Energy Centennial Presentations

Farmington Museum at Gateway Park
10 a.m. - 1:30 and 1:30 - 5:00 • April 21, 2012 

This year in conjunction with Energy Week, a week-long plus educational energy presentation to area 8th graders, there will be a public centennial presentation for individuals interested in learning more about the oil and gas industries of the area.  The presentations will include many of the same topics as Energy Week plus tours of the Dinosaurs to Drill Bits exhibit.  A screening of the movie "spOILed" will cap off the tour. For more information please see the Energy Centennial Presentation schedule or call (505) 599-1174.

Benefit Navajo Rug Auction

May 5, 2012
Farmington Museum at Gateway Park

Rug viewing:
Noon to 4 p.m. Friday and Sat, May 4 & 5th

The Farmington Museum Foundation and the Farmington Museum are bringing back the Benefit Navajo Rug Auction, beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 5. The proceeds raised by this benefit auction go directly to helping support the programs, exhibits, and collections of the Farmington Museum.
 
Independent native weavers are also invited to bring their rugs in Thursday, May 3, to be placed on the auction along with the rugs from various trading posts. A 25% commission will be charged if the rug sells.

The public can preview nearly 200 rugs of all sizes, styles, and price ranges on Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5, from noon to 4:00 p.m.  Anyone interested in quality Navajo rugs should attend one of the auction previews and inspect this exceptional offering.   MTK Auctioneers of Bloomfield, NM will conduct the sale.   For additional information about the benefit Navajo Rug Auction, contact the Farmington Museum at (505) 599-1180.

JURIED BY HUGH WILSON

Hugh Wilson is a figurative painter who works from life.  He lives and paints in communities for several months at a time, developing intimate relationships with his subjects.  He lived with Tuaregs in Algeria, migrant workers in Niger, traveled in a camper through working-class America, and followed the Hispanic farm workers from Yuma to Salinas.  Hugh spent the fall of 2011 in the remote islands of Vanuatu.

Hugh graduated in 1991 with a BA from Duke University, and received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2004. 

His work has been shown in Algeria, France, New York and Montana.

www.hugh-wilson.com

Thank You to all the Artists that Entered!

Submission Deadline has Passed.

We are busy organizing and preparing the entries to be sent to the juror.  After the jury process is over for selecting the works for the show, we will notify you if your works have been accepted into the show.  Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April 3rd.  Thank you again to all the artists that entered.  Good luck!

Apples to Stars: 
Farmington’s Bite at Statehood

Farmington Museum at Gateway Park
December 10, 2011 - August 4, 2012

Celebrate New Mexico’s centennial as you travel back in time to discover what Farmington was really like at the turn of the 20th Century. Concentrating on the period 1900 to 1925, this exciting new display will feature artifacts, images, oral histories, and more pertaining to formative events in Farmington’s

history at the time of statehood.  Women’s fashion, World War I, apples, oil and gas, or the great flood of 1911 – there is something to interest everybody!  

 
  
Highlight on a Recent Donation
in Memoriam of Cecil Flanery

9'x12' Two Grey Hills Navajo Weaving

Cecil Flanery (who passed away recently) and his wife Mari (Foutz) Flanery donated this outstanding Two Grey Hills Navajo weaving which was woven in 1978 by Dorothy Francis of Mexican Water, AZ.  The rug is 9'x12' and is finely woven in all natural colors: grey, white, black, and brown.  Its amazing double borders frame the traditional Two Grey Hills pattern.  The rug contains woven corner patterns that accent the precise square corners.  It has never been used on the floor or hung and is it mint condition.  The weaving is a significant contribution to the Farmington Museum's growing Navajo Weavings collection.  We would like to thank the Flanerys for their wonderful gift.  The Museum plans to install the weaving in the Trading Post Exhibit by the end of January.

The Flanery family would also like to announce that any additional memorials given in Cecil's name should be given or sent to the Farmington Museum Foundation, PO Box 115, Farmington, NM 87499.  For more information please call (505)599-1180.