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 […]
