Community Calendar

Come to FUSION | The Cell on Wednesdays from 6–8:30 PM for a figure drawing session. Study from a live unclothed model with a classical art approach with no adornment, draping, or garments unless requested by the model.

This is an inclusive and respectful community. They welcome artists of all skill levels and from all backgrounds, creeds, races, genders, and orientations. Discrimination, aggression, disruptive behavior, or bullying of any kind will not be tolerated.

All dry mark-making materials (graphite, charcoal, pastel, etc.) as well as pens and markers are allowed. Watercolors are also permitted but must be accompanied by a drop cloth and materials to clean any spills. Odor-producing solvents, paints, aerosol/spray cans, or mediums are not permitted.

Tables, chairs, and a few easels are available. Participants are welcome to bring portable or desktop easels.

Figure Drawing ABQ is on Wednesdays, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. Sessions are $10 plus a model tip if possible.

This session is on Wednesday, April 29, at 6 PM at FUSION | The Cell.

Interested in learning a new dance? Try Argentine Tango at Juno!
Interested in learning a new dance?Try Argentine Tango at Juno!It is free and a lot of fun. No partner or experience is required.

Must be 21 or accompanied by a legal guardian.

Tango warm-up starts at 6:50 PM, class at 7:00 PM and dance at 8 PM (Traditional and Alternative music, no tandas)

Please support our venue by buying food and drinks!

ALL ARE WELCOME

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In the age-old tradition of American anti-fascist art, literature, performance, and cinema, the Guild brings you the DoReMiAntiFa Symphony, quality revolutionary entertainment at its finest! Illuminated by ACVilla’s videos of murals around the country, Thollem and his infinity machine spontaneously compose an endlessly surprising transcendent symphonic experience. ACVilla has criss-crossed this crazy country for years documenting “murals-with-a-message” that articulate the intersectionality of our respective struggles and the camaraderie of rising up. Thollem's symphony weaves samples from his many collaborative albums with a remarkable array of musicians. Together, the duo’s work expresses a personal/collective vision that rises out of the ashes of this criminal buffoon of an administration/cult. Joy is a revolutionary act!

We are also pleased to have Carlos Santistevan opening the evening with his singular upright bass and electronics set.

In addition, Thollem Eclectric’s DoReMiAntiFa Symphony performance will be a live recording scheduled for release on ESP-Disk’ Nov. 3rd, 2026
(final election day).

All this at the Guild! This promises to be a night unlike any other.

“Civic duty and the Nation’s health, particularly the state of Democracy, take center stage. Thollem’s music, a seamless mix of the blues, jazz, protest music, punk rock, and now pop, has always been animated by this fundamental concern.”
- Iggy Pot, LiveEye TV

“…a relentless zigzag of rhythms, densities, and moods that range from kinetic,
tightly wound flurries to calm, meditative queries.”
Peter Margasak, The Chicago Reader

“An intense and virtuosic keyboardist”
– Time Out, New York

Vista Grande High School has open spaces for 9th to 12th grade students. Want to get caught up or even graduate early? Want to get paid money while also going to school? Want to get ahead with dual enrollment at UNM-Taos? VGHS offers access to all of this and more! Come swing on in to get registered or give us a call: 575-758-5100. VGHS is here to help support all teenagers in Taos County finding the right home for High School!

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.

On the 100th anniversary of Route 66 in 2026, experience “The Old Road”—a mural that at once remembers the first major highway traversing the United States and gives emphasis to its impact on Pueblo communities and New Mexico. Through the eyes of artists Warren Montoya (Pueblos of Santa Ana/Santa Clara), Margarita Paz-Pedro (Pueblo of Laguna/Mexican American), Akilah Martinez (Diné), and Keith Scott (Pueblo of Laguna), this multi-dimensional installation travels through time showing Pueblo people and places along the “Mother Road,” otherwise known as Route 66. Explore the eccentric narrative created by these artists as they look at multiple roads simultaneously, from ancestral times to recent history, to glimpses of the present and future. Already a historic exchange route within Indigenous communities, Route 66 still echoes in the personality and culture of New Mexico byways. Journey through this mural located in the Art Through Struggle Gallery at the end of the IPCC’s permanent exhibition.
Image: Keith Scott, Laguna Pueblo Water Tower, 2023, digital photograph.

Still Friends After All These Years
September 11 – October 10, 2026

Opening Reception for the Artists
Friday, September 11 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Gallery Talk: A Conversation with Charles Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, Laddie John Dill and Rani Singh
Saturday, September 12, 2026, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Somewhere between the halls of Chouinard Art Institute and the industrial warehouses and artist lofts of Los Angeles in the 1960's, three young artists met. Each skilled, hungry, and with a restless energy that helped to propel them headlong onto the world stage as rare artistic talents. Later, in 1987, when Charlotte Jackson curated an exhibition of work by these three artists: Charles Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, and Laddie John Dill - they had already known each other twenty years. Still Friends After All These Years once again brings together works, old and new, from all three luminaries, whose art, long associated with the California Light & Space movement, engages and challenges the perceptual experience of viewers.

Exhibition Runs: September 24 - October 31, 2026
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 10a - 3p

Annual Artist in Residence Exhibition featuring Marie Alarcón
Albuquerque, NM / Harwood Art Center is pleased to present Papi León and Friends by 2026 Artist in Residence, Marie Alarcón. For Papi León and Friends, Artist in Residence Marie Alarcón worked with local artists, through a series of community workshops on the construction of “diasporic deities.”These deities act as placeholders for the diasporic and their lost links to ancestors. The work in this show reflects the process of creating space for these deities in their various forms. Alarcón’s deity, Papi León, is part pirate, part cannibal, and part zombie, an artifact of the three nationalities in Alarcon’s Filipino, Puerto Rican, and Haitian ancestry. Viewers can also watch Alarcón’s Apocalypso, a film made between New Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Featured Artists from the Diasporic Deities Workshop:
Marisol Driovínto, Christina Yovovich, Loki-Anthony Honey and Lena Ilene Weiss.

We invite you to join us for an Exhibition Reception & Artist Talk at Harwood on Saturday, October 17 from 4:30pm - 6:30pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros explores contemporary earthen artworks, establishing a profound dialogue between regional roots and global perspectives. As visitors engage with the exhibition, they embark on a journey through time, examining the intricate relationship between humanity and the elemental material of unfired earth.

Visit Harwood Museum of Art website for an in-depth view of this exhibition.

Image Credit: Ronald Rael, LIMINAL, 2026, 3D printed adobe. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Brad Trone.