Community Calendar

Join us for the Pueblo Pottery Arts Celebration & Gathering Kickoff Event in honor of the IPCC’s Pueblo Pottery Community Project that brings the IPCC Collections and Pueblo Communities together! Tickets are available as a Friday Day Pass and include the Kickoff Events (6:30-9:00pm) and museum admission (9:00am-through events). Taking place in the IPCC Courtyard, the evening begins with a Social Hour at 6:30pm. Then enjoy a Keynote Talk at 7:30pm from Pueblo pottery artists, focused on legacy, community, mentorship, and their journeys in clay. The evening concludes with a Fashion Show at 8:15pm by Sage Mountainflower (Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Diné). This program is supported by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the First Nations Development Institute. Light refreshments will be served. Two-day and three-day passes are also available for the Pueblo Pottery Arts Celebration & Gathering Weekend (July 11-13).

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.

Celebrating 29 years, the Downtown Growers' Market is Albuquerque's longest running farmers' market. Join us at historic Robinson Park in the heart of Albuquerque for the largest selection of local farmers providing fresh produce, eggs, honey, and meats. Browse local goods from Albuquerque's micro-business community including bakeries, packaged foods and beverages, hot prepared foods on site, and hand-made art, crafts and body care products. Every Saturday from April – mid November enjoy live music from a local band starting at 10am, donation-based yoga at 8am and a variety of other community minded programming, informational booths, services and events. The Downtown Growers' Market brings the farm to the city while connecting locals and visitors alike.

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.

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.

Harwood Art Center is pleased to present SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico and Oops, Blurt by Inga Hendrickson. SURFACE is an annual juried exhibition, endowed awards and professional development program presented by Harwood Art Center, to support the creative and professional growth of emerging artists and to expand their visibility and viability in our community. curated through an open call application; as of this year, the program has served 156 exceptionally talented, committed artists, including the 15 we accepted for 2025.

This year’s SURFACE exhibition in Harwood’s Hall Gallery features Benjamin Tobias, Chris Kemler, Christine Sullivan, Desara Boehm, dylan lilla, Geo Evans, Jared Putnam, Latasha Hagan, Linden Eller, Marie-Pier Frigon, Maya Perez, Ocelotl Mora, Olivia Berkey, Roxanne Márquez and Yu Yan.

Gallery Hours are Thursdays - Saturdays from 10am-3pm.

We invite you to join us for an exhibition reception, awards presentation and artist talk 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.

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.

Join us for the Pueblo Pottery Artist Panel Talks Day in honor of the IPCC’s Pueblo Pottery Community Project that brings the IPCC Collections and Pueblo Communities together! Taking place in Chaco Rooms 1 and 2, the presentations by Pueblo pottery artists will focus on their journeys and influences in clay and the ways that they cultivate community and mentorship in their practices through their experiences at home and afar. Tickets are available as a Saturday Day Pass that includes attendance to Session 1 (10:00am-12:00pm) featuring Lorraine Gala Lewis (Laguna/Taos/Hopi), Leah “Povi” Lewis (Laguna/Taos/Zuni/Hopi/Diné), Jonathan Loretto (Cochiti/Jemez); Session 2 (2:00-4:00pm) featuring Sonny Ray Olguin (Isleta), Kathleen Wall (Jemez), Clarence Cruz (Ohkay Owingeh/Tewa); and the museum (9:00am-5:00pm). This program is supported by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the First Nations Development Institute. Light refreshments will be served. Two-day and three-day passes are also available for the Pueblo Pottery Arts Celebration & Gathering Weekend (July 11-13).

The works in this exhibition span critical moments in Ross’ career and have never previously been exhibited.

Charles Ross: Mansions of the Zodiac is an exhibition of Ross’ artwork inspired by sunlight, starlight, time, and planetary motion. Charles Ross emerged in the 1960s with the advent of minimalism and earthworks, and is considered one of the preeminent figures of land art. This exhibition opens as Ross nears the completion of his earth/sky work, Star Axis, a monumental architectonic sculpture, and naked eye observatory located on the eastern plains of New Mexico.

Image Credit: Charles Ross, Point Source / Star Apace: Weave of Ages, 1975/86, mixed media on paper mounted on canvas, created with 428 photographs from the Falkau Star Atlas which covers the entire celestial sphere from pole to pole, the viewpoint is that of the observer at the center of the earth, 106 x 225 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

$10 Admission, $8 Students and Seniors