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VOICES FROM THE PAST 2008: Seminars commemorate Cuarto Centenario of the Plaza de Santa Fe to benefit Palace of the Governors;
Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta; 6 p.m.; $10 or $60 for 12-part series. 466-2775, southwestseminars.org

“SILVER AND STONE: PROFILES OF AMERICAN INDIAN JEWELERS”:
Talk and book-signing with author Mark Bahti; Case Trading Post, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian,
704 Camino Lejo (Museum Hill); 5:30 p.m; free. 982-4636 (ext. 110), casetradingpost.com

OPENING RECEPTION: For “Album Amicorum” exhibit;
New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave.; 4-6...

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
courtesy of Journal Santa Fe

Although Santa Fe may not have the population of larger cities, it can certainly compete with them in terms of the presence of world-class museums.

No summer vacation is complete without a visit to at least some museums, and nearly all of these have special exhibits opening in time for the summer vacation crowd. Each museum in Santa Fe is unique.

The institute showcases contemporary Native American fine art and trains the next generation of native museum professionals. It has more than 7,000 works in its permanent collection.

LOCATION: 108 Cathedral Place

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Rick Nathanson • Journal Santa Fe

This museum serves as a repository of native art that tells the stories of the people of the Southwest from pre-history through contemporary art. The museum serves a multicultural audience through changing exhibitions, public lectures, field trips and artist residencies.

LOCATION: 710 Camino Lejo (Museum Hill)

DAYS/TIMES: Mondays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; after Labor Day Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

ADMISSION: $6 for residents, $8 nonresidents; free admission for Museum Foundation members, school groups, children 16 and younger, and New Mexico veterans with 50 percent or greater...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Rick Nathanson • Journal Santa Fe

June and July are the months to sample a little chardonnay, try a new merlot or go sweet on a muscat in northern New Mexico.

With wine festivals planned in Santa Fe, Taos and Red River, there’s something for everyone from the casual sipper to the wine connoisseur — and for music and art lovers, families and gourmands as well.

El Rancho de las Golondrinas, a Spanish Colonial living history museum south of Santa Fe, will host the 16th annual Santa Fe Wine Festival on July 5 and 6.

The event runs from noon to 6 p.m. each day. Admission is $13 for adults, including a souvenir wine glass; $5...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Tania Soussan • Journal Santa Fe

Are you in the mood to listen to music by Mozart or Brahms? How about a little Haydn or Ginastera? The biggest question that northern New Mexico classical music aficionados have to ask themselves this summer is which of the dozens of instrumental and vocal concerts they want to attend.

Taos School of Music’s Summer Chamber Music Festival kicks off its 46th season June 15 with a concert of works by Bartok, Franck and Schumann performed by the Borromeo String Quartet with pianist Robert McDonald.

Founded in 1963, the Taos School of Music is one of the oldest summer chamber music programs in...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Emily Van Cleve • Journal Santa Fe

If it’s Sunday night, Doug Montgomery is at the piano at Vanessie of Santa Fe. A Chicago native with a master’s degree in music from The Juilliard School, Montgomery has been tickling the ivories on the restaurant’s black grand piano for two decades.

“People still love hearing a medley of Andrew Lloyd Webber tunes and give an incredible response when I play Webber,” he says. “They also like to hear hummable, melodic songs from musicals like ‘The Sound of Music.’”

Montgomery’s vast repertoire includes classical pieces such as Debussy’s “Claire de Lune” and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” “I...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Emily Van Cleve • Journal Santa Fe

Two of the loveliest places on the planet are the town of Taos and the neighboring, millennium-old Taos Pueblo. But they haven’t cornered the market on charm and ineffable distinction.

There are small, quite livable clusters of humanity — nearly a score of them, in fact — radiating in all directions from Taos. The mostly unincorporated, “censusdesignated places” (they have post offices, for instance) have in common only their sweetness of life. After that, they differ.

Driving southeast from Taos on N.M. 76 (known as the High Road), for instance, you’ll hit a winding mountain road through...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Kate McGraw • Journal Santa Fe

Renewable energy may be the theme of the Taos Solar Music Festival, but music has always been the centerpiece.

“When we started out, one of our main goals was to make a world class music festival,” says Dawn Richardson, who founded the festival in 1999 with music producer Dan Sherman and Brad Hockmeyer, owner of Taos’ solarpowered radio station, KTAO-FM. “Music is the bait to get people interested in renewable energy.”

The tradition continues this June as the festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with an eclectic lineup of musical acts, ranging from the catchy rock riffs of Collective...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Richard S. Dargan • Journal Santa Fe

Artists from Rwanda, El Salvador and Bhutan will join artists this year from Afghanistan, Botswana, China and dozens of other countries for the fifth annual Santa Fe International Folk Art Market.

The market, the largest of its kind in the world, is expected to attract 20,000 people, including serious collectors, museum curators, folk artists and tourists, all keen to see the works of 190 artists from 41 countries.

“The market is the place to see, just by strolling from booth to booth, the cultural wealth and creativity that exist among the folk artists on this planet,” says Judy Espinar,...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Rick Nathanson • Journal Santa Fe

For more than two decades, artists from all over the world have trekked to the out-of-the-way Donner Ranch in northern New Mexico, where they eat, drink and sleep art.

“Where it is, is just beautiful,” says Taosbased artist Sherrie McGraw, who teaches at the summer Fechin Art Workshops, as well as throughout the United States. “It’s the best north light studio that I teach in.”

The Donner Ranch, north of Taos in San Cristobal, is a unique learning space, McGraw says.

“It’s like no other place I teach at, honestly,” she says in a telephone interview. “It’s really like a complete immersion...

Sunday, June 1, 2008
by Rebecca Roybal Jones • Journal Santa Fe