Head and Hands of Blessed Virgin Mary, Hispano-Philippine

Reserve now and join us for our exciting

FIRST SUMMER HOME TOUR!!

Saturday, May 12, 2012

10:00AM – 12:00PM

Home of Joseph & Reine Moure

Joe and Reine are frequently told that their home looks like a museum inside, so we thought it would be a spectacular kick-off for our exciting 2012 Summer Home Tour schedule.  Recently several of Joe’s colonial ivories were featured in our museum’s “New Mexico Collects” exhibit (see photo above), so this is your chance to see the rest of his ivory collection.  It is the variety of their extensive collections that is so impressive and interesting, whether it be Spanish Colonial, contemporary Santos, early California impressionist paintings, Native American pottery or a dash of Victorian, these knowledgeable collectors have something for every taste with a lot of history and background to accompany their pieces.  Their exquisite taste exhibited in their various collections is something not to be missed!

Mark your calendars now for the special home/art tours planned for this summer.  The home tours were a big hit last year and we think we have some wonderful surprises for you this year.  The tours are restricted to members-only and will be filled on a first come, first reserved basis.    All of the homes are in the Santa Fe area except for the September tour, when we visit a lovely home with a wonderful art collection in Albuquerque.  Tickets are $35 per person per home tour.  To reserve and pay for attendance, please call Janella Marsh at 505-982-2226, Ext. 103.

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Flamenco's Next Generation, Maria Benitez Institute for Spanish Arts, Spanish Market, Photo by Gene Peach

Following is a Detailed Schedule of Events During Spanish Market Week:

Celebrate

Spanish Market Week!

July 23 – 29, 2012 

As you make plans to come to Spanish Market this summer, do consider coming earlier in the week to enjoy the multitude of special events and cultural opportunities offered in Santa Fe.  Many organizations have special programs and performances going on during Spanish Market Week, with interests for all ages.  To plan your week, check the calendar below!  For more detailed information and tickets, click on the websites.

Open Daily

10 am to 5 pm        Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill Open Daily – Superb exhibitions, fine gift shop, More information: www.spanishcolonial.org

Monday, July 23rd

Daily             Road Scholars Program ~ “Jewish Connections in New Mexico” and “A Day with Georgia O’Keefe & More!”  www.roadscholar.org

Morning        Summer Academy Classics Program ~ St. John’s College. www.sjca.edu

6:00 pm        “Music of the Masters: Bartók / Schubert / Dohnányi” – Santa Fe Chamber Music at St. Francis Auditorium, NM Museum of Art.  www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com

Tuesday, July 24th

Morning        Summer Classics Program ~ St. John’s College.  www.sjca.edu

Noon             “Creative Dialogues” – music of Magnus Lindberg & composition students; Santa Fe Chamber Music at St. Francis Auditorium, NM Museum of Art www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com

Afternoon      Spanish/Latin Film – The Screen.  www.thescreensf.com

4:00 pm        Talk & Collection Tour, Robin Gavin, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art  www.spanishcolonial.org

Wednesday, July 25th

Morning        Summer Classics Program ~ St. John’s College www.sjca.edu

10:00 am      Cooking class with Chef Johnny Vee, Las Cosas Kitchen

“New Mexico Favorites”  www.lascosascooking.com

Noon             Luncheon with the Artists— at Bishop’s Lodge     www.spanishcolonial.org.  Reservations essential.  505-982-2226

Afternoon      Spanish/Latin Film – The Screen – www.thescreensf.com

5:30 pm        Legends Santa Fe– exhibition of work and talk by Nicholas Herrera. www.legendssantafe.com

8:30 pm        Santa Fe Opera:  King Roger  — www.santafeopera.org

Thursday, July 26th

Morning        Summer Academy Classics Program ~ St. John’s College  www.sjca.edu

10:00 am      Cooking class with Chef Johnny Vee, Las Cosas Kitchen,  “Spanish Influence on New Mexico’s Norteno Cookery” www.lascosascooking.com

Noon             Work of Magnus Lindberg & Schubert, Santa Fe Chamber Music at St. Francis Auditorium, NM Museum of Art.  www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com

