Classes
NHCC Learning Website Survey
MIRA! TEACHERS! PARENTS! We need your voice! The NHCC Learning Website Survey will help us gauge your needs related to educational resources so that we may better serve students and the community as a whole. With the introduction of the NHCC Learning website that is now available to the public, your input is important in helping us provide the community with accessible and relevant digital resources that will benefit learners of all grade levels and ages as this website continues to grow. Please fill this out and (more...)
Make Something!: Visit the Museum….and at home…make something!
Today we are inspired by “A Slice of American Pie,” by artist Luis Eligio Tapia. This piece is part of our permanent collection funded through the Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts, a division fo the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2017, during our family art making summer program, participants were inspired by Luis’ painted Cadillac and created their own designs for artistic cars. Click HERE to download the Cadillac coloring sheet to create your own! The NHCC Art Museum has reopened! (more...)
Día de los Muertos: Lesson Plans
Día de los Muertos is observed on November 1st and 2nd in many countries across Latin American. The celebration is the result of a blending of Catholic Spanish traditions with Indigenous customs and beliefs. It is believed that on Día de los Muertos the veil between the spirit world and real world is lifted long enough for the souls of the deceased to reunite with their families and friends. Those who celebrate Día de los Muertos welcome home the spirits of lost loved ones with music, food, offerings, (more...)
Colcha Community Stitch-Along
1 pm Live via Zoom Our Colcha Community Workshop is going virtual until we are able to meet in person, and is open to anyone wherever they may reside. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting. Annette will demonstrate as well as (more...)
Virtual ¡Happy Arte Hour!
Live via Zoom or in-person6:30 pm Live via Zoom Please use this link to register HERE Happy Arte Hour is an adult only art making program and social gathering. We really miss seeing you at the NHCC but hope you will join us for our first virtual Happy Arte Hour. We will have some simple project demos and suggestions for at home art making. This virtual Happy Arte hour is a chance for us to reconnect with our regular participants and for new people near and far to join us for (more...)
Colcha Community Stitch-Along
1 pm Live via Zoom Our Colcha Community Workshop is going virtual until we are able to meet in person, and is open to anyone wherever they may reside. This workshop is instructed by Annette Gutierrez-Turk. Annette has taught this art form to groups internationally and at the NHCC for many years. She is also an award winning artist, most recently recognized in 2019 at Santa Fe Spanish Market. This workshop is for all levels of experience in an informal setting. Annette will demonstrate as well as (more...)
Art Making: Fantasía Fantástica
One of the exhibitions this artwork was featured in was Fantasía Fantástica: Imaginative Spaces and Other-Worldly Collage (October 14, 2016 - May 7, 2017). We hope you follow the prompts below, share your thoughts and learn more about the artist and this sculpture. click on image to enlarge: #NewMexicoCulture #PZThinkingRoutines #SeeThinkWonder #nhccnm #NickAbdalla
Celebrating Traditions
Christmas Day is usually filled with get togethers with family and friends and if you are in New Mexico attending dances at one of the Pueblos. Holiday celebrations represent rich cultural and artistic traditions. We thought we would bring a little bit of the museum to you, the objects represented are integral to holiday festivities. What objects do you have in your personal collections that evoke holiday memories and traditions? Please share an object and why it is special to you. Happy Holidays from everyone at the National (more...)
Art Making: Día de los Reyes Crown
Celebrate Día de los Reyes (Three Kings' Day), with a crown! Día de los Reyes, also known as the Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th across Latin America, in Spain, and by Latinx communities around the world. This feast day commemorates the visitation of the Santo Niño (Infant Jesus) by the three wise men and, for some, marks the end of the Christmas season. Enjoy this fun activity brought to you by the NHCC's Visual Art's program and our AmeriCorps members who are developing curriculum and working on (more...)
Querencia Writing Workshop
6 pm (MTS) Live via Zoom 10 registered writers reading from our Querenica Writing Workshop will be working through out January 2020 creating poetry, fiction and nonfiction inspired by the theme of “querencia” and the anthology, Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, edited by Levi Romero, Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez and Spencer Herrera (UNM Press 2020). The workshop will culminate in a public reading on February 20, 2021. Free event with registration New Mexico cultural envoy Juan Estevan Arellano, to whom this work is dedicated, writes that querencia “is that (more...)