Opening Receptions

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

Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture Carved & Cast presents a survey of traditional sculptural media, genres, and styles that New Mexican artists have utilized over the last century and highlights the various ways sculpture engages with the cultural, social, and aesthetic issues unique to the Southwest. Though this exhibition serves as a broad, […]

Russell Lee’s FSA photography in New Mexico (Governor’s Gallery)

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

Photographer Russell Lee created some of his finest work while traveling the United States for the Farm Security Administration. Among the communities he documented in New Mexico were Hobbs, Holman, Peñasco, Taos, Wagon Mound, and Quemado.  Lee’s defining work as a documentary photographer was created in Pie Town New Mexico in 1940. Photography was not […]

Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture

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

Bringing art off the walls and into 3 dimensions, Carved & Cast showcases sculpture in a range of media, genres, and styles that New Mexican artists utilized over the last century. The exhibition highlights the various ways sculpture engages with the cultural, social, and aesthetic interests of the Southwest by spotlighting significant sculptors in the […]

Shots in the Dark

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

Photography is most often associated with light and the word itself means “light writing” in Greek. However, in this exhibition of nearly thirty images, four Southwestern photographers explore the dark side of the medium. Featured are about thirty photographs by Christopher Colville, scott b. davis, Michael Lundgren, and Ken Rosenthal. Each of the artists makes […]

Holiday Concert

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

Free performance by the High Desert Harp Ensemble

Wait Until Dark

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

Generally understood as simply a night scene, the term nocturne refers to the quality of light in a painting, and can be twilight, waxing or waning light, or the darkness of night. Nocturne speaks as much to the mood of a painting as it does the quality of light. Artists use this to create narratives […]

Conversations with Collections Contemporary Art

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

Join Head of Curatorial Affairs, Merry Scully and Michelle Gallagher Roberts, Head of Registration & Collections, to discuss the importance and challenges of collecting and preserving contemporary art which often includes digital media, plastics, and found objects.

Conversations with Collections Photography

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

Join Curator of Photographs, Kate Ware and Collections Manager, Erica Prater for an intimate viewing and discussion about the works and needs of a selection of significant photographs in the Museum of Art’s photography collection. 

Museum 101

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

Are you curious about the New Mexico Museum of Art, but haven’t been in a museum since that 3rd grade field trip? This program will show you “how to museum” so you can have a fantastic time at any museum! Free with admission.

Opening Reception Good Company: Five Artists Communities in New Mexico

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

Since the end of the nineteenth century, when some of the first academically trained artists began to settle in Taos, later forming the Taos Society of Artists, New Mexico has continued to provide fertile ground for artists to gather together and create a forum for their individual visions. The role of artist communities in New […]

Library Open House Legacy of the UNM Photography Department

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

New Mexico’s landscape and culture have drawn photographers to the State since the invention of the medium, but it was the University of New Mexico that convinced photographers to stay here. The list of former students and faculty at UNM includes Beaumont Newhall, Patrick Nagatani, Joyce Neimanas and Joel-Peter Witkin to name just a few. The New Mexico Museum of Art Library […]

Good Company: Five Artist Communities in New Mexico

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

Since the end of the nineteenth century, when some of the first academically trained artists began to settle in Taos, later forming the Taos Society of Artists, New Mexico has continued to provide fertile ground for artists to gather together and create a forum for their individual visions. The role of artist communities in New […]

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