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  • ¡Mira! 20th Anniversary Kick Off Party and Open House!

    2 - 5pm NHCC History and Literary Arts Building, Roy E. Disney Performing Arts Building, and Visual Art Museum Mark your calendars for the first Center-wide event dedicated to celebrating our 20th Anniversary! The event will feature a variety of activities and entertainment, inviting guests to enjoy an “open-house” experience of the campus and its multidisciplinary offerings. Free, all-ages event. Schedule: 2:00 - 5:00 Ongoing drop-in activities in PA, VA, HLA, Torreón (see activity descriptions below); Museum, Library, and Tiendita open 2:00 - 4:00 Carnaval Mask Making (more...)

  • Call for Photographer

    The NHCC Art Museum has received grant funding to support the professional photography and digital image capture of a collection of approximately 300 hand-painted paños (paintings and drawings on handkerchief cloth), a small selection of 3-D objects, letters and correspondence, and archival materials.  Priority will be given to art objects before related archival materials.  In total, the collection consists of approximately 1000 individual objects. Photographer will capture and process digital images in a Master File suitable for the generation of production files and derivative files to support (more...)

  • Tempo y Tiempo: 4 Photographers in New Mexico Opening Reception

    5 -7 pm Free, in-person, public reception at the NHCC Art Museum Per the public health order, masks are required indoors The exhibition Tempo y Tiempo features photographs by four artists working in New Mexico: Frank Blazquez, Bobby Gutierrez, Pico del Hierro-Villa, and Ximena Montez. Collectively, the artists tell stories about what it is to live in New Mexico, illustrating a range of identities, experiences, and moments.

  • Opening Reception: Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond

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    5 pm-7:30 pm Join us for a free public reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Fronteras del Futuro: Art In New Mexico and Beyond! The exhibition explores the intersections of art, science, technologies (both ancient and modern), cosmic-musings, future-oriented visions, and more! Artists: Angel Cabrales April Garcia Augustine Romero Celeste De Luna Cynthia Cook Ehren Kee Natay Enrique Chagoya Enrique Martinez Celaya Eric J. García Esteban Bojorquez Felicia Rice Gilbert “Magu” Luján Guillermo Gómez-Peña Laura Alvaraz Lazarus Nance Letcher Linda Vallejo Marion Martinez mk Máye (more...)

  • The Mountains Wore Down to the Valleys Sound Installation and Exhibit Closing

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    10:00am – 4:00pm The Mountains Wore Down to the Valleys closes on April 23. In the final days of the exhibition, experience 21 musical compositions on vinyl records playing once more in the gallery as they erode and change over time. Visit during NHCC Museum hours, 10am – 4pm, April 21 – 23. The Mountains Wore Down to the Valleys is a collaborative sound and visual installation by New Mexican artists Adri De La Cruz and Marisa Demarco. The multi-phase exhibition begins and ends with a sound (more...)

  • Documentary Film: Paño Arte – Images from the Inside (1996)

    Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm 5:00 pm: Reception 6:00 pm: Tour with Co-Curators of the exhibition Into the Hourglass: Paño Arte from the Rudy Padilla Collection 7:00 pm: Film Screening and Q & A with Director and Producer, Evangeline Griego As part of the Rudy Padilla Paño Project Community Symposium, join us for a screening of the 1996 documentary and Q & A with the Director and Producer, Evangeline E. Griego. Learn more about paños as an art form and hear from the artists who created artworks (more...)

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  • Rudy Padilla Paño Project Community Symposium

    NHCC | Education Building: Grand Hall 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

    11:00 am - 3:00 pm As part of the Rudy Padilla Paño Project Community Symposium, join us for a series of presentations by local organizations and meet artists whose work is featured in the exhibition Into the Hourglass. As presenters are confirmed, more information will be shared here. The full schedule of events is available below. Free Community Event, generously supported by the Ford Foundation & McCune Foundation. For questions, email Rebecca Gomez at Rebecca.gomez@dca.nm.gov 11:00 am - Welcome & Refreshments 11:15 am - Curators’ Presentation on (more...)

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  • Art Museum Reception: Paño Connections – Corazon Knows No Bounds

    Visual Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

    5:00pm - 7:00pm Join us for a free public reception to celebrate the opening of Paño Connections - Corazon Knows No Bounds. The Art Museum at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) is honored to host the exhibition Paño Connections organized by artist and guest curator Eric "Christo" Martinez.  On display in the Community Gallery, which is dedicated to showcasing art by New Mexican artists, this exhibit explores artworks inspired by paños (drawings on handkerchiefs) and other artworks created by incarcerated artists. This is the second iteration of this (more...)

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  • Art Museum Reception: Convergence x Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest

    Visual Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Convergence x Crossroads: Street Art from the Southwest is an exhibition in the Art Museum at the National Hispanic Cultural Center that showcases the vibrancy and ingenuity of the street art scenes in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, California, and Northern Mexico presenting artworks by artists who identify as Chicano/a/x, Latino/a/x, Indigenous, and Native American. The artists whose work is featured in the exhibition use the street as their medium to create graffiti and/or murals.  On the street, their work is widely accessible (more...)

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  • Reception: Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico

    Visual Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States

    5:00 - 7:30 pm Join us for a free public reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D. and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D. This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that feature a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas (more...)

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