Events

Reception: Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:00-7:30 pm

Join the free public reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D. and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D.

This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically active and proceeded to paint murals, produce art, and organize in New Mexico as part of the nascent Chicano civil rights movement that was unfolding nationally. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history.

Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Art History Professor Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D., and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D.

This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically active and proceeded to paint murals, produce art, and organize in New Mexico as part of the nascent Chicano civil rights movement that was unfolding nationally. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history.

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Learn more at nhccnm.org/museum.

The UAM is proud to present Necessary Futures. This exhibition features three New Mexico-based artists—sheri crider, Haley Greenfeather English, and Szu-Han Ho—whose work shares the strategic use of color, irony, joy, and hope as proposals for confronting and subverting the ongoing impacts of mass incarceration, racial capitalism, and colonialism. This exhibition presents a broad spectrum of art-making approaches, public projects, and community-driven collaborations, spotlighting coalitions committed to social change. Collectively, the artists in this exhibition propose art as both a space of reflection and a call to action. Beyond their studio practices, each artist actively engages with community partners, spotlighting organizations working on the frontlines of social justice in the Southwest.

This exhibition, which also presents work by hazel batrezchavez, daniela del mar, Juan Ortiz, and the fronteristxs collective, is part of a series of statewide exhibitions amplifying the voices and narratives of marginalized communities within the movement for criminal justice reform. The project is anchored in Albuquerque and Las Cruces, New Mexico—with additional activations in rural towns that are sites directly impacted by mass incarceration.

Please join us for the opening reception on September 19, 2025 from 5:30-7:30 pm. Visit our website for more information on upcoming programming. Necessary Futures will be on display from September 19, 2025, to March 7, 2026.

How do clothing and adornment transcend utility —becoming symbols of power, identity, and intent? Curated by Olivia Amaya Ortiz, The Armor We Wear weaves together artworks that interlace shared and divergent narratives, cultural memory and expression, defiance and resistance. In an era of state-endorsed censorship and conformity, dress endures as metaphor: a woven act of protest, a celebration of pride, and a resilient form of becoming.

The exhibition features eleven local and regional artists, including Alejandro Macias, Angela Ellsworth, Anthony Hurd, Camryn Growingthunder (Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux), Carrie Wood (Diné), Elizabeth Denneau, Eric J.Garcia – In collaboration with Loose Threads, Papay Solomon, ruben ulisses rodriguez montoya, Shaunté Glover, and Vicente Telles.

You are invited to & all that follows, a group exhibition by the RAVEL: Seeding Radicle Futures Fall 2025 cohort.
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 5:00-8:00 pm

How do we seed radicle futures? This question guides us as we consider the intricate worlds of seeds — their lifeways and relationships to cultural identity and healing ancestral foodways, as well as their stories of resilience, sovereignty, and adaptation during this time of ecological unraveling.
Our collective work emerges from both grief and reverence — a weaving of personal and shared visions that honor seeds as more than life’s beginning. We recognize them as sacred teachers and keepers of memory and possibility, carrying within them blueprints for futures rooted in reciprocity, diversity, and care.

Featuring work by:
luc biscan-white
angel estrada
aleja barbosa
talia
aj calabaza
zhenya novareign
rachel bordeleau
kaitlin bryson

Opening for the new exhibition “Stitches” at Inhabit Galerie in Corrales, NM, co-curated by UNM grad student Luca Berkley. An investigation into embroidery, handkerchiefs, and bandanas, featuring Berkley’s work under their alias Piper Pelligrini.

Opening Reception, Friday: December 12, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm