Rose B. Simpson Gallery Talk

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

Artist Rose B. Simpson’s interest in lowriders comes from growing up in Santa Fe and at Santa Clara Pueblo near Española, the lowrider capital of New Mexico and arguably the world. Simpson created her own black-on-black lowrider, Maria (named for artist Maria Martinez) and uses the cars in some of her work to shift boundaries […]

Exhibition Opening Alcoves 16/17 #4

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

  Featuring works by artists Sally Anderson, Sheri Crider, Robert Drummond, Michael Namingha and John Vokoun

Music at the Museum

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

August  12 Jesse Vernier   August 19 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Free Concert August 26 Pat Malone Jazz and classic acoustic guitar

Meridel Rubenstein Gallery Talk

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

Challenged by a suggestion that lowriders were the true craftsmen of New Mexico, in 1979 photographer Meridel Rubenstein ventured to Española to meet and photograph them. Rubenstein recognized lowriders as fellow artists and says they changed her own approach to making art. Her portraits of lowriders were featured in the Museum of Art’s 1980 exhibition […]

Community Fun Day

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

Enjoy free family activities in a festive, creative atmosphere with hands-on art-making and lively 30-minute family tours.  Explore the exhibitions Con Cariño: Artists Inspired by Lowriders and Finding a Contemporary Voice: the Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA and stage your own self-portrait in a dress-up photo booth in the exhibition Self-Regard: Artist Self-Portraits from […]

Music at the Museum

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

July 8 Jesse Vernier  50’s and 60’s classic rock   July 15 Alma Zazz!  French Musette Duet on Accordian and Violin   July 22 Ben Perea Solo guitar/fingerstyle playing ragtime, country and bluegrass music with some rock ’n roll.

Gallery Talk

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

Lively and engaging in gallery conversation with the artists from the Alcoves 16/17 #3.  

Justin Favela Visiting Artist and Community Artmaking

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

As part of its summer celebration of the influence of lowriders on contemporary art, the New Mexico Museum of Art welcomes innovative contemporary artist Justin Favela as its artist-in-residence. Favela will create a half-scale, three-dimensional, piñata-style lowrider to suspend from the ceiling of the museum’s exhibition Con Cariño: Artists Inspired by Lowriders, joining two of […]

Luis Tapia Gallery talk

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

Sculptor and Santero Luis Tapia grew up in Santa Fe and began exploring the Hispano folk art of northern New Mexico in the early 1970s. He views his own carvings as an extension of that tradition with the addition of a contemporary sensibility, often touching on the religious, political, and social issues of today. 

Exhibition Opening Alcoves 16/17 #3

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

Featuring works by artists Christina Dallas, Tom Joyce, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Heidi Pollard, and Cecilia Portal.  Also enjoy jazz and classic acoustic guitar by Pat Malone.

Plein Air Painting

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

Sunday mornings at 10:00 am, the central garden patio becomes a place for a personal adventure in creativity and art making. Gather your paints, pencils and friends and enjoy painting in the open air.  Admission to the museum is free on the first Sunday of each month for New Mexico residents. Admission is always free to […]

Arthur Lopez Gallery Talk

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

Known for his contemporary approach to the traditional art of the Santero, Arthur Lopez has incorporated lowriders into his work, conveying the strong interrelationship between lowriders, faith, and the landscape of New Mexico. Lopez also collects work by other artists interested in the lowrider as a cultural icon, several of which are on view in […]

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