Passport to the Arts

Mother’s Day Weekend
May 11 - 13, 2012

Experience the World of Art on Canyon Road

Mother’s Day Weekend on Canyon Road begins with Friday evening art openings, gallery receptions, and special exhibits at many of the 100 galleries and boutiques along Santa Fe’s historic Canyon Road. The experience continues on Saturday with myriad special events including an Artist Quick Draw and Live Auction, silent auctions, artist demonstrations, and musical performances. The weekend of events concludes on Sunday with a Mother’s Day Tour of historic buildings conducted by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.

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The Art of Canyon Road

Explore the history of Santa Fe’s art scene as you stroll historic Canyon Road, a perfect vacation destination just minutes away from the top Santa Fe hotels, inns, and bed and breakfasts.

While gracious adobe architecture gives Canyon Road its old world charm, diversity is its claim to fame. More than a hundred galleries, jewelry stores, clothing boutiques, home furnishings shops, artist studios, and gourmet restaurants line this magical half-mile.

As a collector, whether you prefer art that is contemporary, abstract, modern, expressionistic, figurative, photorealistic, traditional, western or Native American, it’s all here. Galleries showcase paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and encaustic, fine-art photography, graphics such as lithographs, serigraphs, giclées, woodcuts, engravings, and monotypes, as well as sculpture in stone, bronze, wood, and glass.

Add something special to your life by visiting Canyon Road’s boutiques, which abound with unique fashions and wearable art. Jewelry stores dazzle with contemporary handmade adornments in gold and silver, and traditional and Native silverwork and inlays. Find that perfect enhancement for your home in shops featuring antiques and fine furniture, Native American pottery, rugs, gifts, folk art, and handmade crafts, as well as cutting-edge contemporary furnishings.

An artist colony in it's early history, Santa Fe still attracts painters and sculptors who work in studios along Canyon Road and invite the public to watch them at work.

Plan on spending the day, enjoying casual and fine dining in shady garden patios and at world-class restaurants.There are plenty of benches with views.

Discover the muse that makes life worth living: Canyon Road—a place that has inspired creativity for centuries.