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IAIA Museum is one of two congressionally chartered museum in the US. Located in downtown Santa Fe, the Museum houses the 7,000-piece National Collection of Contemporary Native American Art. It mounts innovative exhibitions and public programs and attracts worldwide positive attention because of its engaging programming and unique perspective.

Many don't know that IAIA Museum is a part of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a fully accredited four-year college that offers both associates (AA, AFA, and AAS) degrees as well as Baccalaureate (BFA and BA) degrees in Studio Arts, Creative...

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden (SFBG) is a nonprofit organization, established and run by gardeners, botanists and environmentally oriented volunteers. Santa Fe Botanical Garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of Northern New Mexico through community service and education on environmentally responsible garden design, including plant selection and care, as well as conservation techniques for water catchment and harvesting. Santa Fe Botanical Garden manages two properties as natural preserves: the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve and the...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Step through an unassuming doorway from Cathedral Place and you enter the Lamy Garden. This small oasis is a remnant of the four acre garden established by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy in the 1860's. Pass through the garden to the entrance to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Museum, established in 1993. This museum is an outgrowth of the Archdiocese Office of Historic Patrimony and Archives and displays some of the history of the Catholic Church in Northern New Mexico.

The museum displays historic artifacts and religious artworks including painted altar screens (reredos), wooden statues...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

New Mexico “celebrates” its three dominant cultures, and in fact, there was a time when race, religion and economic status played no part in the lives of men so desperate they sought only the comfort of one of their own. I am speaking of the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery Anti-aircraft units of the New Mexico National Guard who were sent to the Philippines three months prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were young men, some just boys who had lied about their age. They were Anglos, Hispanos, Mexicans, Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache. The 200th and 515th would become what is believed to...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986

Perhaps the most famous, and infamous, woman artist of the 20th century was born in a farmhouse on a large dairy farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Georgia O'Keeffe was the second of seven children in a family which prized education. Throughout her childhood Georgia took private art lessons from teachers in Wisconsin and later in Virginia.

After graduating high school in 1905, O'Keeffe studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Georgia fell ill with Typhoid fever and left the Art Institute after one year. In 1907 she attended the Art Students...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture has a fascinating new exhibit, Native Couture: A History of Santa Fe Style (through June 7, 2009). The exhibit chronicles changes in taste and fashion from the 1880s through to the present in Native American jewelry, and from 1968 to the 1990s in clothing. Not only a dazzling collection, it celebrates the ingenuity and inspiration that's transformed traditional dress and design over time into contemporary urban chic, while still keeping elements that are timeless.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
by Leslie Clark • SantaFe.com

Museum of Fine Arts
Dózsa György utca 41, Budapest, Hungary

I want something more concise, more simple, more serious; I want more soul and more love and more heart. Vincent van Gogh, from a letter dated 11 December 1882

Is there anything left to say about Vincent van Gogh? Does everyone know his favorite color was yellow? That he cut off all, or a part, of his ear and gave it to a prostitute? That he was a manic-depressive? That he painted one of the most perfect works in the history of art? It’s called The Starry Night yet the artist himself felt it was a failure because he had been...

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
by Diane Armitage • THE magazine

What are the chances of having someone who actually marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Monday's Roundhouse celebration in Santa Fe, where less than 1 percent of the population is African-American?

Internationally known quilt-maker Mary Lee Bendolph— part of the "Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond" exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art— was patiently waiting for a seat in the Capitol rotunda among about 200 attendees.

"I walked with Dr. Martin Luther King in Gee's Bend (Alabama) when he came down," said Bendolph, 72, before the ceremonies for the King birthday holiday.

Monday, January 22, 2007
by Polly Summar • Journal Santa Fe

Finish this analogy: Santa Fe is to the Santa Fe Opera as Albuquerque is to ___? If you can’t think of anything to fill in the blank, consider this. The Santa Fe Opera is a place where devotees of the arts, and general lovers of a good time, gather to worship on the altar of New Mexico’s glorious summers. They picnic and strut in their finery, then experience world class singing, staging and music in a spectacular venue.

What would be the corresponding answer for Albuquerqueans? The Albuquerque Museum’s new outdoor amphitheater, of course. Now we Duke City denizens have a place comparable...

Monday, August 1, 2005
by Kelly Koepke • localflavor magazine