The Dwan Light Sanctuary: Love in a Different Light

Dwan Light Sanctuary

Travel + Leisure has named the Dwan Light Sanctuary at UWC-USA New Mexico’s most romantic destination, highlighting its remarkable interplay of art, architecture, and light.The sanctuary fills with shifting ribbons of color as sunlight passes through 12 prisms offering visitors a new way to see both the space and one another.

The sanctuary opened in 1996 as a generous gift from arts patron Virginia Dwan. Conceived by Dwan and designed with solar-spectrum artist Charles Ross and architect Laban Wingert, its geometry aligns with the sun, moon, and stars. For UWC-USA students and employees, it remains more than a romantic destination. For us it’s a quiet, light-filled place for reflection, renewal, and connection amid the intensity of campus life.

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