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June 30, 2006

UNM's Harwood Museum of Art Presents Exhibitions

The University of New Mexico 's Harwood Museum of Art, located in Taos, N.M., presents several summer exhibitions, including Mike Vargas: Santos on Paper.

“Having my first major solo museum exhibition at Harwood was a prestigious move,” Vargas said. “I looked at the guest book and it seemed as though people had come from all over. It's great; my art is being seen by people from all areas of the country. Harwood is one of the big places, I suppose.”

Santos on Paper is presented in concert with two other exhibitions: John Suazo's Thirty Year Retrospective and Fritz Scholder's Prints and Paintings from the Harwood Collection . A gallery talk for Scholder's work is scheduled for Thursday, August 10 at 7 p.m. All three exhibitions will be up through Sept. 10.

The summer program follows the vision of Harwood Museum of Art to meet and surpass its reputation generated through broad public and published appeal. Harwood has appeared in Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the New Yorker .

The museum offers the following exhibitions in the near future:

•  Languages of Enchantment: The Art of Melissa Zink
Sept. 22 to Dec. 30, 2006/Martin Gallery

•  From Behind the Altar, Mexican Retablos from the Paul Thiebaud Collection
Sept. 22 to Dec. 30, 2006/Scott Gallery

•  Mildred Tolbert: Photographs of Taos Artists
Sept. 22 to Dec. 30, 2006/Foster Gallery

•  Recent Acquisitions
Jan. 12 to March 4, 2007/Martin Gallery

•  Sabra Moore
Jan. 12 to March 4, 2007/Scott Gallery

•  Photographs by Zoe Zimmerman
Jan. 12 to March 4, 2007/Foster Gallery

•  Anita Rodriguez
March 16 to May 20, 2007/ Martin Gallery

•  Northern New Mexico Santos
March 16 to May 20, 2007/ Scott Gallery

•  Gretchen Ewert
March 16 to May 20, 2007/Foster Gallery

Charles Lovell, director, defined Harwood's goal of furthering established educational programs, such as the artist-in-residence program. “It is an exciting program that is being built upon,” Lovell said. “We are looking for more ways to collaborate with UNM main campus.”

The Harwood Museum of Art also offers movement and dance programs for children and adults, a lecture series and shared programs with the Museum Association of Taos. For more information about Harwood exhibits or programming, call Lovell at (505) 758-9826.


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