Through Big Ideas, Engage People
The Coe offers unique, hands-on programs and exhibitions to engage and support communities, artists, and students of all ages. This enables deeper appreciation of the value of cultures all over the world…because the more we know about one other, the more we can work together for the common good.
2016-Cheyenne Ledger Book online!
As of 2016, the fragile Ralph T. Coe Center Collection ledger drawing book can be viewed online at Plains Ledger Art (PILA). Created in the 1880's, the ledger book features striking images of courting scenes, soldiers, and Cheyenne warriors - many who are identified...
2016 Phillip Haozous and Hyda Maria concert
On Friday July 1, 2016, and in collaboration with the New Mexico Performing Arts Society (NMPAS), the Ralph T. Coe Center presented Native American flutist and flute maker Phillip Haozous and Native flutist and Baroque recorder player Hyda Maria in concert at the Coe...
2016-17 A View from Here: Northwest Coast Native Arts
The Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts was pleased to present A View from Here: Northwest Coast Native Arts. This exhibition gathered exquisite carvings and prints from the collection of Richard and Joan Chodosh. Including works from some of the region's most...
2015 Royce and Debbie Manuel Demonstration and Conversation
March 15, 2016 The Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts and the Institute of American Indian Arts were pleased to present a public conversation and demonstration by IAIA artists-in-residence Royce Manuel (Ak-Mierl Aw-Thum, Salt River Pima- Maricopa Indian Community) and...
2016 Sallyann Paschall’s Print Party!
May 14 and 15, 2016 Sallyann Paschall (Cherokee) is a painter, printmaker, and multimedia artist. At the Coe Center she created a Print Party where participants used the Coe Center collection as inspiration for their masterpieces. Borrowing a press from Santa Fe Prep,...
2015 Hands on…Culture Shock! exhibition
April 25, 2015 Held at the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts opened April 25, 2015 and closed in the summer of 2015. This exhibition curated by four students from The Academy for Technology and the Classics, is the culmination of an eleven-week program. The students...
2015-2016 Curatorial Conversations Series: Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art
This year's Curatorial Conversations Series from the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts is in conjunction with the exhibition Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art at the Wheelwright Museum. The series includes a number of conversational...
2015 IARC Speaker Series: Exploring Narrative
This 2015 Speaker Series was developed jointly by The Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts. Exploring Narrative, held in April and May of 2015, examined the multiple narratives present but not...
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
August 10 - December 29, 2013Most Native American peoples weave baskets using various forms of grasses and shrubs, everything from sea grass, used by Eskimos and Aleuts, to willow, bracket fern and redbud used in California and the Great Basin. Fewer use materials...
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 revisit and bear constantly in mind the...