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Laura Ortman Live at 516 ARTS – Soundings
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, […]
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Do’-gah by Greg Staats: Piece Hanging and Recitation – Soundings
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 […]
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Ehren Kee Natay performs Peter Morin’s ‘NDN Love Songs’ – Soundings
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 […]
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Nick Tauro Jr – New Tableau: Experiments in Photography
July 2, 2025
With sic transit gloria mundi, Nick Tauro Jr exhibits a deep, emotional exploration of his relationship with his father.
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