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VALENTINE'S DAY WORKSHOP EXTRAVAGANZA
Saturday, February 7
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Suggested donation: $5/family
All ages welcome
Release your inner artist! And make a one-of-a-kind valentine during this Valentine's Day artmaking extravaganza. Let the Harwood's experienced educators guide you in creating beautiful, artistic, mixed media valentines for your friends, family members and classmates. We'll have a variety of materials on hand, and will share a few techniques. The sky's the limit! All ages are encouraged to attend; parent participation is required. With a suggested donation of $5 per family, participants will receive a cigar box that can be used as inspiration for a valentine, a valentine mailbox, or anything you like! All proceeds benefit the Harwood's Art in the Schools program. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.
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EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW FEBRUARY 14-MAY 3, 2015
The Harwood will open a dynamic series of exhibitions on Saturday, February 14.
Presented in partnership with the UNM Art Museum, this exhibition celebrates the last and lesser known phase of Louis Ribak's artistic life. Guest curated by John Mulvany.
Drawn from The Harwood Museum of Art's collection, this exhibition features work created by Marylou Reifsnyder in the 1960s and 1970s.
This exhibition presents drawings and paintings on the theme of the carousel created by Robert M. "Bob" Ellis from the late 1940s through 2012. Guest curated by Gus Foster.
Tom Dixon: Curator's Wall
The Harwood Museum of Art's spring exhibitions are made possible through the support of the Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak Legacy Endowment for the Harwood Museum of Art, Maryann Evans and Edwin Roos, the Mandelman-Ribak Foundation, and the Marylou Reifsnyder Memorial Exhibitions Fund.
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EXHIBITION OPENING EVENTS
 Director's Circles & VIP ReceptionFriday,
February 13
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Members of The Harwood Museum of Art's Director's Circles and invited guests will celebrate the Museum's spring exhibitions during this private reception. Not a Director's Circles member? Go here to join this wonderful group of Harwood supporters!
 Alliance Members' Opening Reception
Friday,
February 13
5:00-7:00 p.m.
 Free Museum AdmissionSaturday,
February 14
10:00 a.m.-
5:00 p.m.
Admission to The Harwood Museum of Art will be free all day in celebration of the opening of our spring exhibitions. Don't miss Guest Curator John Mulvany's gallery talk at 2:00 p.m. in the Clouds Got in the Way: Louis Ribak Scrolls exhibition.
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LOUIS RIBAK'S SCROLLS:
A GALLERY TALK WITH
JOHN MULVANY
Saturday, February 14 - 2:00 p.m.
Free!
John Mulvany, Guest Curator of the Clouds Got in the Way: Louis Ribak Scrolls exhibition, will lead a gallery talk exploring this little known body of work by Taos Modernist Louis Ribak. |
�ORALE! NAMED ONE OF THE NATION'S TOP TWENTY EXHIBITIONS
 As 2014 came to a close, we were thrilled to learn that the Harwood's four-part exhibition �Orale! Kings and Queens of Cool had been named one of the nation's top twenty exhibitions of 2014 by Art Business News. The Harwood is in great company - other museums on the list include the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. We're thrilled and grateful that the creative collaborative effort that yielded this exhibition received such terrific national recognition. �Orale!
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HOMESCHOOL ART
Monday, February 23
10:00 - 11:30 am
Free!
Homeschool families are invited to  explore the Harwood's diverse collections and exhibitions, through both gallery experiences and art-making in the Museum's inspiring Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center. This program is designed for children ages 4 - 12; however, all ages are welcome. Parent participation is required. Contact us at [email protected] for more information. In the case of a two- hour snow delay, this program will be canceled.
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Susan Longhenry
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Dear Friends,
Happy February! We're still exhilarated by last Friday's Art of Wine event, which was just about the most fun any of us have ever had at a fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who braved the snow to join us for that very special evening. Including, especially, the artists, art donors and volunteers who made it all happen. It was a great night.
The Harwood's talented and dedicated team has created an equally exciting February for you, with everything from a Valentine's Day artmaking extravaganza for the whole family to a screening of short films nominated for 2015 Academy Awards. We're continuing our partnership with SOMOS for its Winter Writers Series, and - last but not least - opening a series of terrific exhibitions on Saturday, February 14. We'll offer free admission that day - our Valentine's Day gift to you!
