When: September 10, 2015
Where: Courtyard with reception hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico with music in the Lobby. Refreshments provided by the Women’s Board of The Museum.
Time: 5 to 7 PM
Cost: FREE

O’Keeffe in Process is part of the “Fall of Modernism” cultural collaboration with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Artworks on view will span O’Keeffe’s career from early student portraits of family members. created in 1905, to paintings executed during stays at Lake George in the late teens and first half of the twenties, to her iconic depictions of flowers, bones, and New Mexico landscapes, to her discovery of the view from the sky.                     

Looking Forward/Looking Back looks back at historic works by significant women artists from the Museum of Art Collection while looking forward at new projects by contemporary feminist artists. Artists in the exhibition include Eleanor Antin, Louise Bourgeois, Beatrice Wood, Angela Ellsworth and Ligia Bouton.

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When: September 26, 2015
Where: St. Francis Auditorium
107 West Palace Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Cost: FREE

Join collectors Jan and Marica Vilcek, with curators from the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, in a conversation about collecting Modern art. Like the story of modernist art in America, the Vilcek Collection reflects a journey of discovery and diverse experience.

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When: September 30, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Time: 12:30 – 12:45 PM
Cost: FREE with museum admission. No reservation required.

A member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s curatorial department will lead an insightful 12-minute discussion of a work of art currently on exhibit. 

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Family Treasure Hunt at the Museums

When: September 27, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum + New Mexico Museum of Art
217 Johnson Street + 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Cost: FREE for families

Celebrate the Fall of Modernism with two art museums! Go on a treasure hunt between the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Make art, look at art, have fun at both locations! There will be hands-on activities, live music, gallery games, and plenty of opportunities to explore the museums at your own pace. Admission is free for families at both museums. Family programs are interactive, hands-on activities designed for families with children ages 4 – 12. 

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When: October 2, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street
Time: 5 to 7 PM
Cost: FREE with admission

Join us for music and a cash bar in the Museum courtyard, and sketching in the galleries to create your own drawings while exploring the use of color in modern artwork! All ages welcome.

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Public opening of exhibition

When: October 2, 2015
Where: Courtyard reception hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico with music in the Lobby. Exhibition in the Goodwin Gallery.
Time: 5 to 8 PM
Cost: FREE

The Alpha Cats put a modernist spin on this opening with their popular Swing Jazz. Dress as a Modernist with best costume winning a prize. Refreshments served.

An American Modernism is a selection of more than fifty works from the museum’s collection exploring how Modernists in the United States struggled to define modern art in terms of the American experience. Concentrating on the 1920s and 1930s, the selection of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs illustrate the complexities of establishing a recognizable American style in the early years of the twentieth century. While some believed it should be defined by the precision and dynamism of the machine age, others rejected industrialization and commercialism for the perceived authenticity of nature and rural life. The tensions between these motives and the struggle to find a distinctively American visual vocabulary is demonstrated in works by Andrew Dasburg, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Cady Wells, Edward Weston, and many other modern masters.

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When: October 7, 2015
Where: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art
Time: 12:15 to 1:30 PM
Cost: FREE

“A ‘simpler clearer vision of life’ – Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lifelong Search in Painting” is a free public lecture presented by art historian Sharyn R. Udall where she explores the ways O’Keeffe’s eye, hand, and temperament shaped her highly original compositions.

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When: Friday, October 16, 2015
Where: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art
Time: 7 PM
Cost: FREE

Thoroughly Modern—Santa Fe Community Orchestra in partnership with the Museum. Incredible but true: Gershwin’s beloved, iconic Rhapsody in Blue was cutting edge music when it was first presented in 1924. Explore the jazzy, syncopated music of American modernism in a fun, informative talk by Oliver Prezant with musical illustrations by the SFCO, featuring excerpts from music including Copland’s El Salón México, William Grant Still’s Poem for Orchestra, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, featuring pianist Ron Grinage.

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When: October 17, 2015
Where: Museum Education Annex, 123 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe
Time: 9:30 to11:30 AM
Cost: Free for families

On returning from one of her many trips, Georgia O’Keeffe would create a box filled with items associated with that journey: brochures, postcards, and other ephemera. We will be decorating our own very special boxes to contain our treasures. This Family Program will begin at the O’Keeffe Museum Research Center to view special items from our archives.

