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Mysteries of the Sand @ White Sands National Monument

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Nov 29 all-day

I’m careening among huge sand dunes, and hanging on for dear life. Not that Patrick Martinez, a polite and gracious biotechnician, has suddenly gone loco behind the wheel of his Polaris ATV. It’s just that White Sands National Monument, where he works, seems to bring out another side to everything. Normally dark lizards get a curious hankering to turn pale. Typically squat yuccas gloat atop 30-foot stalks—until the sand shifts below and they topple over. During summer storms, fairy shrimp, dormant for decades, spring to life in impromptu lakes. Out on the flats, prehistoric camel tracks drift like hallucinations into the shimmering distance. If you thought White Sands was just an inland beach, think again. True, thousands of folks visit the monument near Alamogordo each year to romp among the drifts, camp beneath a Cyclops moon, or sneak a peek at celebs such as model Kendall Jenner doing photo shoots. But the open-air laboratory is full of scientific surprises that seem to reveal themselves with every shifting dune. Like this one: Archaeologists recently discovered footprints left by fearless—and undoubtedly hungry—prehistoric humans as they hunted an eight-foot-tall, razor-clawed, and very cantankerous sloth. These breakthroughs about what’s called the “White Sands trackway,” vividly recounted through ranger-guided tours and a new visitor-center exhibit, show that this ivory sea has always teemed with scrappy life. Today, my exuberant crew is only adding to the legend. As Martinez bounces up and down the hills, biologist David Bustos, his co-worker, can barely stifle a grin in the seat next to me. Who can blame him? Few places on earth are more eternally eccentric. We stop and Bustos snugs his sunglasses against the crystalline glare. “People just see dunes,” he says. “But even 10 years ago, we didn’t know that we possibly have one of the largest concentrations of Ice Age megafauna footprints in America. It’s very dynamic, and all of this stuff is changing the way people think about the past.” AT ROUGHLY 275 SQUARE MILES, White Sands ranks as the world’s largest gypsum dune field, extending beyond the monument’s boundaries. Topographical maps are a waste of time here. Young dunes can ramble almost 40 feet in a single year and soar 60 feet above the desert floor. Crazier still, the whole white desert is held together by water. To make this point, we stop alongside a gray metal tube poking out of the ground. Bustos kneels, screws a cap off the tube, and measures the groundwater level. It’s just inches below us. He scrapes back a bit of sand with his glove, baring gypsum that is moist and hard. “This shallow aquifer keeps the dunes in place,” he explains. “If there wasn’t this high water table, they would just dry out and blow away. People don’t think there’s any water here, but actually there’s water everywhere.” And where there is water, there is ever-changing life. Like Darwin’s Galápagos Islands, White Sands is an evolutionary petri dish. Among animals, the key adaptation is to get white. That allows them to hide from predators and stay cooler in the summer heat. From the 1920s to the 1960s, researchers discovered at least seven species that had turned permanently light-colored within the dunes, even as their cousins on the outside remained dark. “We have an animal from nearly every class of vertebrate that has adapted to White Sands,” Bustos says. HOW DO YOU CREATE an enormous gypsum dune field? It helps if you’ve got 250 million years to work on it. That’s how long ago gypsum sediments began settling in a shallow, inland sea here. About 10 million years ago, those sediments were thrust upward, creating the San Andres and Sacramento Mountains, which ring today’s Tularosa Basin. Every time it rains, the water carries that gypsum down once more, replenishing the dunes.

What results is a quirky tango between geology and biology. “It’s one of the only places in the world where you can see a succession from rock or crystal to sand to dune,” says Bustos, “and every step along this process has these little micro-habitats and niches in the ecosystem. So the bacteria, the microbes, the plants, the animals—everything changes dramatically.”

