Community Calendar

Arrowsoul Art Collective’s mural installation fuses concepts of the beginning, present, and future of Indigenous pictographic arts. Based in the Southwest region, Arrowsoul Art Collective creates graffiti walls and mural paintings inspired by the evolving meanings of “Future Old School” and “Indigenous Freeways.” The artists create new visions of the Southwest landscape through blending letter structures, illustrative architecture, and textured palettes of places of home. Arrowsoul Art Collective’s projects reunite communities along the Rio Grande through creative participation. Located in the Art Through Struggle Gallery, their newest mural will be on display through June 28, 2026.

Free for museum members, or with admission.

JOHN BEECH | Across the Surface
May 29 – June 27, 2026
Opening Reception with the Artist
Friday, May 29, 2026, from 5-7 p.m.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art
“A Conversation with John Beech and David Chickey”
Saturday, May 30, 2026, from 2-4 p.m. at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

They are not just black and white photos. The subject matter is urban: city streets, industrial sites, alleyways, warehouse facades. Within them is the accumulated flotsam and jetsam of human life in a city: dumpsters, random pieces of abandoned furniture, bits construction equipment. But each photo is also ground for the artist's intervention: blobs and washes of paint, ink marks, strips of tape.

We humans take things for granted: a street, a chair, the passage of time. How long since you really saw that alley, that tree? The Photo-Paintings and Monotypes of John Beech do just this. They challenge our preconceptions, providing the jolt, the pause, that invites us to pay closer attention. These works confound our sense of what a photo is, what a painting is, and how we see art and the world. Across the Surface provides a survey of Beech's Photo-Paintings and Monotypes from across the decades and dovetails with the announcement of a new book about this particular body of work forthcoming from Radius Books in spring 2027.

Beech's art brings together expected and unexpected in ways that allow the viewer to see anew and to experience a whole beyond the sum of these disparate parts.

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 Sanctuary Cinema, in collaboration with the City of Albuquerque, and High Desert Playback for a community film screening of HUMMINGBIRDS and WHO I AM NOT on Thursday, June 18, at 5:30 PM. This special screening includes High Desert Playback as the panel. HDP will be playing back the stories from the audience.

HUMMINGBIRDS (FUll SCREENING)
By Estefanía Contreras & Silvia Del Carmen Castaños

Silvia and Beba tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinks. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival and resistance.

Watch Trailer Here.

WHO I AM NOT (20-MINUTE EXERPT ONLY)
By Tünde Skovrán & Skovran Tunde

A taboo-breaking story about two South African intersex people trying to find out what or who determines which gender they should consider themselves to be.

Watch Trailer Here.

PANELISTS: High Desert Playback

SCHEDULE
Thursday, June 18, 2026
5:30 PM: Arrival
6:00 PM: Dinner
6:30 PM: screening
7:45 PM: Panel/performance

Learn more about Sanctuary Cinema in this conversation between Sanctuary Cinema founders, shiloh burton and Luis Peña-Álvarez, and FUSION staff writer, Rudolfo Carrillo, “Shelter from a Storm: Narrative Sovereignty at Sanctuary Cinema.”

CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival returns to Santa Fe June 12–21, 2026 for its 17th edition at El Museo Cultural in the Railyard Arts District. This ten-day festival features 53 works by 71 international artists across interactive installation, VR/AR/XR, robotics, Artist/AI collaborations, kinetic sculpture, multimedia performance, and experimental video. Extending beyond the main exhibition, CURRENTS activates venues across Santa Fe through performances, workshops, screenings, and offsite exhibitions. This year’s symposium, “Emergence of Other: the Numinous, Technology, and Our Future Selves,” brings together artists and scholars to explore art, technology, consciousness, and the evolving idea of what it means to be human.

Join us this June and experience one of the Southwest’s leading festivals for contemporary art and emerging technology.

Join us for a Summer Salon focused on major themes of the Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery exhibition. The evening will begin with a tour of the exhibition, followed by the roundtable discussion on “The Role of Pueblo Pottery & Pottery Collaborations in the 2020s” with speakers from the Pueblo Pottery Collective, the exhibition’s curators.
Free admission. Use IPCC South Entrance. No large bags or large format cameras permitted. Light refreshments served. This program is supported by the First Nations Development Institute. The exhibition is organized by the School for Advanced Research and the Vilcek Foundation and presented by the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Image: Zuni k’yabokya de’ele (water jar), c. 1880. Clay and paint, 9 x 13 in. (22.9 x 33 cm). VF2014.01.02, collection Vilcek Foundation. Photo by Peter Gabriel Studio/Courtesy Vilcek Foundation.

Free weekly trivia at The Block in Rio Rancho, Thursdays at 7pm. No team required, walk-ups welcome. Food and drink available throughout.

Curated by Today in ABQ — Albuquerque's daily calendar of trivia, karaoke, bingo, live music, and open mic at local bars. Full schedule: https://todayinabq.com

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, written by David Nels and Betsy Kehlso, and directed by Cameron Illidge-Welch, is a raucous, heart-filled musical comedy set in the fictional Armadillo Acres, a most exclusive trailer park, in North Florida. There is a new tenant and she is wreaking hurricane-type havoc on this quiet little community. When ‘Pippi’, a stripper on the run, comes between housewife ‘Jeannie’, a Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobe, and her tollbooth-collector husband ‘Norbert’, the storms begin to brew. What follows is a wildly entertaining mix of infidelity, desperation, loyalty, and unexpected compassion. Packed with outrageous humor, big personalities, and a country-rock score, the show embraces camp and chaos while ultimately revealing surprising emotional depth and redemption beneath the trailer-trash glitterAdditional Performance information on Saturday June 13 at 2pm only. Thursday June 4 and 18 at 7.30pm - $10 tix available

The entire museum, including the Agnes Martin Gallery, will be closed for the installation of Unearthing Futures/Desanterrando Futuros. We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment this may cause. Please join us for the Opening Celebration on June 27, 2026.

Image: Ronald Rael, Adobe Oasis, 2025, 3D printed adobe. Desert X 2025, Coachella Valley, CA, March 8–May 11. Photo by Lance Gerber.

The "8th World Aging and Rejuvenation Conference (ARC-2026)," which will take place in the stunning city of Prague, Czech Republic, from June 18–19, 2026, is a great pleasure to extend an invitation to you from Innovinc International. ARC-2026 invites proposals from a range of disciplines and viewpoints and promotes them in order to ensure an active and exciting opportunity to expand the understanding of aging and longevity. Participants can submit original or published research in any of the following fields: science and technology, philosophy and politics, sociology, psychology, and geriatrics.

Delve into the ARC Conference 2026 agenda - Unlock Healthy Longevity: Supplements, a pioneering platform highlighting the role of supplements in fostering a longer and healthier life. We are thrilled to announce the captivating sessions, esteemed speakers, and enriching discussions over the three-day conference. This gathering will provide a unique chance to reconnect with old friends, establish new ones, network, and create cross-disciplinary and national relationships. After attending, participants have fresh perspectives, program ideas, and contacts with senior co-workers who are aware of the potential and difficulties that lie ahead.