Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

05/26/2026

“Well you would laugh at us—we were all packed and got off to the White Place—it is a very beautiful drive over there—and when we got there—there it was—in the light of the low setting sun—a vast area like some thing dead but startlingly alive in its beauty—it is really an amazingly beautiful place…” – Georgia O’Keeffe in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz, July 12, 1944.

“Plaza Blanca,” also known as the White Place, lies nestled in the Rio Chama River Valley, where centuries of wind and water have sculpted white sandstone into tall cliffs and towers. The site’s beauty inspired Georgia O’Keeffe, who painted the white formations against the cobalt blue New Mexico skies.

🔎 If you visit Plaza Blanca, please make sure to register as a visitor with the Dar-al Islam Education Center.

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Georgia O'Keeffe. The White Place – A Memory, 1943. Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [L.2012.1.1]

05/22/2026

Only a few weeks left to see ‘A Circle that Nothing Can Break’ before it closes on June 7!

In this exhibition, explore how Georgia O’Keeffe imbued shapes—particularly the circle—with emotional symbolism and abstract ideas. This exhibition delves into a vitally significant theme in O’Keeffe’s life and artistic career, and includes works never exhibited during her lifetime.

🎟️ Get tickets at gokm.org

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Georgia O'Keeffe. Untitled (Abstraction Green Line and Red Circle), 1970s. Watercolor on paper, 22 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.513] https://access-ok.okeeffemuseum.org/object/1526/

05/19/2026

Georgia O’Keeffe photographed with her friend, the artist Teng Hiok Chiu, on the roof of her home at Ghost Ranch. Chiu visited O’Keeffe in New Mexico in 1944, and the two corresponded regularly throughout the 1940s and 1950s.

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Unknown Photographer. Teng Hiok Chiu and Georgia O'Keeffe at Ghost Ranch. 1944. Letters to Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

05/12/2026

Hear from the artists, scholars, and culture bearers that took part in “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country,” a focused exhibition on view at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyVk82RMehk

“Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country” brings Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and personal objects in dialogue with newly created artworks by contemporary Tewa artists to highlight themes of sacred spaces, belonging, identity, and ownership.

Charine Pilar Gonzales “Ku’yan Povi” is a Tewa filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her short doc 'Our Quiyo: Maria Martinez (2022)' premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her narrative short 'River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh) (2023)' was supported by the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program. She co-produced the short doc 'Winding Path (Sundance 2024),’ and associate-produced on the 'People of the West' series. She produces for the Native Lens project. Gonzales is the owner of Povi Studios.

"Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country" is on view through November 1, 2026.

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Video: Charine Pilar Gonzales (PoWohGeh Owingeh / San Ildefonso Pueblo). ‘Inside the Tewa Nangeh Exhibit: Artist Interviews, 2025.’ Courtesy of the artist.

Hear from the artists, scholars, and culture bearers in “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country,” a focused exhibition on view at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. This exhibit...

05/11/2026

Calling high school students! The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is seeking Garden Project Interns to work and learn alongside Museum staff at Georgia O’Keeffe’s historic Home & Studio in Abiquiú! Spend your summer engaging in gardening, environmental education, and creative reflection.

Learn more:https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Job-Posting-Garden-Project-Intern.pdf

Excited to spend your summer with us? Please send an email expressing interest to [email protected]

05/08/2026

Picture this: You + Mom + the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

This , join us in celebrating the extraordinary caregivers and maternal figures in your life with a visit to the O’Keeffe Museum during Family Day! Enjoy creative activities in the Museum Courtyard and pick up a bouquet from the Art to G.O. truck after your stroll through the Galleries.

🌷 Family Day: Petal Party
Sun., May 10, 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM. Participating families and New Mexico residents visit for free!

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05/05/2026

In the summer of 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe camped with friends in the Appalachian Mountains before beginning a teaching position in Canyon, Texas in September. When she was not teaching, O’Keeffe could be seen exploring the landscape around Canyon. These excursions inspired several watercolors where her abstract experiments met her experience of the outdoors.

In ‘Hill, Stream and Moon,’ O’Keeffe’s approach is almost fully abstract: A large hill arches over the composition, while a blue stripe between two green banks denotes a stream. Above the hill, a yellow moon emerges in the sky. Years later, in 1976, O’Keeffe wrote: “Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or a tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they say something.”

🔎 What stands out to you in the painting? Let us know in the comments!

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Georgia O’Keeffe. Hill, Stream and Moon, 1916–1917. Watercolor on paper, 9 x 12 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

05/02/2026

Join us for an online talk with graphic designer Margaret Bauer as the Museum looks back on the United States Postal Service’s 1996 commemorative stamp, featuring Georgia O’Keeffe’s iconic painting “Red Poppy, 1927.”

Free Online Talk | Celebrating O’Keeffe’s “Red Poppy” Commemorative Stamp
Wednesday, May 6 | 9 AM MT

🎟️ This talk is presented as part of ‘Mornings with O’Keeffe,’ a free virtual lecture series held on the first Wednesday of each month. Register: https://ow.ly/USUv50YTfy9

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USPS Stamp featuring: Georgia O'Keeffe. Red Poppy, 1927. Oil on canvas, 7 x 9 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

04/28/2026

In this photograph from 1944, Georgia O’Keeffe sits in her garden at her Ghost Ranch home, writing her daily letter to Alfred Stieglitz from New Mexico. O’Keeffe was an avid writer, penning letters to family and friends about her paintings and the daily happenings of her life.

✉️ Is there someone you’ve been meaning to write to lately? Tag them below!

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Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe Writing Daily Letter to Alfred Stieglitz, Ghost Ranch House Patio, 1944. contemporary photographic print, 5 x 7. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [RC.2001.2.114d]