The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
Upcoming Events & Exhibitions
Upcoming Events
Programs at The Albuquerque Museum for July and August
All programs are free with museum admission, unless otherwise noted.
Saturday July 11
1:00-2: 30 pm
Family Workshop
Design Your Own Country: All Ages Mapping Project
Dig into your imagination and create a new world. Map a fantastical place. Thinking and talking about people and their interaction with their surroundings, you and your group will connect geography with everyday life while having fun and maybe being a bit silly.
Workshop leader: Kati Nybakken. Former ESOL teacher of all ages, Kati originally conceived of the idea for this class in order to promote fun and interesting conversation and sharing of ideas. She is currently an MFA student in the Theater and Dance Department at UNM and has been working in The Albuquerque Museum’s Education Department over the past year.
This program is in conjunction with the exhibition, Experimental Geography.
Sunday July 12
1:00 pm
Artist Talk
Photographer Craig Varjabedian will talk about his series of black and white photographs taken at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the well-known residence of Georgia O’Keeffe. Seventy- five of those photographs are part of the exhibition, Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, on exhibit at The Albuquerque Museum, July 12- October 11.
Varjabedian is widely acclaimed for his images capturing the people and places of the American West, taken over a career spanning more than 35 years.
Sunday August 2
1:00 pm
Lecture
Curator Barbara Buhler Lynes discusses Georgia O’Keeffe and the landscape in Northern New Mexico that inspired and fascinated her, especially the rich colors and exotic configurations of the painted desert at Ghost Ranch. O’Keeffe first saw Ghost Ranch in the fall of 1934,she returned to nearly every subsequent summer, purchased a house there in 1940, and continued to be inspired by it until ill health forced her into retirement in 1984.
Barbara Buhler Lynes is the curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museumand the Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center. She holds doctoral degrees in French Literature and Art History and haspublished extensively on O'Keeffe and other American modernists, including the 1999catalogue raisonné that documents and authenticates O'Keeffe's extensive oeuvre.
This program is in conjunction with the exhibition, Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby.
Saturday August 8
1:00-2:00 pm & 2:00-3:00 pm (two sessions)
Family Art Workshop
Eye Spy Ghost Ranch
Through the lens of her homemade viewfinder, Georgia O'Keefe could see the landscapes she wanted to paint in different ways. In this fun-filled workshop we will see the landscapes as O'Keeffe did. Make a simple viewfinder, explore the photography exhibition Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby, and create an original work inspired by your experiences. Space is limited to 30 participants each session.
This workshop is conducted by Jackie M., Curator of Education at The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
Sunday August 30
1:00 pm
Artist Talk
In 1978, Ed Ranney began working collaboratively with Charles Ross to photograph the creation of Ross’ earthwork sculpture, Star Axis. Ranney annually photographs Star Axis, a celestial observatory near Las Vegas, New Mexico. Standing eleven stories high and measuring 1/10th of a mile across, this sculpture places viewers inside the trajectory of the earth’s axis. Both Ranney and Ross will talk about their years of collaboration around the project.
The works of Edward Ranney are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe among others. Charles Ross, part of the originating artists of the Land Art movement, conceived of Star Axis in 1971.
This program is in conjunction with the exhibition THE SHAPE OF TIME: Photographs of Star Axis by Edward Ranney, 1979-2009.
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33rd ANNUAL SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
THE NEW MEXICO JAZZ WORKSHOP
The New Mexico Jazz Workshop presents Salsa Under the Stars on Friday nights and Jazz & Blues Under the Stars on Saturday nights in the Museum Amphitheater. Season begins May 29 and runs through August 28, 2009. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Concert runs from 7 - 10 p.m. All shows occur rain or shine. The Cooperage Restaurant provides food and full bar service.
Admission for most concerts: $13 Adults; $11 Seniors (60+) and Students w/ID; $10 New Mexico Jazz Workshop and Albuquerque Museum Members. Guest Artist concerts: $15 Adults, $13 Seniors (60+) and Students w/ID; $12 NMJW and Albuquerque Museum Members. Families are welcome and children Under 12 are free. Summer Music Festival Passes and Group Discounts available.
For event & ticket info, call 255-9798, or visit the NMJW website at www.nmjazz.org. 