Increasingly, scientists are tracing this evolutionary drama straight back through millennia. “Recently, we’ve been finding thousands and thousands of fossilized footprints of mammoths and camels, dire wolves and sloths,” Bustos says. “What drew all those creatures is the same thing that draws them today: There was always water here. This was one of the largest wetlands in the prehistoric Southwest. In the 1970s, in a roundabout way, those wetlands also drew the attention of archaeologist and longtime NMSU professor Peter Eidenbach. I meet with him on the breezy patio of a hilltop Alamogordo coffee shop, exquisite views of the cloud-dappled Tularosa Basin spreading far below us. He looks to be the quintessential desert sage, with round glasses and a rangy beard that dances in the wind. Within that world’s biggest gypsum deposit, he says, lies “some of the most intact prehistoric archaeology around”—beyond mammoth bones and camel prints. On a survey by horseback in 1973, he and a colleague put the ancient Jornada Mogollon people on the map by unearthing 65 campfire sites they’d left behind from 500 BC to AD 1450. The Jornada “was a culture that developed right in place from the archaic people of an earlier period,” Eidenbach says. “They were hunting populations, Paleo Indian people who were adapted to the Chihuahuan Desert.” But as the environment changed and grasslands withered, the Jornada Mogollon were forced to change as well. “Instead of hunting big game, like mammoths, American camels, early horses, and ground sloths,” he says, “they started to explore mountains. At some point, around 4,000 years ago, they obtained corn from Mexico and started to grow it as a supplementary crop. Then, as their population grew, they had to intensify their agriculture. So they developed villages along major arroyos, used dry-land irrigation, and started developing pottery—brown ware, red on brown—along with various polychromes.” They also left behind an abundance of rock art—intriguing images of people, animals, and symbols still visible at the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, 20 miles north of Tularosa—a perfect spot to ponder this vanished culture. All of which begs the question: Where did they go? Eidenbach sighs and sips his coffee; among archaeologists, this is the million-dollar question. “Well,” he says, “I think as the climate changed in the 14th and 15th centuries, that’s when the Great Plains became full of bison. Hunting is a lot easier than farming. I think these people largely migrated eastward and went buffalo hunting.” BY COMPARISON, TODAY’S visitors to White Sands National Monument—established by Herbert Hoover in 1933—have a cakewalk, especially if they choose to go in cooler-weather months. (Take the warm-weather warnings about adequate hydration and a shady hat seriously.) The ADA-accessible Interdune Boardwalk stretches a few feet above the sand and is dotted by excellent tutorials on plants, animals, and the old lakebed’s restless nature. The Dune Life Nature Trail moves the tale forward, traversing what’s called an “ecotone,” or the meeting place between desert scrub and gypsum dunes. There you might see the “tail trail” of the Cowles prairie lizard that disappears in a flurry of sand, and the crescent indentations of an Apache pocket mouse, scurrying to the nearest sumac bush. You could spot the fierce splay of a roadrunner’s feet, or paw prints from a lonely coyote climbing some wind-scalloped slope. All of these clues are delicate, soon to be swallowed by shifting sands. Back at the Polaris, Bustos describes the entire dune field as a living organism, which aids in its preservation and keeps it from being loved to death by visitors. “The dunes move so fast that any impact upon them is minimal,” he says. As the sun gets higher, he glances at the surrounding white slopes and gets philosophical. “You know, this has been a place of life for humans and animals for thousands and thousands of years, and we’re just starting to understand how diverse it is,” he says. “It’s such a strange, complex place. It seems very simple until you start inspecting it a little bit and then it’s like Holy cow. It’s too much.” Martinez looks around and nods in agreement. Then he fires up the Polaris. We climb aboard and roar off into this mischievous sea of white.

INTO THE GREAT WHITE OPEN Now in its 85th year, White Sands National Monument sits in southern New Mexico between Alamogordo and Las Cruces, either of which offers plenty of lodging and eating options. The monument is open daily except Christmas. Call ahead or check its Facebook page; it closes for tests at the nearby White Sands Missile Range. Gates open at 7 a.m.; visitors must leave by nightfall (6 p.m., November 4–December 24). Admission is $5 a person, free for ages 15 and under. Primitive campsite permits are an extra $3 a person, $1.50 for ages 15 and under. You can drive up to 16 miles in a loop to view the dunes. Feel free to hike, sled, or ride a bike on them as well. Dogs on leashes, horses, and other pack animals are welcome, too. On November 1 and 4, tag along on guided sunset strolls. Tours of Lake Lucero Tours of Lake Lucero are on November 3 and 24 and December 29. The visitor center has information about the region’s geology, biology, and more, along with snacks and drinks.

MURDER IN THE DESERT A vanished colonel in White Sands is at the heart of New Mexico’s longest unsolved mystery. One crisp morning in February 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, an influential New Mexico lawyer, was heading home to Mesilla from Lincoln with his eight-year-old son, Henry. Near the territory’s vast White Sands, they vanished. The colonel’s buckboard wagon was found, along with plenty of blood. No bodies were ever recovered. Fountain was a big wheel in New Mexico, having served as speaker of the House of Representatives and helped to found what would become New Mexico State University. Most recently, he’d served as chief investigator for the Southeastern New Mexico Stock Growers Association, which led him to seek cattle-rustling indictments against Tularosa Basin ranchers Oliver Lee and Jim Gilliland. He’d been in Lincoln working on the case, which immediately cast suspicion on the two men. Some three years after Fountain’s disappearance, they were charged with murder, along with an associate who was later dropped from the case. It was the O.J. trial of its day. Sheriff Pat Garrett investigated it. Thomas B. Catron, one of the land speculators of the Santa Fe Ring, prosecuted it. Leading the defense: Albert Bacon Fall, a Fountain rival who would later face national shame in the Teapot Dome Scandal. The trial was moved to Hillsboro, near modern-day Truth or Consequences, to escape the pro-and-con passions of locals. Still, Fall didn’t hesitate to play on Tularosa sentiments favoring Lee. “The sympathy of the local community, particularly the ladies, is now with the defendants,” trumpeted the Albuquerque Journal-Democrat. Those sentiments proved insurmountable. The two defendants were acquitted. Resentments still linger, says Jean Killer, museum curator for the Tularosa Basin Historical Society, in Alamogordo. “It depends upon which side of the mountain you come from,” she says. “If you come from the Tularosa Basin, there is very positive support of Oliver Lee in the Fountain activities—they say he had nothing to do with it. But if you’re in the Doña Ana County area where Fountain was from, it’s an entirely different story.” Story shared from NewMexico.org https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/white-sands/?fbclid=IwAR3N5HkFhD0P-Xvt8MgR3KLdC35n2VSszPWDH_C8Uk_t15Ukeu0k2h2K0b0

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N.M. Most Heightened Public Health Restrictions

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Nov 29 all-day

N.M. is Re-Enacting Most Heightened Level of Statewide Public Health Restrictions

Essential businesses identified as “retail spaces” may not exceed either 25 percent of the maximum occupancy as determined by the relevant fire marshal or more than 75 customers in the business space at any given time, whichever is lesser – a previous version of this release mistakenly listed the number of customers as 100. Please note that the public health order states 75 customers – New Mexicans and media are encouraged to refer to the public health order itself.

