Casa San Ysidro: The Gutiérrez/Minge House

 

During the village-wide Corrales Harvest Festival, Casa San Ysidro welcomes you to celebrate not just the agricultural but also the historical roots of Corrales at the “Heart of Corrales Fiesta.” 

Photo by Louis Bledsoe

The c. 1875 home, restored and expanded by Dr. Ward Alan and Shirley Minge, combines traditional building techniques and architectural features that evoke New Mexico’s Spanish Colonial past. Located in the farming village of Corrales, just north of Albuquerque, the museum is listed on the State Register of Cultural Properties and El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail.

During the Festival

Casa San Ysidro’s Harvest Festival is a two-day event in conjunction with the Village of Corrales. This is the village’s largest festival and events are scattered throughout the town. At Casa San Ysidro, over 2,000 people are expected over the two-day period. Casa San Ysidro houses a collection of rare artifacts in a historic adobe home and multi-acre setting. This year, Casa San Ysidro will host a variety of activities, entertainment, and our famous heritage art show.

Every year we also celebrate the living traditions of New Mexico by highlighting the state’s finest artists helping to keep cultural arts relevant and vital today. Examples of retablos, santos, incrusted straw, tinwork, pottery, colchas, and jewelry are just some of the traditional heritage arts that will be demonstrated. Throughout the weekend, guests can visit with traditional artists from all across New Mexico as they sell and demonstrate their craft, learn about seed planting, take agricultural tours, produce ironwork with the local blacksmith, try traditional spinning and weaving, eat fresh baked horno bread, enjoy performances by local musicians, and much more. On September 28th and 29, from 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M., Casa will join with their Corrales neighbors in a free event to celebrate the fall harvest.

 

Harvest Festival Agenda

Saturday 9/28/204

10:00 – 4:00                 Heritage Artists Market

10:00 – 12:00              Acoma Pueblo Enchantment Dancers

12:00 – 2:00                 North Valley Tune Tanglers

Sunday 9/29/2023

10:00 – 4:00                Heritage Artists Market

10:00 – 12:00             Lara Manzanares

12:00 – 2:00               Acoma Pueblo Enchantment Dancers

 

Check back again as we add more artists

Dolores Martin Pottery & Weaving
Carol Lucero Gachupin Jemez Pueblo Pottery
Rosalie Chavez San Felipe Pueblo Pottery
Kat Leon Acoma Acoma Pueblo Pottery
Diane Wilhoite Loom Weaving
Myra Chang Thompson Spanish Colonial Weaving
Carla Wackenheim Knitting, Spinning, Weaving
Jason Younis Y Delgado Tinwork
Jerry Montoya Crosses and Retablos
Juan Lopez Filigree Jewelry
Charlie Carillo Santos and Retablos

 

  • Martina Rosetta: Horno Baked Bread and Pies
  • Acoma Pueblo Enchantment Dancers: Traditional & Contemporary Dances of Acoma Pueblo*
  • Dave Sabo: Blacksmith
  • Las Aranas: Spinning and Weaving Guild
  • Felix Lopez: Santero Bulto & Retablo Demonstrations
  • Crissa Lopez: Santero Bulto & Retablo Demonstrations
  • Jerry Montoya: Tinwork Demonstrations
  • Larry Marken: Heritage Games
  • Ronald Lah: Antiques
  • Joseph Lopez: Santero Bulto & Retablo Demonstrations
  • Jacob White: Rio Grande Return**

*The Pueblo of Acoma Enchantment Dancers

The Pueblo of Acoma Enchantment Dancers are from the Pueblo of Acoma. The pueblo sits atop a 360-foot sandstone mesa, and is approximately 60 miles west of Albuquerque. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States (along with Hopi pueblos).

The group has been together since 1981 originally as the “Acoma Intercultural Dancers” directed by the late Alden Keyope. The group is now directed by second generation Johnathan Keyope who is now teaching third generation family and extended family members.

They perform traditional and contemporary dances of Acoma and Hopi pueblo. Johnathan and his group believe in sharing and educating their culture and to ensure the survival of the Acoma Keresan language, and traditions among the youth.

The main dance of the group is the buffalo dance. This dance celebrates an upcoming and successful hunt. As a social dance it is shared to bring peace, harmony, and unity among the people throughout Mother Earth.

**Rio Grande Return

Rio Grande Return will offer hands-on seed-focused activities to deepen our relationship with native plants and their ecological and cultural importance. Build a pinch pot from clay for wild seeds. Help clean wild seeds for use in habitat restoration. Learn about ongoing opportunities to help.

 

  • Heritage Artist Market
  • Heritage Field Tours
  • Traditional Arts Demonstrations
  • Horno Baked Bread
  • Blacksmith
  • Spinning and Weaving
  • Tinwork
  • Heritage Games
  • Children’s Activities
  • Live Music