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.

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.

Albuquerque Abstract Artists Alliance will have a new exhibit, "New Visions of the Natural World," June 20 through Aug. 1 at Open Space Gallery, 6500 Coors Blvd. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120. Exhibit Hours will be 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays. 

Congregation Albert Sisterhood Annual Rummage Sale at Congregation Albert starting on June 25, 2026 at 5:00pm-8:00pm ($4 entry) and continuing for a free entry fee on 6/26/26 9:00 am-2:00 pm, 6/28/26 9:00 am-3:00 pm, June 29 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Half-price sale)
A Treasure Hunters' Paradise!!!

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.

The NMSU Art Museum is excited to announce the opening of Mapping Spaces: Selections from the Lannan Art Collection at NMSU. This exhibition will showcase selections from the generous gift of 63 works of art from the Lannan Art Collection to the NMSU Permanent Art Collection in 2024. Mapping Spaces will open in the Contemporary Gallery on Thursday, June 11th, and run until September 5th, 2026.

After almost 65 years, with 27 of those spent in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lannan Foundation closed in 2024. As part of Lannan’s closure, the Foundation gifted its remaining collection of more than 1,600 objects to 55 institutions, including the NMSU Art Museum. By adding these pieces to the UAM’s collection, this gift deepens the significance of the works by placing them into an academic context, where teaching, research, and public engagement further activate each of them. The NMSU Permanent Art Collection continues to evolve and grow not only as a repository of contemporary art objects, but also as a living resource that invites ongoing dialogue about the role of artists in shaping how the NMSU and Las Cruces communities understand our dynamic border region.

Featuring artists such as Claudia Andujar, Subhankar Banerjee, Max Cole, Pard Morrison, Victoria Sambunaris, and James Turrell, Mapping Spaces brings together a dynamic range of artists whose works explore landscapes and the environment, documentary photography, abstraction, and traditional art historical references. Together, this exhibition features artists at the center of the UAM’s mission, emphasizing the importance of continued support for art, research, and community-engaged practices in cultivating a creative ecosystem across New Mexico.

Join us for the opening reception on June 11th from 4:30-6:30 PM. UAM is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm, at 1308 E. University Ave., Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003. Admission to all programming is free and open to the public. For more information and a detailed calendar with associated programs and dates please visit uam.nmsu.edu.

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A critical weekend of community action is underway to save a vital local space. After just two months, the New Mexico Indian Market faces permanent closure on June 30, 2026, due to low foot traffic and a critical need for support. This marketplace was built as an all-inclusive, safe space for Indigenous creators, small businesses, and displaced vendors to sell authentic arts, crafts, apparel, and traditional food. To keep the space alive, we have officially lifted restrictions to welcome flea market, used, and resale items.

KICKOFF FUNDRAISER (FRIDAY, JUNE 26): Support our sister store, Native Boba Tea (413 Romero St NW, Ste A), for a special Navajo Taco Sale! Bring your family, grab lunch, and try the new Pickle Boba (hot or regular). You can call in your orders, pre-pay, and pick up without the wait at 505-410-6167. Proceeds go directly to support Native Boba Tea—let's give back to a local business that has stood by our market from day one!

FINAL MARKET WEEKEND (SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JUNE 27–28): We are urging the community to support us at the market lot (9521 Central Ave NW) in two ways: come out to shop, or rent a booth space for just $25 to set up and sell. Anyone wanting to vend should call or text Kevin Wilson immediately at 505-414-1650 to reserve a space. Let’s get this place completely packed with vendors and customers! If you or someone you know is interested in sponsoring or partnering to sustain this vital space permanently, please contact Kevin to discuss. Please help us stay open!

The Pueblo Dance Group (Laguna, Acoma, Zuni, Hopi) will be dancing.
Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.
They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.
Free for museum members, or with admission.
Dance groups and times subject to change.