Community Calendar

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

AN EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME

The Balloon Museum Foundation is proud to host the Observation Deck Balloon Museum Dining Events during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta October 4-12, 2025.

Offering the best views from above the crowds, delicious dining, VIP amenities, and access to the Balloon Museum and Balloon Fiesta Park, the Observation Deck is the best way to experience Balloon Fiesta.

Monday, Oct. 6 – No Dining Events
Tuesday, Oct. 7 – No Dining Events

“Sentient Structures: The Art of Skye Tafoya + SABA,” on view through November 2, 2025, showcases the work of two artists creating architecturally-inspired expressions in materials that respond to the senses. Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band Cherokee/Santa Clara Pueblo) weaves paper structures and embeds knowledge in them through her printmaking processes. SABA (Diné/Jemez Pueblo) makes paintings and prints that anchor Pueblo architecture as evolving sites of home. This exhibition offers innovative approaches to printmaking, painting, and book arts and blurs the lines between two and three-dimensional mediums.

Free for museum members, or with admission.

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.

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.

Every Sunday May-Oct 10am to 2pm. The Rail Yards Market is focused on building a resilient, sustainable local economy that we all love to work and play in. Through food, art, and music, we hope to bring our community together in an atmosphere of fun, learning, and creativity. Rail Yards Market is a community organization and a certified 501(c)(3)

The Rail Yards Market of Albuquerque operates on Sundays from 10am-2pm during the months of May-October. A non-profit run growers' market, originally established in 2014 by volunteers and neighborhood residents, celebrating all things local and at the heart of New Mexican culture. We are much more than your typical farmer's or grower's market; every Sunday you can peruse 100's of New Mexico's finest food, farm, artisan, and healing vendors, hear live musicians, and come away enriched from our educational and demonstration zones for kids and adults! Every Sunday is a different theme with different activities and vendors you wont want to miss. All located at The Rail Yards in the historic Barelas neighborhood in the heart of our City!

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.

The ALBUQUERQUE ABSTRACT ARTISTS ALLIANCE is pleased to announce their inaugural exhibition, FORAY, running from October 3 through November 2 at FUSION | 708. Presenting works from each member of the Alliance, this exhibit will demonstrate the wide range of abstract aesthetics currently available to the viewing public and is not to be missed! In concert with the Exhibition, a free workshop led by artist Bill Sabatini, FAIA, will take place on October 15th, 9 AM to 12 PM at FUSION.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 3, 2025, at 5:30–8 PM
Gallery Hours: Oct. 3–Nov. 2 on Wednesdays through Sundays from 11 AM–3 PM

After opening, this exhibit will be on view during public FUSION events, by appointment, or during gallery hours on Wednesdays through Sundays from 11 AM–3 PM. To schedule a visit, Email FUSION.