Doel Reed Center

Virtual Lecture Series

Confluences: Creativity and Culture in the Southwest: A Virtual Lectures Series

Celebrating 20 years of the Doel Reed Center

Register now to join us all year.

Martha Reed: A Life in Design with Lynn Boorady & Diane Limbaugh

January 22, 2026 4 PM CT

Doel Reed, American Artist and Master Printmaker with Rebecca Brienen

February 19, 2026 4PM CT

Hillerman, Redford, and the Challenges of Adaptation with Ryan Slesinger

March 26, 2026 4 PM CT

What Coronado Saw, Didn’t See, or Just Imagined: Implications for Understanding the Southern Plains Borderlands with Stephen Perkins

April 23, 2026 4 PM CT

Hollywood's Southwest: Alec Baldwin, Taylor Sheridan, and the Landscapes of New Mexico with Jeff Menne

May 22, 2026 4pm CT

Doel Reed & the Aquatint Process with Jennifer Lynch

June 18, 2026 4pm CT

Burn Him!: The Story of Zozobra with Mark White

August 20, 2026 4 PM CT

The Nuclear Present in New Mexico with Dr. Myrriah Gomez, (Associate Professor UNM)

September 17, 2026 4 PM CT

Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument: Stories from New Mexico’s National Conservation Lands with Dr. Andrew Gulliford

October 15, 2026 4 PM CT

Storytelling through Generations of the Momaday Family with Jill Momaday

November 19, 2026 4 PM CT

Rio Grande Pueblo Ceremonial & Winter Solstice Dances with Dr. Martha Yates

December 10, 2026 4 PM CT

Additional information and registration links will be added as programming is finalized. Please check back or email us at doelreedcenter@okstate.edu for more information.

Past Virtual Lectures

• Archeoastronomy in the Southwest with Martha Yates
• Pumpkin, Tamales, & Biscochitos: What traditional holiday foods tell us about New Mexico history and culture with Dr. Carol Moder. Find the recipes here.
• The High Road to Taos: Plains-Pueblo Interaction between the 14th to 18th Centuries with Stephen M. Perkins.
• There’s a Place for Us: New Mexico’s influence on Joy Harjo’s Writing with Lindsey Claire Smith.
• Parading Without a Permit: Dennis Hopper in Taos with Mark White.
• Oppenheimer to Ginsberg, The Manhattan Project to Project Ploughshare: New Mexico and The Bomb with Ed Walkiewicz
• Women Artists of the Southwest with Amy Von Lintel
• La Llorona: Just a ghost story, or more? With Ryan Slesinger
• The Air and the Light: Looking Beyond the Literal in Landscape Art with Mary Claire Becker
• Winter Solstice Pueblo Feasts and Dances with Martha Yates