Meetings are Hybrid in person and on Zoom. Please contact Jessica Badner by telephone at (505) 476-6160 or by email at jessica.badner@dca.nm.gov if you have any questions.

* Registration on our Eventbrite page here is not required but appreciated *

Once more, the Maxwell joins the UNM campus' annual UNM Hanging of the Greens to celebrate the start of the holiday season. Join us for this family-friendly event.

Visit our galleries and courtyard filled with holiday music while enjoying free cookies and hot chocolate (while supplies last). Also shop at our annual holiday sale at our unique museum gift store.

New this year: Visit our courtyard with our newly restored adobe horno (oven) that Mary Jane Edaakie (Isleta Pueblo) educator and baker will be using to make bread. Try a free sample with butter and honey...and purchase a loaf to take home if you like it! (While supplies last).

Join the entire campus walking tour, beginning at the UNM Bookstore at 5:30 pm or come directly to the Maxwell. We welcome you with open arms!

More information on the UNM Tradition here.

-This is not a NMAC event.

The New Mexico Museum of Art celebrates the holiday season with our annual Holiday Open House. Come enjoy an organ concert with Santa Fe Pro Musica, holiday crafts all day, performances by The Santa Fe Symphony Jazz Project, a special Gustave Baumann themed archives open house, and everyone’s favorite holiday marionette performances with Teatro Duende and the Baumann replica marionettes!

For more info: https://www.nmartmuseum.org/events/holiday-open-house-2/

-This is not an NMAC event.

December Otero Arts and Jornada Research Presentation: On December 16th, David Philips will present a film (short video) BENEATH ANCIENT SKIES about the archaeoastronomy of the Great Kiva at Creekside Village and other archaeological sites in this area with astronomical associations. The film is about 15 minutes in length and has only been shared with the public once previously at the New Mexico Space History Museum on July 10th as a follow up to the archaeoastronomy conference organized by Jornada Research Institute in July. Come join in viewing this video as I will touch on how we are recognizing more archaeological sites with astronomical associations and briefly describe our ongoing studies at the first two documented ancient astronomical observatories in this area reported by Peter Eidenbach and Mark Wimberly in the late 1970s and early 1980s: Wizard’s Roost and Wally’s Dome. We are grateful to both the US Forest Service (Lincoln National Forest) and the Mescalero Apache Tribe for allowing us access to these sites to continue and expand on Pete and Mark’s earlier investigations. Afterwards, we will have refreshments to commemorate more than 50 years of archaeological contributions by yours truly and 75 years in this lifetime.

-This is not an NMAC event.

Join special guest speaker Shawn Price to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. He will be discussing FDR and the Native New Deal, WWII Native contributions, and the Navajo code talkers. This special presentation is dedicated to all Native veterans and code talkers. Please join us in the visitor center auditorium to hear this special presentation. No reservations or registration is required to attend this talk.

For more info: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=26C1C4EE-E794-EF32-073B814BA1AB5F25

-This is not a NMAC event.

Join Shawn Price and the Dine'Tah Dance Group as they perform traditional Navajo dances and songs. Performance will take place outside of the visitor center, or inside the visitor center theater if there is inclement weather. Start time is approximate because of uncertainty in location - please be flexible. We hope to see you there!

For more info: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=26DE7B0F-F43B-E94D-AD510D02573A1911

-This is not a NMAC event.