Salsa Under the Stars
Friday, 07/10/09 - Charanga Del Valle
Friday, 07/17/09 - Calle 66
Friday, 07/24/09 - Son Como Son
Friday, 07/31/09 - Ivon Ulibarri y Cafe Mocha
Friday, 08/07/09 - Calle 66
Friday, 08/14/09 - Jose Conde y Ola Fresca: in partnership with !Globalquerque!
- $15 Adults; $13 Seniors (60+) and Students w/ID; $12 New
Mexico Jazz Workshop (NMJW) and Albuquerque Museum Members.
Friday, 08/21/09 - Quemozo
Friday, 08/28/09 - Son Como Son
Friday, 09/04/09 - Havana Nrg
Jazz & Blues Under the Stars
Saturday, 07/11/09 - The Alpha Cats plus Patti Littlefield & Mark Weaver
Saturday, 07/18/09 - Larry Mitchell/Cathy McGill
Saturday, 07/25/09 - Ryan McGarvey/Pleasure Pilots
Saturday, 08/01/09 - Santa Fe Great Big Jazz Band
Saturday, 08/08/09 - Transit - Brazilian jazz
Saturday, 08/15/09 - No event scheduled
Saturday, 08/22/09 - Jeff Brown Trio/ Tommy Gearhart w/Tony Cesarano
Upcoming Exhibitions
The Shape of Time: Photographs of Star Axis by Edward Ranney, 1979 – 2009
June 28 - September 20, 2009
Edward Ranney has photographed the growth of the earth-sculpture Star Axis since 1979, when Charles Ross began excavation of the southern edge of Chupinas Mesa, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, for the construction of the site’s eleven story Star Tunnel. The large-format photographs Ranney has taken each year since then reveal a major site growing out of its own rubble. For Ranney, with his extensive experience photographing pre-Columbian sites of ancient America, this process might be described 
as a kind of visual archaeology in reverse. Inherent in a project spanning a generation are visual observations of the power of a specific site as it grows and changes over time, as well as a poetic sense of the changing shape of time itself. Here photographic documentation speaks not only of architectural construction, but also of process and duration, intuition and aspiration, and a shared desire to understand cosmic phenomena on a human scale.
Sunday, August 30, 1:00 pm
Artist Talk with Edward Ranney and Charles Ross
The works of Edward Ranney are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe among others. Charles Ross, part of the originating artists of the Land Art movement conceived of Star Axis in 1971. Standing eleven stories high and measuring 1/10th of a mile across, this sculpture places viewers inside the trajectory of the earth’s axis.
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Black tree and Orphan Mesa, Ghost Ranch New Mexico 2005. Photograph ©Craig Varjabedian. |
Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby:
Photographs by Craig Varjabedian
July 12 – October 11, 2009
Enjoy a one-on-one conversation directed by the museum’s curator of art Andrew Connors with photographer Craig Varjabedian that explores the motivations behind the creation of the images in this exhibition at 1 p.m., Wednesday, September 30 and 1 p.m. Wednesday, October 7
At the heart of Northern New Mexico’s legendary Ghost Ranch, a semicircular arc of red-orange cliffs catch and transmute the drama of New Mexico’s roiling skies in varied, often startling ways. Spreading beyond these Cliffs of Shining Stone in three directions, scrub-spotted plains and scattered remnants of the ranch’s fabled past turn dark or brilliant according to movements far above. Now bright, now overtaken by heavy gray thunderheads, now again sun-filled, the earth and sky maintain a constant interplay that seems fundamental to the place’s enduring mystique. And for photographer Craig Varjabedian, it is the serendipitous moments in which the potential in these interactions appears fully realized—“when I feel the play of light, shadow, and texture resolve into something wonderful,” he says—that he deftly captures in the 75 silver gelatin photographs comprising Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby.
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| Old Corral and approaching storm, Antelope Flats, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico 2005. Photograph ©Craig Varjabedian. |
Craig Varjabedian is widely acclaimed for his images capturing the people and places of the American West, taken over a photographic career spanning more than 35 years. Museums nationally have exhibited and collected his photographs, and his work has won an Emmy Award as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the McCune Charitable Foundation, and the New Mexico Humanities Council.
Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby is made possible through the shared generosity of the New Mexico Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, The National Ghost Ranch Foundation, Bogen Imaging, Lowepro, Ilford/Harman Technology Limited and private donors.