I Want to See
List of Events
Southwest Contemporary
Frank Blazquez, Carlos, detail, 2018, digital print, 13.25 x 22 in. Join Southwest Contemporary for our second annual 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now exhibition! This year, like the year before, we put out an open call for artists residing in New Mexico and received 400 submissions from artists of all ages, backgrounds, and from all corners of the state. And, like last year, the quality and diversity of work have been astounding. We were honored and grateful…
form & concept
Join Southwest Contemporary at our third Better Wednesdays salon event! Better Wednesdays is our bi-monthly event series designed to draw people together to celebrate, observe, learn, discuss, and have fun with creative work and ideas. Each salon event features an eclectic line-up of 5-6 presentations spanning various disciplines in an intimate setting. Stay tuned for the official Vol. 3 line up, and the link to grab your reserved seats! (tickets are $15.00).
Wild Hearts Gallery
Wild Hearts Gallery invites the public to attend the opening reception for photography artist Dana Patterson Roth on Friday, April 17, from 4 to 7 pm. Her photography exhibition Breathing Deeply will be on display from March 31 through April 26. Dana Patterson Roth finds inspiration and comfort in nature, especially in water. She spends hours observing the reflections, the movement and the relationship water has to the nearby land. By moving her camera while she takes a photograph, she…
No Land
Erin Louise Gould presents a reading alongside her immersive installation, All That I Have at No Land, featuring both personal writing and poetry.
El Museo Cultural
Planting Seeds of Sustainability: Santa Fe Artists in Action Group Exhibition
Sorrel Sky Gallery
Artist workshop with Maura Allen.
kind of a small array
Austin, Texas-based artist Bale Creek Allen will bring his ongoing project, My America, to kind of a small array the first weekend in May for Magdalena’s annual art walk. The traveling exhibition of large-format photographs will take a turn toward the miniature — the show in Magdalena will be comprised of small prints based on the photos as the artist prepares the images for a book. kind of a small array, 106 N. Main, Magdalena, NM 87825 / 210.473.9062
St. Francis Auditorium
Violinist Tessa Lark, not yet 30, is soaring to stardom in multiple genres. Recipient of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the Naumburg International Violin Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Lark is a budding superstar in the classical realm and a highly acclaimed fiddler in the bluegrass tradition of her native Kentucky. Since her debut, Lark has collaborated with masters including Mitsuko Uchida, Itzhak Perlman, Mark O'Connor, and Ida Kavafian, and performed across multiple…
The Harwood Museum of Art
Saturday and Sunday at 5:30 pm. A multimedia program that combines some of Shakespeare’s most powerful words with music inspired by them, including works by Britten, Mendelssohn, Gluck, and Korngold for flute, violin, and piano four-hands. Tickets: Admission is $25/adults, $20/Harwood members, $12/students Visit www.taoschambermusicgroup.org for more info.
Wild Hearts Gallery
Wild Hearts Gallery invites the public to attend the opening reception for photography artist Joan Fenicle on Saturday, May 16, from 1 to 4 pm. This photography exhibition will be on display from April 28 through May 24. Multi-media artist Joan Fenicle explores how art can transport us to a different time and place. She describes herself as a professional wanderer, happiest when exploring the caminos and callejones of New Mexico and Colorado, camera in hand. She hopes you will…
Modernist Frontier
Born in Farmington, New Mexico, Cody Brothers has devoted his life to documenting the western landscape. His interest in this subject was born out of childhood trips, often with his grandfather, traveling the Four Corners area and beyond. The Western Abandon series gives us a glimpse into a not-so-distant past, reminding us of where we’ve been and what we’ve left behind. Forgotten farms, gas stations, and automobiles are part of the American landscape and through Brothers’ vision, project a solitude…
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Grammy-nominated clarinetist Anat Cohen — a familiar face in PSF circles thanks to her inimitable 2018 performance at the Lensic with jazz legend Fred Hersch — has teamed up with some of New York’s greatest players to create a wildly inventive and genre-bending jazz ensemble, the Anat Cohen Tentet. Consisting of accordion, piano, guitar, vibraphone, percussion, cello, bass, trombone, trumpet, and baritone saxophone and fronted by Cohen’s “terrific...beautifully crafted” (The New York Times) sound, this ensemble traverses musical continents every…
Sorrel Sky Gallery
Artist workshop with Lyn Boyer.
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Mark Morris — hailed as “the most successful and influential choreographer alive” (New York Times) — returns to Santa Fe with Pepperland, a unique tribute to the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles’ groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, accompanied live by an unprecedented chamber ensemble of voice, soprano saxophone, two keyboards, theremin, and percussion. Ethan Iverson’s original score intermingles arrangements of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, "With a Little Help From My Friends," "A Day in the…
kind of a small array
A buck, a boar and a buffalo go into a bar… San Antonio artist Ken Little visits New Mexico for Magdalena’s Frontier Day, Saturday, June 6, 5 to 7 PM at kind of a small array, 106 N. Main St., downtown Magdalena. The show will feature three mounted animal heads made of taxidermy models covered with shoes, belts, holsters, various discarded leather artifacts; items wrapped in rubber, naugahyde, canvas, and other alternative “skins.” These gestural sculptures give the represented animals…
Wild Hearts Gallery
Wild Hearts Gallery invites the public to attend the opening reception for artist Marce Rackstraw on Saturday, June 13, from 4 to 7 pm. Her painting exhibition, Patterns Wild is on display from April 28 through May 24. A trip to Africa changed how Marcia Rackstraw sees the animals she has depicted in oil, charcoal, and print for the past five years. Experiencing wild animals in their environment, looking into their eyes as you become the observed, had the sense…
El Rey Court
Join Southwest Contemporary at our third Better Wednesdays salon event! Better Wednesdays is our bi-monthly event series designed to draw people together to celebrate, observe, learn, discuss, and have fun with creative work and ideas. Each salon event features an eclectic line-up of 5-6 presentations spanning various disciplines in an intimate setting. Stay tuned for the official Vol. 4 line up, and the link to grab your reserved seats! (tickets are $15.00).
