Mundos de Mestizaje
2019-07-13 - 2019-07-14, 2019-07-20 - 2019-07-21, 2019-07-27 - 2019-07-28, 2019-08-03 - 2019-08-04, 2019-08-10 - 2019-08-11, 2019-08-17 - 2019-08-18, 2019-08-31 - 2019-09-01, 2019-09-07 - 2019-09-08 and 7 more dates | NHCC Torreón, 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
12 pm to 5 pm
A Vision of History through Fresco…
Mundos de Mestizaje by Frederico Vigil is a mural housed in the Torreón on the campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. This monumental fresco depicts thousands of years of Hispanic history highlighting diverse cultural connections between people and places from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas. The 4,000 square foot painting is one of the largest frescos in North America.
The digitized imagery of the painting ensures that this culturally significant work can be a sharing and learning experience for students and families anywhere. We invite you to explore the imagery, history and complexities of the Mundos de Mestizaje mural.
Discover on your own by clicking the link HERE.
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Free

Qué Chola Artist Chisme: Creative Conversations
2019-07-19 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
6 pm
Join us for a chat with artists Valerie Bower, Arthur López, and Delilah Montoya! The conversation will be intimate and casual as we chat about the artists’ work and the exhibit. Light refreshments will be served. The museum will be open prior to the event to view the exhibition. Donations are appreciated.
This program is limited to 25 people. Pre-registration is required and the form can be found here.
Confirmation of your registration will be sent via email. Please call Elena at 505-383-4734 or email at elenad.baca@state.nm to cancel.
Learn more about the artists at:
https://valeriejbower.bigcartel.com/
http://www.artlopezart.com/
http://www.delilahmontoya.com/

¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour
2019-08-01 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting, which includes snacks, refreshments, and beer & wine for sale from Pop Fizz. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to come solo and connect with fellow art enthusiasts.
Please pre-register using the link HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare).
This month, work with guest artist Sean Wells who will discuss working in the contemporary style inspired by traditional Spanish Colonial Art forms. She will lead us in a painting workshop using acrylic paints on canvas. Paintings created during this month’s HAH or Vamos will be voluntarily included in an exhibition in the education building.

About Sean Wells:
Sean’s artwork has been featured on internationally distributed beer labels (Cerveza de los Muertos), nationally distributed wine labels (La Catrina Vino) and New Mexico Lottery Scratchers for which she received a national award for top scratcher design. She is an award-winning 5th generation Spanish Colonial artist and juried member of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society in the retablo category, promoting the traditional arts through her television show, New Mexican Santera. Sean received “Best Visual Artist 2016” and “Top 5 Artists” 2017 and 2018 from the readers of Albuquerque the Magazine. Through art, Sean aspires to bring an appreciation for the Hispanic traditions and culture of Northern New Mexico to a broader audience.
Sean’s art has been featured on the following posters:

2015 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2016 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2017 Barelas Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2017 La Cosecha International Dual Language Conference, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Run for the Zoo Poster, Albuquerque, NM
2018 Barelas Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2018 Blue Ball Poster, Frozen Dead Guy Days, Nederland CO
2018 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2018 Gypsy Festival, Madrid, NM
2018 Lincoln County Days, Lincoln County, NM

For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

¡Vamos al Museo!
2019-08-03 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
10:30 am to 12 pm
A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes. A visit to the museum is included in this artist-led workshop. We will meet in the Creative Classroom in the Pete V. Domenici Building.
Please pre-register HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
This month, work with guest artist Sean Wells who will discuss working in the contemporary style inspired by traditional Spanish Colonial Art forms. She will lead us in a painting workshop using acrylic paints on canvas. Paintings created during this month’s HAH or Vamos will be voluntarily included in an exhibition in the education building.

About Sean Wells:
Sean’s artwork has been featured on internationally distributed beer labels (Cerveza de los Muertos), nationally distributed wine labels (La Catrina Vino) and New Mexico Lottery Scratchers for which she received a national award for top scratcher design. She is an award-winning 5th generation Spanish Colonial artist and juried member of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society in the retablo category, promoting the traditional arts through her television show, New Mexican Santera. Sean received “Best Visual Artist 2016” and “Top 5 Artists” 2017 and 2018 from the readers of Albuquerque the Magazine. Through art, Sean aspires to bring an appreciation for the Hispanic traditions and culture of Northern New Mexico to a broader audience.
Sean’s art has been featured on the following posters:

2015 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2016 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2017 Barelas Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2017 La Cosecha International Dual Language Conference, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Run for the Zoo Poster, Albuquerque, NM
2018 Barelas Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2018 Blue Ball Poster, Frozen Dead Guy Days, Nederland CO
2018 Day of the Tread Bike Ride, Albuquerque NM
2018 Gypsy Festival, Madrid, NM
2018 Lincoln County Days, Lincoln County, NM

