Community Calendar

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. 

❄️ We're back in 2026 at FUSION Downtown! Three Winter Markets, once a month on Second Saturday: January - March: 10am -1pm.

🥕 Featuring over 50 local growers, artisans, and food vendors, the Winter Market extends the energy of the Robinson Park season into the colder months—bringing fresh produce, handmade goods, and cozy community vibes to downtown all winter long.

👨🏼‍🌾 The DGM’s Winter Market’s format offers a monthly market during January, February, and March. These months were chosen to support what local farmers and makers can provide during the colder season, fulfilling a long-standing community request for a year-round market.

🍯 Shoppers can look forward to an array of winter foods, including fresh local honey, farm-fresh eggs, winter vegetables, hand-crafted goods, and natural wellness products. The Winter Market will provide a cozy indoor/outdoor atmosphere, bringing together the best of Albuquerque’s local growers, artisans, and food vendors. Look for vendors inside and outside the FUSION campus!

🤝 The Downtown Growers' Market’s Winter Market is more than a shopping destination; it’s a celebration of community, resilience, and the enduring connection between local producers and their supporters.

➡️ The Market accepts EBT/SNAP funds {which we'll double for you}, that can be processed at our Information Booth. Also, if you forgot cash we have you covered with our market tokens!

https://www.downtowngrowers.org/winter-market

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.

Join Sonica Sarna for her talk "Crafts Meet Sustainability: Impact Reporting for Indigenous Artisan Communities." Sonica leads Sonica Sarna Design and Project Thrive in India, an award-winning ethical design & production company that engages vulnerable artisan communities, regenerative farm-to-closet and organic textiles, women's empowerment programs & in-house Fair Trade-certified factory production to create high-fashion products in partnership with leading brands worldwide.
The answers to climate change, environmental degradation and socio economic inequity already exist within indigenous artisan communities. For centuries, these communities have worked in harmony with nature, farming with the land, dyeing with plants and minerals, weaving with zero waste, and building regenerative systems where nothing is discarded. Yet, their voices are often missing from global sustainability conversations, while machine-driven supply chains are celebrated as innovative. Today, in the midst of a climate emergency, indigenous wisdom is not just relevant, it is urgent. Sonica's work focuses on helping artisan communities measure and communicate this impact through scientific and social metrics, so that indigenous knowledge is recognized, respected, and advanced.

Living Village Grief is bringing a grief tending ritual to FUSION | The Cell on Saturday, July 11, from 11 AM to 4 PM. Grief was never meant to live in isolation. In coming together, participants remember that healing happens in community, and in the brave act of allowing themselves to be seen. Together, participants will tend what aches, soften what has hardened, and reconnect with what matters most deeply. These gatherings honor grief in all its forms: personal loss, endings and transitions, sorrow for the world, ecological grief, political and cultural heartbreak, ancestral wounds, loss of village and belonging, and the quiet griefs that often go unnamed. Every grief belongs in this space. Participants will weave together group singing and sounding, movement, poetry, guided visualizations, altar work, writing with witnessing, and grief conversations. This ritual will be held over five hours, with a half-hour break woven into the day

Living Village Grief are facilitators of grief tending steeped in the tradition of creating a safe container for the processing of grief in communal space using a variety of modalities to express what has often been compartmentalized in our culture around loss, longing, and exile. Their mission is to facilitate movement towards wholeness in the unfolding of grief together in groups.

This grief tending ritual is facilitated by Luna Cervantes, Deva Khalsa, and Rebecca Leeman.

REGISTRATION: $50 Early Bird (Until July 4) | $60 General Admission

Rodman Primack and Rudy Weissenberg are the co-founders of AD100 design firm AGO Interiors and the Mexico City–based collectible design gallery and incubator AGO Projects. They'll be sharing insights from, Love How You Live: Adventures in Interior Design, their first book dedicated to AGO Interiors’ work and the makers they champion. Their practice centers on storytelling, craftsmanship, and connection - guiding clients to invest in meaningful objects while supporting local creative communities. Primack previously served as executive and creative director of Design Miami and held senior roles at Christie’s and Phillips, working for figures such as Larry Gagosian and Peter Marino while building his own design and textile practice. Weissenberg, who grew up in Guatemala City, worked in Spanish-language media in the United States, producing telenovelas for Univision, Telemundo and Sony before pivoting to design; he holds master’s degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Design and Columbia Business School and serves as co-chair of the Guggenheim’s Latin American Circle of Friends and on Harvard GSD’s Dean’s Leadership Council.

Sam Brakarsh is a cultural strategist, policy advocate, and theatre maker from Zimbabwe. He serves as the Africa Regional Representative for Artists at Risk Connection / PEN America, where he leads the Censorship Reform Program, advancing artistic freedom legislation across 11 countries. Sam chairs the Pan-African Summit on Artistic Freedom (Zanzibar, 2025 & Ethiopia, 2026), and cofounded the Chikukwa Research Trust and Culture Centre in Zimbabwe. His cultural advocacy includes developing a residency network for artists-at-risk with Res Artis International, coordinating the AMANI: Creative Defense Network, advising the NYC Perelman Arts Centre’s Democracy Cycle Awards, serving on the Social Prescribing Cultural Design Team for the New York Federal Reserve, and sitting on the board of Savanna Arts Trust. As a Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner, he has led programs across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America using participatory theatre to influence social networks, law, and policy.

Santa Fe, New Mexico—The International Folk Art Market (IFAM) announces its 22nd Market with an opening night party on July 9, running though July 12, 2026, in the Railyard Park. The City of Santa Fe welcomes 148 artists from 53 countries for an expansive celebration of folk artists from around the globe, acting as cultural ambassadors whose creations provide common ground in an increasingly polarized world.

To experience IFAM is to be immersed in the colors, textures, and symbols of a wide diversity of cultures, from makers of traditional crafts to eclectic visionaries. Coming from communities spanning rural villages, big cities, ancient sites, and remote corners of the planet, master artists bring beauty, ingenuity, and shared humanity to Santa Fe, connecting people and transcending divisions.

For detailed information and a schedule of events, visit folkartmarket.org

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.