• Afro Brasil: Art and Identities

    Brazil* hosted soccer's World Cup in the summer of 2014, and soon will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. While many are familiar with these events and Brazil's other achievements, they […]

  • MARCO! Celebrating Nuestro Maestro José Marcos Garcia

    Well-known to much of the Albuquerque community simply by how he signed his works, using only the name "MARCO," artist José Marcos Garcia carved political figures, popular heroes, santos, and […]

  • Quinceañera: Our Story, Our Future

    Quinceañera: Our Story, Our Future will explore the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Art Museum's permanent collection and celebrate the Center's fifteenth anniversary. The exhibition presents the breadth of the museum's […]

  • Barelas: A Community Reimagining

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    Organized and installed by NHCC docent Patrick Trujillo and intern Jonathan Natvig, this exhibition presents photographs of the historic Barelas neighborhood, one of the original plazas of Albuquerque, Los Barelas. […]

  • Portraiture Now: Staging the Self / Ponerse en Imagen

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    This traveling art exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center and curated by Taína Caragol, the National Portrait Gallery’s curator of Latino […]

  • El Retrato Nuevomexicano Ahora / New Mexican Portraiture Now

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    Opening alongside its companion exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, “Staging the Self / Ponerse en Imagen”, this exhibition will highlight portraiture by New Mexican artists. Curated by the […]

  • The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    Traveling to the NHCC from the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, this exhibition is inspired by the novel The House on Mango Street by the accomplished Mexican-American author […]

  • The Art of Acquisition: New New Mexican Works at the NHCC

    September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes

    Art Museum hours and prices HERE How do museums acquire their collections? What makes an artwork, or an artist, worthy of collecting?   These are questions museums face every day and the […]

  • Through the Eyes of a Child – Who Am Eye

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–5pm Through the Eyes of a Child – Who Am Eye was spearheaded by Katherine Irish, school counselor and professional artist, Mrs. Loretta Huerta, principal at Reginald Chavez and […]