See you at the Harwood!
Susan Longhenry
Director
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2015 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS
Saturday, February 7 - 1:00-4:45 p.m.
Saturday, February 14 - 1:00-4:45 p.m.
Saturday, February 21 - 1:00-4:45 p.m.
 Our popular program of Oscar-nominated short films returns! This year we're offering three screenings of a program featuring animated and live action short films nominated for 2015 Academy Awards. The February 7 program will be repeated on February 14 and 21. Each screening will begin with an eighty-eight-minute program featuring animated short films. A fifteen-minute intermission will follow, and the screening will conclude with a 112-minute program of Oscar-nominated live action short films.
A complete list of films, including synopses, is available at this link.
$8 Alliance* Members
$10 General Admission
*Individual level and above
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SOMOS WINTER WRITERS SERIES
Wednesdays - 7:00 p.m. February 4, 11 and 25
 The Harwood Museum of Art is proud to collaborate with SOMOS, The Literary Society of Taos, on its Winter 2015 Writers Series. All readings will be presented in the Harwood's Arthur Bell Auditorium
February 4 - Poets Max Early, Ears of Corn: Listen and Lisa Chavez, Destruction Bay and In an Angry Season
February 11 - Todd Wilkinson, Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet. After his reading Wilkinson will be interviewed by local author and environmentalist Jim O'Donnell.
February 25 - Poets Veronica Golos, Vocabulary of Silence and Rootwork: The Lost Writings of John Brown, Mary Day Brown, Ghosts and Runaways; and Cyrus Cassells, The Crossed-Out Swatstika and More Than Peace and Cypresses.
$8 Alliance* and SOMOS Members
$10 General Admission
*Individual level and above
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AGNES MARTIN GALLERY YOGA
Wednesdays, 8:30-10 a.m.
February 11, 18 and 25
 Join us for this 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. If UNM-Taos calls a two-hour delay or is closed due to inclement weather, this class will be canceled.
$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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THANK YOU FOR A FANTASTIC ART OF WINE!
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Art of Wine on January 30
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Think a snowstorm can stop Taosenos from celebrating and supporting the Harwood's exhibitions? Think again! On January 30, as the snow piled up outside, the Harwood welcomed 160 people to the most successful Art of Wine event yet. Participants had a terrific time engaging with J. Matt Thomas' Exquisite Taos installation, enjoying tastings from six wineries, experiencing behind-the-scenes tours, and bidding during Art of Wine's silent auction. That auction raised $24,000 for the Harwood's exhibitions! Thank you to Co-Chairs Lucile Grieder, Dora Dillistone and Linda Warning; to John Rush and Sherry Parsons for connecting us with wineries, the Great Chefs of Taos and the Taos High School Culinary Arts Program; to Constellation Wines & Southern Wines and Spirits; to J. Matt Thomas for a perfect Taos-style celebration of creativity, to Arjuna Capital for helping to sponsor the event, to the auction donors who made it possible to raise those funds for the Harwood's exhibitions, and to the Taos Winter Wine Festival for letting us join their party. Stay tuned for Art of Wine 2016!
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WELCOME MANAGER OF MEMBERSHIP, VOLUNTEERS AND EVENTS
SHEMAI RODRIGUEZ!
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Shemai Rodriguez
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We're very pleased to announce that Shemai Rodriguez has joined The Harwood Museum of Art in the new position of Manager of Membership, Volunteers and Events. Shemai will oversee the Harwood Museum Membership Alliance program and will be responsible for recruiting, engaging and cultivating a stronger base of Alliance members, donors and volunteers. Shemai brings to the Harwood excellent experience in volunteer and event coordination, and in working with large membership databases. Last but most definitely not least, Shemai is a native Taosena whose family has been in Taos for at least eight generations. Welcome, Shemai!
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THE HARWOOD IS HIRING!
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Join the Harwood's team!
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We're looking for friendly, outgoing people who are comfortable with computerized point-of-sale systems and who would like to work during The Harwood Museum of Art's public programs (concerts, lectures, etc.) and special events. Duties will include processing event ticket sales for public programs, balancing out and closing the cash register at the end of a shift, and assisting in closing the Museum. The selected candidate will also answer phones, welcome, greet and orient visitors. This is an on-call position, and will involve evenings and weekends. For more information, and to apply, go to this link!
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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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