Vladem Contemporary

Family Art Making

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. Light snacks will be available. For the first Sunday in February, we will create Valentine’s Day cards.This event is FREE for all...

Family Art Making

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. Light snacks will be available. For the first Sunday in March, we will create windchimes.This event is FREE for all New Mexico...

N.M. Art Book Club

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! This month we will be exploring the exhibition Lucy R. Lippard: Notes From the Radical Whirlwind at the Vladem Contemporary while discussing books and essays...

Window Box Program: Lance McGoldrick

Join us on Friday, January 30 for an artist presentation and engagement with Window Box Artist Lance McGoldrick. Lance McGoldrick is an interdisciplinary artist working in a variety of nontraditional contexts. His work ranges from discrete objects to immersive environments, often created with combinations of found-objects, texture, light, and geometry. Incorporating playful exuberance, McGoldrick’s work...

Family Art Making

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. Light snacks will be available. For the first Sunday in January, we will create aurora borealis chalk drawings.This event is FREE for...

A Talk with Window Box Artist Anna Rotty

Join us for an artist presentation and engagement with Window Box Artist Anna Rotty. Anna Rotty is an artist and teacher whose photographic observations and material studies explore light, water, and infrastructure. The Window Box installation, Shallows Unfolding, recalls memories of the Rio Grande as constructed landscapes and photographic explorations. Through manipulation of orientation and place,...

Family Art Making

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. Light snacks will be available. For the first Sunday in December, we will create ornaments and luminarias.This event is FREE for all...

Final Friday: Lucy Lippard Notes from the Radical Whirlwind Scavenger Hunt

Come visit the Vladem Contemporary for a Lucy Lippard scavenger hunt to learn more about this revolutionary writer, curator, and activist who has been influencing the art world for over 60 years. Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots Marching, 1971-1973, 43 offset lithograph postcards, 4 ½ x 7 in. (each). Collection of the New Mexico Museum of...

Family Art Making

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. Light snacks will be available. For the first Sunday in November, we will create autumnal leaf portraits.This event is FREE for all...

Final Friday: Lucy Lippard Notes from the Radical Whirlwind Scavenger Hunt

Come visit the Vladem Contemporary for a Lucy Lippard scavenger hunt to learn more about this revolutionary writer, curator, and activist who has been influencing the art world for over 60 years.  Melanie Yazzie, The U.S. Government Will Never Whitewash My Grandparents, 1992, screen print, 14 15/16 x 21 7/8 in. Collection of the New...