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The Harwood Museum of Art Newsletter

February 2013 

 

THE ART OF WINE
TONIGHT! Friday, Feb 1, 3:30-6 p.m.

The Harwood is thrilled to partner with the Taos Winter Wine Festival and the Great Chefs of Taos on this fundraising event celebrating the creative juxtaposition of art and wine.

Gruet Winery, Paul Dolan Winery, Vivac Winery, and Mathis Wines will offer

tastings while students from Taos High School's Culinary Arts Program serve artful hors d'oeuvres.  Guests

 will enjoy private behind-the-scenes tours of the Museum's state-of-the art collection storage area, and will have the opportunity to bid on treasures by renowned Taos artists including Mary Dolph Wood, Bea Mandelman, Peter Chinni, Barbara Latham and John DePuy during a silent auction.
 

$24 Alliance members, $30 non-members.
575-758-9826. 

EXHIBITIONS
 
A series of exhibitions opening this month tell the stories of some of Northern New Mexico's most interesting people.  Please join us for our opening celebrations on Friday, February 8:   
  • Director's Circles Preview, 4-5 p.m.
  • Alliance Members' Reception, 5-7 p.m.


Red Willow: Portraits of a Town
 

presents portraits of the many compelling historic and contemporary members of the Taos community. 

"With Red Willow: Portraits of a Town, we celebrate the heart of Northern New Mexico and the region's tri-cultures, "says Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Jina Brenneman. "The material for portraiture was, and is, plentiful."  

 

Eah-Ha-Wa (Eva Mirabal) and Jonathan Warm Day Coming explores the work of Taos Pueblo artists Eah-Ha-Wa (Eva Mirabal), one of the first American female cartoonists and a renowned muralist, and her son, the celebrated artist, storyteller and writer Jonathan Warm Day Coming.

Eli Levin: Social Realism and the Harwood Suite focuses on some of the iconic, dramatic illustrations that Levin created to depict Northern New Mexico.  The son of well-known author Meyer Levin and Mabel Schamp, scientist and dedicated communist, Levin was was influenced by the artistic movements of Social Realism and Regionalism and studied with painters Raphael Soyer and George Grosz. 
  

 

The Mandelman-Ribak Foundation Oral History Project originated in 1999 in collaboration 
John DePuy

with Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. For this installation, selected videotaped interviews will be looped on three flat screens. Interviewees include Larry Bell,  Malcolm Brown, Ron Cooper, John DePuy, Ted Egri, Rosa Ellis Clark, Dennis Hopper, Paul O'Connor, Robert Ray, Mildred Tolbert, Jenny Vincent and Jim Wagner. 

 

Taos Clay: Hank Saxe   

Hank Saxe & Jim Wagner

Hank Saxe has been a dominant figure in the Taos clay scene - having provided the means and technique for a better part of the anagama advent, an enigmatic process of clay that stems from a blend of wood kiln firing with erratic color and intricate texture compositions. Saxe is known for public art, primarily ceramic work that he produces for architecture. 

 
Curator's Wall:  Deborah Rael-Buckley                The Curator's Wall is reserved for imagination and the creative process.  Deborah Rael-Buckley has responded to this challenge by creating an installation based on the dimensions of this wall, keeping in mind the impact on the viewer. "Deborah took this challenge to new 'heights' utilizing the space with individual sculptures that span the length and height of the wall," states Jina Brenneman.  


http://www.harwoodmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming

THE MUSEUM STORE

  

  

Saturday, Feb 2, 12 to 2 p.m

SHOP & LEARN TRUNK SHOW

Free Reception with Jill Rounds  
 
Join us for a fun reception with multimedia artist Jill Rounds as she shares her techniques and inspirations.  She will be showing her fabulous art cards, t-shirts and jijibags. Her creations make the perfect Valentine's Day gifts!   Rounds has been making wearable art in Hawaii and Mexico using naturally hand dyed and silkscreened fabrics. /This pieces have evolved into a line of hand painted clothing sold in boutiques. Jijibags is her return to wearable design. .For more information please contact the Museum Store at 575-758-9826 x 102 or shop@harwoodmuseum.org.
HARWOOD MUSEUM ALLIANCE 

  

Please plan to attend
the Harwood Museum

Alliance President
Judy Crouch

Alliance Members' Only Opening Reception for the museum's spring exhibitions from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, February 8. Opening exhibitions include Red Willow: Portraits of a Town, a collection of portraits of historic and contemporary people of Taos, Eah-Ha-Wah (Eva Mirabal) and Jonathan Warm Day Coming, paintings of everyday life and experiences at Taos Pueblo,and Eli Levin, 22 prints presenting scenes of Northern New Mexico social commentary.  This is a great opportunity to invite your non-member friends to become Alliance members so that they, too, can enjoy these exhibitions and the festivities on opening night.