For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

Qué Chola Farewell Party
2019-08-04 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
2 pm – 5 pm
Join us for a final chance to view the exhibition, Qué Chola! Museum admission will be free, there will be curator tours of the exhibition, food trucks, a fashion show, music, vendors, and more!
Free event
Free museum admission for the first Sunday of the month (recurring)

Mundos de Mestizaje
2019-08-24 - 2019-08-25 | NM

CANCELLED ¡HAH! Happy Arte Hour
2019-09-05 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
This date has been canceled but we hope you will join us at October’s event!
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting, which includes snacks, refreshments, and beer & wine for sale from Pop Fizz. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to come solo and connect with fellow art enthusiasts.
Please pre-register using the link HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

Opening Reception for El Perú: Art in the Contemporary Past
2019-09-06 | NM
Join us on Friday, September 6 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm to celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition, El Perú: Art in the Contemporary Past. The event is free and open to the public.
El Perú: Art in the Contemporary Past, aims to break down stereotypes of what visitors expect to see in a “Peruvian art exhibit.” The exhibit celebrates the work of artists Baldomero Alejos (1924-1976) a photographer from Ayacucho; Ana de Orbegoso, a multimedia artist inspired by the Cuzco School, Pre-Colombian pottery and Peruvian history and identity; Kukuli Velarde, a ceramicist who addresses class racism, and exclusion in her ceramics, and Lorry Salcedo, a photographer whose striking black and white images connect the Peruvian past to its present. Each artist explores the Peruvian pre-colonial and colonial past while addressing race, class and inclusion in the contemporary present. Works include photography, sculpture, ceramics, painting, and multimedia in juxtaposition with examples of their historical antecedents.

El Perú: Art in the Contemporary Past
2019-09-06 - 2021-02-16 | September-2019-Board-Meeting-Minutes
El Perú: Art in the Contemporary Past, aims to break down stereotypes of what visitors expect to see in a “Peruvian art exhibit.” The exhibit celebrates the work of artists Baldomero Alejos (1924-1976) a photographer from Ayacucho; Ana de Orbegoso, a multimedia artist inspired by the Cuzco School, Pre-Colombian pottery and Peruvian history and identity; Kukuli Velarde, a ceramicist who addresses class racism, and exclusion in her ceramics, and Lorry Salcedo, a photographer whose striking black and white images connect the Peruvian past to its present. Each artist explores the Peruvian pre-colonial and colonial past while addressing race, class and inclusion in the contemporary present. Works include photography, sculpture, ceramics, painting, and multimedia in juxtaposition with examples of their historical antecedents.

Call for Entries! Día de los Muertos Community Ofrenda Exhibit 2019
2019-09-13 - 2019-10-09 | NM
Call for Entries! Día de los Muertos Community Ofrenda Exhibit 2019
Each year the National Hispanic Cultural Center works with schools and community organizations to host an exhibit of ofrendas (altars) in celebration of Día de los Muertos
Ofrendas will be placed in the Domenici Education Building and the Roy E. Disney Performing Arts Center. Due to limited availability, the NHCC cannot accommodate all requests for tables. Please plan to provide your own tables, boxes or structure for your altar, and additional desired supplies. The NHCC reserves the right to review all submissions to ensure their alignment with the NHCC mission. If you are unable to create an ofrenda, the NHCC has a community ofrenda that you are welcome to contribute items in remembrance of your loved ones. Keep in mind we are not responsible for any items that are lost or stolen. Please do not bring irreplaceable photographs or items. We encourage photo copies.

Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 (You will be notified by email if your submission is approved)
Installation dates are Tuesday, October 15 – Saturday, October 19, 2019
The exhibit runs October 21 – November 8, 2019 (Deinstallation: Saturday November 9 – 15th)

This year we are working with 516 arts and are asking for a select number of submissions to be dedicated to the “Species in Peril” along the Rio Grande.
We can provide you with a list of plants and animals that are extinct or facing extinction along the Rio Grande. For information on the exhibit at 516 Arts and programming https://www.516arts.org/
https://www.516arts.org/exhibitions/species-in-peril-along-the-rio-grande-contemporary-artists-respond

Questions? Please call or email Elena @ ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us 505-383-4734
To Register, click HERE.

Lecture and Presentation with Marta Turok
2019-09-15 | NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting
2:30 pm
You are invited to a special lecture and presentation!
Speaker: Marta Turok
Title: Huipiles and Mexican Indigenous Textiles: Technique and Evolution
Suggested donation of $5.00 goes to help support programs like this at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum!
Please join the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum in welcoming Marta Turok, renown expert in Mexican textiles to Albuquerque. Marta Turok lives in Mexico and has worked in government agencies and non-governmental organizations such as the National Indigenous Institute, the Department of Popular Cultures, (which she headed from 1986-1988) and FONART, the Federal Fund for Crafts Development. Her work has focused on cultural revival and empowerment, specializing in folk art and crafts with an environmental focus. She has taught at various universities, worked as curator of national and international exhibits, written dozens of books and articles and was the founding president of AMACUP, the Mexican Association of Folk Art and Culture, a pioneer organization in crafts development in Mexico. She is currently she is Curator for the Ruth D. Lechuga Center for Folk Art Studies at the Franz Mayer Museum, in Mexico City. In 2006-2007 she was invited to catalog Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe guarded in her bathroom for 50 years and wrote the main essay for the book Self-portrait in a Velvet Dress, used by the curators of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibit, Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up.

