Santa Fe Announces New Museum Exhibits For Spring

  • March 15, 2016
Santa Fe Announces New Museum Exhibits For Spring
The new shows will highlight the past, present and future through photography, miniatures, watercolor paintings, exotic jewelry and more. Here's a selection:

New Mexico History Museum – “Santa Fe Faces: Alan Pearlman Photographs”
March 13 through September 18, 2016

In 2009, photographer Alan Pearlman set out on a quest to capture the soul of Santa Fe in a series of staged portraits. The exhibit will feature a selection from 90 portraits, aiming to reveal a moment in ‘The City Different's' history, focusing on the ways that clothing and settings speak to identities and occupations. Visit www.nmhistorymuseum.org.

Museum Of Indian Arts & Culture – Landscape of an Artist: Living Treasure Dan Namingha
March 20, 2016 through September 11, 2016
Every year at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture's Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, the museum chooses to honor an artist as a MIAC Living Treasure. This year, Dan Namingha is being honored. Namingha was born and raised on the Hopi reservation and his art is inspired by the Southwest region and subjects within his culture. For the past five decades his work has continuously evolved as he has refined his studio practice by experimenting with different mediums and techniques. Namingha's art has been extremely well received on both the national and international art scene at numerous exhibitions. Visit https://www.miaclab.org.

New Mexico Museum of Art – “Assumed Identities: Photographs by Anne Noggle”

April 2 through September 11, 2016

Anne Noggle was a woman of many talents, working as a pilot, photographer, curator and professor. This exhibit features more than 35 photographs and will reintroduce the artist to the public ten years after her death and include recent additions to the museum's holding of nearly 100 of her prints. Visit www.nmartmuseum.org.

Museum of International Folk Art – “The Morris Miniature Circus: Return of The Little Big Top”

April 3 through January 1, 2017

After 30 years, the beloved Morris Miniature Circus returns to the Museum of International Folk Art. The Morris Circus was built over the course of 40 years by W.J Morris and is modeled after a 1930s “railroad circus,” when the circus would come to town by rail, set up in a day and pack up to the next venue. The collection consists of an estimated 100,000 pieces made through a variety of techniques from woodcarving and painting to clay modeling and mold making. Visit www.internationalfolkart.org.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum – “Georgia O'Keeffe's Far Wide Texas”

April 29 through October 30, 2016

This exhibit will showcase the watercolors created by Georgia O'Keeffe during the years she lived in Canyon, Texas (1916-1918), a period of radical innovation and the time when O'Keeffe's commitment to abstraction was firmly established. The exhibition will analyze the unique situation that fostered her abstractions at the intersection of her disciplined art practice and her allegiance to the techniques of her mentor, Arthur Wesley Dow. Visit www.okeeffemuseum.org.