Opening Day ProgrammingSunday January 30, 1-4 pm 1 pm “Passionate Enterprises: Archives, photography & collecting” by Mary Anne Redding, guest curator1-3 pm Bring, scan, and share your Polaroid on the Instant Archive, courtesy of Palace of Governors New Mexico History Museum3 pm Gallery Performance, Polaroid Minutes, by Ecotone Physical Theatre in the North Gallery

Mary Anne Redding is the Curator of Photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. She has more than twenty-five years experience working as a curator, archivist, librarian, educator, writer, and arts administrator. Redding holds degrees in English Literature, Arts Administration and Library Science. She has written and published

numerous essays on photography and contemporary art for UNM press, Radius Books and Photo-Eye Magazine, among others.

Ecotone Physical Theatre is a New Mexico-based performance ensemble that mines the veins of improvisation: sonic, kinesthetic, textual, visual. This diverse

ensemble consists of dancers, actors and musicians. Each performance is utterly unique, a blend of angular dramedy, slapstick sound and gesture, rife with potential for hap and mishap.

Talk: Ansel Adams and PolaroidSunday February 13, 1 pmAlan Ross, Photographer and assistant to

Ansel Adams, delves into Adams’ extensive use of Polaroid during his career.

Alan Ross has earned an international reputation as a specialist in the art of black-and-white photography –as an artist, educator and master printer. He was Ansel Adams’ Photographic Assistant in Carmel from 1974 to 1979, and was integrally involved with Adams’ books, teaching in Yosemite, and production of fine prints.

Panel Discussion: How Polaroid Shaped Fine Art PhotographySunday February 27, 1 pm Join photographers Tom Barrow, Joyce Neimanas, Chris Enos and Siegfried Halus as they discuss how Polaroid informed their own work and its implications for fine art photography. Moderated Mary Anne Redding, Curator of Photography, Palace of the Governors.

Thomas Barrow was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He received an M.A. in graphic design from the Art Institute of Design, Chicago. He has held positions at The George Eastman House and the University Art Museum at University of New Mexico; later teaching photography at UNM. He has received two NEA Photographers Fellowships and is also a publication designer.

Joyce Neimanas joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico after teaching at the Art Institute Chicago for 35 years. She has exhibited extensively

including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Her work is collected by many museums including: San Francisco Art Institute, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Chris Enos holds degrees in both photography and sculpture. Her work is in corporate, private and museum collections including the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Denver Art Museum and the George Eastman House, among others. Enos is retired after

30 years of university teaching. Most recently her work has been exhibited at the William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe, the Singapore Art Fair and Yale University Art Galleries.

Siegfried Halus began a serious investigation into photography as an expressive medium while pursuing a graduate degree in sculpture at The University of Harford. Halus’ photographs have been widely exhibited and published in the United States, Asia and Europe. He has taught at numerous universities and colleges, and helped to design and conceive the Department of Fine Arts at Santa Fe Community College. Halus lives in Santa Fe.

Family Day: Picture It! Saturday March 12, 1-4 pmExplore how photographers see and create through engaging activities. Enjoy a family scavenger hunt, create a photo-themed art project and step into a photo booth to take your own instant photograph.

Lecture: Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land

Friday March 18, 6 pm New Mexico History Museum Auditorium, Santa FeSunday March 20, 1pm The Albuquerque Museum

Edwin Land was an inventor, businessman, war contractor, passionate follower of the arts, and inventor of Polaroid camera. Learn about the life of this enigmatic genius in a lecture by Dr. Victor McElheny of MIT.

Victor K. McElheny is a distinguished science writer whose work has appeared in The Charlotte Observer, Science magazine, The Boston Globe and The New York Times. His books include Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land; Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution; and Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project. This program is jointly presented with the New Mexico History Museum.

Bus Tour: Churches of Northern New MexicoSaturday April 9

8:30 am departure7:30 pm returnTour departure and return from The Albuquerque Museum

This day-long tour will leave The Albuquerque Museum and travel to Santa Fe to see the companion exhibition, A Passionate Light, Polaroids of H. Joe Waldrum at the New Mexico History Museum. The tour will continue to several of Northern New Mexican churches Waldrum photographed and painted. Lunch at Rancho de Chimayó.

The tour will be led by Albuquerque Museum Director, Cathy Wright, and Curator of Art, Andrew Connors. This is a joint program with the New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe. Reservations required $55 members of either The Albuquerque Museum Foundation or Museum of New Mexico, $60 non-members.

Alan Ross by Greg Hunter, Death Valley, ‘01

P R O G R A M S C H E D U L E

by Photographer Karen Kuehn