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Centennial Exhibit
Running February 7th – December 31st 2025
The Spanish Colonial Arts Society’s collection is widely acknowledged as unmatched it its representation of New Mexico and New Mexico’s artists. What is less known are the behind-the-scenes stories and deep connection the Society has to the history of Santa Fe, the state, and the country. Tracing the 100-year history of SCAS, this exhibit will tell the unknown and surprisingly personal stories that are behind this organization and its collection. The exhibit includes sections on the founding histories with SAR and Indian Arts Fund, El Rancho de las Golondrinas/Native Market, Spanish Market, Trade Routes, Earliest Purchases, and more… Plus on display: the Society’s first purchase in 1928 of José Rafael Aragόn’s Altar Screen (circa 1840 and pictured above), on long-term loan and display at the Palace of the Governors for nearly 100 years, returned to the SCAS museum for the first time in its history!
Would you read a book about SCAS?
Surprise!
It’s happening in 2025.
SCAS curators past and present are collaborating on this finely selected anthology honoring SCAS’s history and imagining its next 100 years as stewards of the finest collection of its kind in the country with its focus on New Mexico and also including comparative objects from all over the world dating from the late 1600s-the present. This beautiful, substantially illustrated book will feature new, long out-of-print, and never-before published primary materials telling the story of SCAS. By nature of SCAS’s engagement with its community, the book also tells a story of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico from the early 1900s to today. Readers will also be offered a discerning look ahead to the future of this organization, its museum, and the field of Spanish colonial and Nuevomexicano art as studied and practiced.
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