Did You Ever Visit Santa Fe New Mexico??
Artist or art collector? Whichever you claim to be, Santa Fe is the place to spend a weekend, or if youre lucky, a lifetime, making art. Or collecting it. Santa Fe, despite its small population (68,000) is the fourth largest art market in the United States behind New York, L.A. and San Francisco.
If youre an artist, whether accomplished or aspiring, youll be drawn to the amazingly blue and seemingly endless sky as well as the austerely stunning landscape of both desert and mountains. Youll want to attend one of the dozens of workshops held at Santa Fe Creative Tourism, where offerings from abstract art to glass fusion to watercolors abound. Spend a week learning film and video techniques with Santa Fe Photography Workshops. Or just set your easel up on a street corner and catch the unending human stage that is Santa Fe on any day of the week.
If youre a collector, youll find some of the nations top galleries on both Canyon Road and surrounding the Santa Fe Plaza. The Georgia OKeefe Museum offers a rotating schedule of exhibits that will keep you coming back for more. Through the end of May, 2013, catch Annie Leibovitzs Pilgrimage at the OKeefe. The New Mexico Art Museum is currently featuring several fascinating exhibits, including Its about time 14,000 years of art in New Mexico. While you cant purchase these works for your private collection, you can whet your appetite for a broader art palette by spending a day there.
Did we already mention Canyon Road? It bears a second look. With over 100 galleries, boutiques and restaurants in the first half mile alone, you can spend several days wandering Canyon Road and never see the same work of art twice. You can even rent a holiday homes from Two Casitas that puts you right at the center of Canyon Roads action.
And if art isnt your thing, Santa Fe has a myriad of offerings for every visitor. Restaurants like The Coyote Caf, where Mark Miller started New Southwest Cuisine over 20 years ago, or the Pink Adobe, where Rosalea Murphy started serving her famous apple pie and green chile in 1944, are on every corner. You dont have to look far to find the perfect meal, many of which are their own works of art.
And then theres the architecture. The Palace of the Governors on the north side of the Santa Fe Plaza is the oldest continuously used public building in the country, and it is a work on art in its own right while providing shade to Native American artists selling their wares under its portal. Santa Fes churches range from the San Miguel Mission (the nations oldest standing Catholic Church) built in 1610 to the St. Francis Cathedral, a Romanesque Cathedral that rivals any European church in both size and beauty.
Love Art? We have it in abundance in Santa Fe, whether youre thinking canvas or landscape or architecture or just rich human experience.
If youre an artist, whether accomplished or aspiring, youll be drawn to the amazingly blue and seemingly endless sky as well as the austerely stunning landscape of both desert and mountains. Youll want to attend one of the dozens of workshops held at Santa Fe Creative Tourism, where offerings from abstract art to glass fusion to watercolors abound. Spend a week learning film and video techniques with Santa Fe Photography Workshops. Or just set your easel up on a street corner and catch the unending human stage that is Santa Fe on any day of the week.
If youre a collector, youll find some of the nations top galleries on both Canyon Road and surrounding the Santa Fe Plaza. The Georgia OKeefe Museum offers a rotating schedule of exhibits that will keep you coming back for more. Through the end of May, 2013, catch Annie Leibovitzs Pilgrimage at the OKeefe. The New Mexico Art Museum is currently featuring several fascinating exhibits, including Its about time 14,000 years of art in New Mexico. While you cant purchase these works for your private collection, you can whet your appetite for a broader art palette by spending a day there.
Did we already mention Canyon Road? It bears a second look. With over 100 galleries, boutiques and restaurants in the first half mile alone, you can spend several days wandering Canyon Road and never see the same work of art twice. You can even rent a holiday homes from Two Casitas that puts you right at the center of Canyon Roads action.
And if art isnt your thing, Santa Fe has a myriad of offerings for every visitor. Restaurants like The Coyote Caf, where Mark Miller started New Southwest Cuisine over 20 years ago, or the Pink Adobe, where Rosalea Murphy started serving her famous apple pie and green chile in 1944, are on every corner. You dont have to look far to find the perfect meal, many of which are their own works of art.
And then theres the architecture. The Palace of the Governors on the north side of the Santa Fe Plaza is the oldest continuously used public building in the country, and it is a work on art in its own right while providing shade to Native American artists selling their wares under its portal. Santa Fes churches range from the San Miguel Mission (the nations oldest standing Catholic Church) built in 1610 to the St. Francis Cathedral, a Romanesque Cathedral that rivals any European church in both size and beauty.
Love Art? We have it in abundance in Santa Fe, whether youre thinking canvas or landscape or architecture or just rich human experience.
