Community Calendar

Los Luceros Historic Site (LLHS) offers extended hours from sunrise to sunset on the first Sunday of each month. During this time, entrance into LLHS is FREE for New Mexico residents with ID. Enjoy bird watching, listen to a children's story led by a ranger, and participate in hands-on activities. Take a guided bird walk with staff from the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) at 7 a.m. Sign-up ahead of time online at https://peecnature.org/events/. At 1 p.m. Interpretive Ranger Kara will offer Read with a Ranger story time, reading the story Little Green Donkey by Anuska Allepuz. This book is about is a silly donkey who is a very picky eater and unwilling to try new exciting foods when his mother suggests them. Because of his stubbornness, he eats so much grass that he turns green! He can’t hide his green fur and has to mope back to his mother. Will he finally be willing to try new things and will he ever stop being green? Kara will lead a children’s craft activity after the story. Visitors are free to explore the historic buildings, nature trails, and farm animals. Los Luceros offers a unique opportunity for people to explore and enjoy the site from dawn until dusk on the first Sunday of each month. Entrance is free for New Mexico residents with ID. Regular admission for non-residents is $7/adult and free to children 16 and younger.

Curated by the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute at The University of New Mexico, “Restorying Our HeartPlaces: Contemporary Pueblo Architecture” showcases a near-present history of the architectural sovereignty that emerged after the 1975 Indian Self-Determination Act. This exhibition focuses on the work of Pueblo architects while representing design concepts from regional ancestral sites that continue to influence 20th and 21st century Pueblo architecture. It will be on view in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s South Gallery from March 25 through December 7, 2025

Free for museum members, or with admission.

“Sage Mountainflower: House of Fashion” showcases the artist’s contemporary clothing designs inspired by visual patterns and textures of her home and her experiences in the fashion world from the Pueblos to Paris. Mountainflower (Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Diné) brings together layered narratives of community and cultural landscapes in her wearable art forms that share stories of the land with audiences. The exhibit will be on view in the Artists Circle Gallery from March 15 through July 13, 2025.

Free for museum members, or with admission.

The works in this exhibition span critical moments in Ross’ career and have never previously been exhibited.

Charles Ross: Mansions of the Zodiac is an exhibition of Ross’ artwork inspired by sunlight, starlight, time, and planetary motion. Charles Ross emerged in the 1960s with the advent of minimalism and earthworks, and is considered one of the preeminent figures of land art. This exhibition opens as Ross nears the completion of his earth/sky work, Star Axis, a monumental architectonic sculpture, and naked eye observatory located on the eastern plains of New Mexico.

Image Credit: Charles Ross, Point Source / Star Apace: Weave of Ages, 1975/86, mixed media on paper mounted on canvas, created with 428 photographs from the Falkau Star Atlas which covers the entire celestial sphere from pole to pole, the viewpoint is that of the observer at the center of the earth, 106 x 225 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

$10 Admission, $8 Students and Seniors

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’s 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 Credits: Happy Kiln. Courtesy of Logan Wannamaker

Saturday, June 21, 2025 - Sunday, September 7, 2025
Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm

Local playwright Terri Klein says “the idea for A Year in Quirky Town grew out of my realizing that a fair number of people are living in Albuquerque by accident—they were passing through and their car broke down. I thought it would be fun to write a play with that premise, but at first all I could write was one song. I had written some other short pieces that were set in Albuquerque—some comedy sketches, another song, a monologue, a few haiku—so my revised plan was to make a variety show out of that material, organizing it around the seasons of the year. In workshopping the show through Albuquerque Theatre Guild’s Playwrights’ Circle, however, I learned three things: people preferred one continuous story, they wanted to hear more about some of my characters, and they wanted Albuquerque to be more than just the setting. As I re-wrote the show with those suggestions in mind, I combined items with the most compatible characters and the strongest Albuquerque connections. That gave me the impetus to write new material to bridge gaps in the story. Through this process, the full-length play I had been unable to write “from scratch” emerged. ‘Willow Shaker-Spears’, an aspiring actor whose L. A. dream did not come true, is on her way back home to Kansas, but gets stuck in Albuquerque when her car breaks down. What bad luck! Or is it? Join ‘Willow’ on her rollicking Albuquerque adventure and find out”.

The pull to direct this show for Cameron Illidge-Welch “comes from the plot of the story. It is about someone who is not from here but gets here and falls in love with Albuquerque. I moved here in 2016 with my partner because I fell in love with the mountains over a thanksgiving holiday. Albuquerque and its residents are unlike any I have ever been lucky enough to come in contact with! It is another love letter from me to a group that has made me feel like family since day one. Also Terri is one of my favorite people in the entire world. When the opportunity to direct her words came to me I could not say no. The collaboration we have been able to experience during this process has truly deepened my love for her and her incredible talent! He has assembled a fine cast of actors – joining Alli Marie (‘Willow’) are Daniel Anaya, Barbara Braun, Carolyn Hogan, Nathan Illidge-Welch, Mariah Desiree Lujan, Dominick Martos-Ortiz and Deborah Schoenbaum. A fundraiser for The Adobe Theater.

CHICANAO! Is exhibition of Chicana and Chicano artists working in different media. The show brings together artists from around New Mexico, both living and deceased. There will be over 40 artists and over 80 works shown.

A few of the artists on exhibit are Patricio Trujillo Trujillo y Fuentes, Oscar Lozoya, Delilah Montoya, Cecilio Garcia Camarillo, who first started Espejos de Aztlan. Cecilio has pass on, but his legacy remains. There are artists in varying degrees of their carreers featured in this show, and we, the curators are very happy to have invited to pull together artists.

Curated by the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute at The University of New Mexico, “Restorying Our HeartPlaces: Contemporary Pueblo Architecture” showcases a near-present history of the architectural sovereignty that emerged after the 1975 Indian Self-Determination Act. This exhibition focuses on the work of Pueblo architects while representing design concepts from regional ancestral sites that continue to influence 20th and 21st century Pueblo architecture. It will be on view in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s South Gallery from March 25 through December 7, 2025

Free for museum members, or with admission.

“Sage Mountainflower: House of Fashion” showcases the artist’s contemporary clothing designs inspired by visual patterns and textures of her home and her experiences in the fashion world from the Pueblos to Paris. Mountainflower (Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Diné) brings together layered narratives of community and cultural landscapes in her wearable art forms that share stories of the land with audiences. The exhibit will be on view in the Artists Circle Gallery from March 15 through July 13, 2025.

Free for museum members, or with admission.

Harwood Art Center is pleased to present SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico and Oops, Blurt by Inga Hendrickson. SURFACE is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community. curated through an open call application; as of this year, the program has served 156 exceptionally talented, committed artists, including the 15 we accepted for 2025.

This year’s SURFACE exhibition in Harwood’s Hall Gallery features Benjamin Tobias, Chris Kemler, Christine Sullivan, Desara Boehm, dylan lilla, Geo Evans, Jared Putnam, Latasha Hagan, Linden Eller, Marie-Pier Frigon, Maya Perez, Ocelotl Mora, Olivia Berkey, Roxanne Márquez and Yu Yan.

Gallery Hours are Thursdays - Saturdays from 10am-3pm.

We invite you to join us for an exhibition reception, awards presentation and artist talk by Inga Hendrickson at Harwood Art Center, Saturday, June 21. The reception is 4:30pm - 6:30pm with awards and artist talks starting at 5:00pm. This event is free and open to all ages.