Harwood museum of art
 The Harwood Museum of Art Newsletter

October 2013 

 

HARWOOD 90TH ANNIVERSARY

 

Roaring 1920s Party

Saturday, October 19, 8-11 p.m.

Old Martina's Hall


Feathered  headpieces? 
Check. Long strings of beads? Check. Spectator shoes, cloche hats, and Bakelite bangles? Check, check, check!

 

Join us at Old Martina's Hall for a swinging, speakeasy-style celebration of the Harwood Museum of Art's 90th anniversary. Dance to the sounds of Big Swing Theory while enjoying the 1920s-inspired style of the fabulous Runway Vigilantes. Then join some of Taos' leading artists in a rousing game of poker - a time-honored Taos tradition. The dance hall is perfect for flappers and their dates as they swing and jump to the great sounds of Big Swing Theory. Prizes will be given to guests costumed in the best Great Gatsby/1920s fashion.

 

The Runway Vigilantes
"We are thrilled to be working with the Runway Vigilantes, who will style this Roaring '20s event," says Dora Dillistone, 90th Anniversary Co-Chair.  
Mistress of Ceremonies Genevieve Oswald will oversee an evening filled with 1920s style and glamour, including choreographed dancing by Amber Vasquez, Megan Yacovich, Tuesday Faust and Casandra Romero; Runway Vigilantes Tatyana Di Pavloff and Shawna Yambire serving style as Cigarette Girls, and a costumed photo booth presented by Sparrow Photography. 

TICKETS: 

$28 Harwood Museum Alliance Members

$35 nonmembers
$150 VIP ticket includes 6-8 p.m
 

"Hotsy-Totsy" 1920s-themed dinner

 

Buy tickets online here: 

https://harwoodmuseum.eventbrite.com/


Tickets include 
one 1920s-themed drink, sweet and savory bites, dancing, and poker chips.  

 

LODGING SPONSORS:

The Historic Taos Inn offers a special 90th Anniversary Rate: $90 per person, based on double occupancy in a deluxe king, double bedded, or suite.  Museum Association of Taos tickets included, along with a complimentary bottle of Gruet Sparkling - chilled in room upon arrival.  A 90th Anniversary Lodging Special is also offered with La Posada de Taos Bed and Breakfast. 

90TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITIONS

THE PAINTINGS OF BURT HARWOOD
Mandelman-Ribak Gallery  This exhibition showcases the paintings of Elihu Burritt (Burt) Harwood (1855-1922).      
 
 
SINGLE LENS REFLEX:  
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BURT HARWOOD 
George E. Foster, Jr. Gallery of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs 
The Harwood Museum of Art's collection of Burt Harwood's photographs features his images of the daily life of Taos: parades, festivals, notable artists, Taos Pueblo, and the surrounding Pueblos.   
 
THE TAOS MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS HISTORIC ART COLLECTION 
Peter & Madeleine Martin Gallery     
 
Gallery: Curator's Wall

 

Please visit
to learn more about our current exhibitions.


HALLOWEEN AT THE HARWOOD
Free!
 
Ken Price,
Death Shrine I

Join us for our annual Halloween party inspired by Halloween and Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)! Come in costume, dress as your favorite DEAD artist, and find the many skeletons in the Harwood Museum of Art's collection.

The whole family will enjoy this day filled with music, storytelling, art making, and other fun activities. Death Shrine I, a Day of the Dead shrine by Ken Price, is sure to be a center point of the celebration. Throughout the Halloween party, kids and families can have their faces painted for the celebration and enjoy a sugar skull-making workshop.    
 

HOMESCHOOL ART 

Monday, October 28, 10 - 11:30 a.m.  

Homeschool families are invited to explore the Harwood's diverse collection, and then create art in the museum's inspiring Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center. This program is designed for kids 4 - 12, all ages welcome. Parent participation is required. Contact education@harwoodmuseum.org for more information.  
THE MUSEUM STORE       

  

Shop & Learn Trunk Show
Reception with 
Harnack and Lancaster
Saturday,  October 26 
12-2 p.m.
Free
  

We are pleased to welcome sculptors Barbara Harnack and Michael Lancaster to the Harwood Museum Store for the month of October.  
Meet the artists during a special reception on Saturday, October 26.   During the reception Harnack and Lancaster will read from their new book
The Boys From Baraboo, and share several one of a kind clay characters from the award-winning book.

 

For more information, please contact the Museum Store at 575-758-9826 x 102 or shop@harwoodmuseum.org.

  

AGNES MARTIN GALLERY YOGA
 Wednesdays, 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Oct 2, 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 Harwood Museum Alliance Members* (Alliance Members may also purchase a class card of 8 classes for $40), 
$10 nonmembers.
 
*Individual level and above
  


Last month the Harwood Museum of Art learned that it had been awarded $150,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program.  We'll use this funding to establish an on-site digital photo studio, photograph each of the more than 4,000 objects in our collection, and publish our collection catalogue through searchable web pages on our web site. The project will establish the technical infrastructure to support a new collection management database and integrated web-based publishing software, and will transfer current collection data to the new system. The database will enable the museum to more efficiently manage its collection, process and track loans, and organize in-depth exhibitions by collaborating with other regional museums using the same software. 

