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 may be unaware of the cultural and ethnic complexity of this large South American country. The largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, Brazil is home […]
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 so much more. This exhibition, MARCO! Celebrating the Legacy of Nuestro Maestro José Marcos Garcia, brings together over 100 works by the local artist who […]
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 art collection and reflects the diversity of Hispanic/Chicano/Latino art and culture; it also features a participatory gallery and an opportunity to contribute to a time […]
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. Although the neighborhood predates Albuquerque (founded in 1707), this exhibit covers the period of statehood from 1912 to 2012.
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 NHCC's Visual Arts Program Director Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, this exhibition features paintings, drawings and photographs by eleven New Mexican artists: Lydia Gallegos, Miguel Gandert, Edward […]
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 art and history. Staging the Self features 54 works by six contemporary U.S. Latino artists—David Antonio Cruz, Carlee Fernandez, María Martínez-Cañas, Rachelle Mozman, Karen Miranda […]
April 1, 2016 – September 30, 2016 Tuesday-Friday, 10 am-5 pm 1st Saturday of the Month, 1 pm-5 pm Viewable online here. The exhibition Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail explores Spanish heritage in the United States Southwest via the Old Spanish Trail, a route that linked the colonial outposts of […]
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 Sandra Cisneros. The contemporary works of art on display in the exhibition highlight many of the issues facing adolescents growing up in urban areas. The […]
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 National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) Art Museum is no exception. "The Art of Acquisition: New New Mexican Works at the NHCC" features art works that […]
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 Doug Bellen, music instructor at Reginald Chavez Elementary. They received a grant from Horizons Grant, APS Foundation. Carr Imaging generously donated 50% of the professional […]
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm Avokado Artists & SEEDS: A Collective Voice are partnering with the Education Department at The National Hispanic Cultural Center bringing together, in one space, all of the seed murals they have created with several thousand community members across New Mexico, perhaps you!! Come on out and check out this […]
