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June 2020
Friends Spring Fling 2020
FRIENDS MEMBERS This is the annual meeting and fundraiser for Friends of the Wheelwright Museum. The annual Spring Fling will take place at the studio of Duane Maktima in Pecos, NM. DETAILS Friends Members: $50 Reservations not available for Non Friends Members. AGENDA Tour/Demonstration, Lunch, Annual Meeting, Shop! Lunch included with fee. More details to come. PROFILE Duane Maktima (https://www.duanemaktima.com/) Duane Maktima is a Hopi/Laguna jewelry designer. Maktima's work can be found in many museum gift shops and…
Find out more »July 2020
The Curator’s Circle: Eliza Naranjo Morse
Virtual event on Zoom. The Curator’s Circle is currently an online Wheelwright Museum public program series that will feature artist Eliza Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo). The Wheelwright Museum recently commissioned a new mural entitled, All Together. Making Our Way. Everyday. Medicine: Eliza Naranjo Morse for the staircase which features over 30 feet of two-story walls. Naranjo Morse will give us a sneak peek of the new mural, and talk about her process and intentions with Chief Curator, Andrea R. Hanley. The…
Find out more »September 2020
Friends Book Club: “Medicine Women” by Jim Kristofic (Register)
Hosted on Zoom All are welcome, non-members and guests! The Friends Book Club meets the third Wednesday of each month, from September through November and January through April, at 1:30 p.m. Join the Friends as they discuss the book Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School. Author, Jim Kristofic, will lead the discussion. To learn more about the Friends of the Wheelwright Museum and other scheduled book club events, click the button below.
Find out more »October 2020
Friends Book Club – “Heart Berries: A Memoir”
Hosted on Zoom. Join the Friends Book Club for a discussion on Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot.
Find out more »Curator’s Circle: Norman Akers & Tom Farris (Register)
Hosted on Zoom. Chief Curator, Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo), will lead this virtual discussion with exhibition artists on their art practice and respective work in Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art and Conversations: Artworks in Dialogue | The Daniel E. Prall Collection. Norman Akers is a citizen of the Osage Nation from the Grayhorse District. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Kansas. Previous teaching experiences include the Institute of…
Find out more »November 2020
Curator’s Circle: Linda Lomahaftewa & Chaz John (Register)
Hosted on Zoom Chief Curator, Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo), will lead this virtual discussion with exhibition artists on their art practice and respective work in Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art and Conversations: Artworks in Dialogue | The Daniel E. Prall Collection. Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi-Choctaw) is a printmaker, painter, and mixed-media artist based in Santa Fe, NM, who specializes in monotype and mixed-media work. She participated in numerous exhibitions, including the Heard Museum, AZ, the National Museum of…
Find out more »Virtual Friends Lecture: Emerald Tanner – “Creating through Covid”
The presentation hosted on Zoom. Emerald Tanner Tanner's Indian Art Creating Through Covid A Special Presentation for The Friends of the Wheelwright by Emerald Tanner (Tanner’s Indian Arts) Gallup, New Mexico, is a central mercantile for thousands of Native American Artisans of the Great American Southwest. It has been our pleasure to work for and with local Native American talent to create one-of-a-kind, fine American Indian Art for generations. As a descendent of a long line of Southwest Traders and turquoise miners,…
Find out more »Friends Book Club: “Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert”
Hosted on Zoom. Join the Friends Book Club for a discussion on Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert, My Life Among the Navajo People by Erica M. Elliott, M.D.
