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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 »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…
Find out more »November 2019
Closed for Annual Cleaning
The Wheelwright Museum will be closed for annual museum cleaning. Regular hours will continue on November 9th (10:00 AM to 5:00 PM) Our new exhibits open to the public on November 10 (Free Admission), and we hope to have the place ready for these exciting new shows!
Find out more »Friends: Pueblo Cooking with Norma Naranjo (Date Moved from Nov. 2)
Postponed to November 9, 2019 “Let the Feast Begin—Pueblo Holiday Cooking with Norma Naranjo” Friends fundraiser for the Wheelwright $75/Person • Limit 20 (Open to Public! Sign Up Today.) Join the Friends of the Wheelwright and Norma Naranjo (Santa Clara) as she teaches us about Native food and cooking. We will learn to prepare for the Feast Days to come—Thanksgiving and Christmas. Share cultural backgrounds during an intimate and informative 3-hour class, while experiencing a traditional Pueblo Meal. Enjoy…
Find out more »New Exhibitions Public Opening
Please join the Wheelwright Museum for the Public Opening of our Fall Exhibitions starting Sunday, November 10, 2019 . Free admission all day (10:00 am to 5:00 pm) Learn more about our exhibits by clicking on links below: Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art Conversations: Artworks in Dialogue | The Daniel E. Prall Collection
Find out more »Friends Lecture: The Importance of Chaco Canyon and How It Inspires a Native Artist (2:30 PM)
The Importance of Chaco Canyon and How it Inspires a Native Artist Presented by Franklin Allen Carrillo (Laguna/Choctaw), Jeweler DOORS OPEN 2:00 PM | LECTURE STARTS 2:30 PM | Free for Friends Members • Non-members/Public $10 Franklin Allen Carrillo has been creating art for many years (stone carvings, silver and gold jewelry with or without stone inlay), however, the main focus of his work is on the metal aspect. Using traditional and contemporary fabrication techniques the pieces reflect both the…
Find out more »MUSEUM CLOSED (STAFF RETREAT)
The Wheelwright Museum & Case Trading Post will be closed Wednesday, November 20, 2019. We will be open Thursday, November 21, 2019. 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Find out more »Book Club: There There (Library Open for Friends Book Club)
The Wheelwright Museum Library will be open for Friends Book Club. Join the Friends of the Wheelwright Museum as they discuss Tommy Orange book, There There. Discussion starts at 1:30 P.M. Discussion Leader: Heather Weir
Find out more »Holiday Art Market
Get an early start on holiday gifts! Shop throughout the museum • Free Admission All Weekend Confirmed Artists: James Black (Cheyenne/Southern Arapaho) Loraine Caté (Santo Domingo) Randy Brokeshoulder (Navajo/Hopi/Shawnee) Natasha Brokeshoulder (Navajo) Shawn Deel (Hopi/Navajo) Orlando Dugi (Navajo) Dominic East (Hopi) Felicia Fragua (Jemez) Daniel Jim (Diné) Janice Black Elk-Jim (Rosebud Lakota) Tim Herrera (Cochiti) Tomas Herrera (Cochiti) Kevin Honyouti (Hopi) Mavasta Honyouti (Hopi) Richard Honyouti (Hopi) Ron Honyouti (Hopi) Robert and Lenore Johnson (Navajo & Zuni) Yazzie Johnson and…
Find out more »December 2019
Free First Sunday + Holiday Art Market
Join us for our Free First Sunday and view our newest exhibitions, Laughter & Resilience: Humor in Native American Art and Conversations: Artworks in Dialogue | The Daniel E. Prall Collection. The Case Trading Post will also be hosting the second day of the Holiday Art Market throughout the museum.
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