October 3–11 marks the International Balloon Fiesta! During this high-volume time, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be open for extended hours. Advance tickets are strongly recommended. Click here for more information.

Family Fun Day: Bad to the Bone

  • Sunday, October 8
  • 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM MT
  • EDUCATION ANNEX, 123 GRANT AVENUE, SANTA FE, NM

In honor of the spooky season, learn about O'Keeffe's artistic fascination with the bones she found throughout New Mexico.

Georgia O’Keeffe loved to collect bones. Of bones, O’Keeffe once said, “To me they are as beautiful as anything I know. To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around…” In honor of the spooky season, we will be diving into O’Keeffe’s artistic fascination with the bones she found throughout New Mexico. Through a variety of hands-on artmaking, creative activities, and story time, families can explore together what it means to find beauty in the uncanny.  

Family Fun Day is a free event for all who attend. Participating families will receive a pass for free admission into the Museum! Please visit us first in the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex (located at 123 Grant Ave) when you arrive to receive your day pass, campus map, and schedule of activities for the day. 

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The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is proud to introduce Family Fun Day! Occurring on the second Sunday of every month, this event aims to bring the community together through hands-on artmaking and storytelling, as well as encouraging kids and families to take a new approach in looking at and interacting with art. Family Fun Day is offered in partnership with the Santa Fe Children’s Museum and Santa Fe Public Libraries. 

Santa Fe Children’s Museum
1050 Old Pecos Trail
santafechildrensmuseum.org
505-989-8359
Logo of the Santa Fe Public Library
Santa Fe Public Library
library@santafenm.gov
santafelibrary.org
Please be advised that this event may involve crowds, loud noises, or lighting effects that may be uncomfortable for people experiencing sensory sensitivities.

Upcoming Events

Twisting white birch branches stretch over the composition. Soft, cloudlike yellow forms denote clusters of leaves. The background is rendered in shades of pale pink and white.

Past Event Classes

In-Person Class: Autumn Landscapes with Trees in Watercolor

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

Friday, October 9

10:00am

Open sketch book on table with watercolor paints, brushes, and pencils surrounding notebook. Notebook contains drawings

Past Event Classes

Online Class: Creating Composition

Online

Friday, October 9

11:00am

A still life drawing of a skull and a few bones resting upright against a striped-cloth covered object. Above the skull is a brown water vessel.

Past Event Community Events

Still-Life Series | Abiquiú

The O'Keeffe: Welcome Center | 21120 US-84, Abiquiú, NM 87510

Friday, October 9

12:30pm