¡Vamos al Museo!
2019-10-05 | NM
10:30 am to 12 pm
A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes. A visit to the museum is included in this artist-led workshop. We will meet in the Creative Classroom in the Pete V. Domenici Building.
Please pre-register HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies

Día de los Muertos: Community Ofrenda Exhibit 2019
2019-10-21 - 2019-11-08 | NM
Each year the National Hispanic Cultural Center works with schools and community organizations to host an exhibit of ofrendas (altars) in celebration of Día de los Muertos.
The ofrendas will be placed throughout the Domenici Education Building and the Roy E. Disney Performing Arts Center. There is also a community ofrenda that you are welcome to contribute items in remembrance of your loved ones. Keep in mind we are not responsible for any items that are lost or stolen. Please do not bring irreplaceable photographs or items. We encourage photo copies.
This year we are working with 516 arts and are asking for a select number of submissions to be dedicated to the “Species in Peril” along the Rio Grande.
We can provide you with a list of plants and animals that are extinct or facing extinction along the Rio Grande. For information on the exhibit at 516 Arts and programming https://www.516arts.org/
https://www.516arts.org/exhibitions/species-in-peril-along-the-rio-grande-contemporary-artists-respond
For more information about the call for entries to create an ofrenda for the exhibit, click HERE.

Día de Los Muertos: Lecture and Book Signing with Ann Murdy
2019-10-27 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Free
You are invited to a special lecture and book signing!
Join artist and author, Ann Murdy, for a discussion of her book, On the Path of Marigolds: Living Traditions of Mexico’s Day of the Dead / En el camino de los cempasúchitles: Tradiciones vivas del Día de Los Muertos de México with Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, Director of the NHCC Art Museum. The discussion will be followed by a book signing with the author.
About the Author
Ann Murdy is an award-winning photographer who has been taking pictures of México’s Day of the Dead and other celebrations since 1991. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, the photo archives of the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, and the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. She has a B.A. from Chapman University in Orange County, and also B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Her images have been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, and the Hubbard Museum of the American West in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, as well as at the California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica, California, Museo Chicano in Phoenix, other venues throughout the West, and in Oaxaca, México. She has built Day of the Dead altars at Self-Help Graphics and Olvera Street, a Mexican marketplace in Los Angeles, The California Heritage Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California, and the Museum of International Folk Art and the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe.
Her pictures have been published in The Santa Fean Magazine, and New Mexico Magazine, and in the books Christmas in Santa Fe, by Susan Weber (Gibbs Smith, 2011), The Santa Fe Fiesta Reinvented: Staking Ethno-Nationalist Claims to a Disappearing Homeland, by Sarah Bronwen Horton (School of Advanced Research Press, 2010), Visions of Santa Fe: Photographers See the City Different, edited by Baron Wolman (Squarebooks, 2005), Southwest Art Defined: An Illustrated Guide, by Margaret Moore Booker (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2016), and Contemporary Chicano and Chicana Art: Artists, Work, Culture, and Education (Bilingual Press, 2002), among others. A native of Los Angeles, she has lived in Santa Fe for more than fifteen years.

Día de los Muertos: Despedida
2019-11-01 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
5 pm – 7 pm
Free Community Event
The National Hispanic Cultural Center will hold its annual Despedida (Farewell) to celebrate Día de los Muertos with music, poetry, and hands-on art at this time-honored community gathering. This is a great event for all ages. Tour the ofrendas around the NHCC campus and enjoy music, poetry, traditional hot chocolate mexicano, pan de muerto, and the sharing of heartfelt memories.
Día de Muertos is an annual traditional holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and many Hispanic communities. Join the NHCC and experienced, knowledgeable local artists to learn about the meaning of this celebration, the traditional arts and crafts associated with the celebration and development of ofrendas that honor families and individuals.
For more information please call 505-246-2261.
Free community event

¡Vamos al Museo!
2019-11-02 | Domenici Education Building, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
¡Vamos al Museo! is cancelled for the month of November but will resume on December 7, 2019.
10:30 am to 12 pm
A great morning of art-making for children of all ages and families of all sizes. A visit to the museum is included in this artist-led workshop. We will meet in the Creative Classroom in the Pete V. Domenici Building.
Please pre-register HERE (so we know how many materials to prepare)
For more information please call or email Elena Baca at 505-246-2261 or ElenaD.Baca@state.nm.us
Free, $5 donations are encouraged to support the artists & purchase supplies
