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Artist Talk with Alejandro Macías: A Land That Remembers
February 27, 2026
On January 17, 516 ARTS was 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 offered an opportunity to engage more deeply with the ideas and lived experiences that shape his work on view in The […]
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SPIRIT HOUSE Artist Talk – Chaz John
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 […]
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Artist Talk – Eric Garcia & Threads Colectivo – The Armor We Wear Artist Talk – Eric Garcia & Threads Colectivo
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 […]
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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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American Ledger 1 Live at ABQ Museum 2025 – Soundings
August 21, 2025
516 ARTS & Chatter presented American Ledger No. 1 as 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 of cities, and erasure of land and worldview were mediated through graphic […]
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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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