Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Opens New Exhibits During 25th Anniversary Year
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, opened July 1997, has been sharing the paintings, creative process and personal effects of Georgia O'Keeffe with visitors to Santa Fe for 25 years. Several new exhibits bring fresh facets of the artist's life and body of work to the museum in 2023:

Georgia O'Keeffe: Making a Life, on view through March 2024, explores the artist's identity as a “Maker” in the mid-20th century in rural Northern New Mexico and includes vignettes of her world from handmade clothing, furniture gifted from designer friends Ray and Charles Eames, items purchased on her foreign travels to beloved cooking and garden tools.

Radical Abstraction, running through October 30, 2023, explores many of O'Keeffe's favorite subjects to paint that she returned to repeatedly over many years. The exhibit brings together abstract paintings from all periods of her career showing themes she returned to and refined over time.
okeeffemuseum.org/exhibitions

New Must-see Events in Santa Fe
The City Different is imagining new ways to celebrate its rich heritage and culture, and 2023 arrives with more to enjoy. Plan a visit around the inaugural Art + Sol Winter Arts Festival, February 11–19, which showcases live symphony, chamber music, theater, chorus, and jazz in venues across the city. As an extension of longstanding PrintAustin, PrintSantaFe will be launching a month-long festival in April to celebrate the 500-year-old tradition of ink on a surface. The second annual Santa Fe gathering for serious literati has renamed itself, Santa Fe International Literary Festival, to reflect the organizer's commitment to a more global community of authors, exploring all manner of important societal issues through lunches, lectures, and walking tours May 19–21. New Mexico Cocktail Week, June 2–10, will see Santa Fe bars and restaurants host high-quality cocktail experiences, educational seminars and signature events about the fine art of mixology. And, finally, the second annual Día de Muertos, October 27 & 28, a Day of the Dead celebration on the historic Santa Fe Plaza with music, decorative ofrendas, face-painting, a candlelit procession, and more. santafe.org/visiting-santa-fe/must-see-events

Countdown to the 100th Burning of Zozobra
On September 1, 2023, Santa Fe will celebrate the 99th Burning of Zozobra. This year will be a perfect time for media to visit and experience the annual event to prepare for coverage in 2024, ahead of the event's centennial celebration. The Burning of Zozobra is one of Santa Fe's most iconic and beloved traditions. Each year, a 50-foot-tall marionette named Zozobra (Spanish for “the gloomy one”) is constructed and stuffed with the glooms of Santa Feans and visitors. All are welcome to attend, chant “burn him” with the crowd of 70,000 and watch the pageantry as torch bearers and a fire dancer ignite Zozobra's skirt so the woes of the past year go up in flames. burnzozobra.com

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub Brings First “Art Bar” to Santa Fe in February 2023
Santa Fe's newest location for locally made libations will marry suds with mud in a place where cocktails and clay coexist. Conceived by the owners of Paseo Pottery and Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, Tumbleroot Pottery pub is a new experience offering a full bar, tasting room/bottle shop, ceramic gallery and pottery studio in one space. The bar features Tumbleroot's locally brewed and distilled craft products served in Paseo Pottery vessels specifically designed to complement each beverage. Patrons of the pottery pub will be invited to embrace their creative side and get a little dirty forming their own works of art using the communal workshop tables, raw clay and tools provided. tumblerootpotterypub.com

Meow Wolf Adds Futuristic Installation By Contemporary Native American Artist Virgil Ortiz
Virgil Ortiz, of Cochiti Pueblo, is known as one of the most avant-garde artists of his time, fusing his Pueblo culture with sci-fi, fantasy and apocalyptic themes that yield provocative and futuristic imagery. Ortiz considers it his mission to create global awareness that Pueblo communities are very much alive and vital. In fall 2022, the Meow Wolf Art Collective invited Ortiz to create an installation in their Santa Fe location. Ortiz's installation titled, Sirens: Secret Passkeys & Portals features a cast of characters from his Revolt 1680/2180 saga—an ongoing project Ortiz has been working on for the past two decades. Revolt 1680/2180 presents a dystopian future 500 years after the Pueblo Revolt in which time-travelers return to the era to aid their ancestors. The installation features an eight-foot resin head embedded with neon, a video installation filmed at the Bisti Badlands in northwestern New Mexico, and an activated light wall. meowwolf.com/articles/interview-with-artist-virgil-ortiz

MAJOR ANNUAL EVENT DATES FOR 2023:
• Santa Fe International Literary Festival – May 19-21
• Native Treasures Art Market – May 26-28
• Currents New Media Festival – June 16-25
• Santa Fe Opera 2023 Season – June 30-August 26
• International Folk Art Market – July 5-9
• Santa Fe Art Week – July 7-16
• Traditional Spanish Market/Contemporary Hispanic Market – July 29-30
• 101st Santa Fe Indian Market – August 19-20
• 99th Burning of Zozobra – September 1
• Fiesta de Santa Fe – September 1-9
• Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta – September 27-October 1
• Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta – October 7-15
• Día de Muertos – October 27-28
• Canyon Road Farolito Walk – December 24