Calendar

Dance Kaleidoscope presents performances featuring the exciting variety of
cross-cultural dance currently being taught and studied by adult dancers in Taos.
The first in a series, this concert is a testament to the thriving dance community
that resides and works among the many other art forms prevalent in our
creatively rich town. From flamenco, jazz and tap to Argentine tango, Aztec, Afro
fusion and many places in between, Dance Kaleidoscope will take you on an
unexpected journey into the myriad diverse patterns of the human form.
Arthur Bell Auditorium
Friday, February 3, 7:00pm
Saturday, February 4, 7:00pm
Sunday, February 5, 2:00pm
Tickets: $10 Harwood Alliance Members; $12 non-members and are available at
the Admission's desk beginning January 24.

The Harwood Museum presents a special meditative Jivamukti Yoga Program with certified instructor Jayne Schell in the Agnes Martin Gallery. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) non-members $10 drop in fee. Click here for more information. Reminder if TMS/UNM Taos are on a 2 hour delay or snow day this program is canceled.

Docent training has begun --  Are you interested in learning more about the Agnes Martin: Before the Grid exhibition which opens February 25th ? Do you like to share your knowledge with others? Are you comfortable with public speaking? Do you want be part of a fun, and exciting volunteer team ? If so, we welcome you to join us for our docent training. Click here for more information.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest Winters Writers Series presents  Up and Coming Writers: John Biscello, fiction; Jean-Marie Saporito, short story; Hannah Rappaport, memoir; Karen Baldwin, memoir; and Ned Dougherty, poetry. Tickets $6 Harwood Alliance Members & SOMOS Members; $8 Non-Members. Click here for  more information or visit www.somostaos.org

The Harwood in collaboration with Emerging Cinemas Presents the World Premiere of "Reach for the Stars"

This is a screening of the Oscars  Nominees for Animation

 Total running time approx. 80 minutes (including our “Highly Commended” titles, which are TBD)
Sunday/Dimanche – 10 minutes – English – Patrick Doyon
Every Sunday, it's the same old routine! The train clatters through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – 15 minutes – No Dialogue – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.
La Luna – 7 minutes – English – Enrico Casaroasa
A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work.
A Morning Stroll – 7 minutes – No Dialogue – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we're left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.
Wild Life – 13 minutes – English – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Calgary, 1909: an Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

Tickets are $8 for Alliance Members; $10 for Non-Members and are available at the Admission's Desk.

Join the Harwood educators for a valentines art extravaganza. Create handmade beautiful, artistic valentines for everyone in your class and family. Using a variety of materials, the sky is the limit. Certain techniques will be shared. All ages encouraged to attend. Suggested donation $5 per family - all funds will go towards the Harwood Art in the Schools program. Click here for more information.

Teo Morca, a dancer that has lived off and on in Taos since 1965 will share a bit of his non stop 60 years as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and author in an informal "Charla" or discussion and also show a recent documentary of his on going life as  a dance artist.

Teo, of Hungarian decent, is well known as a "Flamenco dancer", however his career has encompassed almost all forms of dance that he uses in his innovative choreographies."

Tickets are $8 for Members; $10 for Non-Members, and are available at the Admission's desk one month ahead of the talk. For more information click education@harwoodmuseum.org
 

The Harwood Museum presents a special meditative Jivamukti Yoga Program with certified instructor Jayne Schell in the Agnes Martin Gallery. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) non-members $10 drop in fee. Click here for more information. Reminder if TMS/UNM Taos are on a 2 hour delay or snow day this program is canceled.

Docent training has started --- please click here for more information.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest Winters Writers Series presents William deBuys' seven books include his most recent, "A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American West"
Tickets $6 Harwood Alliance Members & SOMOS Members; $8 Non-Members. Click here for more information or visit www.somostaos.org

"Freedom of Expression, the Media and Democracy"

One of America's most tireless and wide-ranging investigative
journalists, David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape,
both with his weekly radio show Alternative Radio-now in its 26th year-and
with his books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq
Ali, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His latest book of interviews with
Noam Chomsky is "How the World Works." Barsamian, who was deported from
India a few months ago due to his work on Kashmir and other revolts,
discusses world affairs, the state of journalism, censorship, the economic
crisis and global rebellions.

$10 donation, $8 Harwood Museum Alliance and Cultural Energy Members. $8 advance tickets at http://www.culturalenergy.org. Jointly presented by Cultural Energy, The Harwood Museum Museum of Art and the University of New Mexico.

The Harwood Museum of Art and Emerging Cinemas Presents award winning documentary "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975" A film by Göran Hugo Olsson.

The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The film combines music, startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years), and contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars.

