BROKEN BOXES EVENTS
BROKEN BOXES EXHIBITION
September 7, 2024 – March 2, 2025
BROKEN BOXES:
A DECADE OF ART, ACTION, AND DIALOGUE
Large-scale installation, sculpture, video, and a robust programming line-up celebrate the work and ideas of 23 artists who have contributed to Ginger Dunnill’s Broken Boxes podcast. The exhibition celebrates ten years of the podcast of the same name and amplifies the collective strength of contemporary artists. Broken Boxes is curated by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez and extends beyond the confines of Gallery 1. Chip Thomas’ photographic mural and Raven Chacon’s soundscape and score are on display now and will remain on view through the end of the Broken Boxes exhibition.
Saturday, September 7 1–5 p.m.
OPENING EVENT: BROKEN BOXES: A DECADE OF ART, ACTION, AND DIALOGUE
Delve into artist India Sky Davis’ live music score and movement performance for her film The Life Cycle of Rainbows, inspired by the BaKongo Cosmogram’s influence and permutations within Afro-diasporic music and dance traditions, including underground disco, house, and ballroom culture. Join exhibiting artists in conversation with hosts Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger as they share about community building, solidarity and survival in the arts. Co-curator Josie Lopez will provide opening remarks and introductions.
Ginger Dunnill and Amaryllis R. Flowers, Pocantico Center, Rockefeller Estate, Terrytown, NY, 2023. Photo by India Sky Davis.
Saturday, September 7
7–9 p.m.
CONCERT: MATO WAYUHI
Free Event
Composer for the award-winning FX/Hulu series Reservation Dogs, Oglala Lakota musician, artist and actor Mato Wayuhi will activate the stage performing songs from his acclaimed 2024 album, Stankface Standing Soldier
Mato Wayuhi is an Oglala Lakota artist originally from South Dakota. He works in film/TV both as an actor, producer and musical composer, as well as writing his own music. His most recent album Stankface Standing Soldier is an entirely self-produced record, which Forbes calls a “masterpiece that revolutionizes Indigenous music into a new era.”
Wayuhi, photo by Alfred Bordallo
Sunday, September 8
2–4 p.m.
WORKSHOP:
LGBTQIA+ INVERSIONS OF POWER
Spiritualized martial arts focusing on inversions of power through artful martial theater and somatic intelligence (for all bodies) for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. This program is presented in partnership with exhibiting artist CASSILS and Site Santa Fe. Capacity limited; registration required.
Programs and events for Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue are supported in part by:
Mato
CASSILS. Photograph by Robin Black
BROKEN BOXES EVENTS
Thursday, September 19, 5–8:30 p.m.
THIRD THURSDAY: SOUND PERFORMANCE AND LIVE BROADCAST
Free Event
A site-specific experimental music performance by awardwinning artists and long-term collaborators Raven Chacon and Laura Ortman, both featured in the Broken Boxes exhibition. Sound artist Autumn Chacon will air an unsanctioned broadcast of the performance locally from the museum.
Ortman, official album artwork for SMOKE RINGS
2023.
Thursday, October 17, 5 – 8:30 PM
THIRD THURSDAY:
PLANTING JUSTICE AND PAINTED DESERT
Free Event
Join Kate DeCiccio and Chip Thomas, artists from the Broken Boxes exhibition, in a dialogue around community advocacy, social justice, and long-term actionable care. Stay for a Planting Justice community workshop on plant knowledge and the cyanotype print process, celebrating the interconnection of sustainable gardening and liberation.
BROKEN BOXES EXHIBITIONS
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 - VISITING ARTIST
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.
Laura
SHIMMERS ENDLESS BLUR,
Photo by Frank Schramm.
Raven Chacon performance at the Albuquerque Museum, 2021. Photo by Reece Martinez
Broken Boxes episode images provided by Ginger Dunnill
Chip Thomas, panaceas, promises + problems, Jordan, Jr on horseback, 2024, digital reproduction of original photograph.
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
October 6, 2024 – May 4, 2025
BORDER DOORS / PUERTAS FRONTERIZAS
This bilingual exhibition showcases the power of education to break down borders and build bridges of understanding. Curated by the Albuquerque Museum and Claudio Pérez, Spanish teacher, at Sandia Preparatory School. After meeting immigrants and immigration advocates at the U. S.-Mexico border, Sandia Preparatory School students created mixed-media collages and paintings on doors based on their experiences. Benjamin Bartlett, American Dream, 2019
On view through September 15, 2024 NUCLEAR COMMUNITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST
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.
