October 6–October 15 marks the International Balloon Fiesta! During this high-volume time, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be open extended hours until 6 PM. Advance tickets strongly recommended. Book ahead here.

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First Friday: Sip and Read

  • Friday, October 3
  • 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 to 7:00 PM.

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

On October 3, join us for a special book signing with Sarah Rovang, author of Through the Long Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Also, enjoy a last look at Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life, which features a selection of O’Keeffe’s personal belongings, including teas she enjoyed and tea pots she would use—many of which were from Japan. Satori Murata will be in the Museum Courtyard offering brewed tea in the traditional Japanese style. Murata has studied “chado,” or the way of tea, passionately since 1998. She is a former president of Santa Fe JIN (Japanese Intercultural Network) and enjoys teaching Japanese language and culture.

5–7 PM | Tea Demonstration & Tasting with Satori Murata

5–7 PM | Book Signing of Through the Long Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright by Sarah Rovang

6 PM | Spotlight Tour with Sarah Rovang

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

Large horizontal canvas of magnified pelvic bone in reddish orange. Emphasis is on the oval hole in the pelvis, the empty space of which fills the majority of the canvas in yellow.

Event Classes

Online Class: Creative Color

Online

Friday, October 10

11:00am

Large canvas of aerial view of the sky from above the cloud level. To the point of the horizon at 2/3 of the canvas the sky is vibrant blue dotted with islands of white clouds like icebergs in the sea. The top 1/3 is the pale horizon fading from salmon peach to grey-blue to the edge of the canvas.

Event Family Day

Family Day: Above the Clouds 

217 JOHNSON STREET, SANTA FE, NM

Sunday, October 12

10:30am

Small vertical pastel of white oval shaped calla lily flower with a green stem and single leaf featured in the center over a greyish-white background. The direction of the flower spirals away from the picture plain, hence suggesting a turning away from the viewer.

Event Classes

Online Class: Watercolor Calla Lily with Wet-on-Wet Background

Online

Wednesday, October 15

1:00pm