Explore Santa Fe's art museums, galleries, and famous Canyon Roadǃ Through our conversational walking tours, we create fun and personal experiences with art. Our tours are participatory, intimate, and unscripted.

A Matter of Taste | Discuss what makes art "good," sample unique chocolate elixirs, let your senses collide | Thursdays,10am-12pm or by appointmentCanyon Road Quickie | A short and sweet introduction to Santa Fe's most famous thoroughfare | Fridays, 10am-12pm or by appointment

Family tours, customized tours, and artist studio visits are also available. We have fun with artǃ
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Thomas Bowker creates small acrylic and mixed media floral paintings to brighten every room in your home.His works are creatively imagined & uniquely presented to complement décor in every room of your homeǃ Show continues through December 31.By Appt
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• Thomas Bowker’s new oil & mixed media paintings will be shown along with his sketches so visitors to the gallery can view the process towards his finished works. Works featured include vistas around Santa Fe. Continues to 9/30. Appt: 505.470.6264.

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Featuring Tom&Carole Bowker’s unique works in clay,paint,sculpture, mobiles& jewelry. Experience Tom’s magical, playful “Moonchasers”(c) mobile&embrace the spirit of the season. Discover art that speaks to youǃ 12/7&12/8: 1-6pm Thru 1/31 505.670.9289
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Come with Travel Channel’s ghost tour guide and hear about the ever-present personalities behind the walls including the two haunted houses she lived in. No gimmicksǃ Just good storiesǃ ＄20/＄12. Sun & Th 5:30winter winter 7:30 PM summer. Min. ＄55
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Dr. Suzanne (Suzy) Seriff, Lecture
“Recycled, Re-Seen—Revisited: Critical Reflections on Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap”
Thursday, December 13
6:00 pm -7:30 pm
Free & Open to the Public

IFAM Headquarters
620 Cerrillos
Santa Fe, Nm 87505
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Gallery opening for Robert Gaylor's The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. His work doesn't seek to comment on all the problems of our time, but brings forth references which inspire reflection on them. Free, see website for times and locations, 505-670-5854, axleart.com.
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First National Santa Fe present their annual Christmas tree and Santa Fe Model Railroad Club-ran train display. Display will feature a Polar Express, a Hogwarts Express, a special holiday freight train. Display times are 9:30 am – 12 pm, 1:30 pm–4 pm. Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Free, 505-992-2280, firstnational1870.com.
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With his outdoor sculpture Galactic Playground, 2018, Eduardo Navarro (b.1979 in Buenos Aries) has created a large- scale interactive game board based on the cycles of the sun. Like a brightly colored spaceship that has landed in Santa Fe for a six-month visit, Navarro's work is activated by the cosmos. Like a sundial, predictable in its movements yet constantly shifting in its qualities, the work reminds the viewer of the extreme distance in time and space between itself and the force that activates it. The indispensable sun creates the rules and timeline of the game, which, however, is available to be played at any time, by anyone or anything.
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Exquisite Corpse is an historic parlor game in which participants create one of three components of a figure drawing: head, torso, or legs. Approximately 140 participating artists created one of those distinct sections. When assembled, these sections will form singular creatures. Free, 505-955-6707, santafenm.gov.
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Working across painting, sculpture, photography, collage and recently screen printing, Rolande Souilere's (Michipicoten First Nation) art practice is primarily installation that combines abstraction with organic forms, the hand crafted and the assisted readymade.

Through the use of Ojibway, Cree, and Inuit syllabics, Souliere utilizes aspects of this writing system to engage in ideas about space, color, form, symbolism, surface movement, and language. Her new wall painting is an exploration into the parallels and the multifaceted ways in which simple geometric building blocks such as chevrons, circles, and rectangles have a profound affinity with Indigenous language and culture and abstraction in western art.

505-983-1666, iaia.edu
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Holly Wilson (Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma/Cherokee) presents her new narrative works created in a variety of media including bronze, wood, and encaustic. Her figures serve as her storytellers to the world. They often resemble stick figures, animals with human characteristics, or figures wearing masks. The stories are both representation of family history as well as personal experiences. With museum admission, 505-983-1666, iaia.edu.
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Public Reception. Featuring works under the theme of "Celebration" with artists Kiyomo Baird, David A. Clark, Carlos Frias,, H. Gomez Chavez, Wes Hunting, Robert Koch, Chad Manley, Mario Martinez, Ivan McLean, Kristina Varjan, Raul Villarreal, and Jarica Walsh. Free, 505-930-7800, otacontemporary.org.
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After an extensive renovation, the Museum of International Folk Art will reopen Lloyd's Treasure Chest: Folk Art in Focus. The gallery will offer visitors a place to explore, interact, and create folk art. Because the Museum's entire 136,000-object collection can never be on view at the same time, collections are carefully stored and cared for in rooms such as the Neutrogena Vault, which visitors can view from the Treasure Chest gallery. Visitors will take “the vehicle to the vault” to the museum's lower level where the collection vault is located. The exhibition presents new ways to think about folk art and its cultural context with books, maps, and baskets they can touch, as well as explore intangible forms of expressive culture, like music. While there is no one definition of folk art, Lloyd's Treasure Chest embodies multiple perspectives and helps us come closer to an understanding of “What is Folk Art?” Patrons of all ages will find engaging participatory experiences with hands-on activities such as origami-making, kite-coloring, a community basket-making activity, and a musical instrument (a Javanese gamelan instrument).
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Meeting the Clouds Halfway is a collaboration between Tohono O'odham basket weaver Terrol Dew Johnson and architects Aranda\Lasch (Ben Aranda and Chris Lasch) from Tucson and New York. The exhibition features contemporary basketry and architecture that blend traditional craft with modern design. The artworks explore the desert surrounding Tucson as a place of inspiration and opportunity. Based on a shared interest in traditional Tohono O'odham practices and their bearing on modern life, the works are made from the four natural materials of the desert: rock, copper, wood, and grass.
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The role of artist communities in New Mexico is explored through works by members of the Taos Society of Artists, Los Cinco Pintores, Transcendental Painting Group, Rio Grande Painters, and the Stieglitz circle. Despite their shared desire to form a creative community, each of these groups had a distinctive aesthetic and set of guiding principles. The juxtaposition of these five groups offers a closer look at what makes each unique.

