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How did early residents in Northern New Mexico express their faith through the celebration of old and new saints? What role did visual images play in the celebration and dissemination of these santos? Get an insider’s view of the upcoming 2023-2024 exhibition, “Saints and Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain” at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Art historian and chief curator Cristina González will lead you on an in-depth exploration of how regions and localities selected particular saints to venerate and actively shape how the holy was seen and performed. 

 

Instructor: Cristina Cruz González, PhD is an art historian of early modern Latin America and Iberia, with an emphasis on the colonial arts of New Spain. She is an Associate Professor of Art History in OSU’s Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the visual culture of Mexico and New Mexico. In 2016, she was a Hargis Fellow at the Doel Reed Center and she has taught both credit and leisure learning courses at the Doel Reed Center in Taos. 

 

Classes are filling quickly so make your plans to join other OSU Alumni and friends. An early enrollment discount is available through March 15 with enrollment ending June 15, 2023. Click here to learn more about Summer Leisure Learning Classes in Taos July 24-28, 2023. It’s An Enchanted Place to Learn.