Plaza Building

Explore the galleries at the New Mexico Museum of Art on the Plaza with a free and fun scavenger hunt that will test your powers of observation!

Join us for the fourth installment in the Organ Recital Series featuring Maxine Thevenot. Maxine Thévenot is known for her skillful, musical organ playing, inventive concert programming, and passionate, informed conducting. Thévenot serves as Director of Cathedral Music & Organist at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque where she oversees an internationally renowned choral...

Join Mokha Laget, (Artist in Residence), in this performance, drawing inspiration from the visual scores that present her graphic and notational drawings, which, akin to conventional scores, will be musically interpreted. Animated by Morgan Barnard, these scores are projected to facilitate free improvisation among performers.     This collaboration is featured as part of the inaugural...

Join us for a lively conversation about the lasting impact of Rick Dillingham’s 1974 publication 7 Families in Pueblo Pottery, featuring a panel of experts in contemporary ceramics, pueblo pottery, and anthropology. This program will explore the legacy of 7 Families, the artwork of Dillingham, and the socio-cultural tensions between Dillingham’s aesthetics and indigenous pottery...

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 at 12 PM, St. Francis Auditorium | NM Museum of Art Frederick Frahm, composer, organist, publisher, and parish musician was born in California in1964. A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma), Frahm directed church musicprograms across the US for 40 years before retiring in 2021. From 2011 to 2022, he served as acollaborative...

In the third installment of Pro Musica’s Organ Recital Series local organ extraordinaire David Solem performs on the McNary Pipe Organ in Santa Fe Auditorium. David Solem has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory where he studied organ, harpsichord, piano, and flute. He has over 30 years of experience in liturgical...

FIRST FRIDAY: LARRY BELL AND JUDY CHICAGO IN CONVERSATION April 5, 2024 5:30-6:30 Plaza Building Join celebrated artists Judy Chicago and Larry Bell for a conversation about their careers in New Mexico. Sold Out   The Vladem Contemporary inaugural lecture series is made possible with the generous support of Maria and Edward Gale, Gale Family...

Join us this spring for Elements of Art: Story Time at the New Mexico Museum of Art Library. Every other Monday at 10:30 AM the Museum Library invites children ages 3-5 and their caregivers, to learn about a basic element of art though story, song, and craft.  Led by Cyndi Korzec, an early childhood educator,...

In the exhibition Ways of Seeing: Four Photographic Collections, the eye of the collector play an important role. Anne Kelly, Gallery Director for photo-eye Gallery joins us for a gallery talk to introduce us to how to get started collecting photography. Free w/ admission

Get to know your Museum Library and help us celebrate National Library Week! Drop in for library tours and fun facts, refreshments, kids book giveaways, and bookmaking crafts starting at 1 PM. Free to attend!