Las Lomas NE, 505-277-4967, www.unm.edu/~jonsong (http://www.unm.edu/~jonsong), Alan Paine Radebaugh - Mass: of our world, Solo Exhibition; thru Dec. 22
Albuquerque – 516 Arts 516 Central Ave SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org (http://www.516arts.org/): R. A. i. R. Works 40 / Loosely Joined., thru Dec. 29. Selected Alumni from 40 Years of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. The exhibition features nationally and internationally renowned artists who live in or have ties to New Mexico, including Stuart Arends, Eddie Dominguez, Stephen Fleming, Christina Gonzales, Scott Greene, Diane Marsh, Frank McCulloch, Robert ParkeHarrison and Raissa Venables. Also, Loosely Joined presents New Mexico Artists from the Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop, including Madelin Coit, Donna Loraine Contractor, Sydney Cooper, RoseMary Diaz, Christy Hengst, Chris Jonas, Joanne Lefrak, Debbie Long and Timothy Nero.
Albuquerque – Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE, 505-268-0044 www.outpostspace.org (http://www.outpostspace.org/). Thru. Dec. 31: Recycle 2007 Group Exhibit featuring Albuquerque artists working with recycled materials.
Santa Fe – Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 www.IndianArtsandCulture.org (http://www.indianartsandculture.org/). Thru Jan. 6. Golden Dawn: The legendary art of Santa Clara Pueblo artist Pablita Velarde. Velarde was 19 when she commissioned by the National Park Service, under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to create scenes of traditional Pueblo culture for the visitor center being built at Bandelier National Monument. She produced over 84 paintings in casein on masonite, matte board and glass between 1939 and 1945. This new exhibition provides a glimpse into this period of Pablita Velarde’s life.
Thru January, 2008
Albuquerque –UNM Art Museum, University of New Mexico Center for the Arts, 505-277-4001. Touch and Be Touched by Photography, guest curator Shawna Cory Reeves explores the sense of touch using passages from the Oxford English Dictionary and nineteenth and twentieth-century photographs from the UNM Art Museum collection; Thru Feb. 10: Contemporary Desert Photography: The Other Side of Paradise, traveling exhibition from the Palm Springs Art Museum with over 50 photographs from 26 American photographers including Thomas Barrow, Patrick Nagatani, Mark Klett, Wanda Hamerbeck, and Lee Friedlander.
Albuquerque – 516 Arts 516 Central Ave SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org (http://www.516arts.org/) 20 Years 20 Artists, Jan. 19 ą Feb. 23. Celebrating 20 years of Working Classroom, a nonprofit organization promoting a collective identity through free, high quality training to aspiring artists from historically ignored communities. The exhibition features the work of 20 artists č from New Mexico and around the globe č who have invested their time and talents to build and sustain this organization
Albuquerque –National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth Street SW, 505-246-2261 www.nhccnm.org (http://www.nhccnm.org/). Thru Jan. 13: Mayan Textile Art: Collections of the Centro de Textiles del Mundo Maya, contemporary Maya textiles including 20thcentury works designed by some of the leading artists of Mexico and Guatemala, dozens of huipiles (embroidered women’s dresses), and paintings by artists such as Carlos MÄrida and Rufino Tamayo.
Albuquerque –The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, 2000 Mountain Road NW, 505-243-7255 www.cabq.gov/museum (http://www.cabq.gov/museum). Water Library: Volume by Volume. Projects by Artist Basia Irland over the 30 years in Africa, Canada, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Thru Feb. 10: Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum, a rare opportunity to view renowned Egyptian masterworks and lesser-known treasures before their final return to The British Museum.
Bernalillo – Art Gallery 66, 373 N Camino del Pueblo in Bernalillo, 505-867-8666, www.artgallery66.net (http://www.artgallery66.net/). 5’’x5’’ on Route 66, Thri Dec. 22. Small pieces by Darryl Willison, Marjie Bassler, Del Lack, Rex Barron, Annie Hooten and more. Original art by well-known local and regional artists.
