view through August 11, 2024
Some of the most acclaimed and recognizable works of American art are presented in five thematic angles – portraiture, history, still life, genre scenes, and landscape. They remain popular subjects for artists today, and by exhibiting objects from different time periods together, they provide striking visual counterpoints that encourage new dialogues about who makes American art, and thus, American history and identity.
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On view through September 15, 2024
This exhibition explores some of the constructed communities of nuclear production and activity in Albuquerque while paying special attention to uranium mining and storage of nuclear waste in the state. The exhibit also highlights the stories of downwinders, or those who were exposed to nuclear fallout, as well as artists’ responses to the nuclear age in New Mexico.
On view through November 17, 2024
From multi-plate images to today’s smartphone panoramas, the panoramic format intrigues viewers with its distortion and large-scale views. Around We Go features Cirkut prints, some encompassing a full 360-degree view, from the Museum’s photo archives.
Common Ground celebrates the diverse creativity of artists living in or influenced by this region.
Our story is told through four galleries: Spirited, Courageous, Resourceful, and Innovative, all connecting to a central gallery entitled Our Land.
Greg Mac Gregor, Mannequin Series, Negative #5-5-55 (Nevada Test Site), 2019, pigment inkjet print from black and white negative, Albuquerque Museum, gift of the artist. Unknown Photographer, Blueher Farms, ca. 1915, reproduction of a gelatin silver print, gift of unknown donor, PA1999.045.001
On view through February 9, 2025 VIVARIUM:
The works of Nathan Budoff, Patrick McGrath Muñiz, Steven J. Yazzie, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Stanley Natchez, Julie Buffalohead, Eloy Torrez, and more explore the delicate balance within nature through a variety of visual languages and cultural lenses. Latin for “place of life,” Vivarium demonstrates how painters create stories that highlight the complex intersections between humans and the non-human living world. Eloy Torrez, Thinking of Dalí, 1991
On view through March 2, 2025 RAVEN CHACON: STORM PATTERN
Storm Pattern (2021) is a textile score and eightchannel hyper-directional sound installation created by Raven Chacon who recently received the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. The work consists of isolated field recordings of flying drones that were captured at the 2016 Standing Rock Oceti Sakowin.
Raven Chacon by Neal Santos
On view through April 6, 2025
Chip Thomas’s large scale photo installations serve as a poignant reminder that art has the power to transcend boundaries, connect with communities, and inspire change. Thomas is Albuquerque Museum’s 2024 visiting artist supported by the Frederick Hammersley Foundation. In this project, he collaborates with Sabrina Manygoats to create an installation on the museum’s lobby walls to show how uranium mining impacts the land and people of New Mexico.
Chip Thomas, panaceas, promises + problems, Jordan, Jr on horseback, 2024, digital reproduction of original photograph.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 10 – 11:30 A.M.
Free event
The second of three lectures presented by Museum Director Andrew Connors, American Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction will focus on the 19th and early 20th century dissemination of iconic works of art through individual engraved prints, lithographs, and printed magazines, as well as plaster and marble sculptures available through catalogue sales, and early United States music published as sheet music. This lecture series is inspired by Making American Artists. Remaining lecture on August 7. Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755-1828), George Washington (The Landsdowne Portrait), 1796, oil on canvas, Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Bequest of William Bingham, 1811.2. Photograph by Adrian Cubillas
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 10-11:30 A.M.
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 5 – 8:30 P.M.
Free event
See Dear Anna, Love Rosa, a two-character play produced by Fusion Theater bringing the painters Anna Klumpke and Rosa Bonheur to life. Klumpke’s artwork is on view in the exhibition, Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776–1976. See the exhibitions, create artwork, and do yoga in the galleries.
Rosa Bonheur and Anna Klumpke at Château De By Around 1898. Collection of Château Rosa Bonheur, By (Seine-Et-Marne).
SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2 – 3 P.M.
Included with Museum admission.
A two-character play produced by Fusion Theater bringing the painters Anna Klumpke and Rosa Bonheur to life. As Anna grapples with her responsibility as executor of Rosa’s estate and artwork she flashes back to the sessions, years earlier, in which she painted Rosa’s portrait. With each line drawn and brush stroke, Anna finds herself falling in love with Rosa. Soon the feelings are mutual and blossom into a deeply personal and creative partnership. As the story unfolds, light is shed on such topics as gender formation, institutional changes in the art world and the perceived transgressive nature of female intimate companionship in a repressive society.
In the visual arts, immigration after World War I brought new aesthetics from Europe, and traditional styles from throughout the rest of the world inspired artists to find the “Americanness” in our own diverse communities. By the mid-20th century, United States artists and composers attracted international attention. That innovation continues to shock and inspire the global creative community.
Edward L. Loper (American, 1916-2011), Sunday Afternoon, 1948, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and Edward Loper Sr. Gift of Dr. George J. Roth, 1970.34. Photograph by Adrian Cubillas
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 5 – 8:30 P.M. THIRD THURSDAY Vivarium
Free event
Chatter musicians take a note from the exhibition, Vivarium: Exploring Intersections of Art, Storytelling, and the Resilience of the Living World as they perform in different spaces throughout the museum. See the exhibitions, make art or do yoga in the galleries.
Free event
Chatter presents four free concerts responding to the exhibitions, Making American Artists and Vivarium.
AUGUST 1, 6 – 7 P.M
Written in recognition of the American bicentennial, John Cage’s Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 are a soundscape of re-ordered fragments of music from composers who lived in America at the time of the Revolution. George Walker is the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and this first quartet contains his famous “Lyric for Strings.” Flutist Jesse Tatum performs Amy Beach’s Theme and Variations.
