Dear BAG members,
Here is the info on New Mexico Women Authors’ Book Festival.
It will be expanded and placed downtown at the History museum complex.
Tom leech and the palace press will be hosting an exhibit of BAG artists' books!
Keep the dates open and start designing some exciting new work!!! this is a wonderful opportunity.
Your one of a kind or limited edition books can be for sale or NFS.
We are also hoping to have demonstrations and educational events.
If you would like to be on the planning committee or offer a workshop or demo please contact
This year’s New Mexico Women Authors’ Book Festival benefiting the Museum of New Mexico Foundation will be held September 30 through October 3, 2010 at the New Mexico History Museum. The festival celebrates the joy of reading and the creative power of New Mexico’s women writers. The program expands this year with a nationally known best-selling woman author kicking off the festival with a ticketed event Thursday evening, September 30 th at the NMHM Auditorium.
Friday, October 1st will be an educational day for authors with seminars throughout the day on a variety of subjects. These events will be programmed and supported by the NMWABF Author’s Committee. The author committee will help develop and coordinate the presentations that day.
On Saturday and Sunday, October 2nd and 3rd authors, who have been juried into the festival, will present in six different venues throughout the NMHM campus in 30 minute segments. We will present 100 authors over the two days in the different venues. Authors will be grouped by Fiction, History/Biography, Poetry, Food/Cooking, Creative Arts, Spirit/Health, Children and special topics. They will be presented in three tents in the Palace Courtyard, the auditorium, the Meem Community Room and the Learning Center. Book sales and author’s book signing will take place in the lobby of NMHM on both days. Additionally, music, food, and special presentations from the Palace Print Shop, Santa Fe’s Book Arts Group and the Fray Angelico Library will create a fun and educational event which expect to draw over 3,000 people the two days.
The New Mexico Women’s Author Book Festival is organized and produced by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops, part of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, through the MNMFShops initiative “New Mexico Creates”. The mission of the “New Mexico Creates” is to promote and strengthen New Mexican creative entrepreneurs, to offer visitors and New Mexico citizens the best of New Mexico created in New Mexico and to support the units of the Museum of New Mexico.
The New Mexico Creates initiative began in 2002 with 319 artists in the program. Last year the program had 925 artists in the program and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops purchased $972,000 from those authors, artists and artisans. Over the last five years the MNMFShops have purchase over $5,500,000 directly from these authors, artists and artisans helping build their livelihoods as well as contributing to the economy of New Mexico.
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