Discover More Ways to Celebrate Global Arts and Culture in Santa Fe This Year
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Experience world-class art and culture from around the globe in Santa Fe, The City Different. This yearlong citywide festival unites premier institutions like the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe Opera, Lensic Performing Arts Center, and unique Santa Fe cultural markets to present exceptional performances, exhibitions, and events.
Museum Exhibitions
Into the Future: The Cultural Power in Native American Art
Tile, Tewa Tales of Suspense No. 44, Santa Clara 2015 clay with natural pigments Museum purchase. MIAC 59470/12 (Photo courtesy of Museum of Indian Arts and Culture)
This exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture showcases nearly 100 objects by over 50 artists from the museum’s collections and private lenders. Featuring Native American interpretations of pop culture icons like SpongeBob SquarePants, Pac-Man, and Curious George, it spans traditional media—clothing, jewelry, pottery, weaving—to modern photography, video, comics, and digital art.
Be Here Now: Summer of Love Santa Fe
Hippie Dining Table, photograph by Douglas Magnus, (Photo courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives HP.2011.28.19.)
Relive the 1960s counterculture through Be Here Now: Summer of Love Santa Fe, capturing social experimentation and activism. Collaborating institutions—the New Mexico History Museum, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and Santa Fe Desert Chorale—provide rich context for this transformative era.
New Acquisitions 2011-2017
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) is the country’s only museum for exhibiting, collecting, and interpreting the most progressive work of contemporary Native artists. (Photo courtesy of IAIA)
Explore visionary works added to MoCNA’s Permanent Collection over six years. Open through January 21, 2018, this exhibit underscores IAIA’s innovative commitment to contemporary Native art.
Syria: Cultural Patrimony Under Threat
See the effects of Syria’s ongoing civil war that threatened to destroy Syrian culture. (Photo courtesy of the New Mexico History Museum)
In partnership with Curators Without Borders, this exhibition features 642 albumen prints from 1899–1909 expeditions, documenting Syria’s historic sites and people—many now lost to conflict. Runs through December 31, 2017.
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Visual Arts
The Prado in Santa Fe
Santa Fe celebrates its Spanish heritage with this unique art show. You won’t want to miss this exhibit. (Photo courtesy of TOURISM Santa Fe)
Making its U.S. debut, this free exhibition in Cathedral Park displays 92 reproductions of masterpieces from Madrid’s Museo del Prado (14th–19th centuries). Enjoy until October 29, 2017.
Center for Contemporary Arts
Tom Joyce: Everything at Hand continues Joyce’s explorations of iron a profoundly symbolic material whose regenerative matter, aesthetic malleability and cultural meaning. (Photo courtesy of CCA)
CCA opens Tom Joyce: Everything at Hand on July 28, running through December. The cinematheque season includes Radical Southwest Film Series, Santa Fe Opera Film Series, and Farms, Films, Food.
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Markets and Festivals
Objects of Art Santa Fe
Objects of Art Santa Fe is a favorite summer showcase for unique one-of-a-kind historic and contemporary works from around the world. (Photo courtesy of Objects of Art Santa Fe)
From August 10–13, 2017, at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, discover 70+ exhibitors offering paintings, sculpture, furniture, jewelry, textiles, and tribal/folk art from around the world.
The Zuni Show
Clive Hustito securing an offering bundle to a carved mountain lion. (Photo courtesy of The Keshi Foundation)
The 2nd Annual Zuni Show (August 19–20, 2017, Scottish Rite Temple) highlights Zuni Pueblo art and culture. Voted a top Native art event by First American Art Magazine readers.
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Performing Arts
Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Founded in 1982 the Santa Fe Desert Chorale is the longest continually performing professional music organization New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of Santa Fe Desert Chorale)
In its 35th year, the Summer Festival (through August 13, 2017) features Liberté, Justice, The Hope of Loving, and Music from a Secret Chapel. Winter’s Home for the Holidays runs December 16–23.
Performance Santa Fe
Three standout performances coming your way in July and August! (Photo courtesy of Performance Santa Fe)
Enjoy rising opera stars in Brief Encounters, soprano Anna Christy, and Stars of American Ballet at the Lensic. Visit the Santa Fe Celebrates page for the full lineup.
Santa Fe Pro Musica
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg brings passion, excitement and innovation on September 23-24! (Photo courtesy of Santa Fe Pro Musica)
On September 23–24, 2017, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads Nadja’s Concert with Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Season highlights include Beethoven, Mozart, and more quartets.
Espectáculos de Verano
Teatro Paraguas is the recipient of the New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award in New Mexico State Poetry Society Amigo Award. (Photo courtesy of Teatro Paraguas)
Teatro Paraguas presents bilingual theater, including Heisenberg and Still in the Game, celebrating Hispanic, Latino, and multicultural works.
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