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The ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition, FORAY, running from October 3 through November 2, 2025, at Fusion | 708.

Juried by Michael Ottersen

• OPENING RECEPTION: 5:30 - 8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 3, 2025
• EXHIBIT HOURS: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays, Oct. 3 - Nov. 2
• LOCATION:
Fusion | 708
708 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Artists in FORAY:

Marca Dickie
Carolyn Grady
Benita Grunseth
Larry Guy
Ginna Heiden
Nancy JonesFrancis
Nicole Kurland
Karen Macek
Dana Millen
Bill Sabatini
Gail Sacharczuk
Catalina Salinas
Jan Tras

The ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition, FORAY, running from October 3 through November 2, 2025, at Fusion | 708.

Juried by Michael Ottersen

• OPENING RECEPTION: 5:30 - 8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 3, 2025
• EXHIBIT HOURS: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays, Oct. 3 - Nov. 2
• LOCATION:
Fusion | 708
708 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Artists in FORAY:

Marca Dickie
Carolyn Grady
Benita Grunseth
Larry Guy
Ginna Heiden
Nancy JonesFrancis
Nicole Kurland
Karen Macek
Dana Millen
Bill Sabatini
Gail Sacharczuk
Catalina Salinas
Jan Tras

The ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition, FORAY, running from October 3 through November 2, 2025, at Fusion | 708.

Juried by Michael Ottersen

• OPENING RECEPTION: 5:30 - 8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 3, 2025
• EXHIBIT HOURS: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays, Oct. 3 - Nov. 2
• LOCATION:
Fusion | 708
708 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Artists in FORAY:

Marca Dickie
Carolyn Grady
Benita Grunseth
Larry Guy
Ginna Heiden
Nancy JonesFrancis
Nicole Kurland
Karen Macek
Dana Millen
Bill Sabatini
Gail Sacharczuk
Catalina Salinas
Jan Tras

In the 10th edition of its international conference titled “Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD),” IEREK plans to continue the conversation that ties urban planning and architectural design to reach the common goal of sustainable development. The conference will discuss topics such as strategic urban planning, which requires setting ambitious goals and determining desired areas of city growth, as well as sustainable architecture and development. On the topic of sustainable architecture, the idea of its synonymous term green or environmental architecture will be discussed, as green architecture in itself is a challenge for every architect. Green architecture’s main goal is producing smart designs and using available technologies, ensuring that these produced structures emit minimal harm to both the ecosystem and the community. The end goal of green architecture is to fulfill the civilians’ current demands without risking the capacity of future generations to fulfill their own needs and that summarizes the purpose of urban planning.

CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART presents
RON COOPER: Racers and Combos
July 2 - 30, 2025
Opening reception on Friday, July 4 from 5-7 p.m.
554 S. Guadalupe in the Railyard Art District.

Made of long, thin boxes of Plexiglas, from certain angles, they appear to float. On their outward facing surfaces, color, texture and shimmer hover over the wall, while the boxes themselves are filled with light, so that the pieces are lit from within. A spark of light from a lamp or a change in the angle of sun might set off a cascade of shifting hues. What was one thing becomes another. Moment to moment. Day to day. Different, fluid, transforming.

These are Ron Cooper’s Combos, the newest iteration of his Vertical Boxes series. The Combos are created by joining two (or sometimes more) smaller two-foot sections of the Plexiglas boxes together. These combinations play with juxtaposing different colors and textures – for example a shimmering gold above textured blue, or a translucent yellow above a strangely crinkled and roiling gray-pink-blue.

In the gallery along with the Combos are two of his favorite retrofitted racers. For Cooper, becoming an artist wasn’t a forgone conclusion, as a young man he was drawing hotrods, sure he would become the greatest car builder in the world. Art interceded. But today Cooper enjoys both, building and racing cars and continuing to explore light and space with his art.

The ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition, FORAY, running from October 3 through November 2, 2025, at Fusion | 708.

Juried by Michael Ottersen

• OPENING RECEPTION: 5:30 - 8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 3, 2025
• EXHIBIT HOURS: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays, Oct. 3 - Nov. 2
• LOCATION:
Fusion | 708
708 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Artists in FORAY:

Marca Dickie
Carolyn Grady
Benita Grunseth
Larry Guy
Ginna Heiden
Nancy JonesFrancis
Nicole Kurland
Karen Macek
Dana Millen
Bill Sabatini
Gail Sacharczuk
Catalina Salinas
Jan Tras

100 Years of Collecting|100 Years of Connecting is on view through December 13, 2025 at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum, located at 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. Admission is free. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit nmheritagearts.org.

The exhibition marks the Spanish Colonial Arts Society's centennial by telling its century-long story of creating and caring for an extraordinary trove of nearly 4,000 objects representing the distinctive Hispano heritage of New Mexico. This provides a unique lens on the Society’s legacy of connecting to a community of artists and supporters of Hispano arts in New Mexico and beyond.

The ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition, FORAY, running from October 3 through November 2, 2025, at Fusion | 708.

Juried by Michael Ottersen

• OPENING RECEPTION: 5:30 - 8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 3, 2025
• EXHIBIT HOURS: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays, Oct. 3 - Nov. 2
• LOCATION:
Fusion | 708
708 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Artists in FORAY:

Marca Dickie
Carolyn Grady
Benita Grunseth
Larry Guy
Ginna Heiden
Nancy JonesFrancis
Nicole Kurland
Karen Macek
Dana Millen
Bill Sabatini
Gail Sacharczuk
Catalina Salinas
Jan Tras

100 Years of Collecting|100 Years of Connecting is on view through December 13, 2025 at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum, located at 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. Admission is free. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit nmheritagearts.org.

The exhibition marks the Spanish Colonial Arts Society's centennial by telling its century-long story of creating and caring for an extraordinary trove of nearly 4,000 objects representing the distinctive Hispano heritage of New Mexico. This provides a unique lens on the Society’s legacy of connecting to a community of artists and supporters of Hispano arts in New Mexico and beyond.

The ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE is pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition, FORAY, running from October 3 through November 2, 2025, at Fusion | 708.

Juried by Michael Ottersen

• OPENING RECEPTION: 5:30 - 8 p.m., Fri., Oct. 3, 2025
• EXHIBIT HOURS: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays, Oct. 3 - Nov. 2
• LOCATION:
Fusion | 708
708 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Artists in FORAY:

Marca Dickie
Carolyn Grady
Benita Grunseth
Larry Guy
Ginna Heiden
Nancy JonesFrancis
Nicole Kurland
Karen Macek
Dana Millen
Bill Sabatini
Gail Sacharczuk
Catalina Salinas
Jan Tras