New Mexicans instructed to shelter in place through Nov. 30 Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state health officials on Friday announced the state of New Mexico will temporarily re-enact a statewide order closing in-person services for all non-essential activities in order to blunt the unprecedented spike of COVID-19 illnesses and to attempt to relieve dramatically escalating strain on hospitals and health care providers across the state. The heightened restrictions statewide, enacted through an amended emergency public health order issued by the state Department of Health, will be in effect for two weeks. The restrictions are effective Monday, Nov. 16, through Monday, Nov. 30. The amended emergency public health order is attached to this news release. New Mexicans are instructed to stay at home except for only those trips that are essential to health, safety and welfare – such as for food and water, emergency medical care, to obtain a flu shot or to obtain a test for COVID-19. Essential businesses – such as grocery stores, pharmacies, shelters, child care facilities, gas stations, infrastructure operations and others – must minimize operations and in-person staffing to the greatest extent possible but may remain open for limited essential in-person activities. A complete list of categories of businesses defined as essential is included in the public health order and at the bottom of this news release. Food and drink establishments may provide curbside pickup and delivery services; on-site dining is prohibited. A retail space identified as an essential business in the public health order – such as a grocery store, a hardware store, an automobile or bike repair facility, laundromats, liquor stores and large “big box” retailers — may not exceed either 25 percent of maximum occupancy or 75 customers at any one time, whichever is smaller. These essential retail spaces must close by 10 p.m. nightly and may reopen at 4 a.m. The worsening state of emergency throughout New Mexico necessitates severe public health restrictions as the state records unsustainable rates of new infections of COVID-19 and hospitals throughout the state approach or exceed capacity for bed availability and staffing resources. New Mexico’s rolling 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases is 1,012, nearly 10 times greater than the state’s target for a safe “reopening” process. The total COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state have risen at least 214 percent over the most recent four weeks. The state has recorded 182 COVID-19 deaths over the past two weeks, a record over the course of the pandemic, and a 143 percent increase over the prior two-week period. According to the state Department of Health, 17 percent of New Mexicans who have been hospitalized for COVID-19 have died, or almost one in five. There are at least 471 individuals hospitalized for COVID-19 in the state as of Thursday, Nov. 12; the number may be higher pending patient test results and state reporting. “The rate of spread and the emergency within our state hospitals are clear indicators that we cannot sustain the current situation without significant interventions to modify individual behavior,” said Gov. Lujan Grisham. “We had hoped targeted crackdowns, limited hours of operation and amplified messaging and enforcement would make the difference and slow the spread and relieve our hospitals. The public health data make clear, however, that more aggressive restrictions are not only warranted but essential if we are to prevent mass casualties. Without the compliance and cooperation of New Mexicans statewide, we do not need to imagine the bleak public health calamity we will face – the images from El Paso the last few weeks, from New York City earlier this year, and from Europe at the outset of the pandemic will be our fate in New Mexico. But we can prevent this. These warnings are intended to inform, not alarm. There are simple steps each of us can and must take. Stay at home. Wear your mask if you must go out. Do not gather with non-household members. Wash or sanitize your hands frequently. Make plans for a different kind of Thanksgiving – one without non-household members. Please, take every necessary precaution to protect yourself, your family, your community and your state. If we do that, we will be able to resume more day-to-day activities soon, and more importantly we will save the lives of hundreds of New Mexicans.” The state has developed a tiered county-by-county system that will be used to establish “re-opening” benchmarks for each county upon the Nov. 30 expiration of the amended emergency public health order. State health officials and modeling advisors are readying this system for implementation, which would permit counties the flexibility to engage in more in-person and business activities with Department of Health approval when they are able to drive down infection rates and prevent community outbreaks. Businesses face a civil administrative penalty of up to $5,000 a day for each violation of the Public Health Emergency Response Act, the state law authorizing the secretary of health to issue emergency public health orders. STATE RESOURCES

For information about COVID-19 testing and other public health information, call the Department of Health coronavirus hotline at 1-855-600-3453. You may also visit cv.nmhealth.org for general COVID-19 information and togethernm.org for COVID-19 testing information.
For mental health and behavioral health assistance, call 1-855-NMCRISIS (1-855-662-7474) or visit www.nmcrisisline.com.
For assistance with COVID-19 health insurance questions and issues, to obtain health insurance, to obtain help if you have been denied coverage or inappropriately charged for COVID-19 testing or treatment, call the New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance COVID-19 health insurance call center at 1-833-415-0566 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
For information about unemployment, visit jobs.state.nm.us and youtube.com/nmdws.
To apply online for medical assistance (Medicaid), food assistance (SNAP), cash assistance (TANF) and energy assistance (LIHEAP) visit yes.state.nm.us.
To report a violation of the state’s emergency public health order, visit the reporting portal on newmexico.gov or email covid.enforcement@state.nm.us.
For emergency medical assistance, do not call the Department of Health information hotline – call 9-1-1.

IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH REMINDERS

The state Department of Health reminds New Mexicans of the following:
If you feel sick, do not leave your home. If you feel any symptoms of COVID-19, seek out a COVID-19 test. Testing sites and hours are available at cv.nmhealth.org and togethernm.org.
Please be patient after receiving your COVID-19 test. As cases rise, so does demand for testing. After you receive your COVID-19 test, monitor yourself for symptoms. If you are having symptoms or tested because of an exposure, you should assume that you are infectious and self-isolate even if your symptoms resolve. You can spread the virus without knowing you are positive and without having symptoms.
If you test positive for COVID-19, do not leave your home to do errands or to see friends. If you are infected with COVID-19, you must not leave your home unless you are seeking out emergency medical care.
If you need emergency medical care, call 9-1-1, not the Department of Health information hotline.

ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES:

Essential businesses may operate during the next two weeks if they reduce their operations and in-person workforce to the greatest extent possible. Essential businesses, as defined in the state of New Mexico’s operative emergency public health order, means any business or non-profit entity falling within one or more of the following categories:
Health care operations including hospitals, walk-in-care health facilities, pharmacies, medical wholesale and distribution, home health care workers or aides for the elderly, emergency dental facilities, nursing homes, residential health care facilities, research facilities, congregate care facilities, intermediate care facilities for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, supportive living homes, home health care providers, drug and alcohol recovery support services, and medical supplies and equipment manufacturers and providers;
Homeless shelters, food banks, and other services providing care to indigent or needy populations;
Childcare facilities;
Grocery stores, supermarkets, food banks, farmers’ markets and vendors who sell food, convenience stores, and other businesses that generate the majority of their revenue from the sale of canned food, dry goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, pet food, feed, other animal supply stores, fresh meats, fish, and poultry, and any other household consumer products;
Farms, ranches, and other food cultivation, processing, or packaging operations;
Infrastructure operations including, but not limited to, public works construction, commercial and residential construction and maintenance, self-storage facilities, airport operations, public transportation, airlines, taxis, private transportation providers, transportation network companies, water, gas, electrical, oil drilling, oil refining, natural resources extraction or mining operations, nuclear material research and enrichment, those attendant to the repair and construction of roads and highways, gas stations, solid waste collection and removal, trash and recycling collection, processing and disposal, sewer, data and internet providers, data centers, technology support operations, and telecommunications systems;
Manufacturing operations involved in food processing, manufacturing agents, chemicals, fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, sanitary products, household paper products, microelectronics/semi-conductor, primary metals manufacturers, electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturers, and transportation equipment manufacturers;
Services necessary to maintain the safety and sanitation of residences or essential businesses including security services, towing services, custodial services, plumbers, electricians, and other skilled trades;
Veterinary and livestock services, animal shelters and facilities providing pet adoption, daycare, or boarding services;
Media services;
Automobile repair facilities, bike repair facilities, and retailers who generate the majority of their revenue from the sale of automobile or bike repair products;
Utilities, including their contractors, suppliers, and supportive operations, engaged in power generation, fuel supply and transmission, water and wastewater supply;
Hardware stores, “big box” stores, and other large retailers;
Laundromats and dry cleaner services;
Crematoriums, funeral homes and cemeteries;
Banks, credit unions, insurance providers, payroll services, brokerage services, and investment management firms;
Businesses providing mailing and shipping services;
Laboratories and defense and national security-related operations supporting the United States government, a contractor to the United States government, or any federal entity;
Professional services, such as legal or accounting services, but only where necessary to assist in compliance with legally mandated activities; and
Logistics, and also businesses that store, transport, or deliver groceries, food, materials, goods or services directly to residences, retailers, government institutions, or essential businesses.

