New Mexico School for the Arts

NMSA is seeking qualified substitute teachers for all six of our Arts Departments!
-Cinematic Arts
-Creative Writing & Literature
-Dance
-Music
-Theatre
-Visual Arts

If you're an experienced artist, writer, musician, performer, or filmmaker and would like to get involved with the NMSA community as an arts substitute teacher at the high school level, head to the LinkTree in our bio or https://www.nmschoolforthearts.org/careers-art-institute/ and fill out the art instructor application at the bottom of the webpage!

NMSA is New Mexico's ONLY tuition-free, statewide, public arts high school, serving grades 9 through 12 with mastery arts and rigorous academic programs.


Photo by Court Kessler

Tonight! Join us for our first Visual Arts Exhibition of the 26/27 School Year!
“Process & Product - NMSA VA Biennial Faculty Exhibition”
Exhibition opens Friday, August 7th, 5-7 pm, 2026, in NMSA's Thaw Gallery. Works will be on view through September 11.

Slide 1- Lily Luna Bennett
Slide 2- Karina Nöel Callahan-Hean

Join us virtually on August 22nd to learn about our programs, facilities, and application process! NMSA is New Mexico’s only tuition-free, statewide, public arts high school serving grades 9-12 with mastery arts and rigorous academic programs. We offer instruction in 6 arts disciplines: Cinematic Arts, Creative Writing & Literature, Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts.

Get to Know NMSA!: August 22nd 2026
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Location: Through Zoom (RSVP required)- Email [email protected] to RSVP!


Photo by Court Kessler

NMSA is seeking qualified substitute teachers for all six of our Arts Departments!
-Cinematic Arts
-Creative Writing & Literature
-Dance
-Music
-Theatre
-Visual Arts

If you're an experienced artist, writer, musician, performer, or filmmaker and would like to get involved with the NMSA community as an arts substitute teacher, head to the LinkTree in our bio or https://www.nmschoolforthearts.org/careers-art-institute/ and fill out the art instructor application at the bottom of the webpage!

Join us TODAY at The Printers Planet Festival!

The Printers Planet Festival is an exciting annual print market in Santa Fe, NM, and hosts the Print Makers’ Market, print demonstrations, a print exhibition, print maker’s open studio, and community mixer. Over 40 vendors will be at the festival this year!

NMSA’s Visual Arts Department Printmakers will have a booth selling recent and past prints to fundraise for our Visual Art Department supply budget. Visual Arts Chair, Karina Hean and ArtsReach staff member, Jacob Gutierrez, both avid printmakers, will also participate and sell their own hand-pulled prints while representing NMSA!

Come out to see some great work at affordable prices and grab some incredibly unique prints while supporting NMSA and local printmakers!!

Slide 1- Aizel Rische, "Luther," Linocut
Slide 2- Vladimir Preston, "Project #2," Linocut

NMSA is hiring two Residential Assistant roles in our dorms!
We are seeking one full-time Residential Assistant to live on-site in our dorms, and one part-time weekend shift Residential Assistant. Head to the link in our bio or https://www.nmschoolforthearts.org/careers-charter-school/ to learn more!

NMSA is HIRING!!!

NMSA and the NMSA-Art Institute are hiring for the following positions. Follow the link in our bio for more information, or go to https://www.nmschoolforthearts.org/careers/

Digital Arts - Media Arts Teacher (full-time, Art Institute)

Cultural Liaison (22.5 hours/week)

Residential Assistant (full-time, lives on-site)

Residential Assistant (16 hours/week, weekends)

School Nurse (20 hours/week)

Student Nutrition Cook (20 hours/week)

Every two years, the Visual Art Department Faculty install a group exhibition of recent artwork in the gallery that shares both our creative process and a series of completed works with the NMSA Community. Visual Arts students attend artist talks and engage in workshops related to each faculty member’s work and practice. This year will feature sculptural works by Lily Luna Bennett, drawings, paintings, and drypoint prints by Karina Nöel Callahan-Hean, and paintings and drawings by Alani Kai Churchill Rathweg.

“Process & Product - NMSA VA Biennial Faculty Exhibition”
Exhibition Opens Friday, August 7th, 5-7 pm, 2026 in NMSA's Thaw Gallery. Works will be on view through September 11.

Slide 1- Karina Nöel Callahan-Hean
Slide 2- Karina Nöel Callahan-Hean
Slide 3- Lily Luna Bennett
Slide 4- Lily Luna Bennett

TONIGHT! Don't miss the opening reception for Ron Mier’s exhibition “New Traditions/Weaving Reimagined” featuring work by NMSA Spring 2026 Printmaking Visual Arts students!

NMSA Visual Arts students in the Spring 2026 Printmaking course enjoyed a three-day workshop with local weaving and printmaking artist Ron Mier. Drawing from his familial background as a Chimayo weaver, Mier guided students to generate monotypes reflective of their own heritage.

This project was generously supported by the Santa Fe Arts Commission's Art is the Solution Grant.

"New Traditions/Weaving Reimagined"
201 West Marcy Street.
Public Opening Reception is tonight-Thursday, July 16, 5:30-7:30 pm.

Images- NMSA student work from Ron Mier's workshop at NMSA in the Spring 2026 semester.