Events

Name: Renesan: Laura Gilpin: Great Photographer of the Southwest
Start: 2025-11-21T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-11-21T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Center for Contemporary Arts

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October 2025
Renesan: Malcolm Lowry’s Day of the Dead: Under the Volcano

October 7, 2025 @ 1:00 pm

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

This Renesan Course is 4 sessions The ticket purchase below is for all 4 sessions, October 7th, 14th, 21st and...
Renesan: Hollywood Musicals of the 1930s and 1940s

October 8, 2025 @ 10:00 am

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

This Renesan Course is 3 sessions The ticket purchase below is for all 3 sessions, October 8th, 15th, and 22nd...
Renesan: Going Underground with Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

October 27, 2025 @ 1:00 pm

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

This Renesan Course is 4 sessions. The ticket purchase below is for all 4 sessions, October 27th, November 3rd, 10th,...
Renesan: Gothic Romances and Dramas in Film

October 29, 2025 @ 10:00 am

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

This Renesan Course is 3 sessions. The ticket purchase below is for all 3 sessions, October 29th, November 5th, and...
November 2025
Renesan: The History of Imitation Humans: Myth, Novels, Film, and the “Real Thing”

November 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am

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

This Renesan Course is 1 session. The ticket purchased below is for the 1 session. Renesan Course Information: Humans have...
Renesan: The Food Depot: Creating a Food Secure Community in Northern New Mexico

November 7, 2025 @ 10:30 am

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

This Renesan Course is 1 session The ticket purchase below is for the 1 session. Renesan Course Information: How does...
Renesan: Experiencing Northern New Mexico’s Food Bank: A Tour of The Food Depot

November 14, 2025 @ 10:30 am

Food Depot 1222A Siler Rd, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

This Renesan Course is 1 session. The Ticket purchase below is for the 1 session. This course takes place off-site...
Renesan: An Evening Under the Stars

November 14, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

This Renesan course is 1 session November 14th at 6 pm at the host’s home, please contact us for address...
Renesan: The Whole Ox and Other Stories of Oaxacan Pottery

November 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am

Living Threads Studio 1610 Lena Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

This Renesan Course takes place at Living Threads Studio at 1610 Lena Street. Renesan Course Information:Like introducing old friends, Eric...
Renesan: Ambassador Tom Udall on American Foreign Policy

November 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am

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

Renesan Course Information: For his Renesan presentation, Ambassador Udall will reflect on his long career in public service, with a...
Renesan: The Complex Tale of Mexico’s 16th Century Indigenous Story Map, a Lienzo

November 18, 2025 @ 10:30 am

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

This Renesan Course is 1 session. The ticket purchase below covers the 1 session. Renesan Course Information: When Cortez and...
Renesan: Conflict and Acculturation in New Mexico History

November 20, 2025 @ 10:00 am

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

Renesan Course Information: "Thomas Chávez gives us an overview of New Mexico’s history with an emphasis on the encounter of...
Renesan: Laura Gilpin: Great Photographer of the Southwest

November 21, 2025 @ 10:00 am

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

This Renesan Course is 1 session. The ticket purchase below is for the 1 session. Renesan Course Information: One of...

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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