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ART EXPLORATION WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS
Kids and families, plan to make the Harwood part of your summer vacation! Art Exploration workshops meet 10 a.m.-noon, and are geared towards children aged six through twelve. Children under the age of six may participate if accompanied by a parent.
Puppets Perform with
Cristina Masoliver
Tuesday, July 8 - Saturday, July 12
10 a.m.- noon Tuesday - Friday Performance 1 p.m. Saturday
 Join us for a workshop with one of New Mexico's most magnificent and creative artists - Cristina Masoliver! Cristina will work with children to create from scratch a multi-media puppet performance based on the children's book Dogs' Night. The book recounts that, o nce a year, the dogs in the paintings in London's National Gallery have an exciting night out. For a few hours, they escape their gilded frames and are free to run up and down the grand staircases, chase each other around the marble halls, and explore the other exhibitions. But four of the dogs overindulge and sleepily climb back into the wrong paintings! Workshop participants will create puppets, design and build a small stage set, work on a script, and practice a performance that will will be presented at 1 p.m. on Saturday July 12.
My Kid Could Do That!
Tuesday, July 22 - Friday, July 25
10 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday
Reception 2 p.m. on July 25
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Cody Riddle
Zippity Do Da
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Ever heard the words "My Kid Could Do That!" while in a gallery exhibiting contemporary art? We have! So we'll be exploring that question during this Art Exploration workshop. Working with the Harwood's educators, children will visit the Highlights from the Gus Foster Collection exhibition, discuss select works from that exhibition, and choose several of those pieces to reinterpret - through creating works inspired by those pieces - in the art studio. The workshop will culminate with an exhibition in the Sidney & Gladys Smith Children's Art Gallery of paintings, drawings and prints created during the program.
Tuition for each Art Exploration workshop: $80 Harwood Museum Alliance Members (at a family level membership & above), $100 General Admission. Need-based scholarships are available and made possible by the Fasken Youth Arts Outreach and Scholarship Fund. Sibling Discounts available. Space is limited, advanced registration is required and class may be cancelled due to low enrollment. To register, or for more information, contact [email protected]
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FILM SCREENING: TEEN FILMMAKERS
Tuesday, July 8, 5-7 p.m.
Free
 Join us in the Harwood's Arthur Bell Auditorium to view and celebrate student films created during the recent Art Exploration for Teens: Film-Making with Steve Gootgeld.
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HARWOOD AT THE TAOS FARMERS MARKET
Saturday, July 19
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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DOCENT TOURS OF HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE GUS FOSTER COLLECTION
Sundays, 1 p.m.
July 6, 13, 20, 27
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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SAVE THE DATE - ART ON TAP!
Saturday, August 2
Noon-4 p.m.
Taos Mesa Brewing
Join us at Taos Mesa Brewing 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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FREE VIP PASS - ART SANTA FE
 Thanks to the Harwood's partnership with ART Santa Fe, members of the Harwood Museum of Art's Director's Circles and the Harwood Museum Alliance are offered free VIP passes to ART Santa Fe, which will take place July 10-13 at the Santa Fe Convention Center. The pass provides exclusive access to:
The art fair: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.
PLUS:
VIP opening events on Thursday, July 10
- Museum VIP Preview 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
- Opening Night Gala Vernissage - 5 - 8 p.m.
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Art in America party at Zane Bennett Gallery on Friday, July 11, 5:30 p.m.
Tickets to the Keynote address by James Meyer, Associate Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, may be purchased for $10. The talk will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 12.
Go here for more information about ART Santa Fe. Contact Harwood Museum of Art Director of Development Juniper Manley at [email protected] or via telephone at 575.758.9826, x 116 to reserve your VIP pass. |
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 July! The Harwood will be open on July 4, and we'd love to share the holiday with you. It's the perfect time to experience the remarkable Highlights from the Gus Foster Collection exhibition and the powerful John Connell: Cheap Secrets of the East exhibition. Next Monday we'll install a new set of works on paper from the Gus Foster Collection in the George E. Foster, Jr. Gallery of Prints, Drawings and Photographs - so this weekend will be your last chance to see the initial installation.
Looking ahead, this month brings a dynamic array of programming including Sacred Geometry, a multi-media extravaganza presented by the Runway Vigilantes. We love collaborating with this fantastic group of artists, and can't wait to experience their latest creation!
