|
Filter:
Categories
|
Month 
Agenda Posterboard
-
Sep1Exhibit: San Ysidro Labrador @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtSaturday: Sep 1 – Jan 1 (all day)
San Ysidro Labrador / St. Isidore the Farmer
The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art recently installed an exhibition of 21 images—including bultos, retablos, a straw appliqué panel and a painting on tin—of this popular Saint. Most of the images of San Ysidro created in New Mexico depict him with oxen and an angel guiding the plow. He is most frequently depicted wearing the basic red-and-blue bayeta (lightweight wool) uniform of the frontier soldier and settler, with a broad-brimmed hat and knee-length breeches, holding a spade, ox goad or crescent-shaped hocking knife (used to cut the hamstring of an oxen to bring it down for butchering). The artworks in this exhibit illustrate the range in style used to depict San Ysidro from the early 19th century to today. From the towering Saint standing amidst the stories of his life and miracles by Catherine Robles Shaw, to the intricate straw appliqué scenes by Diana Moya Lujan, each artist finds a unique perspective to illustrate their personal connection to this Saint. While James Córdova emphasizes the Saint’s importance to agriculture through delicately carved and painted cornstalks, Belarmino Esquibel focuses on his piety, the Saint’s head bent in prayer. The patron saint of Madrid and of farmers, San Ysidro was born to a poor family in 1070. Isidore was canonized as San Ysidro Labrador in 1622 for the many miracles associated with him. His wife, to whom miracles are also attributed, was canonized soon after as Santa María de la Cabeza. Devotion to San Ysidro spread to the Americas, and in New Mexico, the Saint became an important part of local lore and agrarian life.
Free admission for members. Click here to apply for Museum Membership now. $5 Museum admission.
Click here for more information about San Isidro and the exhibit.
Categories: Exhibit -
Nov17Exhibit: Metal and Mud, Out of the Fire! through Aug @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtSaturday: Nov 17 – Aug 31 (all day)
“Metal and Mud”
Out of the Fire!
(Ironwork and Pottery)
Exhibit on View in the Spanish Market Gallery!November 17, 2012 – August, 2013
The daily lives of the early Spanish settlers in New Mexico were made easier by the manipulation of metal and mud into tools and objects. Out of the fire, iron and micaceous clay were transformed into multiple functional items. Today’s Spanish Market artists continue to work with traditional methods and materials, bringing to them a fresh creativity and aesthetic sensibility.
Iron working was introduced to the Southwest with the Spanish colonization of the Upper Rio Grande Valley. At least two blacksmiths appear to have accompanied Juan de Oñate in 1598, and along with them came tools for making domestic and agricultural items as well as for the production of weapons and armor. The blacksmith was prominent in the development of the Spanish borderland provinces as iron transformed farming and animal husbandry, hunting and warfare. However, raw material was scarce. Spain imposed heavy restrictions on the production of iron in its colonies in an effort to protect its own iron industry. As a result, many implements were wrought or worked from recycled pieces.
While Spanish settlers undoubtedly relied upon their Native American neighbors to provide decorated pottery for their households, cooking and utilitarian pots were most likely produced at home. Micaceous clay seems to have been the most popular clay based on finds at colonial archaeological sites, and is still found in the hills of northern New Mexico. It is the mica or aluminum silicate in the clay that gives the pottery its unique “shimmering” appearance. The techniques used for making micaceous pottery were learned from the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest. The pottery was constructed by hand-coiling, scraping, and smoothing. Firing was traditionally done in pits. Vegetal or mineral pigments sometimes adorned the pottery, which was used for carrying water, drinking atole, or cooking beans and stews.
Only a few Spanish Market artists have taken on the challenge of working in iron and micaceous clay. Using traditional techniques of hand-coiling and hand-forging, today’s artists create not only traditional objects, but are experimenting with new forms, stretching and manipulating the media. Typically working independently, these artists also join forces from time to time to produce collaborative works of exceptional quality in metal and mud.
