2025/2026 Season
NMSA’s 25/26 Season of performances and exhibitions highlighting the creations of all five departments.
More events, details and ticketing options will be added frequently! To see our full listing of events, please visit our calendar page here.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Sarah Pfisterer at
Celebrate the artistry of NMSA students with this season’s events!
Fall Semester 2025
“Poinsettia Poetry Slam” The Creative Writing & Literature Department
Date & Time: Thursday December 11th 6-8PM
Location: NMSA’s Zane Bennett Gathering Space
500 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Event Description:
Join us for our 4th Annual Slam, the Poinsettia Poetry Slam! Poets will be battling for the Creative Writing Slam Poet title – prepare to hear some amazing poetry that will rock and rivet you!
This event is FREE! No tickets required
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“Sounds of Enchantment” The Music Department Winter Concert
Date & Time: December 4th 6-7:30 PM
Location: NMSA’s Zane Bennett Gathering Space
500 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
No tickets required!
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The Dance and Music Departments Present: “The Piñon Nutcracker”
Date & Time: November 13th, 6-8 PM
November 14th 6-8 PM
November 15th 6-8 PM
Location: NMSA’s Zane Bennett Gathering Space
500 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
SOLD OUT!!! No tickets will be available at the door.
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Theatre Department Presents: “The Diviners”
Date & Time:
November 15, 2025 – 6:30 pm (2:00 pm Saturday show SOLD OUT)
November 16, 2025 – 1:00pm and 5:00 pm
Location: The Bluedio at NMSA
550 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Description: Join us for a powerful evening of live theater as we bring The Diviners to life on stage. Don’t miss this emotionally rich, beautifully acted production that will leave you thinking—and feeling—long after the curtain falls.
Set in the Dust Bowl-era town of Zion, Indiana, The Diviners is a gripping story of a community caught between memory and hope, faith and reason. This production features a dynamic ensemble cast that brings 1930s small-town America to vivid life, capturing both the grit and grace of a people searching for purpose.
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Creative Writing & Literature Department Presents: Tombstone Tales!
Event Date: Thursday October 30th, 2025
Event Time: 6-7pm
Event Location: NMSA, Zane Bennet Gathering Space
This Event is Free!
Description: Join us for our second annual Tombstone Tales Reading! This will be an evening of spooky storytelling and paralyzing poetry! Don’t forget to dress up in the haunting spirit.
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Visual Arts Department Presents: “Perspective: Lost & Found”
Event Time(s): Public Opening Reception Friday, October 24th, 5-6:30 pm
Exhibition runs through Friday December 5, 2025
Contact Karina Hean to schedule a viewing appointment after the opening reception
Event Location: Thaw Visual Arts Gallery, NMSA
Everyone’s Invited! Join us for this free, public event. No tickets required!
Event Description:“Perspective | Lost & Found”
2025 “Perspective” Jurors: Jared Weiss, Santa Fe Community College Painting & Drawing Department Head, Jaime Herrell, Co-Owner of Duende Gallery and Curator
“Perspective” is the annual juried Visual Arts Department exhibition, curated by outside jurors selected for their impact and role in our regional arts community. Jurors are invited to curate a selective exhibition of 9-12th grade visual arts student artworks in the Thaw Visual Arts Gallery on the campus of NMSA (500 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501)
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Creative Writing & Literature Department Presents: Autumn Equinox Reading
Date & Time: Thursday, September 25, 6:00 pm
Location: The Courtyard @ NMSA, 500 Montezuma Ave, 87501
Description: Join us for our first public reading of the 25-26 school year! The Autumn Equinox Reading will be an event to celebrate the arrival of fall. Come enjoy the beautiful, autumnal writings of our Creative Writing students.
This event is free!
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Visual Arts Department Presents: “All for One” Exhibition
Date & Time: Opening Reception Friday September 12, 2025 5-7 pm
Location: NMSA’s Thaw Visual Arts Gallery, 500 Montezuma Ave.
Description: Each year in the early Fall, the Visual Arts Department at NMSA launches the school year with an all department exhibition, “All for One”, located in the Thaw Visual Arts Gallery on the campus of NMSA (500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501). Students are given a set of gentle parameters, such as a support to work on, and given an opportunity to develop their own vision and voice in the creation of a unique artwork.
Everyone’s Invited! Join us for this free, public event. No tickets required!
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Fall Semester 2025
The Music Department Presents: “Winter Concert”
Date & Time: December 4th 6-7:30 PM
Location: NMSA’s Zane Bennett Gathering Space
500 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
No tickets required!
The Music and Dance Departments Present: “The Piñon Nutcracker”
Date & Time: November 13th, 6-8 PM
November 14th 6-8 PM
November 15th 6-8 PM
Location: NMSA’s Zane Bennett Gathering Space
500 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Tickets Coming Soon!
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Theatre Department Presents: “The Diviners”
Date & Time: Saturday, December 7th, 3:00 pm
Location: The Bluedio at NMSA
550 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Description: Join us for a powerful evening of live theater as we bring The Diviners to life on stage. Don’t miss this emotionally rich, beautifully acted production that will leave you thinking—and feeling—long after the curtain falls.
Set in the Dust Bowl-era town of Zion, Indiana, The Diviners is a gripping story of a community caught between memory and hope, faith and reason. This production features a dynamic ensemble cast that brings 1930s small-town America to vivid life, capturing both the grit and grace of a people searching for purpose.