At the end of the 1960’s, numerous Swedish journalists came to the US, drawn by stories of
urban unrest and revolution. Filming for close to a decade, they gained access to many of
the leaders of the Black Power movement – Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis,
and Eldridge Cleaver among them – capturing them in intimate moments and remarkably
unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection of 16mm film, peppered with
footage of Black Panther activities and B-roll images of black America, was found languishing
in the basement of Swedish Television. Director Göran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover
bring this mesmerizing footage to light and, integrating audio interviews with prominent
African-American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle – from Erykah
Badu to Harry Belafonte – craft a dynamic chronicle of the birth and life of a movement.

Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Museum Admissions Desk.  Click here for more information.

Art21 Access '12 is a global campaign providing access to contemporary art and artists through hundreds of public screenings and events celebrating the premiere of Season Six of the Peabody Award-winning television series, Art in the Twenty-First Century.

The Harwood is pleased to be hosting Art21 Access '12,  Season Six,  which includes 13 profiles of artists from four continents gathered into four one-hour thematic episodes: Change, Boundaries, History, and Balance. This season features pioneering artists who question tradition, create innovative forms, launch experimental media, explore natural phenomena, publicly test conceptual practices, and are amongst the most active and influential artists working today.

Change
Artists: Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, Catherine Opie

The artists presented within this episode engage in practices that provoke thinking about our changing world, whether social norms or political issues. Irreverent and sublime, these works range from protest pieces to photographic portraits to sculptural forms, and promote a reconsideration of the social dynamics and political processes present in the creation and presentation of an artwork.

Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members. Sundays are Free to Taos County Residents. Not a member or Resident ? then simply pay museum admission $10 and you are welcome to join us for this free screening. Click here for more information.

The Harwood Museum presents a special meditative Jivamukti Yoga Program with certified instructor Jayne Schell in the Agnes Martin Gallery. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) non-members $10 drop in fee. Click here for more information. Reminder if TMS/UNM Taos are on a 2 hour delay or snow day this program is canceled.

The Society of the Muse of the Southwest Winters Writers Series presents Phaedra Greewood reading selections on the theme of Women and Nature; Anita Rodriguez will read from her soon-to-be published cookbook - on the theme of Women and Culture. Tickets $6 Harwood Alliance Members & SOMOS Members; $8 Non-Members. Click here for more information or visit www.somostaos.org

Members of the Harwood Museum Alliance are invited to preview the exhibitions Agnes Martin:  Before the Grid and Agnes Martin:  Works on Paper during this reception.  Not an Alliance member?  Go here to join!

Members of the Harwood Museum of Art Director's Circles are invited to this champagne reception previewing the exhibitions Agnes Martin:  Before the Grid and Agnes Martin:  Works on Paper.  Go here to learn more about the Director's Circle program, and to join this wonderful group of museum supporters.

Homeschool families are invited to a special art program exploring the Harwood's diverse collection and creating art in the Museum's inspiring Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center the last monday of each month from 10-11:30am. This program is designed for kids 4 - 12, all ages welcome. Parent participation required. Click here for more information.

Gloria Steinem
With Budd Mishkin
Tue, Feb 28, 6 pm
Gloria Steinem talks about her travels in this and other countries as an organizer, lecturer and frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality and her work organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. In 1972, Gloria Steinem cofounded Ms. magazine, and in 1973, she became the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women. Her books include Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, among others. She is currently at work on Road to the Heart: America as if Everyone Mattered. Budd Mishkin is the host and reporter for NY1’s “One on 1 with BuddMishkin.” This event is part of the Ruth Stanton Illustrious Women Series, supported by The Ruth Stanton Foundation.

Tickets are $8 for Members; $10 for Non-Members, and are available at the Admission's Desk one month before the show.  For more information click education@harwoodmuseum.org

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information. Reminder if TMS/UNM Taos are on a 2 hour delay or snow day this program is canceled.

Docent training has started - please click here for more information.

The Harwood Museum and Taos Shortz is pleased to host Filmapalooza 2012

Filmapalooza is The 48 Hour Film Project's year-end screening and awards ceremony, featuring the winning films from all 100 48HFP cities from 5 continents. The award-winning national and international filmmakers are invited to converge in Taos for this finale event where they will compete for the honor of winning the International Best Film award. This is an event for the film makers. Award winning films will be screen in the Harwood's Arthur Bell Auditorium on Saturday April 28th at 7pm. For information on Taos Shortz Film Festival also taking place this weekend please visit www.taosshortz.com

Taos Artist, Abby Salsbury, brings her delightful ceramics and prints to the Harwood. The public is invited to a free reception on Saturday, March 3. Abby will be on hand from noon to 2 pm to talk about her techniques and demonstrate her style of whimsical work.