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When: October 17, 2015
Where: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, Galleries
Time: 2:30 PM
Cost: FREE

See what you hear, and hear what you see! Take in the American Modernism exhibit at the Museum, and then join The Santa Fe Community Orchestra for a companion concert of music from the early 20th Century, featuring works by Copland and William Grant Still, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with Ron Grinage at the piano. Plus Nielsen’s dramatic Clarinet Concerto, featuring Melinda Russial, and a brief Side-by-Side performance with music students from Aspen Magnet School.

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When: October 28, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street
Time: 12:30 PM
Cost: FREE with admission

A member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s curatorial department will lead an insightful 15-minute discussion of a work of art currently on exhibit.

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FREE Friday Evening at the Museum Celebrating the Fall of Modernism

When: October 30, 2015
Where: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, Galleries
Time: 5 to 8 PM
Cost: FREE

The vibrancy of Santa Fe’s Modernist community brought an influx of artists like John Sloan, Stuart Davis, and Georgia O’Keeffe. The artists coming to the region pushed images into personal expression. The time was the roaring 1920’s and Halloween parties were all the rage with themes such as “Animals” or “Famous People” with an art deco flare. Halloween in the 1930’s was celebrated more by adults than their children. Costumes were outlandish, and the parties would last all night. Many had lavish parties costing a small fortune.

In celebration of the Fall of Modernism, The New Mexico Museum of Art invites you to party Modernist Style. Come in costume and dance to the music of Big Swing Theory. There will be Tarot card readers and keeping with the spirit of the day, dead artists from the past will make an appearance.

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When: November 4, 2015
Where: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art
Time: 12:15 to 1:15 PM
Cost: FREE

Museum curators Kate Ware and Carmen Vendelin discuss the American Modern art movement and recount stories of how artists discovered New Mexico as seen in the works on view in O’Keeffe in Process and An American Modernism.

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When: November 6, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street
Time: 5-7 PM
Cost: FREE with Museum admission

Join us in the galleries and create your own drawings while exploring the use of color in modern artwork! All ages welcome.

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When: November 14, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe
Time: 9:30 to11:30 AM
Cost: Free for families

Inspired by the modernist sculptures on view in the current exhibition, let’s create our own masterpieces.

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When: November 17, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street
Time: 6 PM
Cost: $20; Members, $10

Spend an evening of investigation in the galleries and discuss how modernist painters were inspired by nature but painted abstractly. You’ll learn to see the shared interests and artistic processes of the artists represented in the Vilcek Foundation Collection, on view in the Museum. Led by Carolyn Kastner, Curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. The evening will include walking through the galleries.

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When: November 21, 2015
Where: Museum Education Annex, 123 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe
Time: 2 PM
Cost: $20, includes Museum admission; Members, $5

Foundation Collection: Join us for this lecture exploring notions of new kinds of energy in 20th-century American Modernism, and how those energies transformed painting, sculpture, architecture, and dance. Presented by Dr. Sharyn Udall, an art historian, author, and independent curator who has written, taught, and lectured widely on 19th- and 20th-century American and European art.

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When: November 25, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street
Time: 12:30 PM
Cost: FREE with admission

A member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s curatorial department will lead an insightful 15-minute discussion of a work of art currently on exhibit.

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When: December 4, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street
Time: 5-7 PM
Cost: FREE with Museum admission

Join us in the galleries and create your own drawings while exploring the use of color in modern artwork! All ages welcome.

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When: December 17, 2015
Where: Museum Education Annex, 123 Grant Avenue, Santa Fe
Time: 6 PM
Cost: $15; Members, $5

The current exhibition, selected from the collection of Jan and Marica Vilcek, expresses their interest in and knowledge of modernism. The Vilceks are part of an extraordinary history of collecting that began with the unruly passions of collectors in the 16th century and culminates in the well-ordered museum collections of today. This seminar investigates that journey from cabinets of curiosities to the modern museum. Presented by Carolyn Kastner, Curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

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When: December 29, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe
Time: 1 to 4 PM
Cost: Free for families

Join us for this annual celebratory drop-in event and create personalized holiday crafts.

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When: December 30, 2015
Where: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson Street
Time: 12:30 PM
Cost: FREE with admission

A member of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s curatorial department will lead an insightful 15-minute discussion of a work of art currently on exhibit.

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