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Jake Trujillo: Neon Tonalist
With an electric palette and layered technique, Santa Fe–based painter Jake Trujillo gives familiar Southwest landscapes a surreal spin.
May 22, 2026
Studio Visit2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
With an electric palette and layered technique, Santa Fe–based painter Jake Trujillo gives familiar Southwest landscapes a surreal spin.
Kathryne Lim • May 22, 2026
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New Mexico’s “Carbon City” celebrates Native arts and traditions, vibrant galleries, and public art, carving its own path beneath the tourist economy’s glare.
Olivia Amaya Ortiz • May 22, 2026
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This summer, Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros brings together six artists working in adobe, tracing the material from ancestral building tradition to radical contemporary art practice.
Robin Babb • May 22, 2026
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From flamenco in Albuquerque to jazz in Taos, a guide to the visionary venues and companies shaping New Mexico's performing arts scene now.
Rica Maestas • May 22, 2026
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At the Albuquerque nonprofit, students become performers, family members become colleagues, and a community built on access and belonging continues to grow.
Maggie Grimason • May 22, 2026
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After twenty years at 516 Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, 516 Arts marks a flagship anniversary with a move to a new, renovated space.
Maggie Grimason • May 22, 2026
From the Editor2026 New Mexico Field Guide
This edition of the New Mexico Field Guide is an invitation to take in a dynamic year of New Mexico arts programming—and then experience it in motion.
Jordan Eddy and Natalie Hegert • May 22, 2026
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From Elaine Horwitch's founding in downtown Santa Fe to Robert Gardner and Kenneth Marvel's expansion into the Railyard, LewAllen Galleries celebrates fifty years representing contemporary art.
Adele Oliveira • May 22, 2026
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Zane Bennett Contemporary Art has evolved from a small Canyon Road space into a major Santa Fe gallery known for globally diverse, boundary-pushing exhibitions.
Adele Oliveira • May 22, 2026
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Collectively governed by New Mexico’s nineteen Pueblos, the Albuquerque center marks its semicentennial as a “little pivot” between worlds.
Jordan Eddy • May 22, 2026
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Meow Wolf’s first interactive installation celebrates its tenth anniversary, marking an era of staggering growth and expansion, with even more to come.
Natalie Hegert • May 22, 2026
On Canyon Road, where tradition often leads, K Contemporary offers a deliberate shift.
K Contemporary • May 22, 2026
Under the leadership of Mitch Higgins, Century Wealth Management offers tailored portfolios, alternative investments, and ESG investing strategies rooted in personal advisory.
Century Bank • May 22, 2026
Marking its 20th year, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art launches Print Focus—a series spotlighting the publishers, workshops, and master printers behind the medium.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art • May 22, 2026
The 22nd International Folk Art Market returns to Santa Fe July 9-12, bringing 148 master artists from 53 countries—and the largest gathering of its kind—to a weekend of cultural exchange, live performance, and handmade work that's reshaping the boundaries of art and craft.
International Folk Art Market • May 22, 2026
Adobe churches, ancestral pueblos, canyon views, and a glass of New Mexico wine—Heritage Inspirations' High Road tour unfolds the Land of Enchantment, one stop at a time.
Heritage Inspirations • May 22, 2026
Now in its fourth year, Farmington's Art in the Heart Sculpture Exhibition transforms Historic Main Street into a rotating outdoor gallery of Four Corners artists.
Downtown Farmington Arts & Cultural District • May 22, 2026
For three decades, Keshet Dance Company has dissolved the lines between stage and community, artist and audience—making contemporary dance a vehicle for access, collaboration, and social change.
Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts • May 22, 2026
For thirty years, King Galleries has been a focal point for the finest Native pottery from the 1920s to the present.
King Galleries • May 22, 2026
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art support artists’ creative growth and experimentation in a globally recognized program.
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program • May 22, 2026
Blending the tropical vibrancy of Puerto Rico with the sunbaked tones of New Mexico, figurative artist Hebé García transforms oil paint and clay into brilliant meditations on the human spirit.
Hebé García • May 22, 2026
As ceramics arts draw a growing audience seeking creativity and calm, the Taos Ceramics Center is expanding its campus to meet the demand.
Taos Ceramics Center • May 22, 2026
Gallup isn't a stop along the way—it’s the destination, where living culture, epic landscapes, and genuine hospitality converge.
Visit Gallup • May 22, 2026
Into the Time Horizon, the largest exhibition ever mounted at the Nevada Museum of Art, addresses the accelerating climate crisis and ways we might combat it.
Max Stone • May 19, 2026
Abstract Picnic's new Santa Fe Railyard mural turns the picnic into a metaphor for gathering. Celebrate the unveiling on Saturday, June 6, 12–2 pm.
Railyard Park Conservancy • May 18, 2026
Neon nearly died at the altar of the LED revolution. Phoenix-based artist Lily Reeves is working to resurrect it, with literal witchcraft.
Royal Young • May 14, 2026
When Will Durham realized Nevada's iconic neon signs were going dark, he started collecting them. Decades later he's opening The Light Circus Nevada Neon Museum in Reno.
Max Stone • May 13, 2026
Arizona Biennial 2026, juried by BAMPFA's Julie Rodrigues Widholm, opens May 22 with thirty-one artists working across the state. On view through September 27.
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block • May 13, 2026
Is New Mexico the Land of Enchantment or the "Land of Entrapment"? Apply for one of these eighteen artist and writer residencies, and you're bound to find out.
Rocío Marisol Rodríguez Linares • May 12, 2026
From movie scenes to Scientology symbols, Jon Revett reflects on thirty-five years of traveling on the Conchas Highway, in a landscape of shifting cultural narratives.
Jon Revett • May 08, 2026
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