Art21 Access '12 is a global campaign providing access to contemporary art and artists through hundreds of public screenings and events celebrating the premiere of Season Six of the Peabody Award-winning television series, Art in the Twenty-First Century.

The Harwood is pleased to be hosting Art21 Access '12, Season Six, which includes 13 profiles of artists from four continents gathered into four one-hour thematic episodes: Change, Boundaries, History, and Balance. This season features pioneering artists who question tradition, create innovative forms, launch experimental media, explore natural phenomena, publicly test conceptual practices, and are amongst the most active and influential artists working today.

Boundaries
Artists: David Altmejd, assume vivid astro focus, Lynda Benglis, Tabaimo

Restrictions—both conceptual and physical—give the artists in this episode a platform to redefine structures and technologies, question traditions, challenge categorization, and defy established models of creating and displaying art. This episode brings together four artists whose works investigate limitations as a way to expand possibilities.

Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members. Sundays are Free to Taos County Residents. Not a member or Resident ? then simply pay museum admission $10 and you are welcome to join us for this free screening. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring  pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. Beginning July 2011 $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

Tina & Her Pony is Tina Collins and Quetzal Jordan. The two met in Asheville, North Carolina in 2009 and have brought an incredible new sound to the world of American Folk Music ever since. They have become a Taos favorite in the last two years, where they have spent their time making their debut album. Their rich harmonies, intricate and thoughtful melodies and songwriting, and unique instrumentation are quickly gaining them a lot of attention. Whether they are performing at Herbal conferences or sitting in a café, they undoubtedly stick out in a crowd with their infectious smiles and an honest, open stories of American simplicity. “I want my music to give that feeling…that is bittersweet, gorgeous and enlivening, like when you are sitting in an aspen grove in the fall, and you're watching the golden leaves tremor in a cold sky”-Quetzal Jordan.  Tina and Her Pony will release their full length, self-titled debut album, “Tina and Her Pony" along with their six track EP “Walkin’ in My Sleep”.

Tickets are $8 for Alliance Members; $10 for Non-Members and are availabe at the Admission's Desk. Check or Cash only. 

Join Gillian M. McCombs, Dean and Director of Central University Libraries at SMU for a lecture and presentation which explores how libraries have changed, how libraries remained the same, and the future challenges and opportunities. The Harwood Museum began as the first library for the Town of Taos, with fond memories still held my many Taosenos. $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 Non-Members. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum presents a special meditative Jivamukti Yoga Program with certified instructor Jayne Schell in the Agnes Martin Gallery. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) non-members $10 drop in fee. Click here for more information.

The Harwood Museum and Lorber Films present THE WOODMANS A film by C. Scott Willis, 2010, US, 82 minutes. Winner, Best New York Documentary – Tribeca Film Festival Offiical Selection, Silverdocs Documentary Festival.

Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the
pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and
Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/photographer), Francesca was a precocious
RISD graduate, who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in
1981, as a despondent 22-year-old, she committed suicide. The Woodmans beautifully
interweaves the young artist’s work (including experimental videos and diary passages) with
interviews with the parents who have nurtured her professional reputation these past 30 years,
while continuing to make art of their own in the face of tragedy. The film grapples with disturbing
issues, among them: parent-child competition and the toxic level of ambition that fuels the New
York art scene. Says Betty Woodman succinctly: “She’s the famous artist and we’re the famous
artist’s family.” (Karen Cooper, Film Forum)

Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Museum Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

Mosaics

Taking its title from Eric Ewazen’s multi-faceted Mosaics for flute, bassoon and marimba, TCMG creates a mosaic of music that also includes Jean-Philippe Rameau’s elegant Pièce de Clavecin #5 for flute, violin and keyboard; Somei Satoh’s ethereal Birds in Warped Time for violin and piano, Paul Hindemith’s quirky Stucke for cello and bassoon, and Camille Saint-Saens’s effervescent Piano Trio No. 1 in F Major, op. 18.

Elizabeth Baker, violin; Sally Guenther, cello; Nancy Laupheimer, flute; Toni Lipton Temple, bassoon; Angela Gabriel, marimba; Debra Ayers, piano

Advance tickets are $16 Alliance members; $20 nonmembers. Tickets at the door are $18 Alliance members, $22 nonmembers. Children under 16 are $12.

www.taoschambermusicgroup.org

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. Beginning July 2011 $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

March 22, 2012 marks the centennial of the birth of the internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin.    Help us celebrate Agnes' birthday with a fundraising event at the Ranchos Trading Post Cafe, Agnes' favorite Taos restaurant.  Sponsor tickets are $250, general tickets are $175, and tickets for Harwood Museum Alliance members are $150.  Proceeds will benefit the Harwood Museum Exhibition Endowment.  For more information and to purchase tickets, contact development@harwoodmuseum.org. 

