The Story continues… Join us for the premiere of the short film FUNCTION, produced in partnership with Littleglobe on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 6 pm at the La Fonda
FUNCTION with Cannupa Hanska Luger
The Coe has partnered with Cannupa Hanska Luger, an internationally renowned artist, and activist, to create a large scale, interactive artwork entitled FUNCTION. FUNCTION is a play on the functional aspects of clay as a tool for practical use, and of art and food as...
2018 Humor is the Best Medicine: Salve for Sore Nerves
Opened Saturday, April 14, 2018 Humor is the Best Medicine: Salve for Sore Nerves: a Creating Side-By-Side Program with Teri Greeves and Ken Williams. Exhibition up through May 1, 2018. The Coe Center is hosting Teri Greeves and Ken Williams in a Creating Side-By-Side...
2017-18 Catch-22: Paradox and Paper
August 2017 - March 2018 Catch 22: Paradox on Paper, a selection of provocative works of contemporary art on paper from the collection of retired New York school teacher Edward J. Guarino, guest curated by Nina Sanders (Apsaalooke). This exhibition, which opened on...
2015-16 Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art
The Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe major exhibition of Native American Art, Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art was held from July 25, 2015–April 17, 2016. Ralph T. “Ted” Coe was a curator, museum director, connoisseur, and...
2015 to 2016 Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native American Art
Ralph T. Coe was a curator, museum director, connoisseur, and collector known to travel hours out of his way to discover a new Native artist or a good slice of pie. The exhibition was a collaboration with the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe.The...
2014 Woven Relations: Baskets from the Ralph T. Coe Center Collection
Woven Relations: Baskets from the Ralph T. Coe Center Collection exhibition, August 19 to December 19, 2014 and originally shown at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY as Plain & Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets in 2013, was broadened to include...
2013 Plain and Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets
Plain & Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets Held August 10 - December 29, 2013 Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NYMost Native American peoples weave baskets using various forms of grasses and shrubs, everything from sea grass, used by Eskimos and Aleuts, to...
2013 The Ralph T. Coe Legacy “Instruments of Passion” exhibition
All my life I've relied on this measured process of aesthetic absorption, whether the work is a Renaissance plaquette or a Native American wearing blanket. It involves returning over and again to the individual work of art. I...









