Community Calendar

The entire museum, including the Agnes Martin Gallery, will be closed for the installation of Unearthing Futures/Desanterrando Futuros. We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment this may cause. Please join us for the Opening Celebration on June 27, 2026.

Image: Ronald Rael, Adobe Oasis, 2025, 3D printed adobe. Desert X 2025, Coachella Valley, CA, March 8–May 11. Photo by Lance Gerber.

Come check out the Southwest’s biggest and baddest true street car drag race.

On 3 Dyno & Performance presents, 2025 All Out Call Out!
The Southwest’s largest “true” streetcar drag racing event! There is a class for everyone. From 14 second slowpokes to the 7-8 second Let it Eat guys.

You don’t want to miss this event, as the fastest street cars from the Southwest come out to battle for the title in a single-elimination call-out-style race.
LIMITED TICKET SALES, AND IT WILL SELL OUT! NO GATE SALES!

$70 for racers (includes track fee)
$25 for spectators (Purchase at On 3 Performance and Yearwood )
$30 for online spectator tickets
Kids 10 and under FREE

Heights Summerfest
Saturday, June 13, 2026
5-10 p.m.
North Domingo Baca Park
7521 Carmel Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113
More Info: https://www.cabq.gov/artsculture/things-to-do/annual-events/summerfest/heights-summerfest

Celebrate warm weather and outdoor fun at the first Albuquerque Summerfest of 2026—a free community event you won’t want to miss! Enjoy browsing handmade goods in The Shops, savor freshly made cuisine from local food trucks in the Food Court, and cool off with local libations in The Cantina. There’s something for everyone, with free kids’ activities and live performances from local bands Abbaquerque, Keeping Up With the Joneses, and The Fabulous Martini Tones. Then, stick around for an electrifying headlining set by Doctor Nativo, bringing the vibrant rhythms of Central America to life with a dynamic blend of reggae, cumbia, and hip-hop. It’s the perfect soundtrack for dancing the evening away under the summer sky!
Contact:
eventvendors@cabq.gov
(505) 768-3556

Back to the Future | Saturday, June 13, 2026
Great Scott! Get ready for an evening like never before under the stars! Join us in Heritage Park for Movie Under the Wings, featuring the iconic adventure Back to the Future (1985). Experience this fan-favorite film surrounded by historic aircraft like the B‑29 Superfortress, the B‑47 Stratojet, and the NEST helicopter—a setting unlike any other.

Make a Night of It
Arrive early and enjoy:

A live DJ setting the vibe
Local food trucks serving up great eats,
Beverage trucks, including Bombs Away Beer Company
Exclusive evening access to museum exhibits before dusk
Event Access Options
Choose the experience that fits your evening:

$18 advance tickets
$20 at the door
McFly VIP $25 Reserved seating area (please bring your own chair) Includes a popcorn + drink bundle
Family Bundle – $50 Includes 2 adults + 2 dependent children (children under 5 attend free)
Military Rate – $10 per person Includes special pricing for spouse + up to 2 dependents
Tickets are available in advance or can be purchased at the door.

More Than a Night Out
Your participation supports the ongoing restoration of Heritage Park aircraft, helping preserve these remarkable pieces of history for generations to come. Please note: this special event is not included with museum membership or passes.

Event Details
Doors Open 7:00 pm
Program Begins: At dusk Location: Heritage Park
Know Before You Go
Bring portable outdoor chairs (ground seating is not comfortable)
No outside food or drinks
No pets, except service animals
No alcohol, smoking, or firearms permitted
Gather your friends and family for a night of nostalgia, history, and fun—we’ll see you Under the Wings!

SHIRLEY VALENTINE was the inaugural show of West End Productions in 2016. Welcome back Jessica Osbourne. It is ten years since her outstanding performance in the beloved 1986 one-woman play, by Willy Russell, about a middle-aged housewife who escapes her mundane, stagnant life and neglectful husband for a transformative holiday in Greece. Colleen Neary McClure once again directs this heartwarming, comedic monologue focusing on self-discovery, liberation, and rediscovering one’s identity.

‘Shirley’ inhabits her "full-fit" kitchen and makes her husband's supper as she tells us about her life, ‘Joe’, the children, and her friend ‘Jane’, who has just invited ‘Shirley’ to join her on a vacation in Greece. She talks to the wall and the audience as she convinces herself to stay or go. Wine helps to lubricate Shirley's feelings and reminiscences while she makes a mental pro-and-con list. In just two funny and charming scenes we get a sense of a prosaic life and her longing to leave it. (Talkin’Broadway 2016).

The entire museum, including the Agnes Martin Gallery, will be closed for the installation of Unearthing Futures/Desanterrando Futuros. We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment this may cause. Please join us for the Opening Celebration on June 27, 2026.

Image: Ronald Rael, Adobe Oasis, 2025, 3D printed adobe. Desert X 2025, Coachella Valley, CA, March 8–May 11. Photo by Lance Gerber.

EARLY CLOSURE AT 3PM ON MARCH 20TH DUE TO PRIVATE EVENT
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC), this exhibition highlights the Center’s history through Pueblo imagery and perspectives of the past, present, and future. A combination of fifty objects from the IPCC’s Collections and Archives, with an emphasis on Pueblo pottery, illustrates the significance of the Center as a gathering place where Pueblo arts and culture are celebrated by visitors from around the world and, at once, nurtured by Pueblo communities across the generations. Gallery videos, updated throughout the year, will feature interviews with Pueblo artists, scholars, and culture bearers that present insider views of the IPCC. Join us to celebrate the exhibition on March 21 from 5-8pm during our free, public reception. Visit indianpueblo.org for 50th anniversary program schedule updates including an exhibit closing event on February 15, 2027.

EARLY CLOSURE AT 3PM ON MARCH 20TH DUE TO PRIVATE EVENT.
Organized by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the Vilcek Foundation, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, a unique traveling exhibition featuring over 100 historic and contemporary works in clay, offers a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels that carry community-based knowledge and personal experience. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC), established by the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico in 1976, welcomes the pottery vessels back to the Southwest as the “returning home” host venue of the exhibition’s four-year national tour. Curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective, Grounded in Clay opens at the IPCC as the leading program of the Center’s 50th anniversary celebration year. The exhibition and its associated events are generously supported by the First Nations Development Institute and Noon Whistle Fund.

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.

JOHN BEECH | Across the Surface
May 29 – June 27, 2026
Opening Reception with the Artist
Friday, May 29, 2026, from 5-7 p.m.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art
“A Conversation with John Beech and David Chickey”
Saturday, May 30, 2026, from 2-4 p.m. at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

They are not just black and white photos. The subject matter is urban: city streets, industrial sites, alleyways, warehouse facades. Within them is the accumulated flotsam and jetsam of human life in a city: dumpsters, random pieces of abandoned furniture, bits construction equipment. But each photo is also ground for the artist's intervention: blobs and washes of paint, ink marks, strips of tape.

We humans take things for granted: a street, a chair, the passage of time. How long since you really saw that alley, that tree? The Photo-Paintings and Monotypes of John Beech do just this. They challenge our preconceptions, providing the jolt, the pause, that invites us to pay closer attention. These works confound our sense of what a photo is, what a painting is, and how we see art and the world. Across the Surface provides a survey of Beech's Photo-Paintings and Monotypes from across the decades and dovetails with the announcement of a new book about this particular body of work forthcoming from Radius Books in spring 2027.

Beech's art brings together expected and unexpected in ways that allow the viewer to see anew and to experience a whole beyond the sum of these disparate parts.