The exhibition, Metal and Mud, showcases the work of 10 Spanish Market artists working in the media of iron and micaceous clay. Some veterans of many years of the Market and others relative newcomers, each artist brings their individual expertise and interpretation to the material. The result is an exhibition of diverse and exciting new work that challenges us to reassess our views of traditional art.
The exhibition opens to members of the Society on Friday, November 16, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. It opens to the public on Saturday, November 17th with gallery talks by the artists between 2:00pm and 4:00pm.
Artists participating in the exhibition:
Pottery: Debbie Carrillo, Annette Morfin, Adán Eduardo Ortega, Jacobo de la Serna, Therese Tohtsoni-Prudencio, Camilla Trujillo
Ironworkers: Steven Lucero, Larry Madrid, Ralph Sena, René Zamora
Categories: Exhibit -
Mar2Exhibit: Stations of the Cross through Aug @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtSaturday: Mar 2 – Aug 31 (all day)
Please note: The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art is closed Mondays from Labor Day to Memorial Day.
Categories: Exhibit -
May30Exhibit: E Boyd, Collecting New Mexico @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtThursday: May 30 – Jan 1 (all day)
Elizabeth Boyd White (1903 – 1974), known as “E Boyd,” was hired by the Museum of New Mexico in 1951 as the first curator of its newly established Department of Spanish Colonial Art. In 1952, Boyd revitalized the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. The objects in this room were collected by Boyd during her twenty-two years as curator of the Society.
Her impressive 1200 piece collection was the root of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. Her zest for life was matched by her thorough defining work in not only documenting and collecting, but analyzing the works of rural Spanish Colonial New Mexico.
Categories: Exhibit -
Jun21Exhibit: Window On Lima: Beltrán-Kropp Collection through 2014 @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtFriday: Jun 21 – May 27 (all day)
Window on Lima:
the Beltrán-Kropp Collection from PeruExhibit Opening June 21, 2013 – May 27, 2014
Virgin Mary painting in gilt frame
Silver Panel of Abraham, Isaac & Angel
The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Announces
St. Paul in Gilt Frame with Mirror Tiles
The Beltrán-Kropp Art Collection from Peru
Exhibit Opening
June 22, 2013- May 27, 2014
Silver Set by Elkington Co., London
Madonna & Child
Reverse-painted glass
Frame
Reverse-painted glass, wood, paper
Cajamarca, PeruThe Spanish Colonial Arts Society announces the largest permanent gift of Peruvian art in its 88-year history. An exhibition of the gift items will open to the public June 22, 2013. The exhibition will include a permanent gift of 40 objects from Peru, as well as a number of objects from other countries collected by Pedro Gerardo Beltrán Espantoso, Peru’s Ambassador to the United States (1944-45) and Prime Minister of Peru (1959-1961), and his wife, Miriam Kropp Beltrán.
The donated art includes such important pieces as a rare reverse-painted glass frame from Cajamarca, Peru, an exquisite silver panel of Abraham, Isaac & Angel, and a table with marquetry of incised ivory & tortoise shell. Among the other items donated to the Society include the entire set of Beltrán custom-made and engraved cobalt blue and gold dinner service for 46 people.
“These pieces have never before been seen by the general public,” said Donna Pedace, Director of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. “We look forward to sharing these wonderful additions to the colonial art collection owned by the Society. The exhibition will allow us to serve our 87-year old mission to preserve, promote and educate the public about the art of the Spanish Colonies, and also to highlight the extraordinary lives of Pedro and Miriam Beltrán.”
Pedro Beltrán was a descendent of a Spanish conquistador and a member of the Peruvian aristocracy. Educated at the London School of Economics (1918), Beltrán returned to Peru and was involved in business and politics before becoming the owner and publisher of the once-prominent newspaper, La Prensa (1934-1974).
