SALALM 52 BORDERS: OBSESSION, OBSTACLE, OPEN DOOR? Albuquerque, NM   —  April 27 - May 1, 2007

Post Conference Trip to Santa Fe

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

(Also available as a Word Document.)

Join your colleagues for a fun and educational trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the oldest capital city in the United States

and world famous for its artistic, historical and architectural traditions.

Itinerary

8:45 a.m.    Leave Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town (transportation provided)

10:00 a.m.  Arrive at Museum Hill in Santa Fe and join one of three guided tours:

                    (Information below provided from Museums’ websites)

International Folk Art Museum

The Museum opened to the public in 1953 and has gained national and international recognition as the home to the world’s largest collection of folk art. The collection of more than 135,000 artifacts forms the basis for exhibitions in four distinct wings: Bartlett, Girard, Hispanic Heritage, and Neutrogena. The Girard Wing’s popular permanent exhibition, Multiple Visions: A Common Bond showcases folk art, popular art, toys and textiles from more than 100 nations. The late Alexander Girard, who contributed his immense collection to the museum, designed this unorthodox and delightful exhibition, which opened in 1982.  The Hispanic Heritage Wing introduces the culture of northern New Mexico, and its permanent exhibition, Familia y Fe/Family and Faith, focuses on two of the strongest currents that continue to shape regional life today. Spanning four centuries from the Spanish colonial period to the 20th century, the exhibition presents hide paintings, tinwork, furniture, jewelry, straw appliqué, horse gear, weavings, and santos, three-dimensional bultos and painted retablos.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art

The Spanish Colonial Arts Society collections were initiated in 1928. Today with 3,000 objects, the collections are the most comprehensive compilation of Spanish Colonial art of their kind. Dating from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium, the collections span centuries in art, place and time. Among the various media featured are santos (painted and sculpted images of saints,) textiles, tinwork, silverwork, goldwork, ironwork, straw appliqué, ceramics, furniture, books and more. A host of comparative objects from Spain and Latin America as well as Asia, Bulgaria, France and other worldly locales further illustrate the faraway influences that converged during the colonial era to inspire artists and art forms. All combined, the collections represent the artistic history and ongoing evolution of Hispano culture in New Mexico while firmly establishing its important place within the global arts landscape.

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

In response to unsystematic collecting by Eastern museums, anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett founded the Museum of New Mexico in 1909 with a mission to collect and preserve Southwest Native American material culture. Several years later, in 1927, John D. Rockefeller founded the renowned Laboratory of Anthropology with a mission to study the Southwest's indigenous cultures. In 1947 the two institutions merged, bringing together the most inclusive and systematically acquired collection of New Mexican and Southwestern anthropological artifacts in the country.  The Laboratory's collection continued to expand but was largely unavailable to the general public for lack of adequate exhibition facilities. In 1977, the New Mexico legislature appropriated $2.7 million for the design of a new Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. The MIAC opened ten years later in 1987, immediately adjacent to the Laboratory, as the 31,000 square foot exhibition facility for the Lab's extensive collections.

11:30 a.m.  Free time to visit Museum Gift Shops

12:00 p.m.  Leave Museum Hill for downtown Santa Fe (transportation provided)

12:30 p.m.  Private lunch at the Blue Corn Café and Brewery (includes appetizers, choice of entrée, non-alcoholic beverage)

2:00 p.m.    Free time to sightsee and visit Santa Fe art galleries, shops

5:00 p.m.    Depart Santa Fe for return to Albuquerque (transportation provided)

6:15 p.m.    Arrive Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town

REGISTRATION FORM

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS APRIL 1, 2007!

NAME________________________________________________________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS______________________________________________________________

Post-SALALM Day Trip costs $41.70.  This covers all transportation, lunch and museum entrance fees.  Payment in advance by check is required.

• MUSEUM TOUR SELECTION:  Tours are simultaneous.  Maximum 15 per tour.  Please indicate first and second choice. 

• International Folk Art Museum                     ___________               

• Museum of Spanish Colonial Art                  ___________      

• Museum of Indian Arts and Culture             ___________                    

MAIL REGISTRATION FORM AND CHECK for $41.70 MADE PAYABLE TO SALALM TO:      

Christine Nelson

SALALM 52

University Libraries

MSC05 3020

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

(505) 934-4571

cnelson@unm.edu