First Friday | Dances from the Lightning Boy Foundation

  • Friday, July 5
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM MT
  • 217 Johnson Street. Santa Fe, NM 87501

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on the First Friday of every month! Admission is free from 5:00 PM–7:00 PM.

Join us for extended hours at the Museum on the First Friday of every month! Admission is free from 5:00 PM–7:00 PM. 

Lightning Boy Foundation dancers will give performances at 5:30 PM and 6:10 PM on the Museum patio. The Lightning Boy Foundation was established in honor of Valentino ‘Tzigiwhaeno’ Rivera, a boy who couldn’t stop dancing. Based in Valentino’s home, the Tewa Pueblos of Northern New Mexico, the non-profit organization was established for those in the community with an interest and passion for tradition, performance, and visual arts. Through the Foundation’s initiatives, boys and girls, of all ages, are given opportunities to learn various art forms. The Foundation has made the Traditional Hoop Dance that Valentino practiced and performed worldwide, available to all tribal youth in the area.  The Hoop Dance continues to be known as a healing art form and is said to have its origins in the Pueblos of Northern New Mexico.

Make it an art-filled evening and visit our First Friday partners in downtown Santa Fe. 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

Five framed paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, one of a sunflowers, one of a tree in a desert landscape, one of a river from above, on a beige wall.

Past Event Talks

O’Keeffe in Conversation: Activating the Mattatuck Museum’s Collection 

Online

Wednesday, March 12

9:00am

Photograph of a young child's hands as they use their fingers to paint a painting on a while piece of paper.

Event Community Events

Create with O'Keeffe: Blob Characters

LA FARGE LIBRARY | 1730 LLANO ST, SANTA FE, NM 87505

Thursday, March 13

3:30pm

Dark blue stroke in the shape of a "C" fills the center of the paper. Lighter blue strokes in same motion of "C" on either side of dark blue "C." Cream color stroke follows the right side of the "C." Three red circles to the right of the "C" with one black circle overlapping the closest red circle to the "C."

Event Classes

Online Class: Watercolor Fundamentals | Washes, Glazing, & Brushwork

Online

Friday, March 14

1:30pm