With museum admission, during museum hours, nmartmuseum.org.
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Six artists engage print and paper to ask questions about how to tell visual stories and appeal to a truly diverse audience via silkscreen, letterpress, handmade-paper, cardboard boxes, and other diverse media. Free, 505-983-6372, coeartscenter.org.
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New and recent works as well as a site-specific installation. Hashimoto creates distinctive works comprising hundreds of bamboo and paper elements strung together and suspended, forming complex layered compositions. His work references video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, while remaining deeply rooted in art-historical traditions, notably landscape-based abstraction, modernism, and handcraft. With admission, 505-989-1199, sitesantafe.org.
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The museum's first comprehensive exhibit of contemporary artists. GenNext: Future So Bright features 50 pieces from 20 trailblazing artists who blend historical inspiration with spray paint, highway signs, furniture, skateboards, tattoos, political commentary, and indigenous imagery.
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Beginning during World War II, with the research and fabrication of nuclear weapons in Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project and the first atomic bomb test at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico's story is linked with the history of nuclear science and innovation.

As soon as the war was over and the Cold War began, national laboratories were founded in Los Alamos and Albuquerque that advanced the technologies of war, and later would be pioneers in cutting edge physics, chemistry, and other scientific fields. Mines in the Grants Mineral Belt were opened in the western part of the state to unearth the fuel for both weapons and new sources of energy. More recently, the state was chosen to be the disposal site for nuclear waste byproducts at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project in Carlsbad. A new uranium enrichment plant has opened in Eunice. Old projects ended and new challenges have emerged, but in the 21st century New Mexico is still at the forefront of our nation's nuclear scientific endeavors.

This exhibit explores famous events, little-known stories, and inventions born here which affect our lives, and recognizes the remarkable contributions of thousands of people involved in writing New Mexico's atomic history for the last 75 years.
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Action Abstraction Redefined features artworks from MoCNA's permanent collection created in the 1960s and 70s. These early works are a visual testimony to the Institute's revolutionary approach to art education that sparked a cultural change within Native Art by defying the standards imposed upon by the dominant society since the 18th century.

IAIA students during the 60s and 70s were exposed to modern art movements such as Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Colorfield, and were encouraged to study and experiment with cultural designs, colors, and techniques from their own heritage. The result of this artistic approach was an outpouring of creative expression that received regional and national attention.

Among the artists included in this exhibition are George Morrison (Ojibwe), Earl Biss (Crow), T.C. Cannon (Caddo/Kiowa), Fritz Scholder (Mission/Luiseño), Earl Eder (Yanktonai Sioux), Neil Parsons (Blackfeet), Kevin Red Star (Crow), Connie Red Star (Crow), George Burdeau (Blackfeet), Ralph Aragon (San Felipe/Acoma Pueblos), Henry Hank Gobin (Tulalip/Snohomish), Alice Loiselle (Chippewa), and Carl Tubby (Choctaw). This exhibition will explore how these works fit within the idea of art movements that occurred in Santa Fe as well as art styles that were part of the mainstream art world.

Some of these artists approached their chosen medium in a direct, intuitive and spontaneous way, and as a result their paintings and drawings are very intense and expressive. Several of their works seem to express the artist's inner feelings and emotions. Drips, splatters, and accidental gestures are part of their compositions. Others were interested in experimenting with biomorphic shapes reminding of forms inspired by nature. Some of their drawings are characterized by fields of pure flat colors, and reflect their interest in the effect of color on human perception.
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City Tours—choose a time, date and tour company of your choice:
(These companies are not affiliated and offer separate tour packages.
Call ahead to check seasonal scheduling/availability.)

