New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Category: Visual Art

  • Artist Blend FREE Maker’s Market

    Artist Blend FREE Maker’s Market

    Get your hands on some art with free activities: paper making, flower arranging, mural painting, screen printing, and more! Free coffee and pastries for guests WITH RSVP. (RSVP for the Maker’s Market here!) All ages are invited, so bring the whole family!

     

    Flower Arranging with Premium Petals 505, Live Mural Painting with Bearface, Paper Making with We Gro Eco, and T-Shirt Screen Printing with T-Shirt Lab.
  • How We Teach the Truth: Vision & Justice Webinar

    How We Teach the Truth: Vision & Justice Webinar

    Take in The Democratic Lens scholar lecture with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Endowed John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her presentation will discuss images, truth, representation, and justice. Learn about Lewis’s Vision & Justice initiative, revealing the foundational role visual culture plays in generating equity and justice. 

    Zoom only. Register HERE.

    Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

  • Mural Club Celebration for El Día del Niño

    Mural Club Celebration for El Día del Niño

    Join the Hayes Middle School Mural Club and Garfield MS to celebrate their new mural on El Día del Niño at the Education Building at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC)!

    Event illustration is the club’s latest mural, about balance and how we work with the dark, negative, or scary things in our lives.

  • 2024 True NM Exhibition

    2024 True NM Exhibition

    The 2024 True New Mexico youth artist cohort – all Black and AAPINH – will exhibit their work at this free exhibition and discuss with attendees, exploring their own True New Mexican identities and narratives through their art.

     

    A collaboration between NMAFC and NMBLC, working to combat New Mexico’s tricultural myth. More information HERE.

  • Diné Smithing Workshop: Expressing Culture Through Art

    Diné Smithing Workshop: Expressing Culture Through Art

    Make a small stamped copper ring and learn about the history of smithing through Indigenous lenses, especially its meaning to the Diné people.

    Materials provided, registration required! RSVP HERE.

  • Artist Blend Crafters Meet-Up

    Artist Blend Crafters Meet-Up

    The Artist Blend is here to help creatives network and get to know each other!

     

    Join local crafters for a meetup at Novel Point Coffee. OFF Center will be there to help out if you don’t bring along your own supplies and tools or want to try something new. Register HERE.

  • Artist Blend Launch

    Artist Blend Launch

    Creatives! Have you ever wondered where to meet other artists and creatives in Albuquerque? The Artist Blend is here with an answer!

    Head on over to Curious Toast Cafe to meet local creatives, work on your own project, and learn about upcoming events. Free coffee and pastries for those who register in advance! (You can do that right HERE.)

     

  • Discussion with Muralist Noé Barnett

    Discussion with Muralist Noé Barnett

    Get to know Albuquerque muralist and spraypaint artist Noé Barnett at Gallery One at City Hall!

     

    Barnett is known for amazing murals around Albuquerque, most notably “Mountain Top” on Tijeras and First streets downtown honoring Black heroes of the civil Rights movement.

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