Community Calendar

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Mexican Radio, a solo exhibition of photographic collage and cultural storytelling by Christina Renee Rodriguez. In the project room, the gallery features entre las nubes (among the clouds), a series of embroideries by hazel batrezchavez. Both Latinx artists explore the intersections of land and identity.

Mexican Radio draws from Christina Renee Rodriguez’s family memories. As a Mexican Indigenous artist who was raised in Kansas, Rodriguez explores the rich layering of her multicultural experience in her work. The artist montages family photographs with Mexican, American, and Indigenous iconography, including glyphs from Aztec codices, flags, globes, license plates, pop culture cowboys, and political figures. Each image is transferred onto Amatl paper. Her use of Amatl—a sacred, pre-Columbian paper made by a seventh-generation artisan in Puebla—honors both material tradition and cultural resilience. The work investigates the intersections of suppressed Indigenous ancestry, Mexican heritage, and the pressure the artist experiences to assimilate to American culture.

Christina Renee Rodriguez has exhibited widely across the United States, including recent exhibitions at Gallery 1516 in Omaha, Reuben Saunders Gallery in Wichita, and the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City. She was named a 2024 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 finalist and has received numerous accolades, including honors from the International Photography Awards and The Art of Photography Show. Rodriguez lives and works in Wichita, Kansas.

Exhibition Dates: July 9–August 9, 2025
Reception: Saturday, July 12, 6–8 pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 11 am–4 pm or by appointment
Location: 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Join us for the Back from the Brink New Mexico Hub Kickoff on Saturday, July 12, at 6:30 pm at Congregation Nahalat Shalom (3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Albuquerque). This free, community-wide event marks the official launch of New Mexico's involvement in the national Back from the Brink campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. Doors open at 6:00 pm. All are welcome.

The evening will feature compelling speakers dedicated to nuclear disarmament and justice, including:
--Eddie Laiche, co-founder and steering committee member of Students for Nuclear Disarmament, a national, non-partisan, student-led organization seeking to develop the grassroots nuclear abolition movement through high school and college students
--Dr. Ira Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Immediate Past President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
--Dr. Myrriah Gomez, UNM professor and author of Nuclear Nuevo Mexico: Colonialism and the Effects of Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos.
--Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and tireless advocate working to secure healthcare coverage and partial restitution for the people of New Mexico who have suffered from the negative health effects of overexposure to radiation since 1945.

Together they will highlight the urgent need for action and the power of communities to create a world free of nuclear threats.

Local playwright Terri Klein says “the idea for A Year in Quirky Town grew out of my realizing that a fair number of people are living in Albuquerque by accident—they were passing through and their car broke down. I thought it would be fun to write a play with that premise, but at first all I could write was one song. I had written some other short pieces that were set in Albuquerque—some comedy sketches, another song, a monologue, a few haiku—so my revised plan was to make a variety show out of that material, organizing it around the seasons of the year. In workshopping the show through Albuquerque Theatre Guild’s Playwrights’ Circle, however, I learned three things: people preferred one continuous story, they wanted to hear more about some of my characters, and they wanted Albuquerque to be more than just the setting. As I re-wrote the show with those suggestions in mind, I combined items with the most compatible characters and the strongest Albuquerque connections. That gave me the impetus to write new material to bridge gaps in the story. Through this process, the full-length play I had been unable to write “from scratch” emerged. ‘Willow Shaker-Spears’, an aspiring actor whose L. A. dream did not come true, is on her way back home to Kansas, but gets stuck in Albuquerque when her car breaks down. What bad luck! Or is it? Join ‘Willow’ on her rollicking Albuquerque adventure and find out”.

The pull to direct this show for Cameron Illidge-Welch “comes from the plot of the story. It is about someone who is not from here but gets here and falls in love with Albuquerque. I moved here in 2016 with my partner because I fell in love with the mountains over a thanksgiving holiday. Albuquerque and its residents are unlike any I have ever been lucky enough to come in contact with! It is another love letter from me to a group that has made me feel like family since day one. Also Terri is one of my favorite people in the entire world. When the opportunity to direct her words came to me I could not say no. The collaboration we have been able to experience during this process has truly deepened my love for her and her incredible talent! He has assembled a fine cast of actors – joining Alli Marie (‘Willow’) are Daniel Anaya, Barbara Braun, Carolyn Hogan, Nathan Illidge-Welch, Mariah Desiree Lujan, Dominick Martos-Ortiz and Deborah Schoenbaum. A fundraiser for The Adobe Theater.

Join STEMarts Lab for a free evening of stargazing, storytelling, and augmented reality under the New Mexico sky. Held at the Harwood Museum of Art, AstroTour blends Indigenous knowledge, space science, and creative coding. Hear celestial stories from a Lakota astrophysicist, a Taos elder, and a NASA ambassador. Explore AR constellation stations created by local students using P5.js, and view the night sky through telescopes with expert guides. A unique sci-art experience for all ages!

STEMarts Lab is pleased to announce the launch of the STEMarts [AR] AstroTour; an evening of sky gazing and storytelling through art, science, and technology. This special event is part of our continued collaboration with the Harwood Museum of Art and UNM-Taos. Sponsored by the Lor Foundation.

More information at https://harwoodmuseum.org/events-calendar/

Image Credit: Generative Art: Claudia Angelina Diaz Grano

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.

“Sage Mountainflower: House of Fashion” showcases the artist’s contemporary clothing designs inspired by visual patterns and textures of her home and her experiences in the fashion world from the Pueblos to Paris. Mountainflower (Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Diné) brings together layered narratives of community and cultural landscapes in her wearable art forms that share stories of the land with audiences. The exhibit will be on view in the Artists Circle Gallery from March 15 through July 13, 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!

Inga Hendrickson received the SURFACE Harwood Art Center Solo Exhibition Award in 2024, presented annually for artistic excellence, originality of vision and dedication to practice. This year, her awarded solo exhibition Oops, Blurt will run concurrently with SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico in Harwood’s Front Gallery.

We invite you to join us for an exhibition reception, awards presentation and artist alk by Inga Hendrickson at Harwood Art Center, Saturday, June 21. The reception is 4:30pm - 6:30pm with awards and artist talks starting at 5:00pm. This event is free and open to all ages.