In conjunction with the exhibition Agnes Martin: Before the Grid the Harwood presents a special evening with film maker Mary Lance and a screening of her  awarding winning documentary "Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World"

The documentary was shot over a period of four years, from 1998 through 2002, Agnes Martin's ninetieth year. Interviews with Martin are inter-cut with shots at work in her studio in Taos, New Mexico, with photographs and archival footage, and with images of her work from over five decades. It is a venue for Martin to speak about her work, her working methods, her life as an artist, and her views about the creative process. She also discusses her film, "Gabriel" and reads from her poetry and lectures. In keeping with Martin's chosen life of solitude, she alone appears in the documentary.

$8 Harwood Alliance Members; $10 non-members.

As part of the exhibition Agnes Martin: Before the Grid, the Harwood presents a day long lecture program featuring scholars and artists focusing on the life and work of Agnes Martin.

10am Ann Wilson - Agnes Martin & Coenties Slip 

11am Christina Rosenberger

Sylvan C. and Pamela C. Coleman Memorial Fellow The Metropolitan Museum of Art

‘Distinct and Authentic:’ Agnes Martin in 1954

“My efforts and interests are directed toward assisting in the establishment of American Art, distinct and authentic, that I feel that we, myself and other artists, will very soon succeed in making not only a successful but an acceptable representation of the expression of the American people.”

Agnes Martin: Before the Grid offers the welcome opportunity to examine Martin’s early artistic production, which has been largely overlooked in the critical literature on the artist. Many of the paintings in this exhibition are from 1954, including surrealist-inspired paintings such as Untitled, 1954, as well as works that place biomorphic shapes within an increasingly geometric compositional structure, such as Midwinter, 1954. Paying close attention to the physicality of each work, this talk will draw on research across the fields of art history and conservation to examine the dramatic stylistic changes that appear in Martin’s art during this formative year, as well as the aesthetic, intellectual and material conditions that shaped her artistic process. On the strength of these painting, Martin sought “assistance as an artist” from the Wurlitzer Foundation in November 1954, declaring her ambition to become an artist of national stature in her letter of application. Establishing the centrality of Martin’s 1954 paintings both as works of art and within Martin’s development as an artist, this talk will conclude by addressing Martin’s dislike—and, in some cases, destruction—of her early work and analyzing how Martin’s evolving pictorial vocabulary informs her later, celebrated grid paintings.

noon - 1:45 pm - Lunch Break - on your own 

2pm Becky Hunter and Michelle Rumney "Meeting Agnes Martin" 

Becky Hunter and Michelle Rumney have each “met” the abstract painter Agnes Martin; both have followed their own journey to Martin’s work and now these paths have crossed, facilitating new insights for both researchers.

Rumney, an artist, interviewed Martin and significant art world figures close to her, in 1994 in person, recording
these dialogues on tape. In 2010, (six years after Martin’s death), Hunter, an art historian, conducted in-depth
archival research on Martin’s correspondence and oral histories at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art
and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Until recently, much of Agnes Martin’s art historical reception was somewhat saccharine, with the artist’s written search for “a quality of repose” and “an untroubled mind” framing the debate and her official persona being that
of a quiet, contemplative, ‘good woman’ artist. Some of her later works, painted after Rumney met her, suggest there was a darker and more complex side to her practice as a whole and Hunter’s scrutiny of archived
correspondence reveals aspects of this other story, which is a much more unstable and fragmentary one.

During extensive research at ICA Philadelphia's archives on Agnes Martin's 1973 retrospective exhibition, Hunter uncovered an unpublished essay "The Desert" by collector Frank Kolbert. She would like to explore several of
his unorthodox assertions regarding Martin's grid drawings of the 1960s, for example that they fall into a Dada
lineage, and that they may be best interpreted through the existentialist literature of Albert Camus and John Paul Sartre, in particular, "No Exit". Provocatively, Martin wrote to Kolbert, in response to his essay, that his ideas were "very sensitive." Related to this, but perhaps more generally, she will talk through the ambivalence, or instability, of Martin's self-presentation at the time of retrospective, and the way it leads us to question the very objectivity of the archive itself.

Since meeting Hunter, Rumney has re-examined the thesis she wrote and also much of the available media
relating to Martin, including Mary Lance’s documentary (filmed after Rumney met her) and also Martin’s later
works. Through being invited to this unique Harwood event, and the “Before the Grid” exhibition, both Hunter
and Rumney will have the opportunity to see and discuss Martin’s earlier works in context with a lifetime’s work.
And through jointly re-examining the context in which Martin’s work is framed, both hope to get closer to the
‘real’ Agnes Martin.

