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.  Free-does not include gallery admission

Celebrate the end of the year while exploring the contemporary art of New Mexico in Off-Center: New Mexico Art, 1970-2000 with a free and fun family scavenger hunt.  image: Charles Ross, 1993, Cosmic Rain, powdered pigment exploded onto paper with graphite. 60 × 71 3/4 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift...

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....

Join the Vladem Contemporary’s Window Box artist, Faith Purvey, for a day of artmaking. This 2D+3D workshop considers the conceptual and material ways of constructing memory. Participants will engage in a series of prompts, and produce their own personal and meaningful “stuffed window”, utilizing Faith’s installation of the same title as a jumping-off point. Participants...

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...

Join us for a 70s themed prom celebration for the opening of the latest interation of the exhibition Off-Center: New Mexico Art 1970-2000 which examines Idenity. FREE, open to the public.   Image:  Emmi Whitehorse, Kin Nah Zin #223, September 1982, collage on paper, 27 1/2 × 39 1/4 in. Collection of the New Mexico...

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...