# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos In-Between Worlds | Keynote
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 25 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-06:00)
- **Event Description**: Please join us for a special two-day program bringing together artists, scholars, spiritual leaders, and community voices to explore the sacred images of New Mexican santeros that form the heart of the collection cared for by the FAC. This program is free and open to the public.

Keynote:
Claire Farago, Professor Emerita, University of Colorado Boulder

Who owns the past? From the mid-eighteenth century, in addition to importing religious art from Mexico, New Mexico produced its own altarpieces and individual devotional panels depicting Christ, the Virgin, and saints. The distinctiveness of New Mexican Christian art raises questions central to the social construction of meaning. The process of trying to account for cultural identity in a heterogeneous colonial society also raises issues of power and interpretative privilege. For the sacred is a contested category. No one needs reminders in today’s world of contentious religious fundamentalisms that one person’s sacred is another’s taboo. This talk articulates what is at stake regarding the contested interpretation of sacred objects through a case study of historical New Mexican Christian religious images. Studying the New Mexican material has led�me to consider cultural identity in a very basic way: how people�manipulate whatever material culture is available in their environment�to negotiate their relationship with the world.

Reception to follow in Smith Family Gallery.

Please also join us for Day 1 of Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in-between Worlds.

This event is sponsored by the Paul Frederick Sheffer Memorial Fund for Roman Catholic Studies at Colorado College.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/colorado-springs/transforming-images-new-mexican-santos-in-between-worlds-keynote/200030665795749
- **Event Categories**: art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Colorado Springs
- **state**: CO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 30 W Dale St, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Colorado 80903
- **lat**: 38.84592
- **long**: -104.82609
- **full address**: 30 W Dale St, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Colorado 80903

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos In-Between Worlds | Keynote being held?
  - **A:** Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos In-Between Worlds | Keynote takes place on Fri, 25 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Fri, 25 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm at 30 W Dale St, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Colorado 80903.
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  - **A:** Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos In-Between Worlds | Keynote is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Colorado Springs, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos In-Between Worlds | Keynote sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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