Nov 15 Saturday
Join Ranger Lily and Instructional Coordinator Rebekha for a guided tour of the permanent exhibition, "Bosque Redondo…A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival." Participants will also experience a tour outdoors, visiting the site’s flock of Navajo Churro sheep and exploring the exterior grounds at Fort Sumner Historic Site. These tours teach people about the experiences of the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) who were forced to live at Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation in the 1860s, as well as stories of their resilience and hope through time. The tour is included with general admission of $7/adult and free for children 16 and younger and Native/Tribal Affiliations
The accompanying catalogue to the 12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time, curated by Cecilia Alemani, will be published November 2025. Join us for a book launch that celebrates this extraordinary exhibition that marks the triumphant return of the SITE SANTA FE International.
The illustrated full-color, hardcover volume includes contributions from an all-star cast of writers, including an essay from curator Alemani alongside new critical essays from Estevan Rael-Gálvez and Alicia Inez Guzmán. Hear from catalogue contributions: U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, legendary art critic Lucy R. Lippard, actor/filmmaker Jill Momaday, and the venerated poet Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge.
The Pueblo Book Club will be gathering in the IPCC Library to discuss PAINTED: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village: Pueblo Perspectives on the American Southwest, a new publication focused on an exhibit of the same name at the Colby Museum of Art. In addition to a discussion of the book, the IPCC Library will host curators of the project, including Juan Lucero (Isleta Pueblo) for a conversation moderated by librarian Ruth Thomas.
Free event
Nov 16 Sunday
Arrowsoul Art Collective’s mural installation fuses concepts of the beginning, present, and future of Indigenous pictographic arts. Based in the Southwest region, Arrowsoul Art Collective creates graffiti walls and mural paintings inspired by the evolving meanings of “Future Old School” and “Indigenous Freeways.” The artists create new visions of the Southwest landscape through blending letter structures, illustrative architecture, and textured palettes of places of home. Arrowsoul Art Collective’s projects reunite communities along the Rio Grande through creative participation. Located in the Art Through Struggle Gallery, their newest mural will be on display through June 28, 2026.
Free for museum members, or with admission.
Curated by the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute at The University of New Mexico, “Restorying Our HeartPlaces: Contemporary Pueblo Architecture” showcases a near-present history of the architectural sovereignty that emerged after the 1975 Indian Self-Determination Act. This exhibition focuses on the work of Pueblo architects while representing design concepts from regional ancestral sites that continue to influence 20th and 21st century Pueblo architecture. It will be on view in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s South Gallery from March 25 through December 7, 2025
Pursuit of Happiness: Gi Bill in Taos refocuses the story of post-World War II artistic movements by highlighting those artists working, communing, and connecting in Taos from 1945 onward. These artists founded the next great wave of abstraction that took root in the region, bringing their vast creativity and international connections to the community. Highlighting works from Harwood Museum of Art’s permanent collection and sourcing significant loans regionally and nationally, this exhibition tells the story of how Taos contributed to conversations and explorations in the national art scene during the post-World War II period.
The Same Place at the Same Time is a series of three exhibition rotations that trace how art lives within, emerges from, and connects Taos’ creative communities. By gathering a varied array of arts—wood-fired ceramics, volunteer radio, and Pueblo foodways—into the rotating gallery space, the exhibition highlights the many interconnected maker groups within our larger Taos community. The inclusion of visual art, music, and food emphasizes the diversity of creativity that constructs thriving cultures and communities.
The exhibition is process-focused and collectively developed, documenting how these groups operate and co-curated by the groups themselves. It explores the wide-ranging organizational structures of these collectives, in turn allowing us to consider how these frameworks influence art making, relationships, and the rich culture of Taos. It asks how we might further nurture this expansive web of connections, both inside and outside of the gallery space.
Harwood Museum of Art is honored to collaborate with local artists, makers, and cultural leaders who shape and define Taos’s remarkable artistic landscape.
Curated by Kate Miller, Curatorial Assistant, Harwood Museum of Art.
Image Credit: KNCE Studio. Courtesy of True Taos Radio, KNCE 93.5 FM
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