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SEE YOU AT ART ON TAP!
Saturday, August 2
Noon-4 p.m.
Taos Mesa Brewing
Join us at Taos Mesa Brewing this Saturday for a Taos-style fundraising event! Thirty of Taos' best artists will sell work priced between $30 and $300, with half the proceeds retained by the artist and the other half benefiting the Harwood Museum of Art's exhibition fund. Enjoy a Harwood Ale and build your art collection! Participating artists include:
El Moises - Ginny Abblett - Marcus Best - Esteban Bojorquez - Kathleen Brennan - Maury Calvert - Angie Coleman - Isabel and John DePuy - Genevieve deVellis - Jeremy Landau - Dennis Larkins - Jennifer M. Lindsley - Christa Marquez - Coyote Moon - Greg Moon - G. Robert Parker - Betsy Peirce - Leah Slator - William Stewart - Mary R. Stratton - Matt Thomas - Kathleen Urquhart - Suzane Wiggin - Rob Wheeler - David Yarborough
Go here for more information about Art on Tap.
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HARWOOD AT THE TAOS FARMERS MARKET
Saturday, August 16
8 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Taos Plaza
 Please join the Harwood's Museum Learning team for a fun art making session in our tent. We will have all the supplies you need to create your own masterpiece! Drop by between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., but please don't drop off your kids! This is a family event. The activities are free; however, we welcome donations to help support the Harwood's programs for youth and families. See you at the Farmers Market!
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HARWOOD MUSEUM ALLIANCE MEMBERSHIP ANNUAL MEETING
Tuesday, August 19
5-7 p.m.
Arthur Bell Auditorium
 Join members of the Harwood Museum Alliance Board, the Harwood Museum of Art Governing Board, and the Harwood Museum of Art staff for the Harwood Museum Alliance Membership annual meeting. The program will include a presentation of highlights from the recently completed fiscal year, the election of Harwood Museum Alliance Board members and officers, behind-the-scenes tours of the Museum's collection storage area and new photo studio, and a reception. All Harwood Museum Alliance members are invited!
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AGNES MARTIN GALLERY YOGA
Wednesdays, 8:30-10 a.m.
August 13, 20, 27
No class August 6
 A special meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with certified instructor Jayne Schell in the Agnes Martin Gallery. The class is open to all levels, and yoga mats are provided.
$8 Alliance Members* (Alliance Members may also purchase a class card of 8 classes for $40)
$10 General Admission
*Individual level and above
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DOCENT TOURS OF HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE GUS FOSTER COLLECTION
Sundays, 1 p.m.
August 3, 10, 17, 24
Free with museum admission, which is free to Taos County residents every Sunday
 Join us for guided tours, led by professionally trained docents, of the Highlights from the Gus Foster Collection exhibition. The exhibition presents 121 works donated by collector, connoisseur and longtime Harwood Museum of Art supporter Gus Foster. Tours will give visitors insight into the art, and the stories behind both the artists and the collector.
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The Harwood Goes Live with Gallery Systems' TMS
Collections Management System!
 The Harwood reached a major milestone last month in our IMLS-funded collections management project! We launched our new collections management system - Gallery Systems' TMS. The Harwood joins the Dallas Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and - in New Mexico - the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the Museum of International Folk Art in managing its art collections with this incredibly rich and powerful system. The next big step will be to provide public access to collection information and images via the Harwood's web site, which should launch early next year.
This effort was generously funded by a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency. We're deeply grateful to IMLS, to the Harwood's Development and Collections staff members who worked so hard to realize this project, and to UNM-Taos for lending us their computer lab for three days last month for our TMS staff training!
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HARWOOD VISITORS, WE WANT YOUR OPINION!
 Do you think that the Harwood could do a better job with orientation and wayfinding? What are your thoughts about learning materials in the galleries? Our Interpretive Planning Team wants to know! If you'd be willing to visit the Museum once over the next two months and then participate in a facilitated conversation about your experience, please contact Harwood Museum of Art Director Susan Longhenry at [email protected]. Your insights will help us plan future orientation, wayfinding, and in-gallery learning strategies. Thank you!
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We appreciate your comments, and hope that they will encourage new museum guests to visit us as well. Thank you for your time - we look forward to seeing you again soon!
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FROM THE DIRECTOR
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Susan Longhenry
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Dear Friends,
Happy August! As I write this, preparations are in high gear for tomorrow's Art on Tap art sale at Taos Mesa Brewing. This promises to be a fun, funky afternoon of art, beautiful scenery, and Harwood Ale! I extend my heartfelt thanks to our Art on Tap leadership team - Christa Marquez, Charleen Holder, Laurie Hicks, Genevieve de Vellis,Chris Albert, and Juniper Manley - for bringing this spirited event to life. We're also very grateful to Taos Mesa Brewing for so generously hosting us tomorrow.
Art on Tap is just the first of many dynamic programs featured at the Harwood this month. We're offering an array of great activities for families and children, including the debut of the Art Explorers Club and a puppet show by the always magical Cristina Masoliver.
