Latest News from the Department of Cultural Affairs
- 12/2/2022 Celebrate the holidays with New Mexico Traditions, featuring special events at each of the NM Department of Cultural Affairs Museums and Historic Sites
- 12/2/2022 Rural life inspires featured artist at Farm & Ranch Museum
- 11/29/2022 National Hispanic Cultural Center art educator named Art Educator of The Year by statewide organization
- 11/22/2022 Community-focused archaeologist joins New Mexico Historic Sites as regional manager for Coronado and Jemez Historic Sites
- 11/3/2022 HomeGrown event showcases NM foods at Farm & Ranch Museum
- 10/27/2022 Sculpture, saddles, and santero: Governors Awards for Excellence in the Arts recipients represent diverse backgrounds, mediums
- 10/25/2022 Mars Mania comes to NM Museum of Natural History & Science in November as museum hosts life-sized replicas of Mars mission vehicles
- 10/20/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites brings on a new instructional coordinator for Bosque Redondo Memorial
- 10/19/2022 Smithsonian traveling exhibition at NM History Museum examines the complex history of WWII Japanese American incarceration camps
- 10/19/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites elevates Rebecca Ward to instructional coordinator at Los Luceros Historic Site
- 10/12/2022 Pollyanna Nordstrand (Hopi) named executive director of Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
- 10/6/2022 Farm & Ranch Museum hosts grand opening of The Dairy Spot Discovery Center
- 10/5/2022 Anne Wilkes Tucker peels back layers of gender and personal narrative in photography talk at New Mexico Museum of Art on Nov. 4
- 9/29/2022 NM Historic Preservation Division celebrates three decades of family-friendly archaeology with Oct. 15 Archaeology Fair in Bernalillo
- 9/26/2022 The Mountains Wore Down to the Valleys to bring a unique sensory experience to the National Hispanic Cultural Center beginning November 4
- 9/26/2022 Books by regional authors selected to represent New Mexico at the 2022 National Book Festival
- 9/23/2022 Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Welcomes New Director of Education
- 9/22/2022 Celebrated organist Damin Spritzer to perform at New Mexico Museum of Art on October 21
- 9/19/2022 New Mexico History Museum, United States Mint, National Womens History Museum, and the Smithsonians American Womens History Initiative Celebrate the Legacy of Santa Fe Native Nina Otero-Warren
- 9/19/2022 First in-person outreach meeting for NASA sun research mission to be held at NM Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque
- 9/7/2022 Lauren Camp Named New Mexicos New Poet Laureate
- 9/1/2022 New Mexico History Museum secures federal grant to preserve and make accessible Hewett manuscript, photographic collections
- 8/29/2022 National Hispanic Cultural Center launches new programs to help young children learn about Hispanic culture
- 8/25/2022 Museum of Indian Arts & Culture receives grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art
- 8/24/2022 New Mexico Arts welcomes new project coordinator for Art in Public Places
- 8/23/2022 New Mexico History Museum and Fray Angélico Chávez History Library complete work on preservation of unique audio recordings
- 8/23/2022 Bradford Epley joins Museum Resources Division from world-renowned Texas museum
- 8/23/2022 National Hispanic Cultural Center brings vibrant mix of artistic and cultural events in September and October for Hispanic Heritage Month
- 8/22/2022 New Mexico Arts provides almost $1.1-million in cultural investments to organizations across New Mexico
- 8/22/2022 New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science researchers unearth new species of horned dinosaur in northwest New Mexico
- 8/17/2022 Grant funding helps NM Museum of Natural History & Science store large fossils safely and securely
- 8/4/2022 New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs bolsters facilities workforce with new regional facilities manager
- 8/4/2022 The one true king
- 8/4/2022 Pueblo Independence Day returns to Jemez Historic Site on August 14
- 8/4/2022 Dramatic landscape images featured in new show at Farm & Ranch Museum in Las Cruces
- 8/3/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites elevates local volunteers to staff at Fort Stanton Historic Site
- 8/2/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites celebrates second new instructional coordinator at Lincoln Historic Site and Fort Stanton Historic Site
- 8/1/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites explores the potential of Fort Stanton Historic Site and Lincoln Historic Site with enthusiastic new interpretive ranger
- 8/1/2022 NM Historic Preservation Division prioritizes chronicling African American experience in New Mexico with support from national grant
- 8/1/2022 Author Leticia Urieta brings blend of folklore and futurism to the National Hispanic Cultural Center
- 7/29/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites welcomes a new instructional coordinator to Lincoln Historic Site and Fort Stanton Historic Site
- 7/28/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites brings on new regional manager for Fort Stanton Historic Site and Lincoln Historic Site
- 7/22/2022 Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ph. D. named executive director of New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque
- 7/19/2022 Native youth of all ages will come together for the Nakotah LaRance Memorial Youth Hoop Dance Competition August 6 and 7, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe.
- 7/18/2022 Grounded in Clay exhibition at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe debuts July 31; travels to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2023
- 7/14/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites announces new regional manager for Los Luceros Historic Site
- 7/6/2022 New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs announces new deputy directors at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe
- 7/5/2022 NHCC welcomes novelist and scholar Robert Arellano for a special presentation on Cuban-American culture
- 7/4/2022 Temporary changes to operations at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and Museum of International Folk Art July 4-11
- 6/30/2022 New Mexico Historic Sites and New Mexico Historic Preservation Division coordinate on a preservation roadmap for Fort Stanton Historic Site
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