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February 3, 2026

Multidisciplinary artist Chaz John (Mississippi Band Choctaw, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and European) presents a gathered collection of Mississippian iconography, dream narratives, and personal archetypes. His work explores the visual language of the numinous, with forms shaped by ancestral connections to the Choctaw and French alliance at the mouth of the Mississippi, where dreaming in […]

February 3, 2026

In imagining a world free from overfunding and the militarization of ICE, what might that world look like? ⁠ Eric J. Garcia engaged twenty young adult artists from the Albuquerque community, who organized themselves as the Loose Threads Colectivo, to respond collaboratively, with each commentary visually connected by the thread that unfurls from the top-right […]

January 6, 2026

Friday, January 9, 2026 | 5–7 PM | Little Bear Coffee (Uptown) | Free Join us for the opening reception of the 516 BRIDGES Spring 2025 Exhibition, showcasing collaborative student work created throughout the Spring 2025 semester. Developed through partnerships with Amy Biehl High School, Lew Wallace Elementary School, Valley High School, and Alvarado Elementary […]

December 18, 2025

Saturday, January 17, 2026 | 3 pm | 516 Arts | Free/Sliding Scale Ticketing | RSVP Required Image credit: Alejandro Macías, Man Drowning, 2025 516 ARTS is pleased to host an artist talk with Alejandro Macías, whose multidisciplinary practice moves across painting, drawing, and video to examine questions of identity, migration, and belonging. This conversation […]

December 18, 2025

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 | 5:30 pm | 516 Arts | RSVP Recommended We’re excited to feature From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel by Alex Gilvarry for our 516 ARTS Book Club. Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh […]

October 3, 2025

On September 5, 2025, composer and musician Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) presented a newly commissioned performance developed in response to Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts. Known for creating layered and dynamic soundscapes, Ortman draws on violin, voice, and experimental instrumentation. Her performance reflected the exhibition’s guiding questions around scores as calls for decolonization, […]

September 26, 2025

On July 12, 2025, 516 ARTS held an opening reception for “Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts”. To complete the exhibition installation process, we publicly mounted the final piece, Do’-gah by Greg Staats, followed by a poetry recitation by our staff curator Olivia Amaya Ortiz. The guest curator of the exhibition, Candice Hopkins, also provided […]

September 26, 2025

On August 7, 2025, 516 ARTS welcomed New Mexico-based multi-media artist Ehren Kee Natay to perform an interpretation of artist Peter Morin‘s NDN Long Songs as part of Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts.  NDN Love Songs presents seven short videos that can be read as ‘drum portraits.’ The drums featured are from the Royal […]

August 26, 2025

Saturday, September 20, 2025 | 5 pm | 516 Arts | Free Bands of Enchantment returns for its fifth season with it’s own music festival on September 20, 2025! The outdoor music festival will unfold alongside the show’s last filming day, bringing fans up close to the energy and artistry defining the Emmy-winning series. Attendees […]

July 11, 2025

Saturday, Sep 20, 2025 | 11 am | 516 Arts | Free/Sliding Scale Ticketing | RSVP Required Step inside Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts with 516 Arts Curator, Olivia Amaya Ortiz, as your guide. This in-depth walkthrough offers insight into the layered themes of sound, language, and identity that shape the exhibition. Explore how […]

July 11, 2025

Thursday, August 21, 2025 | 6 pm | Albuquerque Museum | Free 516 ARTS & Chatter present American Ledger No. 1 is a narrative score for performance, telling the creation story of the founding of the United States of America. In chronological descending order, moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building […]

July 11, 2025

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | 5:30 pm | 516 Arts | Free/Sliding Scale Ticketing | RSVP Required Join us for our new monthly 516 Book Club! Explore literature that challenges, inspires, and connects to the themes of our current exhibition—including social justice, cultural identity, and artistic resistance, with a focus on banned or challenged books. […]