Tamarind Institute Expands Lithography Training for 2027
Tamarind Institute's new series of immersive, one-week lithography workshops is tailored for artists, educators, curators, and printmakers. Applications are due August 15, 2026.
July 20, 2026
Albuquerque
From Drag Racing to Drag Performance, New 516 Arts Exhibition Explores Route 66
As the iconic Route 66 reaches its centennial year, 516 Arts marks this momentous milestone with The Rest is Drag, the last exhibition before the art center moves to its new, expanded location.
June 30, 2026
Calling All Creatives: NM CreativeCon Convenes the Creative Industries in Albuquerque
Join creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, organizations, developers, and community leaders from across New Mexico for a full day of learning, networking, inspiration, and opportunity.
June 01, 2026
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30 Years In, Keshet Dance Company Has Perfected the Generational Handoff
At the Albuquerque nonprofit, students become performers, family members become colleagues, and a community built on access and belonging continues to grow.
May 22, 2026
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516 Arts at 20: An Albuquerque Anchor Prepares for its Next Chapter
After twenty years at 516 Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, 516 Arts marks a flagship anniversary with a move to a new, renovated space.
May 22, 2026
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At 50, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Expands its Sovereign Footprint
Collectively governed by New Mexico’s nineteen Pueblos, the Albuquerque center marks its semicentennial as a “little pivot” between worlds.
May 22, 2026
At Keshet Dance Company, Dancers Take the Lead
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.
May 22, 2026
New Mexico Artist Residencies: So Enchanting, You Might Get Entrapped
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.
May 12, 2026
Artist Talk & Exhibition Reception: Featuring Alexa Wheeler & Jewelry Uplift
Exhibition will be open through May 30, 2026 Artist Talks & Reception: Saturday, May 16, 4:30–6:30pm Albuquerque, NM, Harwood Art Center is pleased to present our new exhibitions: Echoes of […]
May 07, 2026
Reception & Artist Talk: Echoes of Care: Vessels of the Future
What will remain of care, labor, and memory in one-hundred years? Echoes of Care: Vessels of the Future envisions a speculative archive where acts of nurturing, witnessing, and transformation persist […]
April 27, 2026
Mother’s Day Gallery Talk: Grounded in Clay Curators, Matriarchs in Clay
Join us for the Pueblo Pottery Collective Curators’ reflections on Matriarchs in Clay, inside the “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” exhibit. The event will focus on different […]
April 23, 2026
Gallery Talk: Grounded in Clay Curators, Pottery & The Growing Season
Join us for the Pueblo Pottery Collective Curators’ reflections on Pottery and the Growing Season, inside the “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” exhibit. The event will focus […]
April 23, 2026
Performance: हवा तुम, घुल जाना, खो जाना, मगर मिल जाना [Oh wind (if you must), dissolve, wander (get lost), but be found (find me)]
A noise and movement-based performance exploring teachings of wind, and the process of anti-colonial, embodied and communal meaning-making outside in a field. ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE: May 6th at 6:15 […]
April 20, 2026
Exhibition Opening: Miniatures and Small Works
The Gallery ABQ presents “Miniature and Small Works” on May 1, 2026, from 5:00 pm–8:00 pm. The May Featured Artists will be Russ Bessette (wood) and Laura McIndoo (ceramics). See […]
April 20, 2026
Opening Reception: NM Watercolor Spring Exhibition
The NM Watercolor Society hosts its Annual Spring Exhibition at the iconic Fine Arts Building at EXPO-New Mexico. The show features over 200 standard and small-to-medium sized original works. All […]
April 17, 2026
Performance: Broadway Classics of the 1950’s-70’s
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Route 66, join the New Mexico Performing Arts Society in Albuquerque for an evening of Broadway hits surrounded by classic cars. On Saturday, […]
April 17, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
The Road: Adelaide Theriault
Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.
March 20, 2026
Slow Down on the Mother Road: Heritage Inspirations’s New Route 66 Tour Rewrites the Nostalgia Narrative
Celebrating 100 years of Route 66, Heritage Inspirations launches a new Albuquerque Architecture & History Tour.
March 20, 2026
Laurie Nye is Awarded the 2026 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Fellowship
Painter Laurie Nye brings her vibrant nature-inspired work to UNM as the 2026 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Fellow. Free public events include an artist talk February 19 and an open studio on April 2.
February 10, 2026
Tamarind’s Collectors Club: Four Decades of Supporting Collaborative Printmaking
Tamarind's printmaking programs are supported by annual memberships. Collectors Club members receive an exclusive lithograph, 20% discount on editions, and early access to new editions.
December 03, 2025
Master the Art of Lithography: New Workshops at Tamarind Institute
Tamarind Institute introduces nine specialized lithography workshops in 2026-27, from one-week intensives to four-week immersions covering stone and aluminum plate techniques, collaboration, teaching strategies, and more.
November 19, 2025
Manic ExxonMobil Impersonators Pitch a Rising Protest Aesthetic: Razor-Sharp Silliness
The Yes Men used slick branding to spoof ExxonMobil in New Mexico. Inside the cloak and dagger intervention by a wave of "laugh-tivists" with a serious cause.
October 30, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Karl Orozco
By dismantling and depicting dead machines, artist Karl Orozco imagines new life cycles for our throwaway technologies.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Justine Kablack
Albuquerque-based artist Justine Kablack devoutly repeats images of the road, embracing its contradiction as both limitless and constrained.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: jesse lovell
Albuquerque-based artist jesse lovell’s practice has expanded over the years to include P.I. work, living somewhere between caricature and sousveillance.
September 05, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
In Abstracting Nature, New Mexico Artists Collaborate with Wild Entropic Powers
Natural entropy is a tool—and a sustainable ethos—for ten artists in Abstracting Nature at the Albuquerque Museum.
September 05, 2025
Anthropology Museums Are Returning Some Objects, But What About the Ones They Keep?
To address misleading historical photos of the Navajo Nation, Albuquerque's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology tapped Diné collaborators to fill in the gaps.
April 22, 2025
Caroline Liu’s Chinese Garden is Not as Sweet as It Looks. And That’s Good.
Caroline Liu’s exhibition lures you in then hits you with a one-two punch about erased histories and Asian marginalization.
April 02, 2025
Group Exhibition Brings Light and Space Greats to Albuquerque
Explore the transformative Light and Space art movement at Albuquerque Museum April 5–July 20, 2025, featuring groundbreaking works that redefine perception through light, color, and spatial experience.
April 01, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Max Sorenson
Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson follows real and imaginary lines that enmesh the world, from bark beetle tracks to a human-made survey system, "feeling for tension."
March 07, 2025