I hope to see you tomorrow at Taos Mesa Brewing!
Susan Longhenry
Director
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FILMS AT THE HARWOOD
In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in
Life with Saul Leiter
Friday, August 8 - 7:00 p.m.
 Saul Leiter could have been lauded as the great pioneer of color photography. However, he was never driven by the lure of success. Instead, he preferred to drink coffee and photograph in his own way, amassing an archive of beautiful work that is now piled high in his New York apartment. An intimate and personal film, In No Great Hurry follows Saul as he deals with the triple burden of clearing an apartment full of memories, becoming world-famous in his 80s and fending off a pesky filmmaker. Directed by Tomas Leach.
Life Itself
Friday, August 22 - 7:00 p.m.
 This documentary film recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert - a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent. Based on his bestselling memoir of the same name, Life Itself explores the legacy of Roger Ebert's life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America.
Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) conducted interviews with over two dozen people including lifelong friends, professional colleagues, Gene Siskel's wife Marlene (her first interview ever), and filmmakers Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Ramin Bahrani, Gregory Nava, Ava DuVernay, and Martin Scorsese, who is one of Life Itself's executive producers.
Film tickets: $6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members*,
$8 General Admission, free for students and youth under the age of 18.
*Individual level and above
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KIDS AND FAMILIES
Art Explorers Club
Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
August 6, 13, 20
Meet in the Harwood Museum of Art's
Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center
Free and open to the public
 Heads up, young artists! The Art Explorers Club is a series of imaginative workshops taught by A.C. Ward for four- and five-year old children. In a relaxed and family-friendly environment, children will be introduced to works of art in the Harwood Museum of Art's exciting exhibitions. There they will explore the visual elements of line, color, and shape, while also discovering the energy and feeling behind the works of art. The museum visit will be followed by studio time, when participants create art projects related to work discussed in the galleries. Children will work with mixed media materials and investigate the mixing of colors, paint application, and the execution of a personal vision. It is our hope to share the fun and magic of looking at art, and to create projects that widen the scope of our young artists' imagination. Parent participation is required for this drop-in class (no registration required). Contact us at [email protected] or 575.758.9826, extension 108 for more information.
Cristina Masoliver Presents Puppet Theatre Los Titiriteros' Paco and Lola
Saturday, August 23
2 p.m. & 2:30 p.m
Free!
 Join us in the Arthur Bell Auditorium for two shows with Taos Treasure Cristina Masoliver, who will perform Paco and Lola. They will all win your hearts! All ages are welcome to this free event.
Donations are appreciated, and will support the Harwood Museum of Art's educational programs.
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SOMOS SUMMER WRITERS SERIES
August 7, 13, 20
7:30 p.m.
The Harwood Museum of Art continues its collaboration with SOMOS, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, with a dynamic Summer Writers Series.
August 7 - Scott Cairns and Joan Logghe
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Scott Cairns is a poet, memoirist, librettist, and essayist. He is currently the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in English at the University of Missouri. Cairns' poetry collections include Idiot Psalms, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected, Philokalia, Recovered Body, Figures for the Ghost, The Translation of Babel, and The Theology of Doubt. J oan Logghe was Poet Laureate of Santa Fe 2010-2012. Her books include What Makes a Woman Beautiful, Twenty Years in Bed with the Same Man (a finalist in Western States Book Award), and Sofia, Rice, and The Singing Bowl.
August 13 - Jennifer Kostecki-Shaw and Patrick Shaw
 Jenny Kostecki-Shaw and Patrick Shaw (a.k.a. The Masala Chai Wallah) share a love for good chai, Indian culture and each other. Jenny is a freelance illustrator and national award-winning children's book author and illustrator. Patrick teaches Ayurveda, Ayurvedic cooking and Ayurvedic herbology at the University of New Mexico in Taos and has been making homemade masala chai for over 20 years.
August 20 - Natalie Goldberg
 Natalie Goldberg is the author of Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within, which broke open the world of creativity and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country. The book has sold over one million copies and been translated into fourteen languages. Since then she has written nine other books, including the novel Banana Rose. Natalie is also a prolific painter. Her book Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World, describes painting as her second art form.
$8 SOMOS and Harwood Museum Alliance members* and seniors $10 General Admission Students 18 and under free
*Individual level and above
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EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7
Mandelman-Ribak Gallery
George E. Foster, Jr. Gallery of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Caroline Lee and Bob Ellis Gallery
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Larry Bell, Light Knot 4
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In 2013 collector, connoisseur and longtime Harwood Museum of Art supporter Gus Foster donated a remarkable collection of 391 works of contemporary art by 83 artists to the Museum. This exhibition presents 121 of those works, and is accompanied by a 96-page full-color catalog featuring an essay by Evan M. Maurer.
Peter & Madeleine Martin Gallery
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John Connell,
Ancient Wedding
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An exhibition featuring the work of John Connell (1940-2009), former member of the Santa Fe artist group Nerve.
Go here to learn more about the Harwood's current exhibitions.
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