The Harwood Museum of Art Newsletter

July 2012 


EXHIBITION OPENING EVENTS

Friday, July 6, 4-5 p.m.  

Director's Circles Preview   

Members of the Harwood's Director's Circles will celebrate and preview the museum's four summer 2012 exhibitions.  Go here to learn more about these wonderful museum supporters, and to join them!  

  

Friday, July 6, 5-7 p.m.

Alliance Members' Reception   

Members of the Harwood Museum Alliance will preview the museum's  summer 2012 exhibitions.   Not an Alliance member?  Join here! 

 

For more  information about the Director's Circles or the Harwood Museum Alliance, contact Juniper Manley, Director of Development,  575-758-9826, ext. 116,  development@harwoodmuseum.org 


Saturday, July 7,  10 a.m.  

Exhibitions open to the public    

 

The Bea Mandelman centennial exhibitions are supported by the Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak Legacy Endowment for the Harwood Museum of Art.

  

DOCENT TRAINING 

Wednesdays, July 11 & 18,
 
10 a.m.- 12 p.m.

The Harwood docents reconvene for a training on the summer exhibitions. Are you interested in being part of this dynamic group of gallery guides? If so you are welcome to join and learn more about the Museum and our diverse and wonderful collection.  Contact

education@harwoodmuseum.org.
 

 

KIDS & FAMILIES
 
Teen Art Class: Exploring Identity Through Media
Tues, July 10 - Fri, July 13, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.  

We are pleased to present a three-part teen art workshop focusing on mixed media art-making with Lauren Mantecon, an established painter and educator dedicated to transformative processes.  Lauren has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is the recipient of numerous fellowships including Djerassi Art Fellowship and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.  She is known for her innovative approaches to teaching that spur on the authentic voice.  

$80 Harwood Alliance Members; $100 non-members. Need-based scholarships are available from the Faith Mallams D'Amico Youth Scholarship. Info: 575 758 9826 x 108.   Class size is limited and pre-registration is required by Friday, July 6 by 12 p.m.

Art Exploration Workshop -  

Global Art
Tuesday, July 24 - Friday, July 27,
10 a.m. - 12 p.m
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 This workshop will explore the wonders of art from around the world. Join us as we explore images of works from various cultures, traditions and historical eras and then find examples of works in the Museum's collection inspired by these far off (and far out) objects. Children will then work with educators to create different projects exploring a variety of media. All work will be installed in a kid-curated exhibition in the Harwood's Sidney & Gladys Smith Childrens Art Gallery.  This program is designed for children ages 6 and up. Children under 6 must have parent participation.  

$80 Harwood Alliance Members, a family level membership or above, $100 non-members.  Need-based scholarships made possible by the Faith Mallams D'Amico Youth Scholarship Fund are available, as are sibling discounts.    

 

Cristina Masoliver - LOLA & PACO
Saturday, July 28, 10 a.m.
 

 This month's Saturday Arts For Families will focus on the delightful new exhibition Suspension of Disbelief: The Fantasy Worlds of Barbara Harmon, Frieda Lawrence, Gisella Loeffler, Ila McAfee, Millicent Rogers and Stella Snead and bring to life two delightful marionettes, Lola & Paco, under the direction of master puppeteer and community treasure Cristina Masoliver.  This free performance for all ages will be followed by a special tour of the exhibition.

 

        

THE MUSEUM STORE

 

Shop & Learn Trunk Show 

 Throughout July

In support of the Museum's education program and specifically its Neighborhood Arts Project, the Harwood Museum Store will highlight children's books, games and toys during the month of July. The Museum Store will also have beautiful note cards featuring the art work of children from Enos Garcia Elementary School. Info: 

shop@harwoodmuseum.org

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PROJECT  

Mondays-Fridays, Through August 10, 12- 2 p.m.  

Neighborhood Arts Project

 

The Neighborhood Arts Project is a free community arts outreach program created and taught by arts educator Siena Sanderson, along with a team comprised of the Harwood's talented museum educators and volunteers. The program begans June 4 and continues every week at the five sites listed below through the second week in August.    

Monday - Camino de la Merced
Tuesday - Taos County Housing  /Gusdorf Road Gazebos   

 Wednesday - Arroyo Hondo   Community Center

Thursday - Oo Oonah Art Center, Taos Pueblo

Friday - Taos County Housing / Ranchitos Road   

 This free program is 100% funded by numerous generous individuals from our community and throughout the U.S., along with support from the Quail Roost Foundation and the Town of Taos. Free lunch provided by the Taos Municipal Schools Summer Lunch Program. Volunteer opportunities are available! Donated Materials welcome. All Ages encouraged to join in the fun.

HARWOOD AT THE TAOS FARMERS MARKET  

Saturday, July 21  

9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 
Taos Farmers Market, Town Hall  

 

 

The Harwood Museum of Art is pleased to partner with the Taos Farmers Market to present a free art-making activity.  Have fun at the Farmers Market, and create something wonderful using recycled materials.  Designed for all ages.

 

 

 

 

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FROM THE DIRECTOR

 

Dear Friends,

 

Happy 4th of July from all of us at the Harwood Museum of Art!  Our curators, educators, interns and volunteers have been working hard on the four new exhibitions opening this weekend. Suspension of Disbelief: The Fantasy Worlds of Barbara Harmon, Frieda Lawrence, Gisella Loeffler, Ila McAfee, Millicent Rogers and Stella Snead; Highlights from the Harwood Museum of Art's Collection of Contemporary Art and our two centennial exhibitions Bea Mandelman: Collage and Bea Mandelman: The Social Realist Prints open with Director's Circles and Alliance members' events on Friday, July 6. The exhibitions open to the public Saturday, July 7. 