RETAIL SPACES: Retail spaces that are identified as essential businesses may operate in a limited fashion. An essential business identified as a “retail space” – such as hardware stores, automobile and bike repair facilities, laundromats, dry cleaner services, grocery stores, convenience stores, food banks and large “big-box” retail spaces – may not exceed either 25 percent of the maximum occupancy as determined by the relevant fire marshal or more than 100 customers in the business space at any given time, whichever is lesser. Essential retail spaces shall limit the sale of medications, durable medical equipment, baby formula, diapers, sanitary care products and hygiene products to three items per individual. These retail spaces must close each night at 10 p.m. and may reopen beginning at 4 a.m. CLOSE-CONTACT BUSINESSES: Close-contact businesses – such as barbershops, hair salons, gyms, group fitness classes, tattoo parlors, nail salons, spas, massage parlors, esthetician clinics, tanning salons, guided raft tours, guided balloon tours, bowling alleys, ice skating rinks, and personal training services – must reduce their in-person workforce at each business or business location by 100% through Nov. 30 for the duration of the public health order. CLOSE-CONTACT RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Close-contact recreational facilities – such as indoor movie theaters, indoor museums with interactive displays or exhibits and other similar venues, miniature golf, arcades, amusement parks, aquariums, casinos, concert venues, professional sports venues, event venues, bars, dance clubs, performance venues, go-kart courses, automobile race tracks, adult entertainment venues and other places of recreation or entertainment – must remain closed. HOUSES OF WORSHIP: Houses of worship may hold religious services, indoors or outdoors, or provide services through audiovisual means, but may not be used as a venue for non-religious events. “Houses of worship” may not exceed either 25 percent of the maximum occupancy of any enclosed building or 75 individuals at any one time, whichever is smaller. Houses of worship should err on the side of remote or audiovisual services during the current public health emergency. PLACES OF LODGING: Places of lodging – hotels, motels, RV parks, and short-term vacation rentals – that have completed the N.M. Safe Certified training offered at nmsafecertified.org may operate up to 25 percent of maximum occupancy. All other “places of lodging” must close. Healthcare providers who are engaged in the provision of care to New Mexico residents or individuals utilizing “places of lodging” for extended stays, as temporary housing, or for purposes of quarantining shall not be counted for purposes of determining maximum occupancy. OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Outdoor recreational facilities – such as outdoor golf courses, public swimming pools, outdoor tennis courts, ski basins, youth programs, youth livestock shows, u-pick produce operations and corn mazes, horse racing tracks, botanical gardens, outdoor zoos, and New Mexico state parks – will close for through Nov. 30 for the duration of the public health order. INDOOR MALLS: Indoor malls are closed. individual essential businesses with separate outdoor entrances may continue to operate to the extent otherwise permitted by the public health order. MASS GATHERINGS: Any gathering of more than five individuals is prohibited; this includes amateur youth sports. New Mexicans are instructed to remain at home except for only those trips that are essential for health, safety and welfare. A mass gathering does not include the presence of more than five individuals where those individuals regularly reside. A mass gathering also does not include individuals who are public officials or public employees in the course and scope of their employment.

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VIRTUAL Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe

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Nov 29 @ 12:00 AM – 11:45 PM

VIRTUAL Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe

April 29, 2020 – December 31, 2021 Alexander Girard was one of the most influential interior and textile designers of the 20th century. Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe is the first major retrospective on Girard’s work, organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. With this new VIRTUAL TOUR open a door to his creative universe and shows his close relationships with contemporaries such as Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Andy Warhol, Rudi Gernreich, and many others. Featured are Girard’s designs in textiles, furniture, and sculptures, as well as numerous sketches, drawings, and collages never shown before. Girard was also a pivotal figure in the history of the Museum of International Folk Art, donating more than 100,000 objects from his and his wife Susan’s folk art collection, and in 1981 creating the museum’s long-term, beloved exhibition Multiple Visions. Girard’s playful designs attest to a passion for colors, ornamentation, and inspirations from folk art. A Designer’s Universe was on view at the Museum of International Folk Art May 5, 2019 – October 27, 2019. Now you can experience this exhibition virtually by taking the tour below: VIRTUAL EXHIBIT TOUR WATCH Installation Timelaspe Video Read:

Spoon to City by Laura Addison, El Palacio Magazine. Summer 2019… Alexander Girard’s genius: tasty, urbane, and infinitely scalable.
When Georgia Met Sandro by Kate Nelson, El Palacio Magazine. Summer 2019…Embers of a fabled friendship shimmer on.
A Dazzling Denizen by Jess Mullaly, El Palacio Magazine. Spring 2019…Alexander Girard made himself at home in the world, and made many worlds of his own.

Coinciding with the traveling retrospective, the Museum of International Folk Art enhanced the visitor experience of its Girard collection exhibition, Multiple Visions, through interpretive and interactive elements designed for the 21st century. Photo: Design for matchboxes of the restaurant La Fonda del Sol, Alexander Girard, 1960 / Alexander Girard Estate, Vitra Design Museum. View Online Exhibition Site

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Bandelier National Monument @ Bandelier National Monument

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Nov 29 @ 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Bandelier Open on Thanksgiving, December Solstice Walk, holiday hours, Fee Free days 2020. With the holidays and 2020 approaching, Bandelier National Monument is offering news on upcoming events, both this year and next. First on the list, Bandelier National Monument will be open, with Visitor Center hours 9 AM – 2 PM on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 28, 2019. While many locations throughout the area are closed, the public is welcome to come to the park in the morning while the turkey is cooking, or in the afternoon to walk off some of their holiday feast. On Sunday, December 21st, join a ranger for a winter solstice sunrise or sunset walk at 7am and 1:30pm, Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year and the point on the calendar when the days begin to lengthen again. Many peoples all over the world have recognized the solstices and built markers into structures or found them in the surrounding landscape. The Ancestral Pueblo people in Frijoles Canyon may have built parts of Tyuonyi, the large pueblo on the canyon bottom, in alignment with the sunrise and sunset of the Winter Solstice. The ranger walks will greet the sunrise and sunset to view the possible alignments. Both walks will meet in front of the visitor center in Frijoles Canyon. The times are a reminder that sunrise and sunset happen at different times in the bottom of the 400-foot-deep canyon than they do in the wide open landscapes on the mesa tops. No signups are required for these walks, but participants should be sure to dress warmly. If the sky is overcast, the walks will be held the following day. Weather permitting, Bandelier will be open every day through the holidays and almost certainly there will be many visitors coming to walk the trails and enjoy the sights. As Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott said, “If the days are mild and sunny, we expect lots of visitors. We ask everyone to stay on the trails and take good care of this fragile place that belongs to everyone.” When it snows, be sure to call the park visitor center to check on trail conditions or possible delayed opening hours. The Visitor Center, book store and administrative offices in Frijoles Canyon will be closed on December 25 and January 1. The cafe, Sirphey in the Canyon, is expected to open March 2020. Looking ahead to the new year, The National Park Service will have five entrance fee-free days in 2020. On each of these significant days of celebration or commemoration, all national parks will waive entrance fees. The dates for 2020 are: ● Monday, January 20 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ● Saturday, April 18 – First Day of National Park Week/National Junior Ranger Day ● Tuesday, August 25 – National Park Service Birthday ● Saturday, September 26 – National Public Lands Day ● Wednesday, November 11 – Veterans Day For details or information, contact the Bandelier Visitor Center at 505-672-3861 x 517, check the website at www.nps.gov/band, or follow the park Facebook page at BandelierNPS. About the National Park Service. More than 20,000 National Park Service employees who care for America’s more than 417 national parks and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities. Visit us at http://www.nps.gov

