Events

Name: RENESAN – Tenor Madness in Jazz: From Coleman Hawkins to Sonny Rollins
Start: 2026-09-24T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-10-01T12:00:00-06:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

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June 2026
Pre Code Classics: Gold Diggers of 1933

June 18 @ 11:00 am

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

CCA and Renesan launch this monthly series with the film that packs more aspects of 1930s America into 97 minutes...
July 2026
Pre-Code Classics: Trouble in Paradise

July 9 @ 11:00 am

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

“Technically virtuosic and visually poetic, Ernst Lubitsch elevated comedy to the realm of the sublime.” (The New Yorker) His famous...
August 2026
Pre-Code Classics: Scarface

August 13 @ 11:00 am

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

Howard Hawks directed Paul Muni as the ruthless Tony Camonte, who shoots his way to the top of the underworld,...
September 2026
Renesan – The Fall Migration: Birds Heading South

September 9 @ 10:00 am

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

Course: The fall migration is underway, and our feathered friends are heading south for the winter. Why do they migrate...
RENESAN – New Mexico 1776

September 14 @ 10:00 am

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

Course: Imagine what life was like in New Mexico in 1776, the year of the American Revolution and the Declaration...
Renesan -The Mysterious Denisovans: Relationships

September 15 @ 10:00 am

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

Course: Neandertals are familiar to most of us—but Denisovans? Who were they and what do they have to do with...
Renesan – The Greatest Comic Opera You’ve Never Heard Of

September 23 @ 10:00 am

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

Course:The greatest comic opera you’ve probably never heard or seen is Otto Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, an ensemble...
RENESAN – Tenor Madness in Jazz: From Coleman Hawkins to Sonny Rollins

September 24 @ 10:00 am - October 1 @ 12:00 pm

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

Two Sessions. Sep 24th 10am-12pm, and Oct 1 10am-12pm Course Description: The history of jazz can be understood by listening...

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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