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Art Happenings ✨ “Impermanence” by Toryn “Kai” Ke Art Happenings ✨ “Impermanence” by Toryn “Kai” Kelly 📝 May 11-21, 2026, Opens This Week! Reception: Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:00-8:00 pm 📍John Sommers Gallery + “Traces” Works by Advanced Photo Students 📝 May 11-15, 2026, Opens this Week! Reception: Friday, May 15, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm 📍6th St. Studio @harwoodartcenter 1029 6th St, Albuquerque, NM 87102 + “Seeds of Compromise” MFA Thesis Exhibition by Saul Ramirez @basquache 📝April 11-May 11, 2026, Ends This Week! 📍(AC)2 Gallery @ac2gallery 301 Mountain Rd. NE + “Fatty Acids” A Collaborative Printmaking Exhibition 📝April 30-May 15, 2026, Ends this Week! 📍Tamarind Institute @tamarindinstitute 2500 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 + “The Underground Library” from RAVEL 📝 May 9-14, 2026, Ends this Week! 📍Bachechi Open Space 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114 + “How to Have a Flying Dream” by Nancy Dewhurst @nancydewhurst 📝May 15-July 7, 2026, Opens This Week! Reception: Friday, May 15, 2026, from 5:00 7:00 pm 📍Gallery One's Art Vault First floor of City Hall at 1 Civic Plaza NW
Art Happenings ✨ “How to Rescue Almost Anything” Art Happenings ✨ “How to Rescue Almost Anything” 📝 April 29-May 6, 2026, Ends this Week! 📍6th St. Studio The Harwood Art Center 1029 6th St, Albuquerque, NM 87102 + Collective Material-BFA Capstone Art Exhibition 📝 April 27-May 7, 2026, Ends This Week! 📍John Sommers Gallery + Art Education Student Teaching Celebration @unm_art_education 📝 May 7, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm, This Week! 📍Masley Gallery + Art Decompression Session 📝 Tuesday: May 5, 2025, 11:00-2:00 pm 📍Art Lobby + “Accidental Sync: Everyone's Trying Their Best (The Politics of Performance)” 📝 Wednesday: May 6, 2026, 7:00-9:00 pm 📍ARTSLab @unmartslab 131 Pine St. NE, Albuquerque, NM + Puppet Show and Workshop 📝 Thursday, May 7, 2026, 1:00-4:00 pm 📍Front of Art Lobby + “The Underground Library” from RAVEL 📝 May 9-14, 2026, Opens this Week! Select Performances: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:30-9:00 pm Reception and Performances: Saturday, May 9, 2026, 10:00-1:00 pm 📍Bachechi Open Space 9521 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114 + Shimmer: Vibrant Art/Science of New Mexico Opening LASER Panel 📝 March 28-May 9, 2026, Ends this Week! 📍Sci Art Santa Fe Panel Presenters: Chad Colby, Jess Merritt, Deidre Greenly, Nico Rasmussen, and Jeanette Hartmann + “हवा तुम, घुल जाना, खो जाना, मगर मिल जाना [Oh wind (if you must), dissolve, wander (get lost), but be found (find me)” MFA Thesis Exhibition by Sachika Goel @sachikz 📝May 6-8, 2026, Opens this Week! Performance: Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 2026. 6:15 pm Artist Talk: Friday, May 8, 2026, at 3:00 pm in the conference room 📍Open Space Visitor Center + Impossible Sound: Side B 📝 Thursday, May 9, 2026, 5:00-9:00 pm 📍ni de aquí, ni de allá @nideaquinidealla.artspace 2009 Ridgecrest Dr SE, Albuquerque NM
Faculty Friday, featuring Jessamyn Lovell @filmnot Faculty Friday, featuring Jessamyn Lovell @filmnotdead ✨ Jessamyn Lovell will co-host a virtual town hall, “Better Critiques, Less Burnout,” next Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 1:00 pm MT through Foundations in Art Theory and Education. Open to all, the event explores critique, reflection, and restoration. Lovell is also featured in The Griffin Museum of Photography exhibition “Material Work: Toil & Grace.” Learn more about the event and feature on our website!!
