DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS NEWS
This week includes three outstanding programs.
Explore the latest online programming from the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), bringing the state’s unique blend of cultures into your home through its museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions.
The History and Literary Arts department at the National Hispanic Cultural Center presents the latest online lecture in the series Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque “From Sea To Sand: Holy Week Traditions of Spain, New Mexico and the Philippines” via Zoom on March 20. The presentation will discuss the various traditions of Semana Santa (Holy Week), beginning with their origins in Spain and how they then spread around the world. The lecture will concentrate specifically on two former Spanish colonies – the northernmost frontier of Nueva España, New Mexico, and the Philippines. Register for this free event here.
When the museum reopens, visitors will be welcomed to “A Place in Clay.”
“This exhibition will showcase the work of artist Kathleen Wall (Jemez Pueblo), the museum’s 2020 Native Treasures Living Treasure,” Tapia says. “With techniques passed on from generation to generation, Wall’s art exemplifies the style and beauty of her family’s heritage through her creations.”
Wall has always considered Pueblo pottery to be an essential ingredient in her life.
“Over the last 30 years, I have begun my creative process with the same actions as my mother, my grandmother, and my great grandmother before her,” Wall says. “I dig clay and volcanic ash in the same places that my mother showed me as a young girl. I have created most of my clay figures using traditionally processed clay from here in Jemez Pueblo … where I began.”
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The New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe opened to the public Feb. 20. (Courtesy of Eric Martinez)
For more than a century, the New Mexico Museum of Art has showcased some of the most dynamic art seen in the state.
On Feb. 20, the museum became the latest state-run entity to open to the public.
The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs says it plans to open the museums one at a time.
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This was to ensure that all COVID-safe practices and public health measures are in place to protect visitors.
“Some of the museums took extra time to put up new exhibits,” says Daniel Zillmann, DCA spokesman.