• Opening Reception Focus on Photography

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

    The year-long project Focus on Photography continues with a whole new group of exhibitions.  North to South : Photographs by Edward Ranney, a survey of remarkable images by this master photographer from the southern Andes to the Galisteo basin.  The Photo Lab will feature a variety of gelatin silver prints, along with historic cameras, a […]

  • Gallery Talk Focus on Photography

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

    Meet local photographers 5:30-6:30pm while viewing their exhibition.  In conjunction with “Focus on Photography” a year-long cycle of photography exhibitions. This project celebrates the museum’s rich collection of photographs and the key role the medium has played in shaping New Mexico history, culture, and tourism.    March 6, 2015 Edward Ranney Edward Ranney gives a tour […]

  • Fire Season

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

    The Southwest has become increasingly aware of  a season that begins around June with the unleashing of nature’s harsh and renewing forces: fire season. New Mexicans in particular are well acquainted with the apocalyptic plumes of smoke and sprinklings of ash that accompany this wildfire season. In this exhibition of more than a dozen photographs, […]

  • Photo Lab cyanotypes and albumen prints

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

    The Photo Lab features photographs from the collection made with two historic processes: cyanotypes and albumen prints. Both were popular in the nineteenth-century and examples are on view by early practitioners including Francis Frith, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Arthur Wesley Dow. These processes have been revived by contemporary artists -- such as Rita Dewitt, Betty […]

  • To Feel Less Alone: Gay Block, A Portrait

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

    May 1 through July 26, 2015 Longtime Santa Fe resident Gay Block’s photography is internationally recognized for its fearless exploration of personal identity issues—gender, class, religion, familial relationships, and sexual orientation. A survey of more than forty of her works from 1975 to 2012 in To Feel Less Alone: Gay Block, A Portrait, opens Friday, […]

  • Fire Season

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

    The Southwest has become increasingly aware of  a season that begins around June with the unleashing of nature’s harsh and renewing forces: fire season. New Mexicans in particular are well acquainted with the apocalyptic plumes of smoke and sprinklings of ash that accompany this wildfire season. In this exhibition of more than a dozen photographs, […]

  • Public Opening Focus on Photography

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

    The yearlong Focus on Photography series of exhibitions continues with its fourth and final rotation. To Feel Less Alone : Gay Block, A Portrait, Fire Season and Photo Lab will all be on the second floor.  To Feel Less Alone : Gay Block, A Portrait is a selection of more than thirty photographs by internationally recognized portrait […]

  • Fire and Communities Images and Science

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

    In honor of National Wildfire Preparedness weekend, the museum extends a special welcome to firefighters and their families on Sunday, May 3! Come see the new exhibition Fire Season, enjoy visiting the museum, and join us for a free lecture in the St. Francis Auditorium at 2:00 p.m. Fires are a natural part of New […]

  • Assumed Identities: Photographs by Anne Noggle

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

    Pilot, photographer, professor, and poet, Anne Noggle (1922-2005) began  her groundbreaking career as a photographer late in life but quickly gained recognition for her witty and honest work. Assumed Identities: Photographs by Anne Noggle opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on Saturday, April 2, 2016 and runs through September 11, 2016. A free […]

  • Exhibition Opening Small Wonders

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

    The museum is making a big deal about little pictures! This selection of photographic work, both historic and contemporary, invites visitors to revel in the pleasures of the miniscule. Featured are a small selection of nineteenth-century photos that provide a historical grounding for an engaging group of work by six contemporary artists who work on […]

  • Exhibition Opening Alcoves 16/17 #5

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

    View new works by Mira Burack, Kelly Eckel, Shaun Gilmore, Dara Mark, and Signe Stuart.

  • Gallery Talk Alcoves 16/17 #5

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

    Come meet the artists exhibiting in the fifth rotation of Alcoves 16/17 and hear them speak about their work. Q & A follows. Free.