Pedro and Miriam Beltrán
Beltrán was the Minister of Finance and Prime Minister of Peru from 1959-1961. He received honorary degrees from Yale, Harvard, and the University of California, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia. He was also awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. The Inter-American Press Society honored him as “Hero of Freedom of the Press” for his opposition to the Odria dictatorship in the 1950s.
The Beltráns moved from Peru in 1974 and relocated to Miriam’s family home on Russian Hill in San Francisco. They continued to travel the world and spent considerable time in Europe until Pedro’s death in 1979.
“This will help highlight the unique attributes and qualities of New Mexico’s Spanish Colonial art in the context of our role in the Spanish Colonial Empire, worldwide,” said John Schaefer, owner of Peyton Wright Gallery, one of the country’s largest dealers in Spanish Colonial Art. “Spanish Colonial art is the last great unexplored, undeveloped frontier in art in the world.”
Categories: Exhibit -
Jun26Arts Alive: Pottery with Camilla Trujillo @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtWednesday: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Chocolate Pot, Micaceous Clay, Paint and Iron, by Camilla Trujillo and René Zamora, Santa Cruz, NM and Santa Fe, NM, 2010
Arts Alive, a series of free, walk-in art workshops for children and adults ages 3 – 103. Time is 10:00AM – 2:00PM. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Workshops are held on the Museum patio.
To schedule groups of six or more, please call Linda Muzio, 505-982-2226, Ext. 121.
Categories: Workshop -
Jul3Arts Alive: Retablo with José Armijo @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtWednesday: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
José Armijo, Photo by Christopher Riedel
Arts Alive is a series of free, walk-in art workshops for children and adults ages 3 – 103. Time is 10:00AM – 2:00PM. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Workshops are held on the Museum patio.
To schedule groups of six or more, please call Linda Muzio, 505-982-2226, Ext. 121.
Categories: Workshop -
Jul10Arts Alive: Tinwork with Richard Gabriel, Jr. @ Museum of Spanish Colonial ArtWednesday: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Tinwork by Richard Gabriel, Jr., Photo by Billie Frank
Arts Alive is a series of free, walk-in art workshops for children and adults ages 3 – 103. Time is 10:00AM – 2:00PM. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Workshops are held on the Museum patio.
To schedule groups of six or more, please call Linda Muzio, 505-982-2226, Ext. 121.
Categories: Workshop -
Jul23Luncheon with the Artists @ Hilton Santa Fe Historic PlazaTuesday: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join us for the Luncheon with the Artists, for the 62nd Annual Traditional Spanish Market.
Tables of 10 guests have the opportunity to have lunch with a Spanish Market artist and learn more about the artist and their art forms.
This year’s luncheon will be held at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza 100 Sandoval St Santa Fe, NM 87501.
12PM-2PM
Cost is $55 per person or $500 per table. Reservations required (505) 982-2226.
Categories: Event -
Jul24Wednesday: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Sponsored by the Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
TICKETS: roybmartinez@gmail.com
Get your tickets and please join us as we honor our 62nd Annual Spanish Market Artists! The Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will be hosting this fabulous reception with live Flamenco entertainment where you can meet the artists and enjoy light hor dourves!
Categories: Event -
Jul25Concert with AnnaMaria Cardinalli, Loretto Chapel @ Loretto ChapelThursday: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Anna Maria Cardinalli, classical flamenco guitarist and accomplished scholar, will share her passion for the richness of Latino culture at the Loretto Chapel, Thursday, July 25, 2013. Seats are $40 per person. This is a 62nd Annual Traditional Spanish Market Week event.
Very Limited Seating available. Call (505) 982-2226 ext 111 for reservations.
