Music and the Arts begins our holiday season celebration on December 13th. A Holiday Concert at the Museum will include the music of Handel, Boismortier, Boccherini and Purcell performed by Ying Ying Liu, soprano, Marty Ronish, baroque flute and recorder, Brian DeLay, guitar, and Kathleen Mcintosh, harpsichord. An exhibition featuring Santa Fe�s emerging artistic talent, Slice of Life: Santa Fe High Advanced Art Students, on display at the Museum Education Annex, will have an opening reception the same evening between 5-7:30 pm. Drawings, paintings, pottery, sculpture, jewelry, computer graphics and stained glass pieces are included in the exhibit.

The O�Keeffe Museum hosts a Holiday Family Program: Winter Mandala, on Friday December 27th at the Museum Education Annex. Participants will be able to explore the concept of the mandala in dance and visual art making. This ancient symbol of the universe is often used to facilitate self-reflection and enlightenment. Participants will create an intention box�a container designed to hold compassionate wishes. The workshop will be led by Emily Hess-Haughey and Lynn Welch, Murray Spalding Movement Arts, and Carlos Arturo Smith, labyrinth facilitator, cartographer. The workshop is from 1-4 pm and free but reservations are suggested: 505.946.1007.

The previous week, in celebration of the Winter Solstice, Murray Spalding Movement Arts presents dance meditations entitled Mandalas on December 19, 20, 21 at the Center for Contemporary Arts Performance Space with two performances daily, noon and 6 pm. Occupying a place between performance and prayer, Mandalas fuse mindfulness and the spiritual practices of Eastern philosophies with Western dance traditions. Mandalas offers an oasis of calm, a place for collective reflection and meditation. There will be a Friends of the O�Keeffe Performance on Friday, December 20, at noon, located at 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338. Donations are suggested. Enjoy experience of the Mandalas dance meditation at the Center for Contemporary Arts and then join the O�Keeffe Museum workshop to create a visual symbol of this experience.

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The Georgia O�Keeffe Museum, which opened July 17, 1997, is dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of Georgia O�Keeffe and to the study and interpretation of American Modernism (1890�present). The 13,000-square-foot Museum houses a permanent collection of more than 130 O�Keeffe works. From July through October, the Museum is open seven days a week; November through June, the Museum is closed on Wednesdays. Museum hours are 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., except for Fridays, when they are 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. For visitor information, call (505) 946-1017.

PRESS CONTACT: Linda Milanesi 505.946.1050 lindam@okeeffemuseum.org www.okeeffemuseum.org