🌱 RAVEL Presents... The Underground Library WORKS 🌱 RAVEL Presents... The Underground Library WORKS BY: Davon E Collins Boden Franklin Elena Finnegan Eve Tallula Gottwald Zhenya Novareign Nick Rogers Ryan Wylde Below the surface of the earth lives a complex community of minerals, fungi, microorganisms, and organic matter, an intelligent system that forms the foundation of life on Earth. In The Underground Library, we approach soil as an archive: an ancient, living record of all that has been, and the generative ground of all that is yet to come. Each layer holds stories of ancestors, decay, transformation, interdependence, and survival. Featuring ceremony, performance, sculpture, visual art, and participatory works, this exhibition explores what it means to engage soil not as material alone, but as collaborator, kin, and guide. 📝Outdoor Exhibition: May 9-14, 2026 Select Performances: Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:30-9:00 pm Reception and Performances: Saturday, May 9, 2026, 10:00-1:00 pm 📍Bachechi Open Space 9521 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Please check this link for event updates details: https://bit.ly/4t79tWO Family friendly, free, and open to the public!! RAVEL is an artist residency for students at The University of New Mexico supporting the practice of Art & Ecology through immersive bioregional field-based programming. During the Spring 2026 Semester, students explored soil, land, and place as an accumulation of diverse commons and an underground reference tool and resource site for interrogating and mobilizing above ground polities, structures, and systems. The Underground Library is a culmination of this semester-long intersection bringing art, ecological research, and creative community engagement together.
Art Happenings ✨ Collective Material-BFA Capstone Art Happenings ✨ Collective Material-BFA Capstone Art Exhibition 📝 April 27-May 7, 2026, Opens This Week! Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm 📍John Sommers Gallery + Pintando puertas: El arte que romee fronteras, Art Exhibition @unm_art_education 📝 April 22-May 2, 2026, Ends this Week! Opening: Saturday, May 2, 2026, 10:00 am 📍Masley Gallery + Art Education Spring 2026 Speaker Series: Dr. Kirin Makker 📝 Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 1:00 pm 📍Masley, Room 201 & Zoom + “How to Rescue Almost Anything” 📝 April 29-May 6, 2026, Opens this Week! Opening Reception: Thursday, April 30, 2026, 6:00-8:00 pm 📍6th St. Studio @harwoodartcenter 1029 6th St, Albuquerque, NM 87102 Work from Amanda Curreri's Arts 503 Grad course. + Source Decay: Digitizing and Remixing Slides in New Mexico Museum Archives with Emma Ressel @emma.ressel 📝 April 30, 2026, 2:00-3:00 pm 📍Zimmerman Library @unmlibraries + “Ambient Intelligence” 📝April 4-30, 2026, Ends this Week! 📍ELAY Santa Fe 2873 All Trades Rd Unit B, Santa Fe, NM 87507 + “Fatty Acids” A Collaborative Printmaking Exhibition 📝April 30-May 15, 2026, Opens this Week! Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2026, 5:00-7:00 pm Artist Talks: 5:30-6:30 pm 📍Tamarind Institute @tamarindinstitute 2500 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 + “Metal Rules” 📝 February 21-May 2, 2026, Ends this Week! 📍INHABIT Galerie @inhabitgalerie_12 4436 Corrales Rd. NM 87048 + 𝙇𝘼𝙉𝘼 𝙎𝘾𝙃𝙊𝙇𝙏𝙕: 𝘾𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙍𝙄𝙁𝙐𝙂𝙀 and 𝙃𝙊𝙊𝙆, 𝙀𝙔𝙀, 𝙈𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙃: Eleanor Aldrich, Matthan Cowart, Poppy DeltaDawn and Higinio Martinez 📝 March 27-May 3, 2026, Ends this Week! 📍smoke the moon @smokethemoon 432 Central Ave, NE, Albuquerque, NM 616 ½ Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Save the Date for Postdoctoral Fellow, Emma Ressel Save the Date for Postdoctoral Fellow, Emma Ressel @emma.ressel ✨ 📝 Thursday, April 30, 2026, 2:00 pm 📍Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room Conducted on a Kodak carousel slide projector, Ressel will discuss her postdoctoral research project, Source Decay: Digitizing and Remixing Slides in New Mexico Museum Archives, which forms the basis of her upcoming exhibition in Albuquerque in September 2026. She will detail her process of scanning undigitized slides at museums across the state of New Mexico, the function of glass lantern and 35mm slides in 19th and 20th century photographic culture and archives, as well as her artistic production making new artworks with the imagery on the slides.
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