Journey through centuries of art and architecture in Santa Fe.
Discover Santa Fe’s desert scenery and adobe designs that have inspired centuries of Indigenous visual traditions and attracted generations of famous artists, such as Georgia O’Keeffe.
Join Siera Hyte, Schiller Family Curator of Indigenous American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in Santa Fe for a behind-the-scenes program exploring this multifaceted legacy of art and architecture. Through her deep connections, Siera will introduce you to the region’s artistic communities through curated museum and gallery visits, inside looks at private artists’ studios, and conversations that center Native makers. A highlight will be exclusive guided access to the 104th Santa Fe Indian Market, North America’s largest Indigenous art fair.
Highlights
- Gain special access to private galleries, studios, and museums in Santa Fe with an insider, Siera Hyte, the Schiller Family Curator of Indigenous American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
- Experience North America’s largest Indigenous art event, the Santa Fe Indian Market, where more than 1,000 artists from 200 Indigenous nations gather to present work.
- Attend a private welcome reception and viewing at a leading Santa Fe gallery.
- Join acclaimed Santa Clara Pueblo sculptor Roxanne Swentzell behind the scenes at her Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute, which teaches sustainability through ancestral Indigenous knowledge.
- Enjoy guided inside looks at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, her restored home in Abiquiú, and private areas of her 20,000-acre Ghost Ranch.
- Experience curator-guided tours of the Museum of International Folk Art, the world’s largest folk art collection, and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the only U.S. museum dedicated solely to current Indigenous American art.
- View the world’s most comprehensive collection of Southwestern Native jewelry at the Wheelwright Museum’s Jim and Lauris Phillips Center.
- Delight in a special visit to Taos’s Millicent Rogers Museum, which features nearly 1,000 pieces of Native American turquoise jewelry gathered by a Standard Oil heiress.
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