May 08 Thursday
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.
tetherMay 8 - June 20Gallery One | CABQ City Hall First Floor
Opening Reception May 8th 5-7pm
A group exhibition featuring Eliot Anderberg, claudia hermano, and Emily Wright, whose work in textiles, inkjet-photography, and ceramics honor community, resilience, and joy. Through quilts, soft sculpture, and whimsical ceramics, the show centers queer and trans love and care as powerful acts of resistance.
Gallery One is open Monday-Friday 10am-4pm
May 09 Friday
Art Through Struggle Gallery in We Are of This Place: The Pueblo Story – the next indoor mural project is by NSRGNTS, two Indigenous artists based in Albuquerque. NSRGNTS is Leah Povi Marie Lewis (Laguna, Taos, Zuni Pueblos/Hopi/Diné) and Votan Henriquez (Maya/Nahua). Leah and Votan are becoming well known for their unique anime-inspired style of mural painting in vivid colors. Their artwork for IPCC will focus on Pueblo empowerment of past, present, and future. The mural will place emphasis on Po’pay as a Pueblo role model and a figure of strength. The space will invite storytelling and teaching for all ages, through the mural’s approachable style that will be accessible even for our youngest audiences and community members. The reception is scheduled for the evening of Friday, June 28, from 5-7pm. The exhibition will be on view from June 28, 2024 through June 1, 2025.
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.
The Placitas Studio Tour, traditionally held over Mother’s Day Weekend has now become a three-day event, beginning Friday, May 9 and continuing through Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11, due to the tour’s overwhelming success. Sixty-one studios featuring seventy-eight Placitas artists will open their doors to the public from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. on all three days. The Studio Tour is free, self-guided and self-driven
The Studio Tour offers a once-a-year- behind-the-scenes opportunity to visit artists’ studios where inspiration and creativity merge into amazing art. Here is where you will find fabulous paintings, steel, pottery, glass, fiber, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, wood, photography, mixed media and more making this one. It is no wonder the Placitas Studio Tour is one of the most highly anticipated art events in New Mexico, the only one exclusively focused on artists living or having full-time studios in Placitas.
The public is invited to the free Studio Tour’s Preview Exhibit at the Placitas Community Library which offers a month-long exhibition featuring work by all seventy-eight participating artists. The exhibit will be open to the public from April 15th to May 11th, in the Gracie Lee Community Room and Ross Reading Room at the Library, 453 NM Hwy 165. Visit the library’s website at: https://placitaslibrary.com for hours of operation.
Visit the Tour’s website at www.placitasstudiotour.org to explore this year’s beautiful brochure, visit the artists’ pages and download the 2025 tour map. Brochures are also available at the La Puerta Real Estate, Homestead Village and all studio locations.
Placitas is nestled at the base of the northern Sandia Mountains off I-25 between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. From I-25, take Exit- #242 and turn east on Highway 165 to Placitas. Follow the colorful tour signs to each studio.
Harwood Museum of Art is pleased to announce its exhibition Nicholas Herrera: El Rito Santero, a glimpse into the life and works of master santero Nicholas Herrera. Born and raised in the village of El Rito, New Mexico, Herrera’s art is rooted in the spiritual traditions and artistic practices of his Northern New Mexican mestizo (Spanish, Mexican, Native American) heritage.
As a modern santero, Herrera creates bultos, retablos, and large-scale mixed media works, many of which detail rich and often challenging chapters in his storied life. Through varied mediums, this exhibition surveys Herrera’s personal identity, family history, relationship to place, and political ideology.
Harwood Museum of Art is proud to exhibit the first solo museum exhibition of Nicholas Herrera.
Nicholas Herrera, Altar Dedicado a Mi Hermano, hand carved wood with natural pigments, 129 x 62 x 13.25 in. Image courtesy of Evoke Contemporary.
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
May 10 Saturday