Have a wonderful holiday weekend. See you at the Harwood!
Susan Longhenry
Director
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IN THE ARTHUR BELL AUDITORIUM
The Runway Vigilantes Present
Sacred Geometry
Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12
7:00 pm
 The fabulous Runway Vigilantes, who brought the 1920s magic to the Harwood's 90th anniversary party, are at it again! Do not miss Sacred Geometry, a multi-media event inspired in part by work in the Highlights from the Gus Foster Collection exhibition. The theme of Sacred Geometry will be celebrated in works of art created through an exploration of the Fibonacci sequence, fractals, singularity, spirals, chaos, harmony and cymatics. Sacred Geometry will feature work by
- Tatyana de Pavloff- costume design, body paint
- Nina Silfverberg- costume design
- Elizabeth Haidle- illustration/animation video art
- Matteo Ladolce- mathematical equations and illustrations
- Brigita Lacovara- yoga choreography
- Lizz Passman- hoop choreography
- Matt Thomas- costume design, video
- Peter Walker- video editing, engineering and projection
- Oliver Knight- sound engineering
- Celina Porter- fashion design
- Sophie Lenoir- Photography
- Sasha vom Dorp- video
$20 Harwood Museum Alliance members*
$25 General Admission
Advance tickets are recommended and available at the Harwood Museum of Art's admissions desk, or by calling 575.758.9826.
Film: Jodorowsky's Dune
Friday, July 18 - 7 p.m.
 In 1975 Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films El Topo and The Holy Mountain launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet. Starring Jodorowsky's own 12 year old son Brontis alongside Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, and featuring music by Pink Floyd and art by some of the most provocative talents of the era - including HR Gigerand and Jean 'Moebius' Giraud - Jodorowsky's adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel Dune was poised to change cinema forever.Directed by Frank Pavich, English, 1 hour 30 minutes, rated PG-13.
$6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members*
$8 General Admission
Lecture: Walter Ufer: Drawn to Taos
Thomas Smith, Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum
Saturday, July 19, 3 p.m.
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Thomas Smith
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The Harwood Museum of Art is proud to partner with the Couse Foundation on this lecture exploring the work of Taos Society of Artists Member Walter Ufer. This program is part of The Virginia and Ernest Leavitt Summer Lecture Series, which is generously funded by Barbara and Gary DeVane.
$6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members*
$8 General Admission
*Individual level and above
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SOMOS SUMMER WRITERS SERIES
Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.
July 16, 23 & 30
The Harwood Museum of Art continues its collaboration with SOMOS, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, with a dynamic Summer Writers Series.
July 16 - BK Loren, Frank Huyler, and Summer Wood
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BK Loren is the author of the award winning novel Theft and the nonfiction collection, Animal, Mineral, Radical: A Flock of Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food. Her national award-winning short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Orion Magazine, Parabola, the Berkeley Fiction Review, OnEarth (NRDC), the Best Spiritual Writing Anthologies of 2004 and 2012, and many others. Frank Huyler is the author of the nonfiction collection The Blood of Strangers, two novels--The Laws of Invisible Things and Right of Thirst as well as the forthcoming Byliner Originals Boxing and Leukemia and The Castaway. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of publications including The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Columbia Journal among others. Summer Wood is the author of Raising Wrecker, which received the 2012 WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction and is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Her first novel, Arroyo, was published by Chronicle Books.
July 23 - Janis Stout.
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Janis Stout is the editor of Selected Letters of Willa Cather and nine scholarly books, including Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World and a forthcoming book about Katherine Anne Porter, South by Southwest. She has also edited two volumes on Cather, including A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather.
July 30 - John Nichols and Sean Murphy  | | John Nichols |
John Nichols and Sean Murphy will read, play their guitars and sing. Nichols is the author of over twenty books including The Milagro Beanfield Wars and The Sterile Cuckoo. His iconic style and prose make him a sought after reader, interviewer and host of literary programs throughout the area. He has lived and written in Taos since 1969. Murphy is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and has been a Zen practitioner for over twenty years. Sean teaches creative writing, meditation, and literature for the University of New Mexico in Taos, as well as SMU-in-Taos campus at Ft. Burgwin and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
$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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AGNES MARTIN GALLERY YOGA
Wednesdays, 8:30-10 a.m.
July 9, 16, 23, 30
 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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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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