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 IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR
GIVE LOCAL AMERICA!
Next Tuesday, May 6, join us for
24 hours of giving
12 am to 12 pm
Did you know that almost 40% of The Harwood Museum of Art's annual operating budget relies on support from donors just like you? Next week we're joining communities across the nation in a day of community giving. Together we will generate support that will allow the Museum to continue to engage our community in learning, art, and creativity.
Click here to learn more. PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO SUPPORT THE HARWOOD
We will be sharing real-time updates on giving on May 6 via Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks for your support of a creative world!
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CHILDREN'S ART - UNRESTRAINED
Exhibition and Silent Auction
May 3-11
Opening Celebration
Saturday, May 3, 4-7 pm
Please join The Harwood Museum of Art, participating artists and 203 Fine Art for a benefit exhibition featuring a selection of artwork created by pre-K through 5th grade students from Taos' Enos Garcia Elementary School. The wonderfully uninhibited and youthful artwork is offered for sale via silent auction, with all proceeds benefiting the Harwood's Art in the Schools program.
The exhibition and sale will also feature affordable artwork by a select group of notable Taos artists including Eric Andrews, Randall LaGro, Shaun Richel, Tom Dixon, Sandra Lerner, Tom Rogers, Lucy Herman, Peter Parks and Mark Strong. 25% of those sales will also benefit Art in the Schools.
The exhibition will be hung on Friday, May 2 for preview and early bidding, Contact us at [email protected] for more information.
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HELP US MEET THE CHALLENGE OF BRINGING THE SANTOS HOME!
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Gustavo Victor Goler, Our Lady of All Nations
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We're thrilled to announce that we have been offered a challenge grant of $2,500 during this final stretch of the campaign to acquire a remarkable collection of forty-six bultos, santos and prints by Gustavo Victor Goler.
Once this challenge grant is met, we will only have $6,000 more to raise in order to close this $70,000 campaign. Each supporter who contributes $1,000 or more will receive a signed print by Gustavo Victor Goler, and will be invited to a private studio tour and reception in June.
PLEASE HELP US BRING THE GUSTAVO VICTOR GOLER COLLECTION HOME TO THE HARWOOD!
Contact Director of Development Juniper Manley at [email protected] or 575.758.9826 to learn how you can help us complete this campaign!
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EXHIBITION OPENING EVENTS
DIRECTOR'S CIRCLES & VIP
EXHIBITION PREVIEW RECEPTION
Thursday, May 15, 5-7 pm
MUSEUM ADMISSION FREE! Saturday, May 17, 10 am-5 pm
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Cody Riddle,
Zippity Do Da
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Museum admission will be free for all visitors in celebration of the exhibitions opening today: Highlights from the Gus Foster Collection and John Connell: Cheap Secrets of the East.
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FROM THE DIRECTOR
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Susan Longhenry
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Dear Friends, Happy May! We're starting the month off right with a weekend full of activity, including this Saturday's exhibition and auction at 203 Fine Art benefiting the Harwood's Art in the Schools program. Then, next Tuesday, we're participating in the Give �Grande! day of giving. The Chair of the Harwood's Governing Board is partially matching donations from all first-time donors to the Harwood Museum of Art, so there's no better time to become part of the Harwood's success story. Last but definitely not least, this month we're opening two dynamic exhibitions: Highlights from the Gus Foster Collection and John Connell: Cheap Secrets of the East. I hope to celebrate with many of you during the opening events on May 15, 16 and 17. See you at the Harwood! 
Susan Longhenry
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IN THE ARTHUR BELL AUDITORIUM
KEEP IT SPINNING
Friday, May 2, 11 am & 6 pm
Saturday, May 3, 1 pm & 6 pm
$8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members*
$10 General Admission
$5 Youth under 18
are bringing original musical theater to Taos through an after-school theater program called
Keep it Spinning. Throughout the six-week program, students have the opportunity to create original songs; learn the basics of acting, directing and stagecraft; and - most importantly - work collaboratively on a creative adventure. The project culminates in a weekend of performances in The Harwood Museum of Art's Arthur Bell Auditorium. This production is directed by Rich Greywolf, Scott Tennant, and Adam Overley, with musical direction by Laura Bulkin.
DOCUMENTARY FILM: AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
Friday, May 9, 7 pm
Saturday, May 10, 1 pm
$6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members*
$8 General Admission
Official Selection - 2013 New York Film Festival
 Of the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. She mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike - her elongated, race-horse physique became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. The muse to both Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, they loved her as a dancer and as a woman. Balanchine married her, and Robbins created his famous Afternoon of a Faun for Tanny. She was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. At age 27, Tanny was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.
FILM: ERNEST AND CELESTINE
Friday, May 23, 7 pm
Saturday May 24, 1 pm
$6 Harwood Museum Alliance Members*
& 18 and under
$8 General Admission
 Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer - and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn't long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities.
Fresh from standing ovations at Cannes and Toronto, Ernest & Celestine joyfully leaps across genres and influences to capture the kinetic, limitless possibilities of animated storytelling. Like a gorgeous watercolor painting brought to life, a constantly shifting pastel color palette bursts and drips across the screen, while wonderful storytelling and brilliant comic timing draw up influences as varied as Buster Keaton, Bug Bunny and the outlaw romanticism of Bonnie and Clyde. Bringing it all together is the on-screen chemistry between the two lead characters - a flowing, tender and playful rapport that will put a smile on your face and make your heart grow. Based on the classic Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, Ernest & Celestine won France's C�sar Award for Best Animated Feature, and has been nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 86th Academy Awards�.
*Individual level and higher
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AGNES MARTIN GALLERY YOGA
Wednesdays, 8:30-10 am
May 7, 14, 21, and 28
 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 OPENING MAY 17
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 upcoming exhibitions.
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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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