Cardinalli is an 18th-generation native of Santa Fe, NM, and considers herself an original link to Spanish colonial culture. She recorded her first album at age 15. Shortly after, she successfully launched her own label, Musica Mundial Productions. Her musical talent has gained her international acclaim, with performances at the Kennedy Center for the prince of Spain and with the Santa Fe Opera. Cardinalli also provided vocals for a Kanye West and Malik Yusef album, titled “Good Morning, Good Night.” She was awarded the Mother Theresa Award, which recognizes the achievements of “those who beautify the world,” for her artistic efforts.
Cardinalli is a professor of intelligence and national security studies at American Military University. She completed her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude at St. Mary’s College of California at age 18; her master’s degree at St. John’s College at 20; and became the youngest person to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame at the age of 25.
http://www.annamaria.ws/
Following article written by Tim Talley, Willimantic, Conn. - Anna Maria Cardinalli-Padilla, an internationally known classical flamenco guitarist and opera singer… is of Spanish and Sicilian descent, and captures her proud heritage in her musical style. She is an 18th-generation Santa Fean, an original link to the Spanish colonial culture. Cardinalli-Padilla recorded her first album and successfully launched her own label, Musica Mundial Productions at the age 15. Her musical talents have brought her international recognition as she has performed at the Kennedy Center, for the Prince of Spain and with the Santa Fe Opera. Cardinalli-Padilla has also provided vocals for an album featuring Kanye West and John Legend, “Good Morning Good Night.” She was awarded the Mother Theresa Award for her artistic efforts.Cardinalli-Padilla has a great passion for her country. During her doctoral dissertation, Cardinalli-Padilla became an expert in the cultural relationships between Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Following the events of Sept. 11, 2001, she used her expertise to assist U.S. government efforts to improve cultural understanding and aid in combating terrorism. Cardinalli-Padilla also served as a senior social scientist with the U.S. Army on an Army Human Terrain Team, where she was embedded with the U.S. Marines, and has travelled to Iraq and Afghanistan while working for the FBI. She has received the Joint Service Civilian Commendation Medal and the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Global War on Terrorism for her service to her country. Cardinalli-Padilla’s interaction with Afghan communities was filmed by National Geographic Explorer for its opening piece next season. Cardinalli-Padilla is currently a professor of Intelligence and National Security Studies at American Military University. She completed her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude at St. Mary’s College of California at age 18. At 20, she completed her master’s degree at St. John’s College in New Mexico. At age 25, Cardinalli-Padilla also became the youngest person, 25, to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
Categories: Event -
Jul26Member’s Only Preview Party @ Santa Fe Convention CenterFriday: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Members Only Preview Party
Friday, July 26th,
7:00PM-9:00PM
with special Sponsors Only Party from 6:00PM-7:00PM
at the Santa Fe Convention Center, 201 West Marcy Street in Santa Fe, NM
Categories: Event -
Jul2762nd Annual Traditional Spanish Market July 27-28 @ On the Plaza, Santa FeSaturday: Jul 27 – Jul 28 (all day)
62nd Annual
Traditional Spanish Market!
July 26, 27 and 28, 2013
Saturday and Sunday, On the Plaza in Santa Fe, NM
Friday, July 26th, 7:00PM-9:00PM at the Santa Fe Convention Center
Spanish Market is free to the public.
(Members Only Preview Party takes place on Friday, July 26th, 7:00PM-9:00PM, with special Sponsors Only Party from 6:00PM-7:00PM
at the Santa Fe Convention Center, 201 West Marcy Street in Santa Fe, NM)
Categories: Event -
Jul27Santa Fe School of Cooking-Spanish Market Class @ Santa Fe School of CookingSaturday: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Come celebrate Spanish Market with James Campbell Caruso, the chef/owner of La Boca one of the hottest restaurants in Santa Fe.
Categories: Event -
Jul27Paella Demonstration and Tasting, July 28 @ The Spanish Table @ The Spanish TableSaturday: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
THE SPANISH TABLE
Saturday, July 28
11:00AM
Paella demonstration and tasting.
Free to the public
Categories: Event
Subscribe in Google Calendar