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.

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.

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

BEYOND THE PHYSICAL WORLD is an 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.

Please join 4A for our Opening Reception, 5 - 7 p.m., Thurs., Jan. 22, 2026, at South Broadway Cultural Center.

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.

Presented by artistic directors Marisol Encinias and Amanda Hamp, Highways and Heartbeats is the 2026 UNM Faculty Dance Concert featuring new works by acclaimed artists in Flamenco and Contemporary dance. Experience the talented UNM Dance Ensembles as they perform works by Vladimir Conde Reche (Albuquerque, NM), Ana “Rokafella” Garcia (Bronx, NY), Sara Caño (Madrid, Spain), Ana Morales (Seville, Spain), and La Popi (Madrid, Spain).

Dates:
Week #1: February 27 and 28 at 7:30pm, March 1 at 2:00pm
Week #2: March 5, 6, and 7 at 7:30pm
Location: Rodey Theatre
Ticket Prices: $15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students

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Celebrate the live Grateful Dead experience with Easy Jim at Fusion on Friday, February 27th! Doors open at 6:30pm, showtime is 7:30pm, and tickets can be found at www.fusionnm.org. Easy Jim thanks you for supporting live music!

The Adobe Theater presents Andrew Bergman’s hilarious comedy, Social Security . Familiar actors known to The Adobe audiences are Clair Gardner, Jeffery Siddall, Stephanie Larragoite, Jenny Miller, Joel D. Miller and Jim Pinkston. Trendy Manhattan art gallery owners’ lives are upended when ‘Barbara’s nerdy sister deposits their eccentric mother on the couple's doorstep. They introduce ‘Sophie’ to a suave nonagenarian artist who offers to paint her portrait and soon begins to brighten her life in ways she never expected in her twilight years.

Andrew Bergman is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and playwright. His best-known films include Blazing Saddles, The In-Laws, The Freshman and Striptease. Social Security was the first play he wrote, starring Marlo Thomas and Ron Silver, which opened on Broadway in 1986. This will be director, Lewis Hauser’s third time directing this play. “It is different for me each time. Social Security is a modern throwback to those great screwball comedies of yesteryear. It is a comedy with heart. In my opinion, all great comedies must have at least one poignant moment. In Social Security it's the budding romance of the older couple, proving that the magic of true love can transform even the most cynical of us into true believers, no matter what the age. The play also happens to be hysterically funny.”
Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30pm, Sundays at 2.00pm. Saturday, March 14, matinee at 2pm only. Thursdays, March 5 and 19 at 7.30pm ($10 tix available).