Join Santa Fe Public Library for these special programs celebrating Black History Month.
Celebrate Artist Clementine Hunter
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026
Time: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: La Farge Library
Address: 1730 Llano Street, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Explore the life and work of folk artist Clementine Hunter and create your own Zinnia painting inspired by her vivid and joyful work. This program is for children, tweens, teens and their families.
Celebrate Artist Jack Whitten
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Main Library
Address: 145 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Celebrate contemporary artist Jack Whitten and experiment with texture, abstraction, and innovative techniques inspired by his work. This program is for children, tweens, teens and their families.
Celebrate Black Artists and Creators
Date: Friday, February 27, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Southside Library
Address: 6599 Jaguar Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87507
Join our celebration of Black creators, featuring games, music, and hands-on projects inspired by Black inventors, artists, and performers. This program is for children, tweens, teens and their families.
The Power of Indignation: Richard Wright, Black American Novelist
Date: Friday, February 27, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Main Library
Address: 145 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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Date: Saturday, February 28, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Southside Library
Address: 6599 Jaguar Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87507
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington recreates the life and times of preeminent Black novelist, Richard Wright. Richard Wright (1908-1960), the author of the novel Native Son (1940) and the autobiography Black Boy (1945) pioneered an influential school of protest literature. He became the first Black writer to pen a bestseller that overtly criticized racism and white supremacy. Born into dire poverty and oppression in segregated Mississippi, his journey to international success was so unlikely that upon meeting him the most famous sociologist of the 1940's asked, "How in the hell did YOU happen?"
Following his success, Wright grew disillusioned with the United States, and, in 1947, relocated to France. Before his death in 1960, at age 52, he coined the phrase "Black Power" in support of African anti-colonial revolutions. Darryl Lorenzo Wellington recreates Wright's final days, looking back on his career, while delivering a lecture to an American audience in Paris.
The show is approximately 40 minutes, followed by a ten to fifteen minute Q&A with Wellington, in character as Richard Wright.