First Friday: Place/Holding

  • Friday, May 3
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
  • 217 JOHNSON ST, SANTA FE, NM

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on First Friday and our Mobile Artist in Residence's exhibition 'Place/Holding.'

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on the First Friday of every month. Admission is free all day for New Mexico residents and free for everyone from 5 PM–7 PM. 

Enjoy a showing of Place/Holding, an exhibition by Brian Fleetwood (Muscogee Creek), the Museum’s first Mobile Artist in Residence. Place/Holding presents Fleetwood’s jewelry created by single-use plastics collected from different communities in the Musuem’s Art to G.O. truck. Stop by for a look at the exhibition inside the Axle Contemporary truck, enjoy music by Adrian Wall (Pueblo of Jemez), and refreshments! 

Read more about Place/Holding here. 

Place/Holding will open on April 19th in the Santa Fe Railyard Plaza. Place/Holding is presented by Art to G.O. and Axle Contemporary.

Photograph of a street and an adobe building with a tree on the left of the frame. Parked in front of the building and on the street are two trucks, one a grey mobile art gallery and one the Art to G.O. truck with cloud motifs on it and two tables in front.
Close-up photograph of a pair of hands holding a plastic mold over a table. On the table are small colorful plastic creations.
Photograph of the front of a grey mobile art gallery in the background and the front of the Art to G.O. truck in the foreground. Behind both trucks are leafy trees turning gold.
Axle Contemporary

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Be sure to enjoy openings, extended hours, and more at each stop down Palace Avenue. 

First Friday partners include:  

Patina Gallery
Victory Gallery
New Mexico Museum Foundation Shops
Owings Gallery on Palace
Hecho Gallery

Peyton Wright Galleries
New Mexico History Museum
Sorrel Sky Gallery
New Mexico Museum of Art

Upcoming Events

Left: Portrait in black and white of a smiling O'Keeffe in front of one of her painting with her long hair down and wearing a light slip eamisole. Right: Black and white portrait of Kahlo, her hair ups arms crossed looking seriously at the camera.

Event Talks

2/5

Georgia O’Keeffe & Frida Kahlo: Two Cultures, Two Journeys, and One Era

Online

Wednesday, February 5

9:00am

Photograph from above of a person's hands as they paint different small scenes on a notebook with colorful watercolors. To the right is a watercolor palette.

Event Classes

2/5

Online Class: Creative Color (Part 1)

Online

Wednesday, February 5

5:00pm

Photograph of a heart and colorful hues of watercolor paint on a canvas. On the canvas are paintbruhes, crayons and a watercolor palette.

Event Classes

2/7

In-Person Class: Colorful Hearts | Positive-Negative Technique in Mixed-Media Watercolor

O'KEEFFE MUSEUM CREATIVITY STUDIO | CORNER OF W MARCY ST AND SHERIDAN ST, SANTA FE, NM

Friday, February 7

12:30pm

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