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2025 Winter Spanish Market

2025 WINTER SPANISH MARKET SCHEDULE

Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 9am-5pm
Winter Spanish Market
Santa Fe Community Convention Center
201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Sunday, December 7, 2025 | 9:30am-4pm
Winter Spanish Market
Santa Fe Community Convention Center
201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, NM 87501

 

Scheduled to take place at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 2025, the market is an opportunity to explore Spanish colonial history and explore arts and crafts created centuries ago and today.

Visit the 2025 Traditional Spanish Market to see more than 160 adult and mentored youth artists showcasing handcrafted artwork, including those in traditional art forms like bultos, colcha embroidery, retablos, pottery, tinwork, and more. Continue reading “2025 Winter Spanish Market”

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Nüart Gallery: Willy Bo Richardson, Time Dissolves Here

Nüart Gallery
670 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM

December 5-21, 2025
Opening reception Friday, December 5, 5–7 PM

In Time Dissolves Here, artist Willy Bo Richardson invites viewers to consider color as a form of contemplation. Across more than twenty chromatic paintings, Richardson’s one person exhibition explores emotional and psychological resonance, creating spatial planes that suggest both stillness and motion. The works feel both anchored and airborne, shaped by the long light of New Mexico and the disciplined restraint of a painter who knows when to intervene and when to let paint think for itself.

Nüart Gallery
670 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501
10 AM–5 PM, Daily
505.988.3888
fineart@nuartgallery.com

Time Dissolves Here
Time Dissolves Here 5, 2025, 30×60 in, acrylic and oil on canvas

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Festive AF: Under-21 Party

12 DEC 2025, 5–8 PM
SITE SANTA FE

SITE SANTA FE is staying open late exclusively for the under-21 crowd. Bring your friends to a festive night that features art-making, live music, food, and more.

Festive AF (Art+Fun) is hosted by the SITE SANTA FE Young Curators. No adults allowed! If you can legally drink, this party is not for you…

Schedule of Events
5–7 PM: Exhibition Tours + Zine Making + FREE popcorn from Sky Cinemas + hot chocolate
7–8 PM: DJ Set / Live Music

SITE SANTA FE
1606 PASEO DE PERALTA
SANTA FE, NM 87501

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Maria Martinez and Julian Martinez

“Plate” by Maria Martinez (~1887-1980) and Julian Martinez (1879–1943), slip-painted and burnished ceramic, 9.75” diameter (24.8cm), c. 1925. Image courtesy of The Denver Art Museum.

Maria and Julian Martinez’s more properly. The couple were from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, part of the larger Tewa Peoples, and were active in the 20th century. Maria came from a long line of potters. Her craft was making clay pots, while her husband would paint the images on them. Together, they made traditional red-bodied clay pieces decorated with white, red, and black slip, a watered-down, brushable form of clay.

As the story goes, in the early 1900s, archeologist Edgar Lee Hewitt found an unusual black-on-white pottery sherd at a nearby site and was searching for someone who could recreate it. His intention was to help preserve this ancient technique, but what Maria and her husband Julian developed would instead change the course of indigenous ceramics. Continue reading “Maria Martinez and Julian Martinez”

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Ripple Effect: SPECTRUM 2025 – Lea Anderson

ripple effect, at Santa Fe Community College
6401 Richards Ave., Room 723D
Santa Fe, NM 87508

The gallery primarily serves the SFCC community but is open to the public. Access hours are Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–10 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–8 p.m.; and Sunday, 12 p.m.–5 p.m. Show is up through the end of 2025. Admission is free.

Hand-cut paper & vinyl, acrylic polymer, wire

Artist Lea Anderson installation SPECTRUM, a new installation at Ripple Effect explores the dynamic interplay of color, light, and philosophical duality. The work, composed of hand-cut paper and vinyl, acrylic polymer, and wire, invites viewers into a shifting visual field where reflected color becomes both medium and metaphor. Continue reading “Ripple Effect: SPECTRUM 2025 – Lea Anderson”

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FOMA Gallery: “Four Views” – Group Photography Exhibition

FOMA Gallery is pleased to announce Four Views, a new photography exhibition showcasing the works of Bonnie Bishop, Fran Gutierrez, Kim Richardson, and Alfredo Rojas. This group exhibition offers a diverse yet harmonious exploration of the ways photography can interpret and transform the world around us.

October 25–November 30, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 25, 4-6pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 8, 4-5pm (with Katie Doyle, Assistant Art Curator, New Mexico Museum of Art)FOMA Gallery

333 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM
Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–5pm; Sunday, 12pm–4pm

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The Art Scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico: A Rich Legacy and Global Relevance

Santa Fe, New Mexico, stands as one of the most unique and influential art hubs in the United States and the world. Rooted in centuries of Indigenous, Hispanic, and Anglo traditions, Santa Fe has more than just a cultural offering—it’s an essential part of the city’s identity. From the legacy of iconic artists like Georgia O’Keeffe to the cutting-edge installations of SITE Santa Fe, the city bridges past and present, local and global, tradition and innovation.

Santa Fe’s artistic heritage begins with the original inhabitants of the region—Tewa, Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache peoples—whose creative expressions remain foundational to the city’s aesthetic. Clay work, weaving, jewelry, and textile arts are not only preserved through generations but continue to evolve in contemporary interpretations. These traditions have long attracted collectors and connoisseurs, drawn to the authenticity and depth of Southwestern Native American art. Continue reading “The Art Scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico: A Rich Legacy and Global Relevance”