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The Harwood Museum of Art Newsletter

January 2013 

 

EXHIBITIONS

LAST CHANCE!! Through January 27, 2013

 

Iigo Manglano-Ovalle: Juggernaut  

Internationally renowned artist I�igo Manglano-Ovalle's video installation Juggernaut was filmed in El Vizca�no Biosphere Reserve on the Baja California peninsula.

 

Falling Without Fear showcases

the work of artists using digital media. Looped videos provide viewers with the opportunity to experience the creative and technical work being done through that relatively new medium.  

 

Curiosity:  From the Faraway Nearby presents speculative landscapes focusing on zero gravity, art in space, and aliens.

 

 

Maye Torres:  Unbound  Don't miss this one- woman exhibition with magical sculptures and drawings of strength and beauty. 

 

 

 

For a complete listing of our exhibitions, pleas visit: http://harwoodmuseum.org/exhibitions 

THE MUSEUM STORE

  

 

Saturday, January 12, 12 to 2 p.m

Third Annual Repurposed & Recycled 
Book Arts Show and 
Make & Take Workshop

Join us for a fun workshop during which Taos Book Arts Group member Claire Cote instructs participants in making wallets and small book covers from recycled tetrapaks.  A participation fee of  $5.00 covers all supplies. In addition, the Store will feature many different kinds of unusual recycled and repurposed items during the month of January. For more information please contact the Store at 575-758-9826 x 102 or shop@harwoodmuseum.org.

  

   

SOMOS WINTER WRITERS SERIES

 

Thursdays, Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 7 p.m 

 

The Harwood Museum of Art is proud to collaborate with SOMOS on the 2013 Winter Writers Series.  

 

January 10:  Readings by Hilda Raz, poet, Poetry Series Editor for UNM Press and literary magazine Bosque and writer, artist, and gay transgendered male Aaron Ruz.  The two coauthored What Becomes You, a collaborative mother-son (formerly daughter) memoir of gender, identity and family. 


January 17:  
Readings by Rae Marie Taylor, artist and spoken word poet and author of a collection of essays, The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope and Nasario Garcia, author of twenty five books including poetry, nonfiction, essays and children's stories. His most recent books include The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories and Grandpa Lolo's Navajo Saddle Blanket.

 

January 24:  Readings by Brinn Colenda, author of a triology of spy thrillers including The Cochabamba Conspiracy and Michael McGarrity, author of thirteen crime novels including best seller Hard Country.  

 

January 31:  Author Lara Santoro will

Allegra Huston

read from her newest novel The Boy and screenplay writer and memoirist Allegra Huston will read from her latest screenplay Love Child.

  

$6 Harwood Alliance Members & SOMOS Members; $8 non-members

 
HARWOOD MUSEUM ALLIANCE

Happy 2013!    In the stillness of the softly 

falling snow I pause to reflect on 2012 and to think of my resolutions for the coming year.  Perhaps your list includes the inclination to participate in activities which o

Alliance President
Judy Crouch

ffer the possibility of having new experiences, making new friends or fulfilling the desire to "give back" something to the community of Taos.  If so, the Harwood Museum Alliance Board would like to encourage you to become a member of the museum''s Volunteer Team.  Volunteers help with events, assist staff with various projects and compose the Education Department's docent program.  For more information about becoming a Harwood Museum volunteer, please contact the museum at volunteer@harwoodmuseum.org.  

 

At a December 13 fundraising event, the Alliance Board presented the Harwood Museum's Victor Goler Collection Acquisition Committee a check for $5,000. These funds are to be used as part of the $70,000 purchase price for 46 of Gustavo Victor Goler's Spanish Market award-winning Santos from long time Goler family friend and collector Al Walker. Currently the Goler Collection is on exhibition in the Hispanic Traditions Gallery on the second level of the museum.  If you have an interest in contributing funds to help make this important work become a permanent collection of the Harwood Museum of Art, please call 575-758-9826 x116. 

 

Sincerely,

Judy Crouch, President

Harwood Museum Alliance Board 

AGNES MARTIN GALLERY YOGA
 
Wed., Jan. 9, 16, 23 and 30, 8:30-10 a.m. 
A special meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with certified instructor Jayne
Schell in the Agnes Martin Gallery.  Open to all levels, yoga mats provided.  $8 Harwood Alliance Members (Alliance Members may purchase a class card of 8 classes for $40), non-members $10 drop-in fee.  If UNM-Taos is on a 2-hour delay or snow day, this program is cancelled.   

Harwood Museum of Art Ski Special 

 
Bring your lift ticket or season pass from any New Mexico Ski Resort and receive either 20% off museum admission (one discount per lift ticket) or 10% off any item in the Harwood Museum of Art Museum Store. (Films and special performances are not included).
 
