Vladem Contemporary

Invited symposium for scholars and artists of Fluxus (and related) to be held at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, October 15-17, 2026 Santa Fe has long served as a site of artistic relationships: between craft and conceptualism, land and institution, tradition and experiment. “Fluxus in Relation” takes this relational condition as our point...

The Promise (Or, A Resting Reality Room of Her Own) (2026), a new installation by Santa Fe artist Linda Mae Tratechaud, will be on view in the Window Box at the Vladem Contemporary from July 31 through November 1, 2026. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to experience monthly live Window Box activations with artist...

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the newest exhibition at the Vladem Contemporary, Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration.  This exhibition brings together ten Japanese and Japanese American artists whose work engages the enduring legacies of wartime incarceration, migration, memory, and place. Inviting viewers to consider the relationship between history and...

The Promise (Or, A Resting Reality Room of Her Own) (2026), a new installation by Santa Fe artist Linda Mae Tratechaud, will be on view in the Window Box at the Vladem Contemporary from July 31 through November 1, 2026. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to experience monthly live Window Box activations with artist...

Visitors are invited to join Linda Mae Tratechaud for an artist talk on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. The program will offer an opportunity to hear directly from the artist about personal experiences, materials, and ideas that shaped The Promise (Or, A Resting Reality Room of Her Own), on view in the Window Box...

Saturday, September 5 5:30 – 7:30 PM Vladem Contemporary 404 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe This free public opening for Reclaiming the Future: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration will feature brief remarks at 6:15pm from guest Curator, Machiko Harada, artist Lehuauakea and Nikki Nojima Louis, childhood survivor of the incarceration camps. Light refreshments will be...

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! Our next Book Club will begin at Noon on Sunday October 4 at the Vladem Contemporary. We will be reading Only What We Could Carry:...

We invite families to join us for a fun drop-in art making session at the Vladem Contemporary. Explore the galleries to find inspiration and enjoy the power of creating with your loved ones and friends. Light snacks will be available. In October we will practice sketching and observation skills. Sketching and drawing are fundamental skills...

Join us for a fun drop-in art making session at the Vladem Contemporary. Explore the galleries to find inspiration and enjoy the power of creating with your loved ones and friends. Light snacks will be available. In September we will make hand-built clay creations with New Mexico Sheepdog fiber clay, which dries without firing. Inspired...

We invite families to join us in a fun art-making session at the Vladem Contemporary. Explore the galleries to find inspiration and enjoy the power of creating with your loved ones and friends! For the first Sunday in August, we will make sunprints. Light snacks will be available. This event is FREE for all New...