Arts

Sax Atomix To Play At Dinnertime Saturday At Beef & Leaf

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COMMUNITY News:

The SaxAtomix will be performing Saturday, June 21, during dinnertime on the patio of the Beef & Leaf Cafe at 3801 Arkansas Ave. The program will feature a mix of music, including big band classics, Latin favorites, jazz standards, ballads, and more. Cafe information can be found at beefandleafcafe.com.

The SaxAtomix are an amateur saxophone quintet comprised of players from the Los Alamos community. The quintet has played together since 2017. The group includes Bryan Fearey, Wendy Keffeler, Adolfo Meana, Joyce Guzik, and Paul Lewis. To learn more, visit saxatomix.org Read More

New Mexico History Museum: Southwest History Research Grant Opportunity Now Open

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NMHM News:

The New Mexico History Museum’s (NMHM) Fray Angélico Chávez History Library (FACHL) is looking to support research into Southwest history in the fourth year of its Steve Wimmer Southwestern Historical Research Fund.

The fund will provide the selected scholar with a $1,500 stipend, four nights of lodging at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe and use of FACHL’s collections to conduct their research.

What: Applicants for the Steve Wimmer Southwestern Historical Research Fund should prepare a letter of interest detailing the questions guiding their research and at least one collection Read More

‘Sandroing: Tracing Kastom In Vanuatu’ Opens At Museum Of International Folk Art Sunday June 29

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folk artNMDCA News:

More than an intricate and ephemeral artform, sand drawing in Vanuatu is a storytelling tradition, conveying folklore, history, genealogy, rituals and other forms of kastom (local, traditional knowledge).

Sand drawing is a UNESCO-designated Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The Museum of International Folk Art exhibition features works created by Edgar Hinge, a sand drawing practitioner and museum educator from Port Vila, Vanuatu.

Opening events include Traditional “kastom” dancing, an opening “welkam” ceremony, and demonstrations of sandroing Read More

Benjamin Victor Unveils Sculptures At 2025 D-Day Celebration In Normandy

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Benjamin Victor unveiled his sculptures at this year’s D-Day celebration in Normandy in northern France. His work celebrates the contribution of the 8th Air Force clearing from the skies the Luftwaffe (aerial warfare branch of Nazi Germany’s armed forces during World War II), making the Normandy invasion possible. To learn more about this world-class sculptor, visit benjaminvictor.com. Photo by Mike Johnson Read More

A Mythic Explosion Of Color Arrives At Meow Wolf Santa Fe

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Danae Brissonnet’s “The Temple of a Thousand Stories” is now open at House Of Eternal Return. Photo Credit: Kate Russell Courtesy of Meow Wolf Santa Fe

ART News:

SANTE FE — Open now at Meow Wolf’s House Of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, internationally renowned artist Danae Brissonnet has unveiled “The Temple of a Thousand Stories”—a dreamlike, immersive installation brimming with vibrant color, monumental sculpture, and fantastical storytelling. It’s not every day a permanent installation opens at Meow Wolf’s original location, marking a particularly special occasion of the spectacular Read More

Free Community Day At New Mexico Museum Of Art Vladem Contemporary June 21

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NMMA News:

Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line opens at New Mexico Museum of Art with a free Community Day 1-5 p.m., Saturday, June 21, 2025.

Timeless Mucha featuring more than 100 works by legendary Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), the exhibition explores Mucha’s revolutionary contributions to art and design and his lasting impact on generations of artists across the globe.

This event offers a comprehensive look at Mucha’s enduring appeal and contributions to art and design. Read More

SFI Community Lecture ‘Climate Change And Contagion: Complex Crises Past And Present’ June 18

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Image: detail “Ice Harvest” Maurice Cullen. Oil on canvas. 1914. Source: Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

One of the greatest challenges we’ve ever faced as a species is anthropogenic climate change. Can the history of climate variability and change offer us solutions for the future? Paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of Earth’s past — reveals how shifts in the environment shaped the rise and fall of civilizations. Climate change has often been associated with what seem to be “contagious” risks, from conflict to pandemic disease. Drawing lessons and Read More

Museum Of International Folk Art: Bartlett Library Book Sale

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NMDCA News:

The Bartlett Library Book Sale returns this summer to the Museum of International Folk Art.

Hundreds of art and folklife books will be available for purchase, most for $10 or less. All proceeds support the Bartlett Library.

The Bartlett Library Book Sale will run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 20–21, at the Museum of International Folk Art on Museum Hill at 706 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe.

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Daily Postcard: Birds & Flowers On Canyon Rim Trail

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Daily Postcard: The Canyon Rim Trail in White Rock near Kimberly Lane was full of birds and flowers for Father’s Day on Sunday. A small sample of them is shown here, including this Black-chinned hummingbird. Photo by Richard Skolnik

An Ash-throated Flycatcher viewed Sunday on the Canyon Rim Trail in White Rock. Photo by Richard Skolnik

A Black-throated sparrow viewed Sunday on the Canyon Rim Trail in White Rock. Photo by Richard Skolnik

A flax plant viewed Sunday on the Canyon Rim Trail in White Rock. Photo by Richard Skolnik

A sulphur cosmos plant viewed Sunday on the Canyon Rim Trail in Read More

SFCC Library To Present “Herding Poems: A Reading By Miriam Sagan” July 31

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Book cover of “What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023”. Courtesy photo

SFCC News:

SANTA FE — Santa Fe Community College Library will present “Herding Poems: A Reading by Miriam Sagan” from 5–6:15 p.m., Thursday, July 31. The free online poetry event begins with a half-hour reading by Sagan who will read from her latest book, “What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023,” published by Casa Urraca Press in Abiquiú. The second half will be an open discussion on how to put a poetry manuscript together. Register here to be sent an online link on the morning of the event.

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