On view through November 17, 2024 AROUND WE GO: PANORAMAS
IN ALBUQUERQUE
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. Unknown Photographer, Blueher
On view through February 9, 2025
VIVARIUM: EXPLORING INTERSECTIONS OF ART, STORYTELLING, AND RESILIENCE OF THE LIVING WORLD
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
FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
COMMON GROUND: ART IN NEW MEXICO
Common Ground celebrates the diverse creativity of artists living in or influenced by this region.
ONLY IN ALBUQUERQUE
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.
ONLINE PROGRAM
WEDNESDAYS, OCTOBER 9 & 23
11 A.M.–12 P.M.
Collection Spotlight: Women Ceramic Artists
Online on Zoom
Join museum guide Sarah Geiger for an online presentation exploring tradition and innovation in ceramic works from the Museum’s collection. The presentation will highlight the long tradition of ceramic art in the Southwest by Pueblo potters and artists who have revived ancient traditions based on archeological artifacts. Featured artists include Fannie Nampeyo, Beverly Magennis, Edna Leki, Jamie Porter Lara, and Charmae Natseway.
EVENTS AT CASA SAN YSIDRO
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 & 29
10 A.M. – 4 P.M.
Harvest Festival
Free event
Every year, Casa San Ysidro participates with the Village of Corrales in celebrating Harvest Festival. The Village’s largest celebration, it is a weekend full of festivities that rejoices in the spirit of fall harvest. Casa San Ysidro hosts a variety of activities, music, and heritage craft demonstrations from traditional artists across New Mexico. Casa San Ysidro houses a collection of rare artifacts in a historic adobe home and multi-acre setting.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1 – 3 P.M.
Second Saturday:
The Legend of La Llorona
Free event
The folklore of Spanish America is full of exciting accounts of a wandering tormented spirit called La Llorona, the ‘Wailing Woman.’ Historian Ray John de Aragón, has traveled through villages and byways of New Mexico, in search of the origins of this phantom. In his full-length study, The Legend of La Llorona, Aragon details the stories woven together.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
1:30–3 P.M.
Heritage Spinning and Weaving: Weaving
Included Museum Admission, purchase online
This class presented by weavers Myra Chang Thompson and Carla Wackenheim demonstrates winding and warping with table looms using wool yarn and traditional patterns for jerga and colcha textiles. Learn to weave on different types of looms. Special emphasis will be on weaving a simple base fabric, sabanilla, for colcha embroidery.
Detail, Colcha, circa 1930, unidentified maker, wool, synthetic dye, sabanilla, 73 in. x 48 in., Albuquerque Museum Purchase, 1995 General Obligation Bonds
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY: 9:30 A.M. & 1:30 P.M.
SATURDAY: 10:30 A.M., NOON & 1:30 P.M.
Tours of Casa San Ysidro
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.
Edna Leki (1924 Zuni, New Mexico - 2003 Zuni, New Mexico), Fetish Pot, 1979, ceramic, turquoise, serpentine, pipestone, deer antlers, feathers, rawhide, and cornmeal, 8 3/8 x 11 3/4 x 11 7/8 in. , Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant
MEMBER ONLY EVENTS
BECOME A MEMBER!
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Membership Levels
Seniors (65+)
$50
PATRONS’ CIRCLE
MEMORIALS AND TRIBUTES
In Memory of Patricia Cazier Renken
Anne and David Watters
In Memory of Cathleen Kardas Cathleen’s Book Club: Glenda Atkinson, Yvonne Beckley, Patty Brewer, Cindy Buzan, JoAnn Chreist, Judy Chreist, Chris Corson, Jean Ann DeJays, Joy Domina, Redd Eakin, Ellin Hewes, Ann Jarrell, Helen Marquez, Shirley Meredith, Jean Payne, Sam Sherman, and Harriet Smetters
In Memory of Marie Jo Smerechniak
Elena Kayak-Von Ancken and Richard Von Ancken
In Memory of Jinni Thomas Louise Haire
Louise and Walter Rosett
The Skarbeck Family
In Honor of Mikaela Guggino Aleli and Brian Colon
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 6 – 7:30 P.M.
VIP Reception
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 9 A.M. – 5 P.M.
Member Day
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue
OCTOBER 4, 2024
10 A.M. – 4 P.M.
Member Preview
Border Doors / Puertas fronterizas
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Visit our website, mail a check, or call 505-677-8500 to donate to support youth education at Albuquerque Museum.
ONGOING PROGRAMS & EVENTS
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS, AND SUNDAYS, 11 A.M. – 12 P.M.
Old Town
Walking Tours
Explore historic Old Town on foot with an informative guide who will provide insight into the people and places that shaped our early community.
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.
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.
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