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December 26–30 | Open 10 AM–5 PM
December 31 | Open 10 AM–3 PM
January 1, 2026 | CLOSED

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

An adult in glasses and a child are bent over a piece of artwork on a table. The adult wears a blue apron.

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Fine Art Friday at the Santa Fe Children's Museum: New Year's Moodboard

1050 OLD PECOS TRAIL, SANTA FE, NM.

Friday, January 2

2:00pm

Delicate watercolor of pink and indigo primula flowers clustered together above green leaves from which the flowers' thin stalks rise. A hint of blue bleeds out from around the leaves onto the white page.

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Online Class: Getting Started with Watercolor Pencil Techniques

Online

Friday, January 2

2:00pm

Oil painting of Pedernal in fall, predominantly in dark greens and oranges with brush in foreground.

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First Friday

217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, MM 87501

Friday, January 2

5:00pm

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