 
In addition, we have a robust program schedule in the Arthur Bell Auditorium this month, including Wim Wenders' film Pina, featuring the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. I hope that you have a great 4th of July holiday. We hope to see you for the openings this weekend, and throughout the month.

Sincerely,





 


Susan Longhenry, Director 

 

ADULT SEMINAR IN THE GALLERIES     

How Art Works 
 
Fridays, July 6, 13, 20, 1-3 p.m. 
 
This
3-part gallery learning experience uses original art works in the Museum's collection and exhibitions as a point of discussion. Instructor Jeremy McDonnell will explore the art objects on display, encouraging personal responses to generate a discussion of how art is crafted and how it works on a viewer.
$40 Harwood Alliance Members; $50 non-members. Advance registration required by noon on July 5.  

FILM Pina 
 
Saturday, July 14, 7 p.m. 
 
P
ina is a dance film by Wim Wenders featuring the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer. Wenders takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery. He follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal, the place that has served for 35 years as the home of and center for Pina Bausch's creativity. The film presents extracts from some of the most noted dance pieces by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style of which Bausch was a leading exponent.  The extracts are from four pieces: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Caf� M�ller, Kontakthof, and Vollmond. These are complemented with interviews and other dance choreographies shot in and around Wuppertal, Germany.  The film includes scenes showing the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated railway, and some dance sequences take place inside its carriages.
$8 Alliance Members, $10 non-members.

SOMOS Summer Writers Series
The Society of the Muse of the Southwest presents the Summer Writers Series Thursdays at The Harwood
 

Thursday, July 12, 7:30 p.m.
 
Joan Livingston, Managing Editor of the Taos News, fiction writer and journalist will read from her YA fiction, "The Twin Jinn," and adult fiction, "The Swanson Shuffle.
Bob Shacochis is a novelist, essayist, journalist and educator. His most recent book, The Immaculate Invasion -  about the 1994 military intervention in Haiti - was a finalist for the New Yorker Magazine Literary Awards for best nonfiction book of the year, and named a Notable Book of 1999 by the New York Times.
 

Thursday, July 19, 7:30 p.m. 
 
Mark Sundeen and Gregory Martin are both faculty at the 2012 Taos Summer Writers Conference. Sundeen, the award-winning author of The Man Who Quit Money, has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, the Believer, and elsewhere. His other books are Car Camping and The Making of Toro, and he co-authored North By Northwestern (St. Martin's, 2010), which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Gregory Martin is the author of Mountain City, a memoir of the life of a town of 33 people in remote northeastern Nevada that received a Washington State Book Award and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Martin's work has appeared in The Sun, Kenyon Review Online, Creative Nonfiction, StoryQuarterly and Orion.

Thursday, July 26, 7:30 p.m.  
 
This SOMOS event features poet Jonathan Slator and mystery writer Alex Dryden. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Dryden watched the statues of Lenin fall across the former Soviet Union. Since then he has charted the false dawn of democracy in Russia as the country has transformed into the world's most powerful secret state. Working as a freelancer in order to maintain autonomy, he says: "Intelligence work was the consistent underlying factor behind my presence there." An even more hardnosed reality is that more than 200 human rights workers, journalists and politicians have been murdered or disappeared since 1998, when Putin became head of the KGB. And that's what's known as an "official" count. So Alex Dryden chose "the reality of fiction." Jonathan Slator is the founder and former executive director of the Taos Mountain Film Festival. He is also a poet and will share some of his poems submitted for publication.               

All SOMOS readings:  $6 Harwood Alliance & SOMOS Members, $8 non-members.      

 
Tickets for all programs are available at the museum's admissions desk. Contact education@harwoodmuseum.org for more information.

ONGOING ADULT YOGA

 

Wednesdays, 8:30-10 a.m., July 11, 18, 25  

Agnes Martin Gallery  

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell.  This program is open to all levels, and yoga mats are provided.  
$8  Harwood Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop-in fee.

EXHIBITION TOURS  

Sundays, July 15, 22, 29, 1 p.m.

 

Join a trained museum guide for a tour of the Museum's collection and our four new summer exhibitions:   Suspension of Disbelief: The Fantasy Worlds of Barbara Harmon, Frieda Lawrence, Gisella Loeffler, Ila McAfee, Millicent Rogers and Stella Snead, Highlights from the Harwood Museum of Art's Collection of Contemporary Art,  Bea Mandelman: Collage and Bea Mandelman: The Social Realist Prints.  These informative and fun tours are free with museum admission, which is free to Taos County residents every Sunday. The tours meet at the Admission Desk, and no reservations are necessary.  The tours are great for all ages!   


Yes, I would like to support the Harwood!
 
The impact of your gift to the Harwood Museum of Art's annual fund is as important as the art on our walls. Contributions directly support the Museum's exhibitions and educational programs. Your gift is 100% tax-deductible, and donors at $500 and up are invited to exclusive behind-the-scenes Director's Circle events. Your contribution, big or small, will help assure diverse educational programs, preserve and interpret the collection, and provide an increasingly strong future for the Harwood Museum of Art. Donate Now!  Director of Development Juniper Manley is available to answer any questions that you may have. You can reach her at 575-758-9826, ext. 116 or at jmanley@unmfund.org.

 


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