Afternoon      Spanish Latin Film – The Screen. www.thescreensf.com

4:30 pm       Lecture by John Schaefer ~ Peyton Wright Gallery,  “Collecting Spanish Colonial Art in the 21^st Century”

6:00 pm        “Barber / Beethoven / Knussen / Bartók”, Santa Fe Chamber Music at St. Francis Auditorium, NM Museum of Art. www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com

Friday, July 27th

9:30 am      Breakfast reception, Patina Gallery. Art lecture on Spanish jeweler, Enric Majoral, www.patina-gallery.com

Morning        Summer Academy Classics Program ~ St. John’s College www.sjca.edu

Afternoon      Spanish/Latin Film – The Screen www.thescreensf.com

5:00-7:00      Opening Reception, Legends Santa Fe.  Spanish Market Group Show www.legendssantafe.com

7:00 pm       Preview of Spanish Market artists – Santa Fe Convention Center, Members Only Preview Party; 6:00PM-7:00PM, Sponsors Only Preview Reception, (Memberships in the Spanish Colonial Arts Society begin at $40.00.)  www.spanishcolonial.org

8:30 pm        Santa Fe Opera:  Maometto.  www.santafeopera.org

Saturday, July 28th

8:00-5:00    61^nd Annual Traditional Spanish Market on the Plaza

10:00 am      Youth Awards

5:00 pm       “Bach, Ysaye & Paganini” Santa Fe Chamber Music at St. Francis Auditorium, NM Museum of Art. www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com

8:00 pm       Santa Fe Desert Chorale ~ “Celebrating the Centenary” ~ at the New Mexico History Museum.  3 new choral works celebrating the three ethnic groups that contribute to New Mexico’s distinctive cultural richness and diversity.  Tickets and information: www.DesertChorale.org

8:30 pm        Santa Fe Opera:  Arabella.  www.santafeopera.org

Sunday, July 29th

8:00 am      Spanish Market Mass    St. Francis Basilica

9:30-5:00    61^nd Annual Traditional Spanish Market on the Plaza

6:00 pm      “Mozart, Berg & Brahms” Santa Fe Chamber Music at St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art.  www.SantaFeChamberMusic.com

Spanish Market Week Events Schedule, CLICK and PRINT

This lecture will focus on Dr. Rafael Lucio Najera and Jose Bernardo Couto in Mexico, and Richard Lamborn and Sylvester Baxter in the U.S., the earliest collectors/curators/writers about colonial art.

Lecture is FREE to members; $5 Museum Admission to non-members.  (Memberships in the Spanish Colonial Arts Society begin at $40.)  Lecture will be held at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo On Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM  87505.  Seating is limited, so please call 505-982-2226 for reservations.

Raymond Hernández-Durán, Ph.D.

Raymond (Ray) Hernández-Durán, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico, received his Ph.D. in Art History in 2005 from The University of Chicago where he worked under Thomas B.F. Cummins, who, since 2002, has been Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art, and Chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, at Harvard University.

Although trained in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Latin American art, Professor Hernández-Durán’s specialization is Colonial Ibero-American art and architecture with an emphasis in 18^th and 19^th century New Spain-Mexico. Additional areas of expertise include Aztec art, African art, Baroque art, and Museum Studies.

Among the awards he has been granted are included:

-Two Fulbright Hays Fellowships, one as an M.A. student for study in Nigeria, West Africa, and the second as a Ph.D. student for dissertation research in Mexico City

-Two Title VI F.L.A.S. fellowships for foreign language study in Brazilian Portuguese and Nigerian Yoruba

-And a MacArthur Fellowship, which supported his work as a curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago

-Most recently, he was awarded a $15,000.00 Office of the Provost Post-Doctoral Fellowship to support ongoing research directed at completing his two book projects and he has been nominated for the 2012–2014 Presidential Teaching Fellowship, UNM’s highest honor to recognize the best instructors at the university

Among his publications are included:

Articles, such as:

-”Modern Museum Practice in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: The Academy of San Carlos and la antigua escuela mexicana,” published in the peer reviewed journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Spring 2010)

-And “The Politics of Colonial Canon Formation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” forthcoming in the peer reviewed journal, Nineteenth Century Studies: The Interdisciplinary Journal of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.

