Bringing Together: Recent Acquisitions

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A cross selection of artworks acquired by the museum over the past five years. Whether acquired by gift or purchase, every item is carefully chosen to add to the richness of the museum collection. Spotlight on recent gifts include two glass collections, contemporary artwork, the finalization of the Lucy Lippard gift and several significant paintings. […]

Conversations with Collections

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As the largest repository of New Deal artworks in New Mexico, the Museum of Art is pleased to present this varied collection. Join museum staff for a discussion on the care and stories of these pieces. Limit 15 people. If you have not already reserved your space we may not be able to take you. Free […]

Social & Sublime: Land, Place, and Art

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The 20th century saw some of the most seismic shifts in the tried-and-true tradition of landscape as a subject for artists. In the United States, we left the 20th century with many of the same concerns we entered it with. Among those concerns are issues of land use, expansion and border conflicts, and industrialization and […]

Free First Sunday

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

 New Mexico residents are admitted free on the first Sunday of each month with I.D.

Slow Art Day

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

The average museum visitor spends just 15 to 30 seconds in front of a work of art, according to museum researchers. One day each year – April 6 in 2019 – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to take more time to look. Slow Art Day participants look slowly at five pre-selected works […]

Library Open House artists’ autobiographies, poetry and interviews

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Some people prefer to express themselves through images, but other artists have taken the time to write down or dictate their thoughts verbally. Visitors to this library open house will have a chance to see and read autobiographies, interviews and even poetry and recipes written by people whose artwork is collected by the New Mexican […]

The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon and Lake Powell

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This is the story of a place. It’s a place where millions of years of the earth’s development are openly revealed and where the hopes and aspirations of the human race have been inscribed for centuries. Located in canyon country along  the Colorado River, Glen Canyon stretches down from southeastern Utah down northern Arizona, not […]

The History of Flamenco and Dance in New Mexico

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

The third of our Winter Lecture series cosponsored with El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Don’t miss this fascinating and engaging lecture presented by Nicolasa Chávez, a fourteenth-generation New Mexican, and Curator of Latino/Hispano/Spanish Colonial Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA).   Tickets are $10, free for members of El Rancho de Las […]

Lecture

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

When archaeologists investigated the former residence of sculptor Eugenie Shonnard in preparation for new Museum of New Mexico Foundation offices, they discovered what appears to be a studio accident that sheds light on her approach to some of her signature works. Eric Blinman and Karen Wening from the Office of Archaeological Studies will present an […]

Poetry Out Loud State Championships in Poetry Recitation

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

For the past several years, more than 6,000 New Mexico high school students have participated in the national Poetry Out Loud program.  State champions are sponsored to travel to Washington, DC to compete for National Champion. Students and schools receive support to buy poetry books for their libraries and more. Sponsored by the National Endowment for […]

Tania Katan & Jen Sincero Talk Creativity & Their New Books

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

The New Mexico Museum of Art in partnership with Creative Santa Fe present a talk with Tania Katan celebrating her recently published book Creative Trespassing, A Totally Unauthorized Guide to Sneaking More Imagination into Your Life and Work. Also speaking at the event will be Jen Sincero, author of the You Are A Badass book series. After more than […]

New Mexico Museum of Art & Creative Santa Fe Announce Tania Katan Book Talk with Jen Sincero as Special Guest

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

SANTA FE, New Mexico – After more than 10 years of smuggling creativity into the business sector without getting busted, Tania Katan’s new book Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life is a refreshing look at how to fit creativity into the seemingly mundane. New Mexico Museum […]

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