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MOVE FOR HUNGER FOOD DRIVE HOSTED BY BEASTLY BOOKS

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Nov 29 @ 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

MOVE FOR HUNGER FOOD DRIVE HOSTED BY BEASTLY BOOKS

November 8th to 22nd from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM Did you know that 1 in 4 children in New Mexico are food insecure and during this time, those numbers are only growing? MOVE FOR HUNGER FOOD DRIVE HOSTED BY BEASTLY BOOKS NEEDS YOUR HELP. Join us at Beastly Books as we host a “Move for Hunger” food drive Nov. 8th to the 22nd. Help us provide the children of New Mexico with a Thanksgiving day meal! The donation boxes will be located outside Beastly Books, 418 Montezuma Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501. They will be outside from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Nov. 8th to the 22nd. Please see our website or social media platforms for the list of acceptable non-perishable items. Here is a list of items most needed… MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DONATIONS PLEASE VISIT BEASTLY BOOKS

What is food insecurity and what does it look like in America?

Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. Food-insecure households are not necessarily food insecure all the time. Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between important basic needs, such as housing or medical bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods. Select your state and county from our interactive map above and start learning more about your neighbors struggling with hunger and the food banks that serve them. Read more about the findings of Map the Meal Gap in our report briefs, access local food insecurity data or learn about our methodology.

In New Mexico, 315,990 people are struggling with hunger – and of them 114,180 are children.

1 in 7 people struggles with hunger. While 1 in 4 children struggles with hunger.

People facing hunger in New Mexico are estimated to report needing $155,654,000 more per year to meet their food needs. The average cost of a meal in New Mexico is $2.91.

Data from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap 2020 study.

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Femme Sugar Coated Strange @ Pop Gallery

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Nov 29 @ 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Welcome back to our Annual POP Femme Sugar Coated Strange Show at Pop Gallery Santa Fe. The Women of New Brow and Contemporary Art

Opens Nov 6th thru December 31st

As we round the corner into our 14th year as Santa Fe’s premiere New Brow Contemporary gallery and Femme Sugar Coated Strange Show.

We are extremely pleased to continue the tradition we established in 2008, with our first International juried POP Femme exhibition of amazingly talented and unrelenting women.

Introducing oddments by Virginia Lincoln, moth fabric sculpture from Larysa Bernhardt, and surreal photo collages by Corinne Geertsen among others.

Past exhibitions included: cute & creepy works by Carrie Ann Baade, Marie Sena, Kathie Olivas, Jennybird Alcantara, Kristen Margiotta, Catherine Brooks, Valerie Milovic, Renee Lawter, Kate Samuels, Artist Sisters Miss Mindy & CJ Metzger, Kari Lise-Alexander, Vahge, Jen Musatto, Amy Huddleston, Jenny Berry, Tammi Steele-Otis, Juli Adams, Phresha LaVandel, Aunia Kahn, Rudy Fig, Brenda Dunn, Laurie Mika, Sophia Torres, Anna Rivera, Patricia Aguilar, D. Gunther-Brown, June Valentine-Ruppe, and Zoe Williams among others.

