This event for FOCA+P members will focus on the history and artistic and cultural influences that informed Zozobra. We will explore how Zozobra has been featured as a subject in the work of Southwestern artists from Shuster and Baumann to Tapia and Scholder and has been a reoccurring theme spanning from the early 20th century […]

Ever wanted to know what it’s like to work in an art museum? Artists, art historians, curators, journalists and others have written about things that museums do or should do. The New Mexico Museum of Art Library and Archives has professional publications that explain how things are supposed to work as well as case studies that show what happens when […]

Celebrating the 100 year history of the Museum, volunteer guides present 15 minute pop up talks prompting conversations about the architecture of the building and art in the collection.  Included with the cost of museum admission. Museum Admission is free for NM residents with ID on the First Friday of the month after 5:00 pm

Rio performs Bossa Nova jazz for our First Friday Music at the Museum when the entire museum is open from 5-7PM. Included with the cost of admission.

Lesley Poling-Kempes presents “Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and their Adventures in the American Southwest”, the true story of Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber and Mary Cabot Wheelwright, women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the 20th century. Poling-Kempes […]

Learn what it takes to care for a museum collection with a presentation highlighting the details about the preservation of museum collections. Subjects such as lighting, pest management, environmental conditions, storage, exhibition preparation, and research will be discussed.  

3:00        Welcome by NM Education Secretary-Designate Christopher Ruszkowski 3:20        World Music Ensemble directed by Randy Markham, Music, Gallup Public Schools 3:35        Business Supporting Music and the Arts, Cindy Cook 3:50        Flamenco Performance by middle and high school students, Tierra Adentro 4:10        Critical Learning Through the Arts, Charles Gamble 4:20        […]

People to People is an informal series of talks and creative interventions that allow for more intimate exchanges with creative themes and artwork on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art Museum.  This month artist Jami Porter Lara discusses the pottery of Maria Martinez on view in Horizons : People and Place in New Mexican Art starting at 12:30 […]

Performance Santa Fe has invited a small group of advanced aspiring sopranos and mezzos studying voice in New Mexico to join Angela Meade in one-on-one guided instruction, inspiring young singers with her talent and life experience.  Free and open to the public. Hailed as “the most talked about soprano of her generation” (Opera News), American soprano […]

Celebrating the 100 year history of the Museum, volunteer guides present 15 minute pop up talks prompting conversations about the architecture of the building and art in the collection.  Included with the cost of museum admission. Museum Admission is free for NM residents with ID on the First Friday of the month after 5:00 pm

AlmaZazz performs European pop tunes for our First Friday Music at the Museum when the entire museum is open from 5-7PM. Included with the cost of admission.

The New Mexico Museum of Art Library and Archives has several publications from the most influential minds of the 20th century. From Robert Henri and Alfred Stieglitz to Robert Hughes and Lucy R. Lippard, we have a variety of perspectives represented.  If you’ve ever felt like you don’t "get" modern or contemporary art, this is a judgement-free […]