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
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
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.
Playwrights of Color Meetup
Brought to you by The Artist Blend, this is a chance for playwrights of color to meet others in a casual space! Marya Errin Jones will guide participants with prompts to write their own short scene. The event will end with a few playwrights (maybe you?) reading what they created. Sign up HERE.
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
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 […]
Moving Stories with National Dance Institute of NM
Enjoy the exciting culmination of a collaboration between the Hiland Company dancers, Hiland Artistic Director Layla Amis, and Urban Verbs founders Hakim Bellamy, Colin Diles, and Carlos Contreras. The performance uses poetry, music, art and dance to reflect on our inner and outer worlds: As we become more deeply ourselves coupled and learn respect […]
Moving Stories with National Dance Institute of NM
Enjoy the exciting culmination of a collaboration between the Hiland Company dancers, Hiland Artistic Director Layla Amis, and Urban Verbs founders Hakim Bellamy, Colin Diles, and Carlos Contreras. The performance uses poetry, music, art and dance to reflect on our inner and outer worlds: As we become more deeply ourselves coupled and learn respect […]
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.
Afro-Centrism and American Kinship: A Visual Exploration
Check out this special Encore Presentation of an artist talk reflecting on the inaugural exhibition “Afro-centrism and American Kinship: A Visual Exploration.” See it HERE. From ASALH: ‘The exhibit “Afro-centrism and American Kinship…” featured six distinctive locally-based artists: John Brown (photography); Julee Dickerson-Thompson (sculpture); Jourdan Hamilton (Anime); Wayson Jones (abstract art); Greg Scott […]