Presentational Technique: ‘Live’ in front of the audience, Rumney will interview Hunter about her current research. The dialogue will be accompanied, and occasionally interrupted, by a multimedia presentation using audio and visuals drawn from Hunter’s research files. As the discussion develops, Rumney will introduce her own findings, including photographs and audio clips of her 1994 interviews, allowing Martin in some way to speak for herself.

This ‘performance’ hopes to question the limitations of various perspectives in viewing the artist’s work, to
acknowledge the powerful effect of “meeting” Martin on their own practices and also to explore the possibilities
for reaching new audiences for their research via collaborating in this unusual way.

3pm  Kristina Wilson - A Contribution to a Further Understanding of Agnes Martin

3:30 pm Panel led by Tiffany Bell, exhibition co-curator

Reception immediately follows.

Tickets $32 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $40 non-members. Seating limited. We anticipate this program will sell out. For ticket info  click here. Schedule subject to change, tickets non-refundable. More details to follow. Click here for more information or questions on this program or call 575 758 9826 x 105.

Agnes Martin’s only completed film, Gabriel, a historically unique work that both illuminates and complicates our understanding of the artist and her paintings. “My movie is about happiness, innocence, and beauty,” Martin observed, “It’s about this little boy who climbs a mountain and all the beautiful things he sees.” To those familiar with the luminous, tactile, exacting geometries of her paintings, Gabriel’s elusive style and structure may come as a surprise: the lack of logical continuity; the point of view that shifts between that of the boy and an unseen observer; the handheld camera that is rarely at rest, but instead feels its way across the landscape, meandering and contemplating. Whatever tension exists in Gabriel comes from transition, variation, and difference: between shore and land, snow and desert, silence and Bach, solidity and movement, abstraction and nature. 78 min.

The Harwood Museum's art enrichment program for Homeschoolers takes place the last monday of each month 10-11:30am. This free museum/studio based program includes a visit to the Harwood Museum complimented by an art making activity. Designed for kids 4 -12yrs. Click Here for more Information.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

The Harwood Museum and Emerging Cinemas presents "Le Corsaire" From the Bolshoi Ballet an encorce performance recorded on March 11, 2012. Libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier edited by Marius Petipa. Estimated running time: 215 minutes including 2 intermissions.

In the Bolshoi Ballet’s new staging of Le Corsaire, Petipa’s original choreography is revived and refreshed by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka to breathe new life into this production. The ballet follows Medora, a young Greek girl, and Conrad, a dashing pirate, as they journey through a tapestry of dramatic events, culminating in a shipwreck considered to be one of ballet’s most dazzling spectacles.

Tickets $12 Harwood Alliance Members; $10 non-members, Special Taos Youth Ballet Childrens Tickets $5. Available at Museum Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season Six, includes 13 profiles of artists from four continents gathered into four one-hour thematic episodes: Change, Boundaries, History, and Balance. This season features pioneering artists who question tradition, create innovative forms, launch experimental media, explore natural phenomena, publicly test conceptual practices, and are amongst the most active and influential artists working today.

Art21 Access '12 is a global campaign providing access to contemporary art and artists through hundreds of public screenings and events celebrating the premiere of Season Six of the Peabody Award-winning television series, Art in the Twenty-First Century.

The Harwood is pleased to host an Art21 Access event to broaden and inspire a diverse exchange of ideas and perspectives.

History
Artists: Marina Abramović, Mary Reid Kelley, Glenn Ligon
History features artists whose works mine personal and collective pasts to explore, among other topics, changing ideas of justice, equality, and tolerance. The episode highlights a wide range of artistic practices—painting, photography, performance—and presents the disparate ways artists foster connections between events past and the lived present.
 

Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members. Sundays are Free to Taos County Residents. Not a member or Resident ? then simply pay museum admission $10 and you are welcome to join us for this free screening. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. Beginning July 2011 $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

Please join us for the rescheduled Taos Book Arts Group Trunk Show on Saturday, April 7 from noon to 2 pm. Many members of the group have made new art from recycled and repurposed books. There will be a demonstration and lots of fun ideas for book enthusiasts.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

The Harwood Museum and Emerging Pictures present:

SLeeping Beauty by the Bolshoi Ballet

Choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich (1973) after Marius Petipa
Starring David Hallberg & Svetlana Zakharova
2 hrs 51 mins including one intermission
Part of Bolshoi Ballet, 2011-2012 Season

Tickets are $12 for Alliance Members; $15 for Non-Members; $8 for children 12 or under, available at the Admission's Desk one month before the screening

Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season Six, includes 13 profiles of artists from four continents gathered into four one-hour thematic episodes: Change, Boundaries, History, and Balance. This season features pioneering artists who question tradition, create innovative forms, launch experimental media, explore natural phenomena, publicly test conceptual practices, and are amongst the most active and influential artists working today.