AUGUST 8, 6 – 7 P.M
Dvorak’s “American” quartet captures Dvorak’s love for the American landscape with its folk and nature-influenced writing. Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Quartet from 1931 influenced the imagination of mid-century American composers and audiences alike. The rest of this program traces a 2009 journey down the Mississippi River by contemporary composer Eve Beglarian.
AUGUST 15, 5 – 8 P.M.
Performed continuously throughout the Third Thursday event, musicians take a note from the Vivarium exhibition and offer themselves and their playing for a sort of scientific observation via enclosure, as they perform in different spaces throughout the Museum. Carola Bauckholt’s Doppelbelichtung (Double Exposure) pits birdsong recordings against a live violinist’s imitation and reflection. Andy Akiho’s Stop Speaking pairs live snare drum with a computergenerated voice that speaks directly to the audience. And Dennis Johnson’s November is a three-hour solo piano work that takes meditative stillness to an extreme.
AUGUST 22, 6 – 7 P.M
Fourteen musicians perform Steve Reich’s Eight Lines: the music is highly focused, rigorous, geometric, and groovy! Pianists Judith Gordon and Luke Gullickson will also perform a sampling of 20th-century American music for two pianos, including Meredith Monk’s Ellis Island, Paul Bowles’ Sonata for Two Pianos, and Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid.
Event details are subject to change. Visit our website for more information. albuquerquemuseum.org
Salsa on Fridays; Jazz and Blues on Saturdays in the Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater. Sponsored by Melloy Nissan.
JULY 12: Team Havana
JULY 13: Men’s Voices
JULY 19: Ivon Ulibarri and Cafe Mocha
JULY 26: Nosotros
JULY 27: Ellington! Featuring Asher Barraras and Jonah Minkus
AUGUST 2: Son Como Son
AUGUST 3: Ladies Sing the Blues
AUGUST 10: Enchantment
Blues & Guitars
Jeff Beck Tribute
SEPTEMBER 6: John Santos Sextet
For more information and tickets, go to NMJAZZ.ORG
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1 – 3 P.M.
SECOND SATURDAY
Free event at Casa San Ysidro
On June 1, 1868, representatives of the United States government and the Navajo Nation signed a treaty that allowed the Diné to return to their ancestral homelands (Dinétah). The Navajo Nation Treaty of 1868 was negotiated by two members of the 1867-68 Indian Peace Commission at Fort Sumner. Today, the treaty is an important symbol of Diné sovereignty and what it means to live as Diné people. Shawn Price, director of the Dine’Tah Navajo Cultural Program, will discuss General William Tecumseh Sherman’s role as a Peace Commissioner, in the Post-Civil war era and the negotiation that led to the treaty.
SATURDAY, JULY 27 1:30 – 3 P.M.
Included with admission, purchase ticket online
Participate in a class at Casa San Ysidro led by weavers Myra Chang Thompson and Carla Wackenheim featuring indigo dye used by Colonial Spanish spinners and weavers to obtain beautiful shades of blue. Both wool and cotton will be dyed by participants.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1 – 3 P.M.
SECOND SATURDAY
Free event at Casa San Ysidro
Time Travel is a world-class immersive and interactive living history program that engages audiences by transporting them back in time to relive historical experiences. Audiences can interact with characters from a historical time period through games, activities, arts, events, and more. This program offers learning processes in local heritage and history and creates opportunities for reflection on contemporary issues.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1:30 – 3 P.M.
Included with admission, purchase ticket online
This month’s class at Casa San Ysidro, featuring weavers Myra Chang Thompson and Carla Wackenheim will explore fiber-made utilitarian and trade products of colonial and territorial New Mexico. Learn to knit easy socks. Participants will also learn the details of creating everyday useful items such as jergas.
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY: 9:30 A.M. & 1:30 P.M.
SATURDAY: 10:30 A.M., NOON & 1:30 P.M.
Schedule a tour to visit this charming historic house museum in Corrales, New Mexico. The collections, as well as the structures, are listed on the State Register of Cultural Properties.
CASA SAN YSIDRO 973 Old Church Road, Corrales, NM 87048 505-898-3915
Included with museum admission
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS, AND SUNDAYS
11 A.M. – 12 P.M.
Explore historic Old Town on foot with an informative guide who will provide insight into the people and places that shaped our early community.
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
11 A.M. – 12 P.M.
Sculpture Garden Tours
Enjoy a pleasant stroll in our sculpture garden with a friendly guide who will share stories about the artists and their works.
TUESDAYS – SUNDAYS, 2 P.M.
Gallery Tours
Guided tours of select gallery exhibitions are offered year around.
SATURDAYS, 1 – 2:30 P.M. Family Art Workshops
Make art with the whole family.
SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1 – 4 P.M.
Sunday Sketch Day: Vivarium
Sketch with fellow members in the gallery. At 3 p.m. take a tour with a museum guide of the exhibition. Show your active membership card to receive sketching materials, while supplies last.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1 – 5 P.M. Member
Appreciation Day
Meet and mingle with fellow Foundation members for light bites, activities for all ages, and a short presentation about the Foundation’s accomplishments this past year.
Joining the Albuquerque Museum Foundation gives you more opportunities to experience the art, history, events, and educational programming offered at the Albuquerque Museum. Your annual membership entitles you to free admission, invitations to exclusive member previews, and discounts. Learn more at albuquerquemuseumfoundation.org
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In memory of Dr. James and Geraldine Cramer Nancy and Paul (Ed) Pierce
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Albuquerque, NM 87194