 

The Harwood Museum Alliance Board Membership Committee is in the process of initiating a campaign with the goal to increase total Alliance membership by 250 plus.  During this initiative, incentives will be offered to encourage new and renewing members.Do you have an interest in joining the membership committee and helping with the campaign?   

For information please call 575-758-9826 ext. 109 or contact development@harwoodmuseum.org .  If you prefer, you may pick up membership brochures at the museum and launch your own personal campaign by passing them to friends and acquaintances and encouraging them to become Alliance members.

 

Sincerely,

 

Judy Crouch, President

Harwood Museum Alliance Board

 

   

SOMOS WINTER WRITERS SERIES

 

Thursdays, Feb 7, 14, 21, 28, 7 p.m 

 

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


February 7
:  Readings by Sara Marie Ortiz. Ortiz is an Acoma Pueblo memoirist, spoken word poet, essayist, and Indigenous People's activist.  She has been the assistant coach of the Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Poetry team and author of Corpse Whale, a collection of poetry from the Inuit tradition.

 

February 14:   A Quartet of Writers: Jomo Chiteji, poet; Andrea Watson, poet; Linda Michel-Cassidy, short fiction; Jan Smith, memoirist. 

 

February 21: The 4th Annual Youth Writers Night with students from Taos High School, Chrysali School,  Vista Grande School and Taos Academy share poetry and prose.  The hosts will be their teachers  Francis Hahn(THS); Orion Cervio (Chrysalis); Ned Dougherty(Vista Grande) and Gail Denbow. The teachers will also read from their own writing.

 

February 28: Readings by David Mills, actor and writer performs Dreamweaver, the works of Langston Hughes spanning characters from the 1920s - 60s.

 

$6 Alliance Members & SOMOS Members; 

$8 non-members

 
JAZZ FANS, WE'RE LISTENING!
 
We've launched a brief online survey designed to help us learn more about our Jazz community's interests.  The multiple choice survey below includes 11 questions exploring your interest in Jazz in general and the Harwood's concerts in particular, and 6 questions focusing on demographics. The questions also explore your interest in a proposed Harwood Jazz Society, a support group that we're thinking about forming in order to keep the Harwood's Jazz programming sustainable (unfortunately, ticket revenue does not cover the costs of these wonderful concerts).  We'd be most grateful if you would go to this link and complete the survey: 

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K363WMR

Your answers are completely confidential - we have no way to trace them back to you - and your insights would really help us move forward with Jazz programming at the Harwood Museum of Art.
Please let us know if you have any questions about Jazz at the Harwood.   We hope to see you at the February 16 Bobby Shew concert! 

 

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART SKl 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).
 

FROM THE DIRECTOR
Susan Longhenry


February is an exciting and busy month at the
Harwood as we open four spectacular exhibitions celebrating Taos and Northern New Mexico.  We hope that you will join us for the opening receptions next Friday, February 8.

Tonight
we host the Art of Wine with tastings from four top wineries and 
hors d'oeuvres prepared and served by students in Taos High Schools' Culinary Arts Program. And as food and wine is the theme of this weekend in Taos, we're screening the great culinary film Step up to the Plate Saturday night in the Arthur Bell Auditorium.   

T
he February Shop & Learn Trunk Show opens tomorrow, Saturday, Feb 2 from 12 - 2 p.m. with a reception with artist Jill Rounds. Jill's fabulous art cards, t-shirts and jijibags make perfect Valentine's Day gifts!  Finally, please join us on Saturday, February 16 for what promises to be a very special evening of Jazz with Bobby Shew. I hope to see all of you throughout this Valentine month! 


Sincerely,
  

  

 

 

 

 

 

ARTHUR BELL AUDITORIUM
 
Saturday, February 2, 7 p.m.  FILM
STEP UP TO THE PLATE 
French chef Michel Bras, one of the most influential chefs in the world, has decided to hand over his renowned 3-Michelin-Star restaurant to his son S�bastien. Having worked with his father for 15 years, S�bastien is ready. But it's not easy to take over the family business when your father is a master in his field. Filmed in the gorgeous Aubrac region in the South of France, home to the Bras family for generations, Step Up To The Plate offers a rare glimpse into the Bras' culinary process while capturing one of the most closely watched transitions in haute cuisine. 

 

Saturday, Feb 9, 7 p.m. 

Sunday, Feb 10, 12:30 p.m. & 3 p.m. 

OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS BLITZ!

