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July 2019
Artist Talk with Duane Maktima
Join us for an artist talk with Duane Maktima (Hopi/Laguna). Maktima is graduate of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz.(1981)-College of Creative Arts and recipient of two distinguished Alumni Awards-1990 "Jubilee Year"(100 year celebration) and 1999-"Millenia"(Year 2000-national celebration). His work is the result of being an accomplished and award winning jeweler. That knowledge gained throughout those years is evident as his work represents a refinement only available by such accomplished hands. His mission has been to sustain integrity as a master…
Find out more »Storytelling with Joe Hayes (Free)
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »Storytelling with Joe Hayes
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »Storytelling with Joe Hayes (Free)
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »Storytelling with Joe Hayes (Free)
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »August 2019
Storytelling with Joe Hayes (Free)
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »Storytelling with Joe Hayes (Free)
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »Student Talk: James Black (Free Event)
The History of Southern Cheyenne Ledger Art | Wheelwright Classroom (Limited Seating) James Black is a Southern Cheyenne Sundance priest from a small rural town in northwestern Oklahoma called Watonga. He grew up in a home surrounded by the traditions of his Native community. Black’s artwork is a continuation of traditional pictographic drawings found on animal hides and later ledger paper. His work has been displayed in galleries and exhibitions, including the Heard Museum, Santa Fe Indian Market, and the…
Find out more »Storytelling with Joe Hayes (Free)
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »Storytelling with Joe Hayes (Free)
Storyteller Joe Hayes returns to the Wheelwright Museum with tales of the greater Southwest. Please bring a chair or blanket for festival seating on the museum grounds.
Find out more »September 2019
Free First Sunday (September)
Take advantage of free admission and experience our exhibits! Don't forget to visit the Case Trading Post. Click exhibit titles to learn about the work on exhibit: LIT: The Work of Rose B. Simpson Old Man Looking Backward: Bob Haozous Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry (Permanent Exhibit)
Find out more »Friends Lecture: Trading Among Native Americans Since 1872 (2:30 PM)
Trading Among Native Americans Since 1872 Presented by Tanner's Indian Arts (Joe E. Tanner Sr. & Emerald Tanner) Doors Open/Refreshments 2:00 PM | Lecture Starts 2:30 PM | Free for Friends Members • Non-members/Public $10 Joe E. Tanner Sr. is an authority on natural turquoise. He has mined, cut, and graded turquoise since the mid 1950s. He describes his business as the “brokering of art and local commodities” and focuses on genuine, authentic, and truly collectible goods. Tanner’s great-grandfather Seth…
Find out more »Friends: Studio Tour (Robin Waynee)
Internationally Recognized Santa Fe-based Jeweler Opens Her Studio to Friends of the Wheelwright Presented by Robin Waynee (Saginal/Chippewa Jeweler ) Studio Visit 2:00 PM | Friends Members: $30/Person • Limit 20 Robin Waynee learned at an early age how creativity and hard work can lead to fulfillment. A member of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe, Waynee was born and raised in Mio, Michigan along with six siblings. Waynee worked with her family in a variety of creative fields including jewelry,…
Find out more »Book Club: “The Seven Daughters of Eve”
Join the Friends of the Wheelwright Museum as they discuss Bryan Sykes book, The Seven Daughters of Eve. Discussion starts at 1:30 P.M. Discussion Leader: Jacqueline Lovell
Find out more »Museum Hill Community Day @ Wheelwright Museum
SCHEDULE OF EVENT 10:00 AM - Jemez Pueblo Seasonal Dance Group (Terrace) 10:30 AM - Caring for Your Art at Home Workshop (Classroom) 12:00 PM - Jemez Pueblo Seasonal Dance Group (Terrace) 12:30 PM - Caring for Your Art at Home Workshop (Classroom) 1:00 PM - Storytelling with Emmett Shkeme Garcia, Santa Ana Pueblo (In Library) 2:30 PM - Caring for Your Art at Home Workshop (Classroom) 3:00 PM - Storytelling with Emmett Shkeme Garcia, Santa Ana Pueblo (In Library)…
Find out more »October 2019
Friends: Artists Spotlight (2:30PM)
Featuring upcoming Native Artists Artist Panel: AJ Nequatewa (Hopi/Navajo), Varied Media Adrian Standing Elk Pinnecoose (Diné, Southern Ute), Digital Fabrication, Graphic Design Elias Jade Not Afraid (Crow Nation), Bead Artist Tol-pi-yine Simbola (Picuris), Jeweler DOORS OPEN 2:00 PM | DISCUSSION START 2:30 PM | Free for Friends Members • Non-members/Public $10 AJ Nequatewa is a contemporary Indigenous artist whose work explores the relationship between modern native/Indigenous culture and a respect for Indigenous traditions. The pieces she makes are the…
Find out more »Friends Trading Post Trip
Friends of the Wheelwright trading post and studio tour (Gallup, NM) Price: $250 per person • Limit 30 (Friends Member's Only - Become a museum member + Friends member to join!) Fee include gallery tours, wine and hors d’oeuvres plus dinner at Tanner Gallery; weaving demonstration and lunch at Toadlena plus dinner in Gallup; breakfast and tour of trading post in Gallup on Oct. 18. Not included in fee: Transportation, single or double room at host hotel (Springhill Suites by…
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