Community Calendar

Flash Fiction Writing Contest to support Ethos Literacy, a nonprofit adult literacy program. The challenge: 100 words on one of these topics: chicken(s), detour, purple, something lost. Age Limit: 14+. 6 prizes including Best Youth Story (writers 14 - 17). E-Publication. Cost: $15 per story submission.

Add some extra bling to your collection and create your own bracelet with found objects that we'll turn into charms with wire wrapping techniques. Inspired by Georgina Treviño's artwork seen in Greetings From Tijuana, participants will use chains, pliers, wire, to turn their knick-knacks into sculptural jewelry. Bring keychains, your favorite rocks, or earrings with no pair. What can you create the spare items from a junk drawer?

Chain, wire, and tools will be supplied by the UAM, but please bring your own objects to turn into charms. This workshop is free and open to all ages. Adult supervision is recommended for young children.

Lolita Chakrabarti's play is a riveting and heartfelt historical drama about the true story of Ira Aldridge, an African-American who, in 1833, became the first Black actor to play Othello on the London stage.

Flash Fiction Writing Contest to support Ethos Literacy, a nonprofit adult literacy program. The challenge: 100 words on one of these topics: chicken(s), detour, purple, something lost. Age Limit: 14+. 6 prizes including Best Youth Story (writers 14 - 17). E-Publication. Cost: $15 per story submission.

The New Mexico Environment Department intends to approve, pending public input, to change the corrective action status of two Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs 86 ad 87) from "Corrective Action Required" to "Corrective Action Complete with Controls" in the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Hazardous Waste Permit. The 60-day comment period begins on January 30th and ends at 5:00 PM on March 31st, 2026. To review a copy of the Public Notice, Fact Sheet, and Corrective Action Complete Petition, visit the NMED Hazardous Waste Bureau WSMR page (https://www.env.nm.gov/hazardous-waste/wsmr/), under Content titled "Corrective Action Complete Proposal". The above documents are also available on the NMED Public Notice page (https://www.env.nm.gov/public-notices/), under "Statewide/Across Multiple Counties".

Arrowsoul Art Collective’s mural installation fuses concepts of the beginning, present, and future of Indigenous pictographic arts. Based in the Southwest region, Arrowsoul Art Collective creates graffiti walls and mural paintings inspired by the evolving meanings of “Future Old School” and “Indigenous Freeways.” The artists create new visions of the Southwest landscape through blending letter structures, illustrative architecture, and textured palettes of places of home. Arrowsoul Art Collective’s projects reunite communities along the Rio Grande through creative participation. Located in the Art Through Struggle Gallery, their newest mural will be on display through June 28, 2026.

Free for museum members, or with admission.

Every Sunday May-Oct 10am to 2pm. The Rail Yards Market is focused on building a resilient, sustainable local economy that we all love to work and play in. Through food, art, and music, we hope to bring our community together in an atmosphere of fun, learning, and creativity. Rail Yards Market is a community organization and a certified 501(c)(3)

BEYOND THE PHYSICAL WORLD is an abstract art exhibit that challenges the artists to transcend logic and language, reaching straight into our emotions and imagination. By focusing on form and feeling, it opens a space of freedom that representational art cannot always offer. It invites us inward—not to question what it is, but to wonder how it moves us. Exhibited art is submitted by ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE.

Opening reception is January 22, 2026. 5 - 7PM

The Same Place at the Same Time is a series of three exhibition rotations that trace how art lives within, emerges from, and connects Taos’ creative communities. By gathering a varied array of arts—wood-fired ceramics, volunteer radio, and Pueblo foodways—into the rotating gallery space, the exhibition highlights the many interconnected maker groups within our larger Taos community. The inclusion of visual art, music, and food emphasizes the diversity of creativity that constructs thriving cultures and communities.

The exhibition is process-focused and collectively developed, documenting how these groups operate and co-curated by the groups themselves. It explores the wide-ranging organizational structures of these collectives, in turn allowing us to consider how these frameworks influence art making, relationships, and the rich culture of Taos. It asks how we might further nurture this expansive web of connections, both inside and outside of the gallery space.

Harwood Museum of Art is honored to collaborate with local artists, makers, and cultural leaders who shape and define Taos’s remarkable artistic landscape.

Curated by Kate Miller, Curatorial Assistant, Harwood Museum of Art.

Image Credit: KNCE Studio. Courtesy of True Taos Radio, KNCE 93.5 FM

Pursuit of Happiness: Gi Bill in Taos refocuses the story of post-World War II artistic movements by highlighting those artists working, communing, and connecting in Taos from 1945 onward. These artists founded the next great wave of abstraction that took root in the region, bringing their vast creativity and international connections to the community. Highlighting works from Harwood Museum of Art’s permanent collection and sourcing significant loans regionally and nationally, this exhibition tells the story of how Taos contributed to conversations and explorations in the national art scene during the post-World War II period.