Jessi Cross’s Flow of Wildlife Releases A River of Creatures in the Santa Fe Railyard Park
Santa Fe–based artist Jessi Cross brings woodcut prints of roadrunners, bobcats, and more to Flow of Wildlife, a public mural at Railyard Park.
April 27, 2026
Santa Fe–based artist Jessi Cross brings woodcut prints of roadrunners, bobcats, and more to Flow of Wildlife, a public mural at Railyard Park.
Railyard Park Conservancy • April 27, 2026
Now in its 17th edition, CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival returns to Santa Fe, June 12–21, 2026, presenting works by seventy-one international artists working in installation, performance, or immersive media.
Currents New Media • April 21, 2026
This June, a two-day event at the Albuquerque Museum connects artists with archivists, attorneys, curators, and fellow artists to build real strategies for long-term legacy planning.
Legacy Lab New Mexico • April 13, 2026
Marisa Sage’s art-is-for-everybody mandate might sound utopian, but at the helm of New Mexico’s most historically freighted museum, it's a massive administrative challenge.
Jordan Eddy • April 09, 2026
In the 1980s, Pueblo artist Jody Folwell jolted Santa Fe Indian Market with political ceramics. Amid her retrospective, she's already pushing toward the next sharp statement.
Camille LeFevre • April 07, 2026
From Sam Scott's post-war paintings to Larry Bell and Susanna Fritscher's preoccupations with light and space, Pie Projects Contemporary Art's spring–summer season includes resonant exhibitions accompanied by a series of artist conversations.
Pie Projects Contemporary Art • April 07, 2026
Eunika Rogers' Komorebi exhibition features original aspen paintings made with hand-harvested earth pigments and natural clay on canvas.
Blue Rain Gallery • March 30, 2026
From Georgia O'Keeffe to Allan Houser, Santa Fe County has been home to artists whose work is inseparable from the land, culture, and communities that shaped it.
Santa Fe County • March 23, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
On a road trip across the former rangelands of the American bison, Cannupa Hanska Luger envisions a new monument.
Kimberly Suina Melwani • March 20, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Poet Laura Neal discovers new roads in the collected works of Albuquerque-based artist Johannes Barfield exploring alternative states of being and imagining in Black culture.
Laura Neal • March 20, 2026
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Route 66 survives in fragments. In a handmade atlas, Willie Lambert pieces New Mexico's 500-mile stretch back together.
Peter Warzel • March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
An older name for New Mexico anchors Moira Garcia’s mixed-media mapping of Nahua migration, cosmology, and return.
Erin Averill • March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
For artist Carmen Selam, the road represents freedom, but also displacement. Her practice explores that tension using materials and imagery that speak to contemporary Indigenous experience.
Maggie Grimason • March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.
Royal Young • March 20, 2026
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind traces the sixty-year career of one of the most humane and lucid arts writers of a generation.
Robin Babb • March 20, 2026
Celebrating 100 years of Route 66, Heritage Inspirations launches a new Albuquerque Architecture & History Tour.
Heritage Inspirations • March 20, 2026
CENTER Santa Fe presents two photography exhibitions this spring—Elements of Wonder and A New Mexican Burial—alongside a statewide printing workshop series designed to help artists grow their practice.
CENTER Santa Fe • March 20, 2026
New Paintings by Jesse Littlebird and Chris Pappan are on view at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, February 27–March 12, 2026, bringing together two distinct voices in contemporary Native painting.
Blue Rain Gallery • March 02, 2026
Painter Laurie Nye brings her vibrant nature-inspired work to UNM as the 2026 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Fellow. Free public events include an artist talk February 19 and an open studio on April 2.
UNM Art Department and Frederick Hammersley Foundation • February 10, 2026
The just-announced curator of SITE Santa Fe's next biennial reveals his multi-venue ambitions for a show punctuated by immersive "moments of encounter."
Jordan Eddy • February 03, 2026
Tewa artists and scholars offer a challenge—along with tea, letters, and a remarkable map—to an institution whose namesake claimed their ancestral lands.
Jordan Eddy • January 27, 2026
The Santa Fe gallery’s 2026 lineup celebrates art at the intersection of imagination, innovation and tradition.
Annabella Farmer and Hecho a Mano • December 23, 2025
Fifteen contemporary artists reimagine traditional art forms to address social justice, colonialism, and climate change at Museum of International Folk Art.
Museum of International Folk Art • December 09, 2025
Tamarind's printmaking programs are supported by annual memberships. Collectors Club members receive an exclusive lithograph, 20% discount on editions, and early access to new editions.
Tamarind Institute • December 03, 2025
Cecilia Alemani rolled out an exhibition like no other in Santa Fe—its visionary weirdness will hit everyone a bit different.
Natalie Hegert • November 20, 2025
Tamarind Institute introduces nine specialized lithography workshops in 2026-27, from one-week intensives to four-week immersions covering stone and aluminum plate techniques, collaboration, teaching strategies, and more.
Tamarind Institute • November 19, 2025
Meet the curators behind the most innovative contemporary art exhibitions within the last five years. SITE Santa Fe hosts Ekow Eshun, Miranda Lash, Sara Raza, and Diana Campbell, November 2025-January 2026.
SITE Santa Fe • November 10, 2025
Yadi Flannery's quilts combine the classic geometric shapes of traditional quilts with fabric patterns and colors that flow freely underneath and within the overlaying geometric pattern. See her exquisite work in Truth or Consequences.
RioBravoFineArt • November 06, 2025
The Yes Men used slick branding to spoof ExxonMobil in New Mexico. Inside the cloak and dagger intervention by a wave of "laugh-tivists" with a serious cause.
Rica Maestas • October 30, 2025
With works by twelve artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos in New Mexico, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country opens a critical dialogue around sacred landscapes, Indigenous belonging, and cultural ownership at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum • October 28, 2025
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