Art21 Access '12 is a global campaign providing access to contemporary art and artists through hundreds of public screenings and events celebrating the premiere of Season Six of the Peabody Award-winning television series, Art in the Twenty-First Century.

The Harwood is pleased to host an Art21 Access event to broaden and inspire a diverse exchange of ideas and perspectives.

Balance
Artists: Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold, Sarah Sze

The artists included in this episode create ordered and prepared environments—whether abstract, pictorial, or sculptural—that realize equilibrium and define harmony through varied aesthetic sensibilities and artistic practices. Rigor, pattern, precision, and routine are distinguishing factors for these artists, providing formal constructs through which innovative forms arise.

Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members. Sundays are Free to Taos County Residents. Not a member or Resident ? then simply pay museum admission $10 and you are welcome to join us for this free screening. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

The Harwood Museum in collaboration with the Friends of Santa Fe Jazz present a concert with the Julian Pollack Trio, 7pm in the Arthur Bell Auditorium.

Enjoy pianist/composer/arranger Julian Waterfall Pollack, a classically-trained rising star in the jazz world, who has opened at the Blue Note for such illustrious figures as Chick Corea/Gary Burton and performing/recording with Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, and Miguel Zenon. He has performed at the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Center, as well as at numerous jazz venues and festivals around the world and is the artistic director of the Jazz series at the Mendocino Music Festival. His most recent cd is Infinite Playground.

Performing with Pollack is bassist Noah Garabedian, the recipient of a John Coltrane National Scholarship and was a 2007 finalist for the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz graduate program; and drummer Evan Hughes, who has collaborated with such figures as Joe Lovano, John Scofield, and George Garzone.

Tickets are $20 Harwood Alliance Members; $25 non-members and are available at the Museum Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

A film by Lynn Hershman Leeson

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.

$8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members; available at the Museum Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

Join Art Historian and Scholar Teresa Ebie for a lecture on artist Barbara Latham. Ebie is an independent scholar who focuses on the American Southwest. She first came to Taos in 1985 and has lived here since 1998. Teresa has been an adjunct faculty member in the Art Department at Northern New Mexico College in Espanola since 2003. Teresa has held positions as Curator of Paintings and Registrar for the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; Curator of Southwestern Art and Director of the Taos Summer Program for the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN; and Chief Curator of the El Paso Museum of Art. Teresa is co-author and co-curator of the landmark book and exhibition, Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950 (University of Notre Dame, 1998), as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and essays. She has served on the board of the Southwest Art History Council since 1992. Teresa has taught and lectured widely, and she is currently completing on a monograph on American artist Howard Cook.

More details on this lecture tba. Tickets $8 Harwood Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Museum Admissions Desk.

Join us for the Best of Filmapalooza 2012. More tba.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

Homeschool families are invited to a special art program exploring the Harwood's diverse collection and creating art in the Museum's inspiring Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center the last monday of each month from 10-11:30am. This program is designed for kids 4 - 12, all ages welcome. Parent participation required. Click here for more information.

The Harwood Museum of Art presents a weekly meditative Jivamukti Yoga program with Jayne Schell on Wednesdays from 8:30am - 10am. Open to all levels, yoga mats provided. $8 for Alliance Members (Alliance Members may also purchase a Class Card of 8 classes for $40) or $10 drop in fee. Click Here for more information.

Madeleine Albright
Thu, May 3, 6 pm
In her new and most personal book, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948,
Madeleine Albright looks at her family’s experiences during this tumultuous time in history before, during and after World War II. In this conversation, hear Albright’s story along with her interviews with contemporaries and newly available documents about the enormously complex events that took place. Madeleine Albright served as the 64th Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career also includes positions on Capitol Hill, the National Security Council and as US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of Madame Secretary, Memo to the PresidentElect, The Mighty and the Almighty and Read My Pins.

Christiane Amanpour will be interviewing Madeleine Albright. Christiane Amanpour is the Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News as well as an anchor and Chief International Correspondent at CNN.

Tickets are $8 for Members; $10 for Non-Members, and are available at the Admission's Desk one month ahead of the event.  For more information click education@harwoodmuseum.org

Please join jeweler, Linda Cassidy, on Saturday, May 5 from noon to 2 pm for an artist's reception and demonstration of her fabulous jewelry making techniques.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

Eric Kandel with Alan Alda:
Between Science and Art
Thu, May 3rd 7pm
Eric Kandel’s most recent book, The Age of Insight, explores
how, in Vienna in 1900, five of the best minds—across
disciplines from medical science to psychology and painting,
from Sigmund Freud to Gustav Klimt—radically reframed our
understanding of ourselves and our unconscious mental
processes. Together, they initiated a dialog between art and
brain science that continues to provide insight today. Eric
Kandel won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for his research on the
physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He is
professor of psychiatry, biochemistry and biophysics at
Columbia University, a senior investigator at the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute and the author of the award-winning
In Search of Memory, among other books. Alan Alda is a sixtime
Emmy Award winner and hosted the PBS series
Scientific American Frontiers for 11 years. He is a visiting
professor at Stony Brook University, where he is developing
innovative programs that enable scientists to communicate
more effectively with the public.