HISTORIC WALKS OF SANTA FE Eldorado Hotel & Spa, 309 E. San Francisco St. La Posada Hotel, 330 E. Palace Ave., and Plaza Galeria, 66 E. San Francisco St.
Presented by Historic Walks of Santa Fe and featured on Good Morning America, these historic/cultural tours are led by professional museum guides who provide commentary on the rich history, cultures, architecture, and art of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. Visit the most historic sites including St. Francis Cathedral, Loretto Chapel and the State Capitol. DAILY departures: 9:30 am from the Eldorado Hotel, 9:30 am from La Posada, and 10:00 am from the Plaza Galeria.

NOTE: Historic/Cultural Tours offered on Friday, Saturday & Sunday @ 9:30 am ONLY departing from the Eldorado Hotel Lobby in January/February.

Eldorado Tours depart from Eldorado Hotel at 9:30am & 1:30pm, from the Hilton Santa Fe at 9:35am & 1:35pm, and from St. Francis Hotel at 9:45am & 1:45pm. Tickets: ＄14 per person; for more information, call 505-986-8388 or visit www.historicwalksofsantafe.com.

SANTA FE DISCOVERY WALKING TOUR Walking Tours of Santa Fe, the best way to get acquainted with "The City Different," daily at 10 am, meet in the La Fonda Hotel lobby. 90 min walk around downtown historical sites, including several historical buildings, information on culture, cuisine, shopping and history. NOTE: tours not conducted on Tuesdays and Thursdays during winter months Dec-Feb. ＄14, child under 12 free with adult. No reservation needed. Call 505-983-7774 or 505-470-6896 for more information. Also ask about Ghost Tours and Chocolate Tours by the Veterans Guide Guild.

A WELL-BORN GUIDE/HAVE PH.D., WILL TRAVEL: Various Tours Experience unique, entertaining and informative tours with a local professional historian. Regularly scheduled and custom tour experiences. Step-on guide services.

Ghost Tour Sundays & Thursdays;
Artists and Acequias Mondays;
Bread 'n' Chocolate Tuesdays & Fridays;
Fun, Games 'n' History in Cemeteries Wednesdays;
Bars and Brothels Wednesdays and Saturdays;
Jewish Legacy Thursdays;
Women's History Thursdays.

Stefanie Beninato
PO Box 1601
Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-988-8022
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“If the name doesn't draw you in, the tours will.”—Lonely Planet

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART The museum offers art walking tours of Santa Fe April - November (weather permitting). Guided by one of our docents, the tours highlight the art and architectural history of downtown Santa Fe. Tours leave at 10:00 a.m. on Mondays from the gift shop steps of the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 West Palace Avenue, on the Plaza in Santa Fe. From June-August, we also offer tours on Fridays at 10:00 a.m.

Cost: ＄10 per person, children 18 and under free. Proceeds support education programs at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
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NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM Ever wonder why there's an obelisk in the middle of the Santa Fe Plaza? Have you noticed the gargoyles on top of the Catron Building? Where was the gambling hall? Which tucked-away building held a Manhattan Project secret?

Find out by taking a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors guides. The tours are held April 13 through Oct. 17, Monday-Saturday, beginning at 10:15 a.m. No tours on Sundays. Gather at the Palace Courtyard's Blue Gate just south of the History Museum entrance at 113 Lincoln Ave. Cost is ＄10. Children 16 and under are free when accompanied by an adult. Museum guides do not accept tips. (No tours are offered on the Saturdays when large events are held on the Plaza, such as Spanish Market and Santa Fe Fiesta.)

Each tour lasts about 2 hours and features a leisurely pace with plenty of opportunities to ask questions. Enjoy stories of the people and events that have made Santa Fe a world-class tourist destination. Los Compadres del Palacio, a support group of the New Mexico History Museum, operates the program with guides who are trained in Santa Fe history. (Many are also guides at the History Museum and Palace of the Governors.) Proceeds from the tours benefit the museum's programs and events.

Special group tours can be arranged by calling (505) 476-5200.
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THE ORIGINAL SANTA FE GHOST TOUR Ghost Tour: Stories of Santa Fe's ghosts of the Plaza area by a guide who has been spooking about for 23 years. By reservation: 605-983-7774

"My name is Peter Sinclaire, and I have been doing this ghost walk since 1993. I have interacted with over 2000 ghostwalkers, so on the tour you'll also hear about the experiences of tour participants with Santa Fe's spirits. My weekly tour departs Hotel St. Francis Saturday evenings---＄14 per person. Now offered March to November on Friday eves from La Fonda Hotel. Want a private ghost walk? Custom tours for groups any dayǃ Take a walk on the Spirit Side. How about a MegaGhost Tour with over 20 different ghosts in about 3 hours? Please call for details: 505-983-7774."

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SANTA FE ART TOURS Canyon Road Quickie: Explore Santa Fe's famous Canyon Road on this short and sweet conversational walking tour, every Friday at 2 pm.

SF Art tours also gives themed tours on semi-regular and one-time bases; please contact for information: 505-985-528, santafearttours.com.

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Museum of Encaustic Art holds over 300 works of encaustic/wax art, including painting, mixed media, photography, and sculpture. Museum artwork is not for sale, but the Encaustic Art Institute houses a members' side of the museum that has encaustic/wax works for sale. ＄8–＄9, 10 am–5 pm Tuesday –Sunday, 505-989-3283, moeart.org.
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