Events & Workshops

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. […]

July 11, 2025

Thursday, August 7, 2025 | 7pm | 516 Arts | Free/Sliding Scale Ticketing | RSVP Required New Mexico-based multi-media artist Ehren Kee Natay performs an interpretation of the score to Tahltan 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 […]

July 8, 2025

Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts will see it’s Albuquerque grand opening with a special reception held at 516 ARTS. Join us on July 12 from 6–8pm, and see the unveiling of work from artists Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez, Sebastian De Line, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Maggie Groat, Kite, Germaine Koh, Aaron Leon, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Tanya […]

May 28, 2025

The Physical Image: ‘New Tableau’ Artist Panel Date: May 29, 2025 6-7pm Sign up In a current moment of rapid media consumerism, New Tableau: Experiments in Photography critiques related trends of data collection and user privacy, the rise of idealized influencer culture and creator-driven content, the illusion of self in the digital age and a […]

March 11, 2025

Date: 2025-05-03 11:00:00 – 2025-05-03 14:00:00 Sign up Participants will learn about this experimental process in this hands-on, guided workshop. Participants will provide their digital images to be transfered to a Polaroid print, which will then be used in a series of experimental applications. A brief history of Polaroid experimentation will be discussed, placing this […]

March 10, 2025

Date: 2025-04-12 14:00:00 – 2025-04-12 16:00:00 Sign up In this group exhibition curated by Daniel Ulibarri, New Tableau: Experiments in Photography explores how contemporary artists are returning to the photographic medium’s experimental beginnings within the context of modernity. Join us for a guided tour through 516 ARTS as Ulibarri shares insight on the works and […]

March 10, 2025

Date: 2025-04-04 19:00:00 – 2025-04-04 19:30:00 Presented with The Albuquerque Art Walk Register here. Join us for a special live performance by Ryan Dennison. (Light to be Noise, Noise to be Light) presents a relationship with u201clightu201d as a conduit of memory and dream meaning through cyanotype and art performance. Weaving multi-media works with analog […]

December 19, 2024

Date: 2025-01-17 19:00:00 – 2025-01-17 22:30:00 Get your tickets here Dead Pioneers, emerged as a dynamic extension of his performance art, seamlessly blending music with critical cultural commentary. Rooted in the same themes of identity and resistance that define his visual work, the bandu2019s sound acts as a powerful platform for addressing the complexities of […]

October 21, 2024

Date: 2025-02-01 15:00:00 – 2025-02-01 16:00:00 Location: Albuquerque Rail Yards, 777 1st St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 Tickets Available Here Caesura is a collaborative and graphic music score that examines the sonic history of the railway and to be performed live by Raven Chacon, Guillermo Galindo, and guest percussionist Alan Zimmerman, utilizing railway fragments and […]

October 21, 2024

Date: 2025-01-31 14:00:00 – 2025-01-31 16:00:00 Get Tickets Jorge Rojas, guest curator of The Other Side of the Tracks, will guide audiences through the gallery discussing insights on process, themes, and more in an open discussion. The Other Side of the Tracks features national and regional artists Tania Candiani, Raven Chacon, Gregg Deal, Guillermo Galindo, […]