Events & Workshops

February 2, 2024

Date: 2024-04-06 14:00:00 – 2024-04-06 16:00:00 Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $15, $10, $5, $0 Register here Join us in this guided tour from Geohaptics curator, Daniela Naomi Molnar, as she shares insights and processes behind the work featured in the exhibition. Following the tour, Molnar will be joined by interdisciplinary artist and scholar, Emily Eliza […]

January 24, 2024

Date: 2024-02-22 18:00:00 – 2024-01-22 20:00:00 Register for In-person seats hereRegister for live-stream Acclaimed award-winning poet, Mei-mei Berseenbrugge, reads from her latest publicationu2014a new book of poetry in collaboration with artist Kiki Smith. As the winner of Yaleu2019s 2021 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, the judges’ citation stated “[Berssenbrugge’s] poetry explores the permeable boundaries between […]

January 24, 2024

Date: 2024-02-17 18:00:00 – 2024-02-17 20:00:00 OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, February 17 | 6-8pmu00a0Member preview at 5:pmPERFORMANCE: Mitsu Salmon | 6pm 516 ARTS presents Geohaptics: Sensing Climate, a group exhibition uniting poignant works from artists who enact a somatic, empathic collaboration with the Earth using the senses, heart, and mind. The title of this exhibit combines […]

September 7, 2023

Date: 2023-12-09 18:00:00 – 2023-12-09 20:00:00 RSVP here Come to 516 ARTS to celebrate nine years of grant making from the Fulcrum Fund and a new program catalog release. This is an opportunity for artists to meet each other and for the public to meet awardees, learn about their contemporary practices, and celebrate New Mexico […]

September 7, 2023

Date: 2023-11-04 10:00:00 – 2023-11-04 12:00:00 Free. Register here. TNETu2019s #101: Transgender Cultural Fluency Training is the tried-and-true workhorse of trans education. Dynamically co-presented by Stacy Fatemi (they/them) and Charlie Alexander (they/them), this presentation is one from which even old pros can learn a thing or two. Weu2019ll cover everything you need to know from […]

September 7, 2023

Date: 2023-10-26 18:00:00 – 2023-10-26 19:30:00 Free. Online registrationu00a0In-Person registration 516 ARTS, in partnership with The Syndicate ABQ and UNM African American Student Services, presents a poetry reading spotlighting diverse voices and celebrating the kaleidoscope of the queer experience. Curated by acclaimed poet J. Gourdin, the evening provides a platform for identities to converge and […]

September 7, 2023

Date: 2023-10-21 15:00:00 – 2023-10-21 16:00:00 Free. In-person & livestreamed.u00a0Online RegistrationIn-Person Registration 516 ARTS welcomes guest speakers Alexis Salas , PhD, Endowed Professor of Arts of the Americas, Art History, University of Arkansas; Estevan Rael-Gu00e1lvez, PhD, Executive Director, Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Americans Enslaved project; and Fluid Gaze artist Lehuauakea (mu0101hu016b mixed-Native Hawaiian). […]

September 7, 2023

Date: 2023-10-07 18:30:00 – 2023-10-07 20:30:00 Co-presented by Way OUT West Film Fest at The Guild Cinema. Saturday, October 7th, 2023 Total Running Time u2013 83 minutes Way OUT West Film Fest and 516 ARTS co-present a special evening of short films co-curated by Roberto Appicciafoco and JC Gonzu00e1lez that explore a spectrum of gender […]

September 7, 2023

Date: 2023-09-30 18:00:00 – 2023-09-30 20:00:00 Member Preview 5-6pm (Join atu00a0516arts.org/join) Public Reception 6-8pm 6:30pm: Performance by Josu00e9 Villalobos Live music with DJ Anjo King & cash bar from Brew Lab 101 El Paso based artist Josu00e9 Villalobos will perform Deeply Rooted, Cultured and Silenced, a bilingual performance addressing the silencing amongst queer individuals in […]

June 1, 2023

Date: 2023-07-29 10:00:00 – 2023-07-29 12:00:00 Sign up here 516 ARTS in partnership with Working Classroom presents a hands on art making workshop with exhibition artist Karma Henry. Participants will create layered landscapes using the artists stencil technique over provided or personal images. Open to teens and adults. Materials provided. Fee: Pay what you wish […]

May 12, 2023

Date: 2023-07-13 18:00:00 – 2023-07-14 19:30:00 July 13, 2023 6-7:30pm Register: Onlineu00a0oru00a0In-Person In this panel, leaders in the contemporary art field will discuss trends and issues in contemporary art in New Mexico and beyond. We will ask questions about how New Mexico is both connected and removed from the broader visual art world and how […]

May 8, 2023

Date: 2023-08-24 18:00:00 – 2023-08-25 19:30:00 In-Person Registration *SOLD OUT* Online Registration Join us for rapid-fire artist talks, aka PechaKucha–style, with artists featured inu00a0Southwest Contemporary’su00a012 New Mexico Artists to Know Now on view at 516 ARTS June 3 u2013 September 2, 2023.u00a0The juried contemporary art exhibition features exceptional talent by emerging and established artists across […]