Join local artist Mary Beth Woiccak for a 90-minute guided sketching experience at Coronado Historic site. Each session will have a different theme. Students may sign up for one session or all three. Sessions are open to all levels. Students will receive a small sketch pad, drawing pencil, an kneaded eraser to take home.

Sessions and themes are: May 23 - Plants, June 27 - Structures, July 25 - River & Mountains.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/site-activities

-This is not an NMAC event.

For Three generations, Pablita Velarde, Helen Hardin and Margarete Bagshaw charted a course as remarkable Native American painters. Velarde broke traditions and tangled with her community’s elders to pursue a career painting. Hardin, Velarde’s daughter, the “It” girl of the 1960s, expanded traditional images but died of cancer as a young woman. Both used traditional imagery. Bagshaw, Velarde’s granddaughter, broke the “traditional” mold by residing in the Caribbean for a while and used a tropical color palette when she returned to New Mexico. Together they pulled the artform into abstract realms that continue to inspire artists today.

Kate Nelson, a longtime New Mexico journalist, worked at the Kansas City Star and The Albuquerque Tribune. She earned a spot in the Scripps Howard Hall of Fame for her political reporting, column writing and editorials. As the managing editor for New Mexico Magazine, she won several Writer of the Year honors from the International Regional Magazine Association. Kate also authored a 2012 biography, Helen Hardin: A Straight Line Curved.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/lectures

-This is not an NMAC event.