Book chapters, include:

-       “El encuentro de Cortés y Moctezuma: The Betrothal of Two Worlds in Eighteenth-Century New Spain,” published in Women and Art in Early Modern Latin America, edited by Kellen Kee McIntyre and Richard L. Phillips, published by Brill Press, The Netherlands, in 2007

-       And “The Language of Line in Late Eighteenth-Century New Spain: The Calligraphic Equestrian Portrait of Viceroy, Bernardo de Gálvez (1796),” forthcoming in The Visual Culture of Classicism in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Latin America, edited by Paul Barrett Niell and Stacie G. Widdifield to be published by University of New Mexico Press

His two current book projects include:

-       The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (forthcoming from Ashgate Press in Britain)

-       And A Historiography of Colonial Art in Mexico, ca. 1855–1934 (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press

Professor Hernández-Durán joined the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico in 2003, first, as an instructor and then, in 2005, as an assistant professor. He was awarded tenure last summer 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor. Since arriving at UNM, he has helped found the Colonial Studies Working Group and the “Interdisciplinary Methods in Colonial Studies” colloquium, and start the graduate student journal, Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, produced by graduate students in the Department of Art and Art History. He has lectured extensively in New Mexico and at various U.S. venues. He has lectured previously in Santa Fe but tonight, he will be presenting a talk titled: “The Politics of Making History: Four Early Collectors of Colonial Mexican Art.”

Martha Egan, Lecture
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
3:00 PM

Martha is an independent art historian, author, collector, and owner of Pachamama Gallery in Sante Fe.  In this lecture, she will speak on collectors and collecting in conjunction with “New Mexico Collects: Private Treasures” (current main exhibit on view through March 12th in the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art). 

Martha is the author of two well-known scholarly books on colonial art, Milagros: Votive Offerings from the Americas and Relicarios: Devotional Miniatures from the Americas.

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Her latest novel, An Apricot Year: A Novel is now available.  

(Click here for more information about her new book.)

Lecture is free for members and $5 for non-members.  Lecture will be held at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe.    Seating is limited, so please call 505-982-2226 to reserve.

   

New Deal Art: CCC Furniture and Tinwork Exhibit Now Open!

EXHIBIT On View Through September 30th, 2012

The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art and Bandelier National Monument present an exhibit showcasing the work of CCC-trained craftsmen, including furniture, furnishings, and decorative tin.  From 1933-1940, CCC workers at Bandelier National Monument built and furnished 31 buildings.  The furniture and tinwork created for these buildings illustrate an extraordinary combination of traditional and early 20^th century design and demonstrate the expertise of the craftsmen.  Some 24 pieces of furniture and 15 pieces of decorative tin are exhibited along with photos of CCC woodworkers, measured drawings of the pieces, and the names of many of those who were enrollees at the Bandelier camp.

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed Emergency Conservation Work legislation to put the many unemployed of the country to work.  Thousands of New Mexicans, destitute from the Depression and a historically cash-poor economy, were able to take advantage of this program, later known as the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), owing to New Mexico’s recent Statehood.  Not only was the training given the many young men in CCC camps life-altering, but the Federal government helped to validate the traditional arts by incorporating them into its programs.  These Federal programs served to sustain and revitalize the traditional arts of Hispano New Mexico, and their legacy is still apparent today.

Click here for a good summary of information about the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

The “New Deal Art: CCC Furniture and Tinwork” exhibit has been designated a We the People project by the New Mexico Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Programs for the exhibition, including tours, a lecture series and symposium, are funded in part by a grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo On Museum Hill, Santa Fe, New Mexico  87505, 505-982-2226

Marie Romero Cash, Lecture
“Personal Shrines and Home Altars in Northern New Mexico”
Monday, February 20th, 2012
4:00 PM

The Spanish Colonial Arts Society presents Marie Romero Cash, an award winning Spanish Market artist who juried into Market in 1975, and the author of children and adult books including  “Tortilla Chronicles-Growing up in Santa Fe” and “Santos: Enduring Images of Northern New Mexican Village Churches”.  She comes from a rich tradition of art and culture and has been honored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities and Women in the Arts.  She will take us on a journey through the living rooms of women in New Mexico and relate the personal stories surrounding each shrine along with a slide presentation.  THIS LECTURE IS FREE FOR EVERYONE.  Lecture will be held at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe.  Call 505-982-2226 to reserve.

