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Join the Burchfield Penney Art Center for a meet-and-greet with Academy Award– and Golden Globe–nominated actress Ali MacGraw and director-screenwriter Mark J. Gordon before a screening of the award-winning documentary film Awakening in Taos, on Wednesday, May 3, at 6:00 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney auditorium. The screening is at 7:00 p.m. A Q&A with Ms. McGraw, Mr. Gordon, and Burchfield Penney head of collections Nancy Weekly will follow the film.

Tickets are free for the first 40 students, thanks to the support of Ilene and Peter Fleischmann. Tickets are $30 for not-yet members and $20 for Burchfield Penney members. Call 878-6011 for reservations. Space is limited.

Awakening in Taos is an award-winning documentary about the extraordinary life of Mabel Dodge Luhan, influential writer, solon hostess, patroness of the arts, and catalyst for cultural change. In 1917, she moved from Greenwich Village to Taos, New Mexico. Inspired by the native culture and distinctive landscape of Taos, she promoted a vision of social transformation. She broadcast this ideal by inviting to Taos many famous and iconoclastic artists, writers, and social activists—in her words, “the movers and shakers” of the early twentieth century—including D. H Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Willa Cather, John Collier, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Carl Jung.

For more information, please visit the Burchfield Penney website or Facebook page.