Tickets are $8 Alliance Members; $10 Non-Members and are available one month ahead at the admission's desk.

For more information go to education@harwoodmuseum.org

Season Finale

Music that crosses the centuries and the seas concludes TCMG’s season with a masterpiece of the wind and piano repertoire, Mozart’s Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn; Ludwig Thuille’s late Romantic Sextet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano; and Gary Schocker’s update of timeless American Indian music in his Native American Suite for flute and piano.

Nancy Laupheimer, flute; Kevin Vigneau, oboe; Keith Lemmons, clarinet; Toni Lipton Temple, bassoon; Scott Temple, horn; Robert Tweten, piano

Advance tickets are $16 Alliance members; $20 nonmembers. Tickets at the door are $18 Alliance members, $22 nonmembers. Children under 16 are $12.

www.taoschambermusicgroup.org

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum of Art in collaboration with Emerging Pictures presents Bright Stream

 From the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, Russia

Music: DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Choreography : ALEXEI RATMANSKY
Designer: BORIS MESSERER
Music Director: PAVEL SOROKIN
Lighting Designer: ALEXANDER RUBTSOV
Libretto: ADRIAN PIOTROVSKY and FYODOR LOPUKHOV

Tickets are $12 for Alliance Members; $15 for Non-Members: $8 for Children 12 and under and are available at the Admission's Desk one month before the screening.  For more information click here: education@harwoodmuseum.org  

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The public is invited to a free reception to meet Susan Dilger and see her "must have" Taos Artwear, from noon to 2 pm on Saturday, June 2.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum of Art in collaboration with the Santa Fe Opera, the Taos Opera Guild present an evening with SF Opera's resident speaker Desiree Mays entitled The Conflict of Love and Duty which includes a discussion of this year's Opera season as well as Mays speaking on her recently published book "Opera Unveiled 2012"  the fifth in a series of books which focus on each unique SF Opera season. Booksigning to follow.

The Santa Fe Opera 2012 season offers a wide variety of wonderful operas set in exotic places, the plots of which, one way of another, deal with the issues of love and duty. Puccini’s Tosca, set in the heart of Rome in 1800, tells of a diva, Tosca, who loves a painter, Cavaradossi, who is interrogated and tortured by Scarpia, the evil chief-of-police who lusts after Tosca. This scenario can only end in tragedy, and it does.
 

King Roger, by Poland’s Karol Szymanowski, is set in Sicily long ago and imbued musically with the influences of Byzantine and Arabic cultures. The king struggles to come to terms with the ordered Apollonian and the sensual Dionysian sides of his nature when his wife runs off with a beautiful shepherd – Dionysus in disguise.
Bizet’s beautiful score for The Pearl Fishers describes the annual ritual, led by a virgin priestess, to protect the fishermen as they dive for pearls. Two men, best friends, seek her love; one condemns her, then assists her escape with the other as the villagers seek revenge and their sacrifice to appease the anger of their gods.
Maometto II, a serious opera by Rossini, tells of the siege of a Venetian-held island by the Conqueror of Constantinople, the larger-than-life Turkish Sultan, Maometto or Mehmed. Mehmed, while in disguise, fell in love with Anna, the Venetian commander’s daughter, now he is sacking their city and Anna must choose: to become Maometto’s Queen or to remain loyal to her father and countrymen.

Richard Strauss’ Arabella drops the drama back a bit and tells of an aristocratic family who have fallen on hard times in Vienna when the city itself was past its prime. The daughter, Arabella, must choose a rich husband, but she will only wed for love and chooses Mandryka, a man (of great wealth it turns out) from the forests of Croatia. But their happy ending cannot be reached until turmoil and confusion subside and Arabella offers her beloved a glass of water.

Born in Ireland, Desirée Mays moved to London to become a ballet dancer in the opera ballet as a young woman. She eventually came to the States, hung up her dancing shoes, happily raised two sons with her American husband in Utah, and gradually became immersed in the world of opera all over again – from the other side of the footlights.

Desirée is a globetrotter for opera; she lectures both live and on radio across the States, she writes books on the subject, she takes groups of people world-wide in search of that perfect opera in that perfect opera house somewhere on planet earth.

Her summers are spent at home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she has been the resident speaker and storyteller for The Santa Fe Opera since 1995.