Members Only Opening Reception will be held on Friday, January 27th from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.

Artwork from the following Spanish Market Artists will be presented in the exhibit:

Javier Lorenzo Blea,
Kevin Burgess de Chávez,
Christine Montaño Carey,
J. D. Damron y Valdes de Martinez,
Martha Varoz Ewing,
Cristina Hernández Feldewert,
Richard Gabriel, Jr., Michael E. Griego,
Eugenio Gurulé, Fred Ray López,
Gregory D. Lucero, Verne L. Lucero,
Jimmy Madrid, Nicolás Madrid,
Juan D. Martínez, Jr., Justin Gallegos Mayrant,
Cleo Romero, Jason Younis y Delgado

“Heart’s Desire” a Tinwork Workshop with Kevin Burgess de Chavez

This class will include a brief history of New Mexico Tin Work along with a description of the tools and techniques.

A tin heart ornament will be the first project to get to know your materials and then the main project will be a 4 x6 hanging frame.

Kevin Burgess de Chavez is a native New Mexican whose rich heritage has heavily influenced this self-taught artist in the traditional styles and techniques of new mexican metal work. His family tree traces back to Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (his great great Grandfather) who is referred to as the first new mexican santero and  cartographer of New Mexico. One can understand why art is in his blood.  While living in Germany and Spain and traveling throughout Europe, he absorbed many ideas from  those cultures which also expanded his artistic world.  His work can go beyond the traditional and explore many facets of metal work.  His sculptures and metal work have been shown at various  galleries and museums including: the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, Go Mama Go in Washington D.C., the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art,  along with:  Amapola  and Sumner & Dene  Galleries in Albuquerque, NM,  the Museum Stores in Santa Fe, NM and the Gallery Store at the Albuquerque Museum.   Kevin was named one of Albuquerque’s Local Treasures in 2008.

Awards

2005 – Purchase Award, New Mexico Arts And Crafts Fair

2005 – Third Place Sculpture, Expo New Mexico

2005 – Purchase Award, Expo New Mexico

2006 – Best Of Show, New Mexico Arts And Crafts Fair

2007 – Second Place, Traditional Tinwork, Spanish Colonial Arts Society

2007 – First Place, Tin, Expo New Mexico,

2008 – kevin was named “Albuquerque Local Treasure”

2008 – Boeckman Award for “New Directions”

2009 – Boekman Award for “New Directions”

2011 – Fourth Place, Fiesta de Colores

Honorable Mention Spanish Colonial Arts Society

Cost of the class is $75 for Society members and $90 for non-members.  (Cost includes a $15 materials fee.)  Proceeds benefit the educational programs at the Museum.  All participants need to bring a brown bag lunch.  Class size is limited to 12.  Your payment confirms your space is reserved.  Workshop is held at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo On Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM.  Please call 505-982-2226 to reserve.

Document Box, Tin, Glass and Paper, by Kevin Burgess de Chávez

Ninth Annual

!Celebración!
2012
Tapas! Vino! Chocolate!
It’s a Party!

Saturday
March 10th, 2012
4:30 PM
Lumpkins Ballroom
La Fonda Hotel
Santa Fe, NM

AUCTION ITEM DONATIONS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ACCEPTED AT
THE MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART
750 CAMINO LEJO ON MUSEUM HILL IN SANTA FE. 

FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 505-982-2226

Click here for a printable version of the invitation for Celebracion 2012.

Gustavo Victor Goler, Lecture
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
3:00 PM
Victor will speak about the making of his sculpture, “The Ascension” currently on exhibit in “New Mexico Collects: Private Treasures.”  Lecture is free for members and $5 for non-members. Lecture will be held at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe.  Please call 505-982-2226 to reserve.