Center for Contemporary Arts

Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87505 United States Get Directions

(505) 982-1338

https://ccasantafe.org

Events at this venue

December 2025
December 5 - December 8

Akira Kurosawa’s Sanshiro Sugata Part I and II

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

Presenting BOTH Sanshiro Sugata Part 1 and 2 at CCA, December 5th - 8th at a combo price! Sanshiro Sugata...
December 5 - December 11

Eternity

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

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with...
December 5 - December 11

100 Nights of Hero

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

When a charming house guest (Nicholas Galitzine) arrives at a remote castle, the delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his...
December 8 @ 10:00 am

Renesan: Journeys into Jazz II: Miles Davis

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

This Renesan Course is 2 sessions. The ticket purchase below is for the 2 sessions, December 8th and 10th at...
December 9 @ 10:00 am

Renesan: A Life in Conversation with Art

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

Renesan Course Information:"Hear first-hand about the life and times of Linda Durham, a leading gallerist of contemporary art in New...
December 9 @ 6:00 pm

Closer Looks: Eyes Wide Shut

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
December 10 @ 7:00 pm

Mountains on Stage

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

Get ready, Mountains on Stage is back with its Winter Edition with 4 brand new films! The program: the magical...
December 11 @ 10:00 am

Renesan: Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945

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

Renesan Course Information: Albuquerque Museum Director Andrew Connors provides an overview of its current special exhibition, which features powerful works...
December 11 @ 6:30 pm

Foundations of Film: The Passion of Cinema Narrative – A Special Evening of Film and Discussion

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

Join us at CCA December 11th at 6:30pm for the next edition of Foundations of Film: The Passion of Cinema...
December 12 - December 18

Yi Yi

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

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang,...
December 12 - December 18

La Grazia

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

From Academy and BAFTA Award–winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, LA GRAZIA is a sweeping exploration of love, duty, and personal freedom....
December 12 - December 18

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

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

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through...
December 13 - December 14

Black Cinema Series: Paris Is Burning

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

CCA's Black Cinema Series is curated by Anpa'o Locke! Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade?...
December 19 - December 24

Sunset Boulevard

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

I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille!” Director Billy Wilder created one of his most enduring masterpieces in this dark,...
December 19 - December 24

The Apartment

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

Jack Lemmon ingratiates himself with his corporate colleagues by lending out his apartment for their extramarital affairs – but his...
December 19 - December 24

Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana

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

Banned in Francisco Franco’s Spain and denounced by the Vatican upon its premiere, Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as...
December 26, 2025 - January 1, 2026

Sentimental Value

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

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora...
December 26, 2025 - January 8, 2026

Marty Supreme

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

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
January 2026
January 2, 2026 - January 8, 2026

Resurrection

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

In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds...
January 17, 2026 @ 6:30 pm

SPEAK. + Filmmaker Q&A!

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

Stop Talking. Start Speaking. SPEAK. follows five fearless teenage orators fighting for glory at the NSDA Nationals — the Super...

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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.