November 6 – December 31, 2020

Pop Santa Fe 125 Lincoln Ave. Santa Fe, NM 87501 10 am – 6 pm

(505) 820-0788

http://www.popsantafe.com/

About Pop

Clifford Bailey (editions) Sushi Komasa, GICLEE on canvas edition: 50 24 x 32 in

Established in 2007 as New Mexico’s first cutting edge gallery, Pop continues to raise the bar locally and draw established and emerging New Brow Contemporary artists to Santa Fe from around the world. Our vision is rooted in providing art lovers with a thought provoking alternative. Rising from the underground world of tattooing and graffiti, comics, cartoons, pop art, illustration, and surrealist artists, the art showcased feeds of the blend of influences and energies well cemented in today’s culture. In essence, Pop Gallery continues to represent a celebration of mediums and ideas, the dynamic union between independence and spirit, the emergence of sub-culture on a contemporary platform. With over 25 years in the Santa Fe and international art world, founders Michael & Sharla McDowell, were collecting art not yet represented in our hometown Santa Fe, which was long thought one of the top three art markets in the US. Paying It Forward: As Santa Feans we recognize the importance of the arts and charity in our community. We partner with local literacy organizations, charities/events such as Assistance Dogs of The West, The Santa Fe Childrens Museum, Project 236, Read Across America, NM-NEA, Gerards House, Under Dog Rescue, The Adaptive Ski Program, Buckaroo Ball, Meds and Food for Kids, Bienvenidos Outreach and Southwest C.A.R.E. Center among others. A portion of every sale at Pop Gallery goes directly back into our art community through charitable donations. Our gallery space is available for private events, filming, photoshoots, corporate or post production parties, and social networking of any type. Gallery Space: 1300 Sq ft, access to lot and street parking Available for hourly, half day, full days, and weekly. Starting at $500 daily…Call Sharla for more information 505-820-0788. Artist Submissions: We are currently committed however do periodically review submissions from New Brow Contemporary artists not currently represented in Santa Fe. Given that decisions are not made on site, and that gallery hours are reserved for clients and retail operations, we will not consider artists who call or stop by the gallery. Thank you for understanding the gallery receives many artist submissions each week and it takes awhile to review and respond to them and sometimes, we cannot get to all of them. If we feel your work is a particular fit we will contact you for an interview. Send high quality images of current and past work with full captions, your artist statement and complete CV that includes your education, exhibitions, gallery representations, awards, teaching, collections and publications. Include your website if you have one and complete contact information including mailing address, email and phone. Please mail submissions to: POP Gallery 125 Lincoln Avenue Suite 111 Santa Fe, NM 87501 or e-mail to artinfo@popsantafe.com with Artist Submission in the subject line. Emails with images or link only will be discarded as spam. Please do not contact us by Facebook, which is maintained by intern staff. We will respond if we feel the work meets our criteria for an interview. Due to the heavy volume of submissions regretfully we cannot respond to all submissions.Thank you- POP Gallery Merchant Return Policy: ALL SALES ARE FINAL, no exchanges, returns or refunds.

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Santa Fe Billboard Project @ SITE Santa Fe

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Nov 29 @ 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

SITE Santa Fe’s Billboard Project began in 2017 with the opening of SITE’s new building. Bridging the gap between the museum and the public, the Billboard Project introduces art into public space and invites community engagement. NINA ELDER Adaptations from the Incomplete List series, 2018 New Mexico-based artist and researcher Nina Elder creates work that examines geologic time, the influence of human activity on the environment, and changing cultures and ecologies. Elder’s Incomplete Lists are a part of her ongoing investigation into the act of bearing witness, and reflections on her personal experience of interdisciplinary research. The process begins by trying to answer questions, as exhaustively as possible, in one sitting. For example: What is fleeting? What might offer protection? What is sensitive? Elder then rearranges the words until there is no hierarchy and no pattern. These lists function both as drawings and as poems. An Incomplete List of Things That Are Sensitive is depicted against a photo of cracked Indiana limestone, referencing Elder’s ongoing research into quarries, mines, and human interruptions into geologic time. An Incomplete List of Things That Protect shows the artist’s hand covered in a fine yellow powder, a mysterious substance that speaks of toxicity. After discovering that many science museums create fake uranium specimens for display, Elder began working with synthetic uranium as well as radioactive charcoal in her visual explorations of the atomic legacy. An Incomplete List of Things That Are Fleeting depicts an island of the Southeastern coast of Alaska. This island, an important site for hunting, fishing and seaweed gathering for the Tlingit and Haida peoples, will soon be inaccessible due to rising oceans. SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501

Mon – Tue Lobby + SITElab Closed Main Galleries Closed

SITE’s Main galleries are closed for installation until March 21. Our SITElab and Lobby hours are:

Wed 10-5 pm SITElab + Lobby Open

Thu 10-5 pm SITElab + Lobby Open

Fri: 10-5 pm SITElab + Lobby Open

Sat 10-5 pm SITElab + Lobby Open

Sun 12-5 pm SITElab + Lobby Open

1606 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 505 989 1199

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Yokai: Ghost and Demons @ International Folk Art Musuem

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Nov 29 @ 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) is currently planning the exhibition, Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan, which is scheduled to open on December 7, 2019. Vivid in Japanese art and imagination are creatures that are at once ghastly and comical. Yokai generally refers to demons, ghosts, shapeshifters, and “strange” and supernatural beings. Specific creatures are commonly associated with classical literature, folklore, theatrical performances, festivals, art, and other forms of expressive culture. Yokai are also prevalent in contemporary Japanese popular culture; you find them in manga (comics), anime (animation), and character-based games such as Pokémon (“pocket monster”). Narrative arts such as Muromachi Period scroll paintings, Edo Period woodblock prints, and contemporary folk art that depict or involve yokai will illustrate their eerie tales. Ghost and demon characters also appear in classical theatrical performances and special festival events. Contemporary Noh masks and festival costumes and the artists who make them will be a particular exhibition highlight. Toys, games, comic books, and cartoons will connect the past to the present, and the classical to the popular in terms of visual arts and culture. In addition to participatory gallery crafts, the exhibition will include an immersive, family-friendly obake yashiki (a Japanese “ghost house”), a popular form of entertainment in Japanese amusement parks. For more information, contact Felicia Katz-Harris at 505-476-1221 or felicia.katz-harris@state.nm.us Photo: Tohoku District, Japan, ca.1960, Wood, paint, 3 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 13/16 in. (7.9 x 2.9 x 2.1 cm) Credit: Gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, Museum of International Folk Art; Photo by Addison Doty

