Events

Name: Renesan – Cultivated Connections: A Guided Garden Experience
Start: 2026-05-20T11:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-05-20T13:00:00-06:00
Location: Santa Fe Botanical Garden

Renesan

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March 2026
Renesan – Colin Jacobsen on How to Program an Orchestral Concert

March 10 @ 3:00 pm

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

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. March 10th, 3pm @ CCA. Colin Jacobsen on How to Program an Orchestral Concert...
Renesan – Food as Metaphor in Film

March 18 @ 10:00 am Renesan – Food as Metaphor in Film

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

This Renesan Presentation is 3 Sessions. It meets March 18, 25, and April 1. In film, food is employed as...

$60 – $66
Renesan – The Great Deception: FDR’s Last Campaign, 1944

March 19 @ 10:00 am

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

This Renesan Course is 2 Sessions. March 19th and 26th, 10am @ CCA. The Great Deception: FDR’s Last Campaign, 1944...
Renesan – The Design and Construction of the New Georgia O’Keeffe Museum: An Update

March 26 @ 1:00 pm

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

The architects for the new Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will share an update on its design and construction. The presentation will...

$20 – $22
Renesan – Cardiovascular Risk Calculation

March 31 @ 10:00 am

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

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session. Cardiovascular Risk Calculation and Reduction: Beyond the Big Three Renesan Presentation Information: "Physician Jennifer...

$20 – $22
April 2026
Machiavelli: How Machiavellian Was He?

April 7 @ 1:00 pm

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

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. Machiavelli: How Machiavellian Was He? In The Prince, Machiavelli can both discern the nature...

$20 – $22
Renesan – Star Axis: The Land Art Project in New Mexico Created by Charles Ross

April 14 @ 10:30 am

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

This Renesan Course is 1 Session. April 14th, 10:30am @ CCA. Star Axis: The Land Art Project in New Mexico...
Renesan – Listening to Rivers: Large-Scale Global Art and Ecology Projects

April 19 @ 1:00 pm

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session. Listening to Rivers: Large-Scale Global Art and Ecology ProjectsArtist, activist, and author Basia Irland...

$20 – $22
Renesan – Faust: The Devil is in the Details

April 23 @ 10:00 am Renesan – The Devil is in the Details

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

This event meets three times: April 23, 30, and May 7. The story of Faust--who sells his soul to the...

$60 – $66
Renesan – Birds of Santa Fe: Their Natural History & Where to Find Them

April 28 @ 10:00 am

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

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session. Although many of us are familiar with a dozen or so birds that frequent...

$20 – $22
May 2026
Renesan – Santa Fe Bird Walk

May 5 @ 8:30 am

Randall Davey Audubon Center and Sanctuary 1800 Upper Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, New Mexico

This Renesan Presentation is 1 Session. It meets offsite at the Randall Davey Audubon Center and Sanctuary Naturalist and birder...

$20 – $22
Renesan – Face to Face with the 30s and 40s: American Music Comes of Age

May 14 @ 1:00 pm

St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

The 1930s and 40s were trail-blazing decades in the development of American classical music. Many American composers had spent time...

$28 – $30
Renesan – Cultivated Connections: A Guided Garden Experience

May 20 @ 11:00 am

Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Join Christie Collins, Director of Education and Interpretation at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, for a leisurely walk through the...

$20 – $22

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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