NMMOA | October 2024

Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain Symposium Keynote Lecture, October 18, 2024, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Join the New Mexico Museum of Art for a scholarly exploration of the exhibition Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain.

The exhibition’s curator, Dr. Cristina Cruz González, will introduce the groundbreaking exhibition by providing a broad historical backdrop to the works on view. The presentation will examine the importance of the Council of Trent and the Congregation of Rites (1588) for the perception and delineation of sanctity in New Spain.

https://www.nmartmuseum.org/events/saints-santos-picturing-the-holy-in-new-spain-symposium/

Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain Symposium, October 19, 2024, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Join the New Mexico Museum of Art for a scholarly exploration of the exhibition Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain. This symposium will feature scholars on the topic of how saintly devotions traveled to our region, how they transformed and the attempts to propagate holy figures in the viceroyalty.

https://www.nmartmuseum.org/events/saints-santos-picturing-the-holy-in-new-spain-symposium-2/

Frederico Vigil Artist Talk, October 19, 2024, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Frederico M. Vigil, Exodus: Influencias Positivas y Compadrazgo (detail), 1998. New Mexico Museum of Art 1998.5.1

Since 2017, artist Frederico Vigil has been working on a fresco depicting the history of wine production in New Mexico and measuring over 2,500 square feet for the Albuquerque Convention Center. Vigil’s project will discuss how his monumental project explores that rich history.

Vigil is one of the most prolific muralists in the region. His Mundos de Mestizaje, located inside the National Hispanic Cultural Center torreón, was completed in 2009 and measures roughly 4,000 square feet. His work is familiar to patrons of the New Mexico Museum of Art as well. In 1998, he completed Exodus: Influencias Positivas Y Compadrazgo in the courtyard of the 1917 Plaza Building.

“The Journey Of The UVA y Vino to Nuevo Mexico, 1629,” is free to the public and will be followed by a ticketed wine tasting with Mission Winery and Vara.

https://www.nmartmuseum.org/events/artist-talk-frederick-vigil/
https://www.nmartmuseum.org/events/wine-tasting/

Final Friday Artist Talk by Peter Sarkisian, October 25, 2024, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Gathering Series I (The Cocktail Pieces), Peter Sarkisian, 1966, Museum purchase with funds from the Collector’s Club and Jordie M. Chilson, 1998

Join us on Friday, October 25, 2024, to learn more about Peter Sarkisian and his work. This Final Friday Program at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is part of a series of artist talks in conjunction with the exhibition Off-Center.

Peter Sarkisian combines video projection and physical objects to create a unique form of cinematic sculpture. He has exhibited for more than thirty years in international venues, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the National Museum of Art in Taiwan. Sarkisian currently lives and works in Santa Fe.

This program is made possible by Pat and Jim Hall.

https://www.nmartmuseum.org/events/peter-sarkisian-final-friday-off-center-artist-talk/