Find out more »December 2020
Curator’s Circle: Cara Romero & Diego Romero (Register)
Chief Curator, Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo), will lead this virtual discussion with exhibition artists on their art practice and respective work in Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art and Conversations: Artworks in Dialogue | The Daniel E. Prall Collection. Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) is a contemporary fine art photographer raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in the Mojave Desert of California and Houston's urban sprawl Texas. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and…
Find out more »January 2021
Curator’s Circle: Gerald McMaster (Register)
Hosted on Zoom Chief Curator, Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo), will lead a virtual discussion with exhibition artist Gerald McMaster on his art practice and respective work in our current exhibition, Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art. Gerald McMaster – curator, artist, author, and professor – is Tier 1 Canada Research of Indigenous Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice and director of the Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD University. Dr. McMaster has over 30 years of international…
Find out more »Friends Book Club: Navajo Sandpaintings (Register)
Hosted on Zoom. Join the Friends Book Club for a discussion on Navajo Sandpaintings by Mark Bahti with Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe.
Find out more »February 2021
Friends Book Club: “The Bean Trees” (Register)
Hosted on Zoom. Join the Friends Book Club for a discussion on The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.
Find out more »March 2021
Friends Book Club: “Turquoise in America” (Register)
Hosted on Zoom Join the Friends Book Club for a discussion on Turquoise in America Part Two, 1920–1990 by Mike Ryan and Philip Chambless. Discussion Leader: Mike Ryan
Find out more »Indigenous Women: Border Matters (Virtual Opening) – Register!
This event is hosted on Zoom. Chief Curator Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) will host a special virtual opening March 19, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. Register online to get a sneak peek of the exhibition, watch a video message from New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland, and learn more from the exhibition artists. The Wheelwright Museum presents Indigenous Women: Border Matters, a new exhibition opening to the public on March 20, 2021. The exhibition features a timely look at four Indigenous women…
Find out more »April 2021
Virtual Opening – “Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World” (Register)
HOSTED ON ZOOM The Wheelwright Museum presents Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World, a new exhibition opening April 10, 2021. The exhibit features over 40 works by Navajo Neo-Impressionist artist Shonto Begay. Autobiographical in nature, Begay’s work visually narrates his connection to the landscape, personal histories, and Navajo cosmology. Join us for our virtual opening to get a sneak peek of the exhibition, watch a video message from the 24th Navajo Nation Council Speaker Seth Damon, and meet the…
Find out more »Friends Book Club: “Navajo Autumn: A Navajo Nation Mystery” (Register)
Hosted on Zoom Join the Friends Book Club for a discussion on Navajo Autumn: A Navajo Nation Mystery by R. Allen Chappell. Discussion Leader: Flicka Slade
Find out more »May 2021
Curator’s Circle: Gabriela Muñoz and Jenea Sanchez (Register)
Join the Wheelwright Museum for a new series of the Curator's Circle, our informal salons featuring exhibitions artists in Indigenous Women: Border Matters. Gabriela Muñoz's art practice is rooted in her experiences as a migrant living in Arizona, undocumented, for more than a decade. Living in the Southwest, her practice is concerned with movements of social justice and racial equality. Her installations, printed works, and collaborations function as a growing archive that documents the stories and histories of individuals from…
Find out more »June 2021
The Film: “Following Enchantment’s Line”
Virtual Premiere JUNE 24, 2021 Register to receive the premiere link. The Wheelwright Museum and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum are partnering to produce a short 10-minute film celebrating the diverse cultural connection of Santa Fe. The film, Following Enchantment’s Line, is directed by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Steven J. Yazzie (Diné/Laguna Pueblo/Anglo) and showcases nationally renowned dancers Jock Soto (Navajo/Puerto Rican) and Harrison Coll. The soundscape will feature the music of classical composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (Chickasaw Nation). Following Enchantment’s…
Find out more »July 2021
Curator’s Circle: Makaye Lewis & Daisy Quezada Ureña (Register)
Join the Wheelwright Museum for a new series of the Curator’s Circle, our informal salons featuring exhibitions artists in Indigenous Women: Border Matters. Makaye Lewis (Tohono O’odham) is a multi-disciplinary artist, born in 1996. Lewis comes from the small, secluded village of Ventana on the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona. Her hometown has a current population of forty-nine and is located sixty miles from the Mexican border. Lewis says that she is informed by her Tohono O’odham heritage and people;…
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.
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