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The line-up for Alcove 12.2 features Robert M. Ellis, Steve Fitch, Harmony Hammond, holographic works by August Muth and new paintings by Terri Roland.

It's About Time pays tribute to New Mexico's centennial celebration of statehood.  Local music favorite Atomic Grass plays bluegrass in the patio.  Refreshments served by the Women's Board of the Museum of New Mexico.

Join Joe Traugott, curator of It's About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico, as he shares colorful insights and anecdotes about the development of the exhibition.

Artists Robert M. Ellis, Steve Fitch, August Muth and Terri Roland share the spotlight to discuss their work, life, the Alcove 12.0 project, or whatever is on their minds. 

Make  pinch and coil pots in an art activity for the whole family, facilitated by art instructor Roni Rohr.Watch  flint knapper Bruce Huckell demonstrate how stone tools are made.Explore  Its About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico with self-guided family activity kits. Free  10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Explore the traits that made our region so irresistible to eminent painters, photographers, sculptors and other talents.  With Andrew Connors, Curator of Art at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, and Sharyn Udall, art historian and author of Carr, O'Keefee, Kahlo: Places of Their Own.Moderated by John F. Andrews of the New Mexico Humanities […]

Tour the Museum's exhibitions with some of New Mexico's most interesting people.Free with Museum admission.Each program is about one hour long, including time for lively conversation. July 2    David Ondrik, photographerJuly 9    Edward Ranney, photographerJuly 16    Bruce Bernstein, Executive Director, Southwestern Association for Indian ArtsJuly 23    Andrew Connors, Curator of Art, Albuquerque Museum of Art and […]

Dance to the country-swing music of Judge Bob and the Hung Jury.  5:30 to 7:30 p.m.  In the patio.  Free.

The discussion will explore “PowerPlay,” Chicago’s relatively unknown but ground-breaking work from the mid-1980’s.  The series features all male subjects in a variety of media and examines male behavior as a social construct.   Dr. Jonathan D. Katz, a leading proponent of Queer Theory, director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY Buffalo and […]

Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, independent curator and specialist in the decorative arts, will share her findings about her survey of the Museum's 1917 furniture and architecture.  Her emphasis will be on the building's history and the development of what has come to be known as the Santa Fe Style. Her talk will begin promptly at 12:15 in St. […]

This exhibtion continues the Alcove Shows 12.0 tradition of exhibiting divergent artists making challenging contemporary artwork in New Mexico right now.  Over all, forty-five artists working in all media will be on view until the cycle of exhibtions ends April, 2013.The 12.4 roster is: Paula Castillo, Nancy Judd, Nancy Sutor, Lucrecia Troncoso, and Will Wilson.Opens 5:00 to […]