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FROM THE DIRECTOR
Susan Longhenry  
Susan Longhenry

 

Happy New Year from the Harwood Museum of Art!   2013 marks the Harwood's 90th anniversary, and we're starting this auspicious year with a terrific array of arts experiences.

We love to bring you high-definition, surround-sound screenings of ballet productions from around the world - and this month is no exception!  Escape the January blues by immersing yourself this Saturday, January 5 in the Bolshoi Ballet's La Sylphide. 
  I know that you'll enjoy this classic fairy tale ballet, which tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a beautiful but untouchable fairy creature. I'm also excited about our January 11 screening of a documentary exploring acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson, and the January 13 concert by Celtic harp player Patrick Ball.  Last but not least, you'll probably see me with my seven-year old son on January 26, hearing all about that "kisso on lippo" during the Loren Kahn Puppet & Object Theatre's production of Floppo.

 

Happy New Year and best wishes to all! 

 

   





IN THE ARTHUR BELL AUDITORIUM 

 

Saturday, January 5, 7 p.m.

LA Sylphide FROM THE Bolshoi Ballet  

La Sylphide
La Sylphide is one of the world's oldest surviving Romantic ballets, dating to August Bournonville's 1836 version.  The version presented today has been adapted by choreographer Johan Kobborg, and gleams anew at the Bolshoi Ballet. In La Sylphide, the human realm of a small Scottish community - evoked by traditional folk songs in Herman L�venskiold's score - meets the spiritual when James, a classic Romantic hero, is utterly bewitched by a beautiful sylph whom he is unable to touch. $12 Alliance Members; $15 non-members; $8 children under 12.

 

Friday, January 11, 7 p.m.   

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters  

This film explores the work of acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson,who has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life - moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes as much inspiration from his own dreams and fantasies as he does from the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson's imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape; for example, his inimitable Six Feet Under ads and Yo La Tengo album art. Shot over a decade with unprecedented access, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters beautifully bares the artist's process - which is as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves.

 

Sunday, January 13, 2 p.m. 

Patrick Ball in concert:  

Celtic Harp and St

Patrick Ball

ory  

Patrick Ball is one of the premier Celtic harp players in the world and a captivating

spoken word artist. He has recorded nine instrumental and three spoken word albums, which have sold well over a half million copies. In addition, Ball has written and currently performs two acclaimed solo musical theater pieces: O'Carolan's Farewell to Music, which brings to the stage the legendary life, the turbulent times and the glorious music of Ireland's most celebrated and beloved musician, Turlough O'Carolan, and The Fine Beauty of the Island, a musical journey to Ireland's legendary Blasket Islands in search of a deeply haunting tune and the vanished islanders who played it. Patrick also presents an ensemble performance, The Flame of Love, a spoken word and Early Music retelling of the greatest of medieval legends, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult.  $12 Alliance Members; $15 non-members.

 

Saturday, January 26, 11 a.m. 
Loren Kahn Puppet & Object Theatre: Floppo
Floppo

The Harwood is pleased to collaborate with the Loren Kahn Puppet & Object Theater for a free presentation of Floppo, created and performed by Loren Kahn. Floppo, a hand puppet show, is an adaptation of The Frog and The Princess. Floppo arrives and presents a dilemma: he looks like a frog on the outside, but inside he is a prince. What he needs is just a little "kisso on lippo," so he waits for that to happen.  The first kiss, from the audience, does not work; it is followed by the kiss of a spider, then a mouse, then a fox/cat, until the appearance of Freeeeeeeda the female frog.  Please join us for this free performance, recommended for all ages.

  

All films and performances are held in the state-of-the-art Arthur Bell Auditorium, equipped with a surround-sound audio system and high-definition video projection.    

 

Film tickets $8 for Harwood Alliance Members;
$10 non-members, unless otherwise noted.  
Tickets are available at the museum's admissions desk. 
http://www.harwoodmuseum.org/events         575-758-9826.

Please consider including the Harwood Museum of Art in your will or estate plan

Was your New Year's resolution to complete or update your will? Use our free online will planner to gather the information your attorney will need to create or update a will. 

Harwood Museum of Art Development Director Juniper Manley is available to answer any questions you may have. Juniper can be reached at 575-758-9826, ext. 116. 


HOMESCHOOL ART
  
Monday, January 28, 10-11:30 am
Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center

Homeschool families are invited to a special monthly artKids Oli 2 program exploring the Harwood's diverse collections and exhibitions.  The
free program includes gallery experiences and related art-making activities in the Museum's inspiring Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center. Although this program is designed for children aged 4-10, all ages
are welcome.  Parent participation is required.   
     

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The Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux Street, Taos, NM, 87571, 575.758.9826 info@harwoodmuseum.org, www.harwoodmuseum.org