Events

Name: Closer Looks: Big Eden
Start: 2026-06-30T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-06-30T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

Closer Looks: Cinema + Conversation

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Month

August 2025
Closer Looks: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

August 19, 2025 @ 7:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance will be introduced by CCA Staff Member Scott Hannan! Questions arise when Senator Stoddard...
September 2025
Closer Looks: Fried Green Tomatoes

September 16, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

CCA's September Closer Looks: Fried Green Tomatoes ! Selected by Cinema Managing Director Kristin Pulatie! Please Join us September 16th...
October 2025
Closer Looks: Freaks

October 23, 2025 @ 6:30 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented as part of CCA’s monthly series on re-examining and honoring classic cinema, Closer Looks. This month’s selection was made by...

$15
November 2025
Closer Looks: Broadcast News

November 5, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented as part of CCA’s monthly series on re-examining and honoring classic cinema, Closer Looks. This month’s selection was made by...
December 2025
Closer Looks: Eyes Wide Shut

December 9, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented as part of CCA’s monthly series on re-examining and honoring classic cinema, Closer Looks. This month’s selection was made by...

$15
January 2026
Closer Looks: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

January 22 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Presented as part of CCA’s monthly series on re-examining and honoring classic cinema, Closer Looks. This month’s selection was made by...

$15
March 2026
CLOSER LOOKS: SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE

March 24 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Please join us for a special evening of our Closer Looks series, as we screen Steven Soderbergh's Palme d'Or winning...
April 2026
CLOSER LOOKS: WINGS OF DESIRE

April 22 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over...
May 2026
Closer Looks: Rope

May 26 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Join us at CCA for an academic deep dive into Hitchcock' ROPE, presented by CCA Cinema Director Matthew Cannella. Matthew...
June 2026
Closer Looks: Big Eden

June 30 @ 6:00 pm

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Join us for a special Pride Month Closer Looks presentation of the film Big Eden, presented by CCA Executive Director...

The Board of Directors for the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe (CCA) has voted to close the organization after serving the Santa Fe and northern New Mexico community on its forty-fourth year of operation. The decision was reached after careful consideration of options presented during its current strategic planning initiative.

“Closing a cherished, community organization like CCA is one of the most difficult decisions a board can make,” said David Muck, CCA Board Chair. “However, we simply couldn’t secure the level of individual donations required to achieve the high quality of programming and exhibitions envisioned by CCA’s professional staff and board of directors,” he continued.

Many nonprofits in the U.S. were hit hard by Covid and CCA is a good example. The CCA Cinema closed during Covid, and attendance was slow to resume, reflecting national downward trends in moviegoing post-Covid as reported in multiple news outlets, such as IndieWire and others. In 2023, the organization forecast the cinema to perform at only 50% of pre-Covid levels, resulting in monthly losses. Though grants and individual donations to the organization were up significantly in 2022 and 2023, they simply weren’t enough to make up the difference in the annual budget and cover both current and planned exhibitions and operations.

“This tough decision did not come lightly,” said Danyelle Means, CCA Executive Director and Head Curator. “For a nonprofit institution that operates independently of state support, the annual donations needed to sustainably continue operating was not enough, especially in the wake of challenges from pandemic closures and reduced attendance,” Means continued.

CCA did have its share of recent successes: CCA Executive Director Danyelle Means had secured a three-year grant of $100,000 per year from the Ford Foundation, with an option to renew for another three-year period. The organization was also the recipient of a $50,000 inaugural grant from Ruth Arts Foundation, as well as other granting organizations. Self-Determined, a 2022 CCA exhibition, was listed as one of the world’s Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022 by Hyperallergic magazine and CCA’s new monthly Closer Looks cinema series was a hit with film enthusiasts.

The CCA board of directors considered closing the organization in December of 2021, but voted to remain open in 2022 in hopes of a recovery post-Covid. However, despite the hard work of CCA staff and the accomplishments like the ones mentioned above, the shuttered period during which the cinema was closed proved too challenging to overcome. CCA Cinema’s final day of public operations is Thursday, April 6, and all upcoming CCA gallery exhibitions and public programs are cancelled.

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