Sundays with Luchita: A Community Conversation Series

SUNDAYS WITH LUCHITA. Please join our Sundays with Luchita series this January with two exciting and free community events. Join Harwood Museum of Art, Millicent Rogers Museum, and Taos Abstract Artist Collective (TAAC) for an exciting conversation series honoring the life and work of Luchita Hurtado.

Sunday, January 19th, 2pm, ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION, Millicent Rogers Museum, 1504 Millicent Rogers Rd, El Prado, NM
The first panel on January 19th at 2pm at the Millicent Rogers Museum will feature artists from Channeling Luchita reflecting on how Hurtado’s work has influenced them.
"Channeling Luchita: A Community Response to the Life and Work of Luchita Hurtado," an exhibition and curatorial response to the work and life of Luchita Hurtado. Curated by Deborah McLean, Claire Motsinger and TAAC artists Bob Parker, and Dani Kamas, this exhibition presents 10 New Mexico artists whose styles and conceptual practices respond to the themes conjured in Hurtado's artistic body of work. Conceived as a response to The Harwood Museum of Art's exhibition "Luchita Hurtado: Earth and Sky Interjected," "Channeling Luchita" is a way for MRM and TAAC to pay homage to an artist who brought so much to the Taos and global community with her years of continual artistic pursuits, and to celebrate the work of contemporary artists who share her devotion.

Sunday, January 26th, 2pm, REMEMBERING LUCHITA, Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux St, Taos, NM 87571. More information and registration here.

The second session at the Harwood Museum of Art on January 26th at 2pm will bring together fellow artists and friends who knew Luchita during her part-time residency in Taos. Luchita Hurtado’s friends and fellow artists Ron Cooper, Cynthia Patterson, Happy Price, and Hank Saxe will share their memories and reflect on her legacy. The conversation will be moderated by Nicole Dial-Kay, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Harwood Museum.

About Luchita Hurtado
Born in Maiquetía, Venezuela, in 1920, Luchita Hurtado committed almost eighty years of her art practice to the research of universality and transcendence. Expanding her creative vocabulary through a coalescence of abstraction, mysticism, corporality, and landscape, the breadth of her work with unconventional techniques, materials, and styles testifies to the multicultural and experiential environments that molded her life and career.