Category: Events

November 6-8, 2026, in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe Community Convention Center

The Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival is truly a celebration of creativity and sustainability! This annual event showcases stunning artwork made from discarded materials—everything from upcycled apparel to vintage tin-can jewelry.

The weekend-long festival takes place at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center and features:

• Art Market with over 100 artists from around the region and country selling original recycled-material pieces.
• Juried Art Exhibits for both adults and students.
• Trash Fashion & Costume Show—a dazzling display of wearable art made from repurposed materials.
• Make-and-Take Art Activities for hands-on creativity.

This family-friendly event is a fantastic opportunity for art lovers, eco-conscious shoppers, and anyone who appreciates the ingenuity of turning trash into treasure.

The Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival, launched in collaboration with Keep Santa Fe Beautiful in 1999, is an artist-driven event that celebrates art made from recycled materials. This family-friendly festival includes a diverse art market, adult and student art exhibits, the dazzling Trash Fashion and Costume Contest, and engaging make-and-take art activities. All artworks feature at least 75% recycled, reused, or repurposed materials.

Supporting artists who incorporate recycled materials not only fosters economic growth within the arts community but also encourages sustainable practices and creative ways to rethink waste. As the Santa Fe Reporter notes, this event is “… a shockingly good time… the weekend’s biggest can’t miss event… a highlight of the fall season.”

Artist sign-up is open now through April 30 for the American Craft Council’s National Craft Open Studios Weekend, taking place nationwide July 18-19, 2026. 

National Craft Open Studios Weekend is a first-of-its-kind, nationwide celebration that invites the public into the creative spaces of craft artists across the country. This two-day event will offer guests a rare glimpse into the processes, tools and inspiration that shape how handmade works are made, and provide artists critical support in their sales season. 

National Craft Open Studios Weekend is presented by the American Craft Council and launches as part of Craft in America’s Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026. Similar to what Record Store Day or Independent Bookstore Day do for their creative ecosystems, National Craft Open Studios Weekend will provide support for artists and makers, and strengthen the national craft community through shared storytelling.  Continue reading “CALL FOR ARTIST PARTICIPATION: NATIONAL CRAFT OPEN STUDIOS WEEKEND 2026”

Lab for the Acoustic Window III is an immersive, multi-sensory installation using visual and acoustic space to study the effect of acoustic and visual isolation. His goal is to treat the space as a separate chamber, isolating the acoustic connection with the hall space while maintaining the visual ‘window’. This idea stemmed from a 1960’s television series Get Smart, wherein there was the “Cone of Silence”; a hilariously impractical gadget intended to insure private conversations but which comically makes it impossible for those inside to hear one another while outsiders can hear everything. Cluett takes this as a challenge to morph this gag into a functional idea. In previous iterations he’s been able to create acoustic isolation wherein those inside can hear the outside but those outside can see but not hear those inside. His goal in this iteration is to turn ripple effect into a space that hugs, or holds, the sound inside the space. Stay tuned for upcoming performances that play with this idea.

Installation on view Thursday March 5th – Thursday April 30^th, 2026

Opening Reception Thursday March 5th, 4:00 – 6:00pm

https://www.carycluett.com/ripple-effect

A Call for Freedom, Culture, and Solidarity

March 10, 2026 Tibetans and supporters will march from the Tibetan Association of Santa Fe to the State Capitol and onward to the Santa Fe Plaza, with speeches and prayers offered along the way.

Timeline:
8:30 AM Gather at Tibetan Association Center, 915 Hickox St
9:00 AM Begin the rally to NM State Capitol
9:30 AM Prayers and speech at State Capitol
10:00AM Rally to Santa Fe Plaza
11:30AM Return to Tibetan Association Center – Lunch and Tea will be served!

Every year on March 10, the global Tibetan community comes together to commemorate the 67th Tibetan National Uprising Day— a powerful reminder of the courageous resistance that began in Lhasa, Tibet in 1959. On that day, thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in a peaceful stand against the occupying Chinese army, hoping to protect His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and assert their right to freedom, culture, and spiritual life. Although the uprising was violently suppressed and the Dalai Lama ultimately went into exile, March 10 remains a day of remembrance, resilience, and renewed hope for Tibetans both in exile and inside Tibet.

In Santa Fe, the Tibetan community has honored this date with marches, rallies, prayers, and cultural gatherings that celebrate Tibetan identity and advocate for human rights. Previous observances have drawn people of all backgrounds together in solidarity — carrying Tibetan flags, chanting for justice, and affirming the enduring spirit of the Tibetan people.

This March 10, 2026, the Tibetan Association of Santa Fe invites friends, neighbors, and supporters to join in honoring this important day. Through community remembrance, cultural exchange, and expressions of peace.

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