Desirée writes a book every year called Opera Unveiled on the five operas of each Santa Fe season, this book is now in its 14th year.

Winters find her lecturing coast to coast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Los Angeles Opera in California.

She has spoken to Wagner Societies in Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, and Dallas and was the lead speaker for the Kirov Ring in Orange County in 2006.

Desirée hosted two radio shows: “Our Arts” in Salt Lake City where she co-produced the award-winning series “Life is a Creative Process.” She also produced and interviewed arts personalities on “CenterStage” for KSFR 101.1 in Santa Fe. Currently she produces “Yoga Moments” for KSFR.

Desirée holds a Master of Arts degree in the Humanities from the University of Utah where she taught a class, “ What Is Opera,” both there and at the University of New Mexico.

Desirée directs Art Forms Inc., an educational, non-profit organization, whose motto is: “Art forms through awareness.”

Tickets to this program are $8 for Harwood Museum Alliance Members & Members of the Taos Opera Guild; $10 non-members. Available at Museum Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

 

"William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today. With its rich historical references and undertones of political and social commentary, Kentridge's work has earned him inclusion in "Time" magazine's 2009 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

This documentary features exclusive interviews with Kentridge as he works in his studio and discusses his artistic philosophy and techniques. In the film, Kentridge talks about how his personal history as a white South African of Jewish heritage has informed recurring themes in his work—including violent oppression, class struggle, and social and political hierarchies. Additionally, Kentridge discusses his experiments with "machines that tell you what it is to look" and how the very mechanism of vision is a metaphor for "the agency we have, whether we like it or not, to make sense of the world." We see Kentridge in his studio as he creates animations, music, video, and projection pieces for his various projects, including Breathe (2008); I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008); and the opera The Nose (2010), which premiered earlier this year at New York's Metropolitan Opera to rave reviews.

This program is presented in collaboration with ART21. Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

Are you interested in learning more about Agnes Martin? Join a trained Museum Guide for a docent tour to shed light into the work of internationally acclaimed artist Agnes Martin. Learn more about the artist's early career, by exploring pivotal paintings which informed her line and grid paintings for which she became recognized. No reservations needed. Meet at Museum Admissions Desk. Free with Museum Admission -- Free to Harwood Museum Alliance Members, and remember Sunday's are always free toTaos County Residents. For more information or to schedule a tour that works with your schedule click here.

The Harwood Museum's most popular workshop - Create a Parade is BACK for 2012, children of all ages, and parents are encouraged to participate in  this special program to create and entry for the Arroyo Seco 4th of July Parade. Thursday June 28, Friday June 29, Monday July 2, Tuesday 3 and Wednesday JULY 4th join us for an experience of a life-time. 

This program is designed for Children 6 & up. Children under 6 must have parent participation. $80 Alliance Members (a family level membership or above), $100 Non-Members;  Need Based Scholarships are available and made possible by Faith Mallams D’Amico Youth Scholarship Fund. Sibling Discounts available.This program is held in the Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center from 10-noon. Class Size Limited. Click here to sign up or for more information.

SÉRAPHINE is the story of Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41, self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector - he was one of the first collectors of Picasso and champion of naïve primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau - discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his house in Senlis outside Paris. A moving and unexpected relationship develops between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady leading to Séraphine’s work being grouped with other naïve painters – the so-called “Sacred Heart Painters” - with acclaimed shows in France, elsewhere in Europe and eventually at New York’s MOMA . Martin Provost’s poignant portrait of this now largely forgotten painter is a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit.

A sleeper hit in France, SÉRAPHINE went on to a surprise win of the Best Picture and Best Actress for Yolande Moreau along with five other awards at the Cesars - the French Academy Awards.

Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Admissions Desk 2 weeks before date of program. click here for more information.

A free reception and demonstration will be held from noon to 2 pm on Saturday, July 7.

Artist TO BE ANNOUNCED.

We are pleased to welcome Donna Dufresne and her whimsical wooden creatures to the Museum on Saturday, August 4 from noon to 2 pm. The public is invited to come meet Donna and see a demonstration of her wood cutting and painting techiques.

Erica Collins will be available during a free reception to meet the public and talk about her wood cut art on Saturday, September 1 from noon to 2 pm.

The public is invited to a free reception on Saturday, October 6 from noon to 2 pm to meet the creative glass artist, Delinda Vann Brightyn. Delinda will be talking about her stunning glass work and giving a demonstration in a few of her techniques.

The public is invited to a free artist reception and demonstration on Saturday, November 3 from noon to 2 pm.

Artist TO BE ANNOUNCED.

The public is invited to a free artist reception and demonstration on Saturday, December 1 from noon to 2 pm.

Artist TO BE ANNOUNCED.