Stay tuned for progress reports from this exciting initiative!

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FROM THE DIRECTOR  
Susan Longhenry

Dear Friends,

 

Our newsletter is designed to keep you up to date on everything at the Harwood Museum of Art, and we have a lot in store for you in October! The much anticipated Roaring '20s party takes place Saturday, October 19 at Old Martina's Hall. Since 1923 the Harwood has served as a forum for our community's extraordinary artistic, cultural, and intellectual life.  Please help us celebrate that legacy with the party of the season!

 

As we are dazzled by the gorgeous fall foliage display in Taos, along with cooler days and longer nights, we bring you interesting and provocative films in the warmth of the Arthur Bell Auditorium.  This month we screen Herb & Dorothy 50x50, a newly released film about the Vogels, unassuming philanthropists who transformed the National Gallery of Art and other museums throughout the United States with their remarkable collection. We'll follow a screening of the documentary film Rooted Lands with a panel discussion during which New Mexico industry leaders will discuss the oil and gas industry - including the issues around fracking.   Last but not least, we celebrate this spookiest of seasons with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller The Birds.

 

Traditional Halloween trick-or-treating will take place October 31, but kids of all ages don't have to wait until then to start the fun. Our free Halloween at the Harwood event on Saturday, October 26 will celebrate all things spooky!  Following a visit through the museum's galleries, children, parents and friends will make their way to the Harwood's Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center for hands-on art projects creating larger than life skull masks, skeleton puppets, skeleton flip books and more. 

  

We hope to see you throughout the month of October. 
    

 Sincerely,  

  

 

 

 

 

 

Susan Longhenry 

  

IN THE ARTHUR BELL AUDITORIUM

 

Friday, Oct 11 & Sat, Oct 12, 7 p.m.  

Film - HERB & DOROTHY 50X50

Released September 13, 2013


The Harwood Museum of Art, in collaboration with Emerging Pictures, proudly presents the film Herb & Dorothy 50x50.   A follow-up to the documentary Herb & Dorothy, Herb & Dorothy 50x50 tells the story of a remarkable new chapter in the life of the legendary art collecting couple Herb and Dorothy Vogel, who gave their collection to the National Gallery of Art. The Gallery, the planned permanent home for the Vogel collection, found that the abundance of work was more than it could handle. And so a national gift project distributing 50 works to each of the 50 states was launched as a creative, and unprecedented solution.

 

Sunday, Oct 20, 2 p.m.  - Film
ROOTED LANDS-TIERRAS ARRAIGADAS

 

The Harwood Museum of Art, in collaboration 

with Nancy Dickenson and Renea Roberts, proudly presents the documentary Rooted Lands - Tierras Arraigadas, a documentary film about potential oil and gas development in New Mexico's Mora and San Miguel Counties. Mora County has recently gained national media attention for being the first county in the nation to ban fracking. Documentary producers Nancy Dickenson and Renea Roberts interview residents about their fears of how the oil and gas industry might negatively affect their land, culture and health. Of primary concern is the quality and quantity of water, the lifeblood of this special place.  The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Bruce Frederick, an attorney with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center; John Olivas, Chairman of the Mora County Commission; and the filmmakers. This event is free, and part of the Global Frackdown.


Thur, Oct 24 & Fri, Oct 25, 7 p.m.
Film - THE ACT OF KILLING

 

The Harwood Museum of Art, in collaboration with Emerging Pictures. presents The Act of Killing.  In this chilling and inventive documentary executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity that they inhabit. The Act of Killing is an unprecedented film that, according to The Los Angeles Times, "could well change how you view the documentary form."

 

Saturday, October 26, 7 p.m. - Lecture

1929, ANNO MIRABLIS, A YEAR OF ART WONDERS IN NEW MEXICO

Lecture by Lois Rudnick

 

Rebecca Strand and Georgia O'Keeffe

In celebration of its 90th anniversary, the Harwood Museum of Art proudly presents Lois Rudnick speaking on the topic of 1929, Anno Mirabilis, A Year of Art Wonders in New Mexico. 1929 was a banner year for Northern New Mexico's art colonies in Santa Fe and Taos. Visitors to the Mabel Dodge Luhan house that summer included Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Rebecca Strand, and Ansel Adams, all of whom were inspired to new heights of creativity by their embrace of land and cultures of northern New Mexico.  The lecture will focus on the synergy among the historical, cultural, and biographical factors that help to explain this extraordinary outburst of creativity.


Wed, Oct 30, 7 p.m. Film

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS   

 

The Harwood Museum of Art, in collaboration with Emerging Pictures, proudly presents Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece The Birds.

Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes." From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. 
Special anniversary pricing:  $5, 18 and under free.


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.   

 

Lecture and film tickets are $8 Alliance Members*, $10 nonmembers unless otherwise noted.

 

*Individual level and above.

 
Please c
all 575-758-9826 to purchase tickets, and to learn about our discount card.

 

 


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