Community Calendar

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.

Exhibition Dates: August 26–October 17
Reception: October 2, 6–8pm

ALBUQUERQUE, NM—Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Particle and the Wave: Oracles and Symbols for Living and Dying, a solo show by Alex Ponca Stock.

Particle and the Wave features eight abstract artworks that explore the conjunction of modern technological and scientific knowledge with the ancient knowledge handed down from our ancestors. Using the traditional beaded broadcloth found in Osage regalia, Alex Ponca Stock considers a broad array of modern and historical references, including color field painting, early Christian heresies, ancient mound-builders, and quantum physics. The result of her experimentation with larger-scale work, this exhibition is a mature showcase of Ponca Stock’s ability to visually dissect the currents of 21st century life.

Ponca Stock’s practice combines intensive research with the slow, meditative labor of beading to create objects with a strong sense of internal order. The composition of her soft textile works are often reminiscent of the aesthetic of technology—motherboards, logic gates, 3D renderings—without ever betraying the beauty and integrity of the medium. In her choice of color, Ponca Stock is highly attuned not only to the symbolic and emotional power of color, but its physiological effect.

Alex Ponca Stock (b. 1986) is a painter and beadworker from the Gray Horse District of the Osage Nation and the third generation in her family to graduate from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited by the Denver Art Museum, the First Americans Museum, and the Osage Nation Museum, among others. The artist currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.

The SaFeRR Hotline is used for suspected ICE sightings in Santa Fe County and City. Dispatchers are available to respond to calls. They are bilingual. Confirmers will respond to sightings and offer on the ground documentation and support to detainees, their families and bystanders. Please help keep the City safe.

105 minutes of awe-inspiring river cinema in celebration of the Caja del Rio Plateau.

For 11 years, the Wild Rivers Film Tour has been celebrating wild rivers and the people and wildlife who cherish them. This grassroots-style film tour was born out of a partnership between American Rivers and Greater Yellowstone Coalition, two non-profit organizations committed to protecting and enhancing ecosystems that depend on clean and free-flowing rivers. This showing of the Wild Rivers Film Tour is in partnership with, and in support of, the Caja del Rio Coalition. Our goal is to share awe-inspiring river stories and engage more people in the stewardship of landscapes like the Caja del Rio.

Happy hour starts at 5pm, films start at 6pm.

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On Thursday nights come join the trio of singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist and actor, Zenobia, as she performs some of her favorite classic Blues songs and originals, while she regales you with snippets of her storied career. Pssst: And you never know which guest performer from Albuquerque’s blues greats will be joining her.

Enjoy our wonderful selection of original handcrafted cocktails and mocktails. They are all crafted by the very talented Beverage Director and Assistant General Manager, Jessica O'Brien.

Babydoll’s House of Jazz & Blues is an intimate refuge, created by Tracey Whitney, for those who savor the art of live music and the seduction of atmosphere. Every element, from sound, light, scent, and texture, is crafted with intention, creating a space that feels both refined and inviting. In the early onset of the evening, the room hums with the warmth of live jazz and blues. We hope you can join us, where the music is the thing.

What makes a city thrive, and why are so many American cities struggling to meet the needs of the people who live there? Housing shortages, rising homelessness, car dependence, and challenges in local government may seem like separate problems, but they are deeply connected.
Join writer and urban policy analyst Ned Resnikoff for a conversation about how decades of policy choices have shaped our cities and what it will take to build a different future. Drawing from his forthcoming book, Build or Die: How America Is Suffocating Its Cities and What to Do About It, Resnikoff will explore how communities can better manage growth by building more homes, investing in transit and walkable neighborhoods, and making local governments more effective and accountable.
What can Santa Fe learn from cities across the country and beyond, and what would it take to become a more affordable, vibrant, and sustainable city for generations to come?

The show is a staged reading with music from the poetry book, Man-Moth & The Gospel of Possibility. The poems are read by two readers in a unique style of “Prespeak, Swap Out, Repeat, and Double Down.” The live reading is accompanied by original music and audio and played on multiple instruments by a single musician.
The three performers are Donald Levering, Gary Barten, and Argos MacCullum. Levering has authored 17 poetry books and garnered national awards. Barten is a painter, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and set designer who co-hosted the Santa Fe’s Poets@HERE Gallery reading series. MacCullum is a book-published poet, actor and director, and artistic director of Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe.
The work premiered in Santa Fe at Teatro Paraguas in May 2026 where the entire run of three performances played to sold out houses.
Man-Moth & The Gospel of Possibility was inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “The Man-Moth.” Her poem, in turn, was sparked by a misprint of the word “Man-Moth” for the word “mammoth” in the New York Times. Several of the poems are introduced by quotes from Bishop’s poem. Like her character, Levering’s Man-Moth is an often unwelcome “other” who roams New York City, riding its subways “facing the wrong way” and scaling skyscrapers as he is pursued. He is ostracized by ordinary humans for his differences from them, and also feels a compelling kinship with moths. He witnesses his human mother’s death from Covid. Like Hamlet, in the crucible of his woes he ponders existential questions.