Events for Sep. 2018

In her lecture, Lisa Stone, curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will ponder German connections to American tramp art, and variations on the urge to carve and assemble, including Junkerhaus in Germany, Karl Junker’s astonishingly original tramp art-esque architectural wonder that is carved inside and out.

Sunday, September 9, 2pm

Auditorium at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Museum Hill, Santa Fe

By museum admission

In conjunction with the Museum of International Folk Art exhibition No Idle Hands: The Myths & Meanings of Tramp Art, closing September 16

Join six Museum Hill partners for a traditional Matanza pig roast, Native dances, storytelling, bead sale and exchange, hands‑on activities, artist demonstrations, refreshments, and more!

Admission and all hands-on activities are FREE for New Mexico residents and guests alike.

10:00 AM • Sky City Buffalo Elk Dance Group (Acoma Pueblo). Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (WMAI)

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM • Tin Workshop. Get a brief introduction to working with tin and make your own ornament. Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts (MOSCA)

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM • Nature Crafts in the garden. Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG)

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM • Matanza Traditional Pig Roast. $12 per person, $6 children under 7 years of age. Join the Spanish Colonial Arts Society for this annual social ritual that celebrates the harvest of meat and the bonds of immediate and extended families. MOSCA

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM • Gerardo’s Andale Food Truck. WMAI

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM • Docent Tours. Take a tour through the garden, ask questions and learn how to incorporate elements of the landscaping into your own backyard. SFBG

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM • Community Chalk Mural. SFBG

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM • Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale - FINAL DAY. Laboratory of Anthropology

11:00 AM • Children’s Crafts Session. WMAI

12:00 PM • Sky City Buffalo Elk Dance Group (Acoma Pueblo). WMAI

12:00 to 4:00 PM • Hollis Chitto (Choctaw / Laguna / Isleta Pueblo), a rising star in the beading world, offers a Beading Demonstration. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC)

12:00 to 4:00 PM • Bead It! Activity. Design and create your own unique bead with polymer clay. MIAC

12:00 to 4:00 PM • Community Bead Exchange. Have fun going through your collection, price the beads you want to exchange, and trade with others. Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA)

1:00 PM • The Earth Turns: Autumnal Equinox with Flute by Glee Briggs. Join the Labyrinth Resource Group of Santa Fe for a special labyrinth walk. Milner Plaza

1:00 PM • INNASTATE. Santa Fe’s contemporary reggae band performs on Milner Plaza. MIAC

1:00 to 2:00 PM • Marie Romero Cash, author and a Master of Lifetime Achievement in the Spanish Market, reads from several of her books about the art and culture of the Southwest, including excerpts from her Jemimah Hodge Mystery Series. MOSCA

1:00 to 3:00 PM • Melanie Yazzie (Navajo) presents a Printmaking Demonstration. WMAI

1:00 to 4:00 PM • Community Seed Exchange. Bring seeds you want to trade or share with others and learn about how seeds have moved around the world through trade. SFBG

1:30 PM • Storyteller Joe Hayes. WMAI

2:00 PM • Children’s Crafts Session. WMAI

2:00 PM • Acoma Rain Dance Group performs on Milner Plaza. MIAC

3:00 PM • INNASTATE. Santa Fe’s contemporary reggae band performs on Milner Plaza. MIAC

3:00 to 4:00 PM • Salsa Dancing Presentation with Darrin Visarraga. Beginners’ class of salsa dancers perform routines then invite audience participation. MOSCA

3:30 PM • Storyteller Joe Hayes. WMAI

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