Image: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will host an artist talk and reception on August 13 for 'Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country', the museum’s current exhibition centered on Tewa Pueblo artists, O’Keeffe’s legacy, and the landscape of northern New Mexico. The program is scheduled for Sky Cinemas in the Santa Fe Railyard, with the talk running from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and a reception following until 1:30 p.m. The museum says space is limited and advance registration is required.
The event will bring together curators, artists, and collaborators involved with the exhibition, offering a public conversation about how the project came together. According to the museum, the talk is designed to let visitors hear firsthand how the exhibition was developed and to explore the collaborative process behind it. The program is free, and the museum notes that it is supported in part by the New Mexico Humanities Council, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
' Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country' is presented as a current exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, running from November 7, 2025, through November 1, 2026. The museum describes the project as honoring Tewa people, art, culture, and landscapes while drawing attention to the erasure of the Tewa presence from the story of Georgia O’Keeffe in northern New Mexico. The exhibition is co-curated by artist Jason Garcia, of Santa Clara Pueblo, and Bess Murphy, the museum’s Luce Curator of Art and Social Practice.
The exhibition features artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos of northern New Mexico: Nambé, Ohkay Owingeh, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, and Tesuque. The museum says the project highlights 12 Tewa Pueblo artists in dialogue with O’Keeffe’s art and legacy, and that it explores themes of place, identity, belonging, sacred spaces, and ownership. It also frames the land as home to the Tewa people since time immemorial and states that the exhibition resituates the O’Keeffe narrative back in Tewa Country.
The museum’s exhibition page says the project brings O’Keeffe’s art and personal objects into dialogue with newly created works by contemporary Tewa artists. Participating artists listed by the museum include Dr. Joseph Woody Aguilar, Samuel Villarreal Catanach, Jason Garcia/Okuu Pín, John Garcia Sr., Charine Pilar Gonzales, Marita Swazo Hinds, Dr. Matthew Martinez, Arlo Namingha, Michael Namingha, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Martha Romero, and Randolph Silva. The museum notes that these artists have worked together for more than two years to develop and envision the exhibition.
The August 13 talk is part of a wider museum program of public events and classes, but the museum positions this particular gathering as an opportunity to learn directly from the people involved in 'Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country'. The exhibition page also notes that admission for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is free for members of Indigenous communities, tribes, and nations for the duration of the exhibition. The talk and reception take place at Sky Cinemas, 1606 Alcaldesa St., Santa Fe.
