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May 2026
Blue Heron

May 8 - May 14

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

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh...
Last One for the Road

May 15 - May 21

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

Two middle-aged friends, who swear each drink is their last, cross paths with a shy architecture student and take him...
An Autumn Summer

May 15 - May 21

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

AN AUTUMN SUMMER is a coming of age love story starring breakouts Mark McKenna and Lukita Maxwell. It's the Summer of 2010, and 18...
Everyone is Lying to you for Money

May 15 - May 21

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

"When I stumbled down an online rabbit hole into the world of cryptocurrency in the summer of 2021, my first...
Wizard of the Kremlin

May 15 - May 22

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

Russia, early 1990s. The USSR has collapsed. Amid the chaos of a country rebuilding itself, a fiercely intelligent young man,...
Steal This Story, Please!

May 22 - May 28

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

Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories...
The Stranger

May 22 - May 28

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

Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man...
Silent Friend

May 22 - May 28

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

On the grounds of a medieval German university town looms an imposing Ginkgo biloba, a tree whose longevity stands in...
Amplified: REDEMPTION TIME

May 22 @ 7:00 pm

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

Join us for a very special presentation of REDEMPTION TIME. Q&A and performance with Jimmy Santiago Bacca, Christian Howes and director...
Next Life

May 29 - June 4

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

We are excited at CCA to be celebrating modern Tibetan Cinema! Please join us for this special unique screening. A...
June 2026
Jinsei

June 5 - June 11

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

Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a...

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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