Community Day on Museum Hill

Celebrate Community Day on Museum Hill! 

There will be a variety of family-friendly activities, panel discussions, music, and performances at our Museum Hill partner sites: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe Botanical Garden and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.

• 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Performance by Earth Surface People (Diné) – MIAC
• 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Hands-on artmaking for all ages – MOIFA
• 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Los Maestros del Norte de Chimayo demonstration tent: tinwork and Retablos art activities led by youth volunteers – MoSCA
• 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Colcha embroidery demonstration with Julia R. Gomez and youth mentee  – MoSCA
• 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Docent led tour of Santa Fe Botanical Garden – SFBG
• 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Docent led tours of Museum of Spanish Colonial Art at 11am, 12pm and 1 pm – MoSCA
• 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Ask a Master Gardener and Santa Fe Native Plant Project volunteers will answer all your plant questions at their resource table at Santa Fe Botanical Garden – SFBG
• 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Folktale Performance with Wise Fool New Mexico – MOIFA
• 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Piki demonstration with Iva Honyestewa (Hopi) and parched corn demonstration with Tiffany Bahnimptewa (Hopi) – MIAC
• 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.  Storytelling session with Joe Hayes – MosCA
• 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Panel discussion with Zuni Olla Maidens – MIAC
• 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Traditional Saami singing, talk & performance with Joiker Nathan Muus – MOIFA
• 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Docent led tour of Santa Fe Botanical Garden – SFBG
• 2:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. Performance by Zuni Olla Maidens – MIAC
• Special appearance from Smokey the Bear — MIAC

This full day of events, performances, and demonstrations evoke themes of the exhibition from community, to survival and resilience, to language and song.