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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A unique tasting experience where you will enjoy sampling fresh breads and crêpes, cacao drinks and sumptuous chocolates from the kitchens of their creators. Get acquainted w/ the Railyard and the Don Gaspar Historic Neighborhood. ＄70/pp. Min. ＄150.
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A solo exhibition of color images, captured by Benn using Kodak's vivid Kodachrome film during his tenure with National Geographic, detailing the rapid change and eccentricities present in the state of Florida during the 1980s. Free, 5–7 pm, www.photoeye.com.
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For an exciting world-class contemporary art experience, visit the hip new Railyard Arts District where ten galleries plus SITE Santa Fe boast the best in international contemporary art. Housed in spacious warehouse-style buildings, all within walking distance, the galleries include Box Gallery, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Gebert Contemporary, James Kelly Contemporary, Jay Etkin Gallery, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe Clay, Tai Gallery, William Siegal Gallery, and the internationally renowned SITE Santa Fe art space. Galleries are open year-round and feature an Artwalk from 5 to 7pm the last Friday of every month.
(Photo: Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation
Reprinted by permission, Frederick Schwartz Architects.)
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Members of Meow Wolf's Programming and Outreach team co-facilitate a listening session to gather input and ideas on how to best serve the needs of Santa Fe's diverse community. Art therapists Nancy Lemmon and Jess Brennen use art making and art therapy processes to build community for those who identify under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella and allies and advocates. Free, 6:30–8:30 pm, 505-395-6369, meowwolf.com.
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The exhibition focuses on a series of paintings from a seminal period in the artist's career that punctuated a transitional period in the early 1960s in which Zacharias developed her own visual language and moved away from Abstract Expressionistic painting. Free, January 28–February 24, davidrichardgallery.com.
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Featuring artist-selected works including Jacqueline Hill's collages, Melanie McWhorter's installation with photographs from Japan, Mara Saxer's stained glass and wall pieces, and Pete Warzel's drawings. Free, 5–7 pm, 505-983-2567, historicsantafe.org.
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An exhibition of the emotive inspiration of florals meant to help us acknowledge that which resides outside our everyday field of reference—the observable world yet beyond our threshold of awareness—even as we return to the familiarity of the garden.
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In this project spanning over two decades, photographer Tim Wong and calligrapher Akiko Hirano explore aesthetic resonance between diverse locales through a calligrapher's mind's eye, which takes the form of a shrouded figure in black-and-white images complemented with Japanese calligraphy. Free, January 31–February 28, 505-570-5385, editiononegallery.com.
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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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"To play is to engage in an activity for enjoyment and recreation, as an act of refreshment rather than as a serious or practical purpose." Art pieces in this exhibit reflect this idea of play. Artists included are: Nina Glaser, Warren Keating, Ann Laser, and Gary Oakley. Free, 5–7 pm, 505-982-1320, vivocontemporary.com.
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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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SITE Santa Fe presents a solo exhibition by NY-based artist Jacob Hashimoto through March 24. The exhibition explores the balance of the natural world, and Hashimoto’s fascination with the intersections of painting/sculpture & abstraction/landscape.
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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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An exhibition aimed at showcasing the still liminal spaces of erotic desire: the corners where carnal desire is still perceived as touching upon the taboo, the violent, the unspoken and unsaid, and the flows of desire we still seek adequate language to address. Free, February 11–April 7, 505-989-7900, ellsworthgallery.com.
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A solo exhibition of color images, captured by Benn using Kodak's vivid Kodachrome film during his tenure with National Geographic, detailing the rapid change and eccentricities present in the state of Florida during the 1980s. Free, February 22–April 20, www.photoeye.com.
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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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The exhibition, organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and curated by Mindy Besaw (Crystal Bridges), Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Independent Curator), and Manuela Well-Off-Man (IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts), features 80 artworks from the 1950s to today, including paintings, photography, video, textiles, sculptures, performance art, and more created by Indigenous US and Canadian artists. Free, 505-983-1666, iaia.edu.
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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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This collection, promised to the museum, illuminates the diverse voices and living traditions of international cultures through the vision of a collector who has spent more than 50 years studying, supporting, and celebrating the arts. ＄12, during museum hours, 505-476-1200, moifa.org.
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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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Featuring Tom & Carole Bowker’s beautiful one of a kind Raku,High Fired, Smoke-fired vessels,and small jewel boxes.Join us and learn about our techniques for creating these unique worksǃThrough Dec. 31.Open every Fri. 1-7pm By Appt: M-Th 505.670.9289
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• Thomas Bowker’s new oil/mixed media paintings is shown with his sketches so visitors to the gallery can view the process towards his finished works which include vistas around Santa Fe. Continues to 12/31/19. Open every Fri. 1-7pm; by appt. M-Thurs.

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Featuring Santa Fe artist Carole Bowker’s new Fall Jewelry Collection inspired by beauty of the land in Northern New Mexicoǃ Included are works in copper,wood,clay,coral&turquoise all detailed in sterling silver. Open Fridays 1-7pm; Mon-Thur by appt.
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Heidi K. Brandow (Native Hawaiian/Diné), will create a new mural painting. Unit of Measure can be considered a transitory impression that playfully acknowledges the intricacies, complications, and the unknown as components of personal identity. ＄5–＄10, February 15–January 1, 505-983-8900, iaia.edu.
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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
info@swguides.com
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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. The Museum of Encaustic Art remains closed to the public for the Month
of January and opens again on February 1st, with hours for February
being Fri/Sat/Sun noon to 5. March resumes normal hours of Tuesday
through Sunday.
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