Loie Fecteau

Mary Anne Redding is the Chair of the Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art & Design 

John Flax is the Founding Artistic Director of Theater Grottesco

David Coss is the current Mayor of Santa Fe

Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain is literally rewriting the book on Spanish art. The New Mexico Museum of Art is the only American venue in this international tour. After the British Museum in London, the Prado in Madrid and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia the exhibition opens December 14, […]

David Correia, PhD. Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico, gives a talk in St. Francis Auditorium on "Indian Removal and the Violent Origins of Spanish and Mexican Settlement in New Mexico."  The arrival of the Americans in the 1840s exacerbated land issues which have continued to be a major and contentious concern […]

Independent curator and scholar Barbara Anderson will introduce some of Spain’s greatest painters, their influences, styles and subjects.  Artists who drew and made prints were also artists who painted.  Sometimes their drawings and prints coincided with the styles of their paintings, but sometimes they were very different.  Artists discussed in this illustrated talk will include […]

John Kessell, Ph.D., will be speaking in St. Francis Auditorium about Bernardo Miera y Pacheco.  This highly talented 18th century soldier, artist, cartographer and explorer blazed across the New Mexico landscape with a brilliant flash of intellect and inquiry. This is Part Two of a free, three-part lecture series co-presented with El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

"People have realized that objects do not just provide a stage setting to human action: they are integral to it...The central idea is that as people and objects gather time, movement and change, they are constantly transformed, and these transformations of person and object are tied up with each other." A History of the World […]

Robert J. Tórrez, former New Mexican State Historian, will be discussing in St. Francis Auditorium Recognitions of Pueblo Independence by Spain, Mexico and the United States. This is Part Three of a free, three-part lecture series co-presented with El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

Learn more about how an art museum works and why.  Visitors receive a "passport" for their exploration through the building.  Museum staff members -- ranging from curators to educators to art preparators to security officers -- will be on hand to talk about the work they do.  Receive a stamp at each station of your […]

New Mexico author Lynn Cline chronicles the vibrant writers’ colony that flourished in the early years of the 20th century. Including such luminaries as D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Robert Frost, their salons, parties, books and political contributions left a lasting legacy.

A sixty minute romp through the history of Western theater, from Greek tragedy to Commedia dell’Arte, clowning, buffoons, masks and more. Enjoy the irreverence of one of America’s most creative ensembles. $10.00 admission; $5.00 student, at the door.