Evenings with O’Keeffe | Inspiration at the Intersection of Art, Wellbeing, and Lived Experience 

For this Evenings with O’Keeffe program, join Patrice Repar, Ivy Ross, and Yaritza Martinez Pule for a conversation about how the arts can be a vehicle for wellbeing and a means for coping with great challenges.  

This conversation celebrates the culmination of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum exhibition A Circle that Nothing Can Break, which examines O’Keeffe’s lifelong love of music and the ways her artistic practice responded to the emotional and physical changes she encountered throughout her lifetime, including her experience with macular degeneration. Drawing on these connections to O’Keeffe’s life and art, this Evenings with O’Keeffe program will explore how the arts can serve as a pathway for all of us in the journey to find our voice.  

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Seating will begin at 5:45 PM. Please note the Museum does not have on-site public parking. City of Santa Fe parking garages can be found nearby, and metered parking is also available throughout downtown Santa Fe. View a map of parking options near the Museum.

Evenings with O’Keeffe is a free, in-person series of thematic conversations that intersect with Georgia O’Keeffe’s life and legacy. Please register in advance, as space is limited, and email contact@gokm.org or call 505-496-1000 for assistance with event registration.

About the Speakers:

Patrice Repar’s work as a composer includes the writing of contemporary chamber music, intermedia works, electronic soundscapes, and the most recent and innovative ‘song-story’ (intricate arrangements of jazz standards for voice, piano, story, and electronics); the making of short films; the design of original instruments and installations in medical environments; and the exploration of health and healing through the arts.  Dr. Repar has been featured as a guest composer, performer, educator, and clinician in various parts of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South America, Europe, southern Africa, Thailand, and Australia. Combining her studies in music composition and creative process with research in palliative care, expressive arts therapies, sound healing, and the medical humanities. 

Dr. Repar founded Arts-in-Medicine: Healing and the Humanities at the University of New Mexico in 2002.  Since then, she has directed and ‘composed’ the program as a ‘living installation’ with five branches: clinical service, education, research, community engagement, and international collaboration. Musicians, dancers, writers, visual artists, and body workers engage patients, their families, and healthcare workers throughout UNM Hospitals (UNMH) in creative encounters of a rejuvenating, transformative, and educational nature.  As a professor in the departments of music and internal medicine, Repar teaches music composition and directs the graduate healing arts certificate program.  As a licensed massage therapist and professional musician, she works at the bedside of seriously and terminally ill patients at UNMH. Learn more here.

Ivy Ross is Director of Education and Engagement for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, where she leads innovative music programs for youth across Northern New Mexico. A nationally recognized educator, facilitator, and musician, her work explores belonging, connection, and creative expression as pathways for individual and collective change. 

Through her initiative, IvyArts, she has partnered with organizations nationwide to design arts-based programs that cultivate brave spaces where creativity can thrive. She also studies and teaches meditation, integrating contemplative practice into her work to deepen presence, empathy, and connection. 

Ross’s work extends to her role as a Teaching Artist with the Santa Fe Opera, where she leads a songwriting residency in which Santa Fe Public School students give voice to the elements they study in science—blending curiosity, creativity, and imagination into song. 

Yaritza Martinez Pule joined the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in 2022 as Curatorial Assistant after completing a Fulbright research grant. Previously, she was a curatorial research fellow at Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City and a curatorial assistant at 80WSE Gallery, a gallery affiliated with New York University, where she co-curated and organized exhibitions with the Institute of Fine Arts, the Costume Institute, and Steinhardt’s Department of Art. In addition, she was a visiting scholar in the archives at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She holds an MA from New York University in Visual Culture and Costume Studies, where she concentrated her research on the historical and cultural dimensions of textiles and costumes, and a BA from Marquette University with a focus on Art History, Digital Media Studies, and Spanish and Latin American Studies, completing a part of her art history education from King’s College London.