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In Printing the Spirit, co-authors Thomas Leech and Carmella Padilla draw from Baumann’s original materials, now part of the Gustave Baumann Archive at the New Mexico History Museum, to honor Baumann’s work. For the first time, Printing the Spirit brings together a selection of Baumann’s faithful pencil renderings of thirty-four bultos and retablos and the proofs he made...

Authors Carmella Padilla and Thomas Leech will discuss their new book, Printing the Spirit: Gustave Baumann’s Santos. Moderated by the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Head of Education, Chris Nail. About Printing the Spirit: Gustave Baumann’s Santos: In 1927, Gustave Baumann, already celebrated for his colorful and innovative woodcuts, turned his attention to documenting the...

New Mexico-based artist Ruznic and art historian Erika Doss discuss spiritual modernism and consider how and why religion “matters” for contemporary art, with a particular focus on Ruznic’s paintings in the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art that are presented as part of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time. This conversation between...

Join us for a conversation between two internationally celebrated activists and feminists whose careers and actions enacted vital change within the art and cultural realm, and beyond. Lucy R. Lippard, writer/activist/curator, is joined by Suzanne Lacy, Los Angeles-based artist and pioneer of socially engaged public performance art, to speak about their friendship and shared history...

Alexandra Terry, curator of Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwhind, discusses Lippard’s prolific career, and the significant relationships she cultivated with artists that impacted the art world as we now know it.  Kathy Vargas, Oracion: Valentine’s Day/ Day of the Dead (Chest), ca. 1990, Gelatin silver print with applied color, 22 3/8 x...

The New Mexico Museum of Art celebrates the holiday season with our annual Holiday Open House. Come enjoy an organ concert with Santa Fe Pro Musica, holiday crafts all day, performances by The Santa Fe Symphony Jazz Project, a special Gustave Baumann themed archives open house, and everyone’s favorite holiday marionette performances with Teatro Duende...

Is there anything more enjoyable than looking at art and talking about books?  We at the Museum Library don’t think so and that’s why we host an art-themed book club!   In November we will discuss Craft: An American History by  Glenn Adamson.  Adamson brings us a groundbreaking history of how artisans created America and...

Join us this fall for Elements of Art: Story Time at the New Mexico Museum of Art Library. Every other Monday at 10:30am the Museum Library invites children ages 3-5 and their caregivers, to learn about a basic element of art through story, song, and craft.  Led by Cyndi Korzec, an early childhood educator, this...

Join us this fall for Elements of Art: Story Time at the New Mexico Museum of Art Library. Every other Monday at 10:30am the Museum Library invites children ages 3-5 and their caregivers, to learn about a basic element of art through story, song, and craft.  Led by Cyndi Korzec, an early childhood educator, this...

Join us this fall for Elements of Art: Story Time at the New Mexico Museum of Art Library. Every other Monday at 10:30am the Museum Library invites children ages 3-5 and their caregivers, to learn about a basic element of art through story, song, and craft.  Led by Cyndi Korzec, an early childhood educator, this...