Located in downtown Santa Fe, one block from the Museum and two blocks from the Plaza, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center provides office space for scholars, a research library, and an archive of materials relating to O'Keeffe and her contemporaries. Scholars proposing topics that specifically address O'Keeffe and her art also have access to the extensive collection of art works in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and to the Ghost Ranch house, another component of the Research Center. O'Keeffe lived and worked at the Ghost Ranch house part of each year from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s. Approximately 60 miles northwest of Santa Fe, it is surrounded by the stunning landscape that inspired her art for more than 40 years.

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center is a member of ARIAH, the Association of Research Institutes in Art History. Click here for more information about ARIAH.

Research Opportunities in American Modernism
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, a component of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, sponsors research in American Modernism (1890—present) by awarding scholarships to historians in the fields of art, architecture & design, literature, music, and photography and to museum professionals who wish to organize an exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. The Research Center offers six scholarships annually.

Programs
The Research Center's program of lectures, symposia (on-site and virtual), colloquia, conferences, informal discussions, and publications complement the exhibitions, performances, and lectures sponsored by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Scholars can participate in these programs as well as in the rich cultural milieu of the city and its institutions. The Research Center opened in July 2001 with the inaugural symposium, Defining American Modernism: 1890 – present, which was followed by an online symposium The Modern/Postmodern Dialectic. In 2003, the Research Center held a second online symposium, entitled Museums of Tomorrow: An Internet Conference. In October of 2005, the Research Center held its third online symposium, The 1980s: An Internet Discussion. All online symposia are moderated by Maurice Berger, Senior Fellow, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University, New York and Curator, The Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County and published as volumes in the series Issues in Cultural Theory by The Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. In July of 2006, the Research Center held its second onsite symposium, Painting and Photography in American Art: Sources, Ideas and Influences, 1980s to the Present, in honor of its 5-year anniversary.