Corrales – Corrales Bosque Gallery, 4685 Corrales Road; 505-898-7203 www.collectorsguide.com/cbosque (http://www.collectorsguide.com/cbosque) O Tannenbaum: The Holiday Show, decorated with art ornaments made by the Gallery artists. A member-owned cooperative of 23 local artists in the heart of Corrales.
Santa Fe – Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street, 505-946-1000, www.okeeffemuseum.org (http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/). Thru Jan. 13. Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle. More than 80 images which reveal for the first time how various women artists in the Stieglitz circle paved the way for O’Keeffe’s emergence in 1916. Includes Gertrude Kasebier, Anne Brigman, Pamela Colman Smith, Georgia Englehardt, and Katharine Nash Rhodes, among others
Santa Fe – Wheelwright Museum of American Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-982-4636, www.wheelwright.org (http://www.wheelwright.org/) Native American Modern, 1960 to the Present. Features more than 300 objects that represent the strengths of the Wheelwright’s permanent collection, and which illuminate the museum’s unique focus. Includes incredible jewelry & paintings, whimsical baskets & folk art, and Cochiti figurines & Zuni fetishes. ╩
Santa Fe – College of Santa Fe, 1600 St Michael’s Dr; 505-473-6555; www.csf.edu (http://www.csf.edu/) Fernando Traverso: Puede No Haber Banderas (There Could Be No Flags) Thur Jan. 20. Fernando Traverso’s art can be considered the art of the streets. Growing up in Rosario, Argentina during the military rule of the 1970s and ‘80s, Traverso witnessed the brutality of disappearance. Part of a three-month regional partnership program, The Disappeared Collaborative Project, presenting exhibitions, films, lectures, readings, workshops, and discussions with artists whose lives have been profoundly affected by the political upheavals in Latin America over the last 30 years. More info: www.thedisappearedsantafe.org (http://www.thedisappearedsantafe.org/)
Santa Fe – Institute of American Indian Arts / IAIA, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd, 505-424-2300, www.iaia.edu (http://www.iaia.edu/) Thru Jan 25 Converging Cultural Concepts, The 2007 Student Winter Exhibition features art selected by the upper class members of IAIA’s Museum Studies Program. In the Primitive Edge Gallery on IAIA campus.
Santa Fe – Institute of American Indian Arts Museum / IAIA, 108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1777 www.iaiamuseum.org (http://www.iaiamuseum.org/) The Haiti Project, a look at the daily lives, aspirations, living conditions and families residing in the mountainous Haitian community of Ridore La VallÅe de Jacmel, by Santa Fe photographer Jeane LaRance’s (Little Shell Tribe of Montana) one-artist exhibition in the Lloyd Kiva New Gallery of the IAIA Museum Store. Thru Feb. 4
Santa Fe – Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill; 505-476-1200 www.internationalfolkart.org (http://www.internationalfolkart.org/). Thru May 11, 2008: Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond: Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph, Thornton Dial, and Lonnie Holley. Twelve dramatically designed, richly colored, improvisational quilts created by Mary Lee Bendolph and her family members - her mother Aolar Mosely, her daughter Essie B. Pettway, and her daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph; plus complex and evocative found object sculptures by noted African American self-taught artist Thornton Dial and visionary ‘’yard art’’ artist Lonnie Holley.
Santa Fe – Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 www.spanishcolonial.org (http://www.spanishcolonial.org/). Thru April 30: Sitting Pretty: Seating in 19th Century New Mexico, an exhibition of chairs, stools, and benches from the museum collections.
Santa Fe - Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 www.IndianArtsandCulture.org (http://www.indianartsandculture.org/). Heart Beat: Music of the Pueblos. Dec. 2, 2007 ą Oct. 5, 2008. The music of the Pueblos with examples of the musical instruments and the different sounds and compositions from ceremonial and social use of the drum and rattles to entertainment.