Shifting Light : Photographic Perspectives

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Shifting Light offers a twenty-first century perspective on the museum’s long-term engagement with the popular medium of photography. Organized into the broad categories of land and place, culture and identity, community and interconnection, and vision and creativity, the exhibition juxtaposes photographs in ways that amplify their meanings and suggest new narratives. Ansel Adams’ famous 1940 […]

Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru

Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The past forty years have been a time of tremendous change in the Andes, beginning with the Agrarian Reform of 1969 that broke up the large haciendas; a twenty-year internal armed conflict with the Shining Path that engulfed the 1980’s and 1990’s and claimed nearly 70,000 lives; economic swings, rapid development, the recent large investment […]

Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans Note: New closing date of June 2, 2019

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture will exhibit over 100 objects dating from the late 1880s to the present. Cultural objects will represent the lifeways of the different Apachean groups in New Mexico and Arizona. These cultural objects include basketry, beaded clothing, hunting and horse gear. These groups are: Jicarilla Apache, Mescalero Apache, Fort […]

Connie Garcia: A Lifetime of Art

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM, United States

This exhibition showcases a lifetime of beautifully creative work by the late Las Cruces artist Connie Garcia. Connie, who passed away Jan. 3, 2017 at age 66, had a creative flair and a love of art that is evident in her work. She expressed her creativity through tile, foil, drawing, contemporary painting, cards, and much […]

A Place Like No Other: Two Views of the New Mexico Landscape (at the State Capitol)

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

A Place Like No Other: Two Views of the New Mexico Landscape is located at the Governor’s Gallery on the 4th floor of the State Capitol, at the corner of Old Santa Fe Trail and Paseo de Peralta.  In celebrating the 1917 founding of the New Mexico Museum of Art on Santa Fe’s historic Plaza, it seems […]

Form & Function: Objects with Flair

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM, United States

This fun exhibit features 44 objects from the museum’s collections that combine usefulness and beauty. Some objects are purely utilitarian in nature, with no real aesthetic appeal. At the other end of the spectrum are objects of art, which serve no functional purpose other than to be appreciated for their beauty, or the message the […]

Da Vinci—The Genius Exhibition at New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science

Da Vinci—The Genius opens at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque at 9am on Saturday, February 10, 2018.  This world class exhibition from Grande Exhibitions remains on display at the Museum daily from 9am-5pm through July 29, 2018. Da Vinci – The Genius demonstrates the full scope of Leonardo da […]

La Ultima Exhibición

National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

La Ultima Exhibición, curated by Augustine Romero, features visual interpretations of Rudolfo Anaya’s celebrated book, Bless Me, Ultima (1972)-a portrait of life in rural New Mexico as seen through the eyes of a young boy during World War II. Anaya tells of the spiritual healer, Ultima, as she guides young Antonio on a magical and moral journey […]

The Land that Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico

New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Before radio and television, when making music at home was the evening’s entertainment and playing the piano was considered an essential talent among the middle class, sheet music was the music consumer’s gateway to the world.”  The New Mexico History Museum celebrates this era with sheet music of popular songs about the State of New […]

Maria Samora: Master of Elegance 2018’s Living Treasure

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

MIAC is happy to announce Maria Samora: Master of Elegance, an exhibition that showcases this year’s Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Living Treasure and Native Treasurers Featured Artist. Samora (Taos Pueblo) is known for her minimalist lines, interdisciplinary approach, and modern designs. She began apprenticing with goldsmith and master gem cutter Phil Poirer in 1998 […]

Beadwork Adorns the World

Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Glass beads are the ultimate migrants.  Where they start out is seldom where they end up.  No matter where they originate, the locale that uses them makes them into something specific to their own world view. This exhibition is about what happens to these beads when they arrive at their final destination, whether it be […]

Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place in NM

National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place in NM examines race and identity in New Mexico and is a space for artistic expression that grapples with the complexities of who we are, how we are understood, and how that impacts the way we live (or don’t) in a variety of places.  The exhibition features approximately 26 […]

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