Vladem Contemporary

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 be doing a self portrait activity inspired by works...

In this one-day exploration, you will find your own unique path through a series of open-ended exercises. Each one is designed to illuminate new strategies which enable imaginative response to travel. An example of one exersise is using simple symbols and discriptions of a travel experience to create a collage map. You will consider how...

Chilean-American painter and fifty-year resident of Santa Fe, Carlos Carulo, will give an overview of his long, successful painting career from early works in Amsterdam and Argentina on through the next five decades of artistic development in Northern New Mexico. His talk will be accompanied by examples showing his evolution from the 1970s to the present. Following Carulo’s...

Join us on the final Friday in March to learn more about Charlene Teters and her work in the latest installment of Off-Center: New Mexico Art, 1970-2000. This program at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is part of a series of artist talks in conjunction with the exhibition Off-Center. This program is...

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. In February, we will be making Valentine’s cards for friends, family, and other loved ones. This event...

We invite families to join us in a fun art-making session at the Vladem Contemporary. Say “farewell” to the Saints y Santos exhibition with this inspired artmaking activity. Create your own saint portrait and then walk over to the Plaza building to see this incredible exhibition before it is gone. Light snacks will be available....

Creative Mornings, the program for creative communities returns to Santa Fe! To find out the latest on topics and speakers, visit creativemornings.com/cities/SFE 

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 third Sunday in January, we will have some guided “doodling” inspired by the exhibition, Line...

Join us on the final Friday in January to learn about Jo Whaley and her work in the latest installment of the exhibition, Off-Center: New Mexico Art 1970-2000.  This program at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is part of a series of artist talks in conjunction with the exhibition Off-Center. This program...

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 discussing bell hooks’ Art on My Mind: Visual Politics and viewing Identity, the final installation of Off-Center: New Mexico Art...