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TCAA Artists Autograph Party

Meet the artists and get your TCAA exhibition catalogs autographed; includes complimentary TCAA poster.

Curator Conversations – Founding of the New Mexico Art Colonies

Join Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art, on the first Tuesday of October for a discussion of New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. This major traveling exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of art in New Mexico, from …

Drop-In Drawing: Corn Dance, Santo Domingo, B.J.O Nordfeldt

On the second Sunday of the month, explore your creative side in a fun and informal drawing session. Be inspired by the artists who lived and worked in northern New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, and who are featured in the exhibition New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. …

Read the West Book Club- The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. Through riveting new evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, and Indian captives, The Other Slavery reveals nothing less …

Curator Conversations – From the Romantics to the Modernists

Join Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art, on the first Tuesday of November for a discussion of New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. This major traveling exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of art in New Mexico, from …

Drop-In Drawing: Live Model

On the second Sunday of the month, explore your creative side in a fun and informal drawing session. Be inspired by the artists who lived and worked in northern New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, and who are featured in the exhibition New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. …

Read the West Book Club — Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather's best-known novel is an epic — almost mythic — story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the Southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, …

Curator Conversations – Women Artists of New Mexico

Join Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art, on the first Tuesday of December for a discussion of New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. This major traveling exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of art in New Mexico, from …

Read the West Book Club—Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality

In 1917 Mabel Sterne (Mabel Dodge Luhan), patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of …

Drop-In Drawing: Portrait of a Taos Indian, Ernest L. Blumenschein

On the second Sunday of the month, explore your creative side in a fun and informal drawing session. Be inspired by the artists who lived and worked in northern New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s, and who are featured in the exhibition New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. …

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