Animated, Live Action, & Documentaries 

In anticipation of the February 24 Academy Awards ceremony, the Harwood presents a weekend of 2013 Oscar-nominated short films. Animated shorts will be featured Saturday evening, with live action and documentary shorts screened on Sunday. Now it gets even better--for all you film lovers, we are offering a special discount if you purchase a ticket for all three events -  $18 Alliance members, $24 non-members.

 

Tuesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY LECTURE WITH 
DR. LLOYD KASPER 

The Harwood is proud to collaborate with Keystone Symposia  on  "The Gut, The Bugs and Our Bodies: The Role of Gut Commensal Bacteria and Human Disease." Dr. Kasper has authored over 175 research and clinical articles related to his research interests in immunology and his clinical expertise in multiple sclerosis.This is a free program.

 

Saturday, Feb 16, 7 p.m. 

BOBBY SHEW IN CONCERT

The Harwood Museum of Art is  honored

to bring one of the great jazz trumpet players of our time to Taos.  Trumpet-master Bobby Shew will perform with pianist Bob Fox, bassist Michael Glynn and drummer Cal Haines. This event is presented in collaboration with Victoria Rogers and Cal Haines. Shew is performing arrangements of ballads and a few swinging love songs especifically for this Valentine's weekend concert.  This concert is presented partially through generous support from the Historic Taos Inn.

$20 Alliance members, $25 non-members

  

Sunday, Feb 17, 3 p.m. 

GLOBAL ROOTS-NEW SHOOTS TRIO

IN CONCERT

Sandra Wong, Ross Martin, and Greg Harris come together in dynamic combinations of nyckelharpa/fiddle, guitar, and vibraphone/piano/Ghanaian gyil/world hand percussion to explore music from all corners of the globe, including their own compositions. Reaching into their individual roots of Classical, African, Bluegrass, Jazz, Scandinavian, Middle-eastern, Old-time American music and more, their arrangements honor each tradition while moving into new, unchartered territory. 

$12 Alliance members; $15 non-members

 

Friday, February 22, 7 p.m.  FILM 

TOM WOLFE: GET BACK TO BLOOD  

  

Few men have changed the course of American storytelling the way that author Tom Wolfe has. He revolutionized writing in the 1960s with creative non-fiction and new journalism, and perfected the reported novel with achievements like A Bonfire of the Vanities. But Wolfe has remained an elusive literary figure - until now. This Emerging Cinemas documentary, the only film ever made about Wolfe, chronicles how he conducted research in Miami for his upcoming novel, Back to Blood. It is not only a peek inside the creative process of a master artist, but a study in how a great American writer has persisted in his craft for half a century.  

   

Saturday, February 23, 7 p.m. FILM 

AN EVENING WITH KYLIAN/INGER/ WALERSKI-NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER  

World-famous choreographer Jiř� Kyli�n is a source of inspiration to many. For over 30 years he has been the artistic director and in-house choreographer of Nederlands Dans Theater, an elite group of dancers who are considered "the most balletic modern dancers in the world" (The Times). Don't miss this incredible evening of dance - The New York Times raves "If you see one live performance this year...Nederlands Dans Theater is the one to see."  An Emerging Cinemas film. 

$12 Alliance members; $15  non-members;

$8 children under 12

 

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

  

CHILDREN & FAMILIES

 

Saturday, Feb 9, 10-12 p.m.

VALENTINES DAY WORKSHOP

 

Join Harwood educators for a handmade Valentines art extravaganza! Create beautiful, artistic, mixed media Valentine's Day cards for your friends and family. Use a wide variety of materials -  the sky is the limit! Certain techniques will be shared. All ages encouraged to attend. 

 

Suggested donation $5/family

 

Monday, February 25, 10-11:30 am 
HOMESCHOOL ART  


Homeschool families are invited to a special monthly art 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.        

 

AGNES MARTIN GALLERY YOGA
  
Wed., Feb 6, 13, 20, 27, 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.   
GUSTAVO VICTOR GOLER COLLECTION

 

We are so pleased by the outpouring of community support to help the Harwood Museum of Art acquire the Gustavo

The Santo-meter!

Victor Goler collection. Since the lovely evening with Victor, Father Bill and many supporters in December, we have raised nearly half of the $70,000 needed to purchase this incredible 46-piece collection of bultos, retablos and lithographs that trace Goler's career since 1986 to present.   

 

WE ASK YOU TO HELP US
MEET THE CHALLENGE!  

We have been presented with a generous $10,000 challenge gift, and so we ask that you make a tax-deductible gift to help us raise the additional funds needed to make Taos and the Harwood Museum of Art the permanent home of this important collection.
 
Please contact Juniper Manley, Director of Development with any questions or to make a contribution.  Call 575-758-9826, ext. 116 or visit www.harwoodmuseum.org

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