Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis will speak about the poetic structure of the Renga Project, while Axle Contemporary Gallery’s Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman will give an overview of the idea of Participatory Creativity and discuss the visual art component of the project. Following the panel the entire Renga Project poem will be read by […]

Artists have been drawn to the Santa Fe area for various reasons over the last one hundred years.  Join Curator of Education Ellen Zieselman on a tour through the exhibition Southwestern Allure and find out which artist shares your connection to Santa Fe. Free.

Learn new drawing techniques. After a conversation in the gallery looking at the series PowerPlay, participants will learn new drawing techniques. Using your own hands and face as a reference to make sketches, a drawing and a mask to ponder notions of gender.  Space is limited for the three Art Making Workshops.  Pre-registration will save […]

Like many artists before her, Judy Chicago has made New Mexico her home.  Local Color focuses on both large public projects and smaller scale personal artworks made here in New Mexico, and is among the first exhibitions to focus on Judy’s recent work.  Never one to pull back from controversial discussion, Chicago’s work addresses the […]

Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography (FOCA+P) are invited to enjoy a sneak peak of the exhibition which focuses on both larg-escale public projects and smaller-scale personal artworks by Judy Chicago. This exhibition will be among the first to focus on more recent projects by this internationally recognized artist. Highlighted will be the broad range […]

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.

In conjunction with the publication of Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, arts professionals Juliet Myers and Peter Plagens will talk about Nauman and his importance in international contemporary art. This is the first authorized monograph on one of the most innovative and provocative artists working today. Author Peter Plagens, renowned writer and artist who has known Nauman for over forty years, offers a […]

Curator Kate Ware talks about the photography now on view in Grounded examining, literally, the ground beneath our feet.  Free with museum admission.

The Sketchbook Project is a collection of over 27,000 sketchbooks (and counting) contributed by people worldwide based out Brooklyn, NY. Parts of the collection travel throughout the year in the Mobile Library, visiting cities across North America. The tour schedule is currently in 30+ cities where they set up for the day at incredible museums, galleries and […]

This gathering is to highlight the significant contribution the travel & tourism industry that’s makes to our local economy and to take an opportunity to share all the exciting experiences that Santa Fe has to offer a visitor.  10am-4pm at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center.

This exhibition considers the development of Santa Fe as an art colony through the artists who visited and lived here and helped establish the city as an artistic center, in the formative years from approximately 1915 to 1940.  Exhibition organized by Boca Raton Museum of Art.  Through July 27, 2014.  Free admission 5-8pm.