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Creative Writing & Literature Department Presents: Tombstone Tales!
Event Date: Thursday October 30th, 2025
Event Time: 6-7pm
Event Location: NMSA, Zane Bennet Gathering Space
This Event is Free!
Description: Join us for our second annual Tombstone Tales Reading! This will be an evening of spooky storytelling and paralyzing poetry! Don’t forget to dress up in the haunting spirit.
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Visual Arts Department Presents: “Perspective: Lost & Found”
Event Time(s): Public Opening Reception Friday, October 24th, 5-6:30 pm
Exhibition runs through Friday December 5, 2025
Contact Karina Hean to schedule a viewing appointment after the opening reception
Event Location: Thaw Visual Arts Gallery, NMSA
Everyone’s Invited! Join us for this free, public event. No tickets required!
Event Description:“Perspective | Lost & Found”
2025 “Perspective” Jurors: Jared Weiss, Santa Fe Community College Painting & Drawing Department Head, Jaime Herrell, Co-Owner of Duende Gallery and Curator
“Perspective” is the annual juried Visual Arts Department exhibition, curated by outside jurors selected for their impact and role in our regional arts community. Jurors are invited to curate a selective exhibition of 9-12th grade visual arts student artworks in the Thaw Visual Arts Gallery on the campus of NMSA (500 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501)
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Creative Writing & Literature Department Presents: Autumn Equinox Reading
Date & Time: Thursday, September 25, 6:00 pm
Location: The Courtyard @ NMSA, 500 Montezuma Ave, 87501
Description: Join us for our first public reading of the 25-26 school year! The Autumn Equinox Reading will be an event to celebrate the arrival of fall. Come enjoy the beautiful, autumnal writings of our Creative Writing students.
This event is free!
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Visual Arts Department Presents: “All for One” Exhibition
Date & Time: Opening Reception Friday September 12, 2025 5-7 pm
Location: NMSA’s Thaw Visual Arts Gallery, 500 Montezuma Ave.
Description: Each year in the early Fall, the Visual Arts Department at NMSA launches the school year with an all department exhibition, “All for One”, located in the Thaw Visual Arts Gallery on the campus of NMSA (500 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501). Students are given a set of gentle parameters, such as a support to work on, and given an opportunity to develop their own vision and voice in the creation of a unique artwork.
Everyone’s Invited! Join us for this free, public event. No tickets required!
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Spring Semester 2026
“All Night Diner: One Act Festival”- Theatre Department
Date & Times: March 19 – 6:30 PM, March 20 – 6:30 PM, March 21 – 2:00 PM & 6:30 PM
Location: NMSA’s Bluedio Theatre
Event Description: Join NMSA’s Theatre Department for All-Night Diner: The NMSA One Acts Festival running March 19-21st at NMSA’s Bluedio Theatre. The lights never go off at this 24-hour diner. Over the course of a single day and night, strangers cross paths, conversations collide, and lives quietly (and not so quietly) change. All-Night Diner serves up a collection of original one-act plays written by Creative Writing students and brought to life by Theatre students—each story unfolding in the same diner, each revealing a different slice of humanity.
Tickets Available Soon!
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“Envision” Junior Exhibition- Visual Arts Department
Date & Time: Opening Reception March 6th 2026
Location: NMSA’s Thaw Gallery, 500 Montezuma Ave.
Event Description: Each Spring semester, our Junior Visual Artists embark on new personal projects, with teacher and peer guidance, to develop a series of self-expressive pieces featured in this collective class exhibition. Students research artists and themes of their choosing as they merge personally meaningful concepts and media. As a group, they learn to install the exhibition with instructor support and develop pre-professional visual arts skills along the way.
This Event is Free!
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”- Theatre Department
Date & Time: February 19th 6:30 pm, 20th 6:30 pm, and 21st 2:00 pm & 6:30 pm
Location: NMSA’s Zane Bennett Gathering Space
500 Montezuma Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Event Description: Tune in, turn on, and trip out to Shakespeare’s most magical comedy reimagined for the Age of Aquarius. Don’t miss this far-out production that proves love, laughter, and a little fairy dust are always in season—whether you’re in ancient Athens or Golden Gate Park.
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“Staged Reading of Plays and Film Scripts”– Creative Writing & Literature Department
Date & Time: February 5th, 6:00 pm
Location: Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E Devargas Street Santa Fe
Event Description: Join us for a live reading of selected play and film scripts written by NMSA’s Creative Writing and Literature Juniors and Seniors. Readings will be performed by student members of NMSA’s Theatre Department.
This Event is Free!
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“Homecoming | an Alumni Invitational Exhibition” – Visual Arts Department
Date & Time: January 9th (Opening Reception 5 PM) through February 27th, 2026
Location: NMSA’s Thaw Gallery, 500 Montezuma Ave.
Event Description: With NMSA’s Visual Arts Department in its 16th year of existence, many of our graduates are fully entrenched in their own art careers. Please join us in celebrating five exceptional Visual Arts Department Alumni in the second iteration of “Homecoming” | an Alumni Invitational Exhibition at NMSA’s Thaw Visual Arts Gallery. Works by Ezri Horne ‘17, Ana Atalaya Magdalena ‘21, Broadus Mobbs ‘18, Vero Silva ‘21, and Tse Tsan ‘18 will be on display and feature metal and kinetic sculpture, digital and analog drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture, printmaking, photography and more!
This Event is Free!
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