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Mysteries of the Sand @ White Sands National Monument

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Nov 30 all-day

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N.M. Most Heightened Public Health Restrictions

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Nov 30 all-day

N.M. is Re-Enacting Most Heightened Level of Statewide Public Health Restrictions

For information about COVID-19 testing and other public health information, call the Department of Health coronavirus hotline at 1-855-600-3453. You may also visit cv.nmhealth.org for general COVID-19 information and togethernm.org for COVID-19 testing information.
For mental health and behavioral health assistance, call 1-855-NMCRISIS (1-855-662-7474) or visit www.nmcrisisline.com.
For assistance with COVID-19 health insurance questions and issues, to obtain health insurance, to obtain help if you have been denied coverage or inappropriately charged for COVID-19 testing or treatment, call the New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance COVID-19 health insurance call center at 1-833-415-0566 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
For information about unemployment, visit jobs.state.nm.us and youtube.com/nmdws.
To apply online for medical assistance (Medicaid), food assistance (SNAP), cash assistance (TANF) and energy assistance (LIHEAP) visit yes.state.nm.us.
To report a violation of the state’s emergency public health order, visit the reporting portal on newmexico.gov or email covid.enforcement@state.nm.us.
For emergency medical assistance, do not call the Department of Health information hotline – call 9-1-1.

IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH REMINDERS

The state Department of Health reminds New Mexicans of the following:
If you feel sick, do not leave your home. If you feel any symptoms of COVID-19, seek out a COVID-19 test. Testing sites and hours are available at cv.nmhealth.org and togethernm.org.
Please be patient after receiving your COVID-19 test. As cases rise, so does demand for testing. After you receive your COVID-19 test, monitor yourself for symptoms. If you are having symptoms or tested because of an exposure, you should assume that you are infectious and self-isolate even if your symptoms resolve. You can spread the virus without knowing you are positive and without having symptoms.
If you test positive for COVID-19, do not leave your home to do errands or to see friends. If you are infected with COVID-19, you must not leave your home unless you are seeking out emergency medical care.
If you need emergency medical care, call 9-1-1, not the Department of Health information hotline.

ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES:

Essential businesses may operate during the next two weeks if they reduce their operations and in-person workforce to the greatest extent possible. Essential businesses, as defined in the state of New Mexico’s operative emergency public health order, means any business or non-profit entity falling within one or more of the following categories:
Health care operations including hospitals, walk-in-care health facilities, pharmacies, medical wholesale and distribution, home health care workers or aides for the elderly, emergency dental facilities, nursing homes, residential health care facilities, research facilities, congregate care facilities, intermediate care facilities for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, supportive living homes, home health care providers, drug and alcohol recovery support services, and medical supplies and equipment manufacturers and providers;
Homeless shelters, food banks, and other services providing care to indigent or needy populations;
Childcare facilities;
Grocery stores, supermarkets, food banks, farmers’ markets and vendors who sell food, convenience stores, and other businesses that generate the majority of their revenue from the sale of canned food, dry goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, pet food, feed, other animal supply stores, fresh meats, fish, and poultry, and any other household consumer products;
Farms, ranches, and other food cultivation, processing, or packaging operations;
Infrastructure operations including, but not limited to, public works construction, commercial and residential construction and maintenance, self-storage facilities, airport operations, public transportation, airlines, taxis, private transportation providers, transportation network companies, water, gas, electrical, oil drilling, oil refining, natural resources extraction or mining operations, nuclear material research and enrichment, those attendant to the repair and construction of roads and highways, gas stations, solid waste collection and removal, trash and recycling collection, processing and disposal, sewer, data and internet providers, data centers, technology support operations, and telecommunications systems;
Manufacturing operations involved in food processing, manufacturing agents, chemicals, fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, sanitary products, household paper products, microelectronics/semi-conductor, primary metals manufacturers, electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturers, and transportation equipment manufacturers;
Services necessary to maintain the safety and sanitation of residences or essential businesses including security services, towing services, custodial services, plumbers, electricians, and other skilled trades;
Veterinary and livestock services, animal shelters and facilities providing pet adoption, daycare, or boarding services;
Media services;
Automobile repair facilities, bike repair facilities, and retailers who generate the majority of their revenue from the sale of automobile or bike repair products;
Utilities, including their contractors, suppliers, and supportive operations, engaged in power generation, fuel supply and transmission, water and wastewater supply;
Hardware stores, “big box” stores, and other large retailers;
Laundromats and dry cleaner services;
Crematoriums, funeral homes and cemeteries;
Banks, credit unions, insurance providers, payroll services, brokerage services, and investment management firms;
Businesses providing mailing and shipping services;
Laboratories and defense and national security-related operations supporting the United States government, a contractor to the United States government, or any federal entity;
Professional services, such as legal or accounting services, but only where necessary to assist in compliance with legally mandated activities; and
Logistics, and also businesses that store, transport, or deliver groceries, food, materials, goods or services directly to residences, retailers, government institutions, or essential businesses.

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