Apr 30 Wednesday
Ekin Balcıoğlu, Max Massey, & Em Kettner present The Mortal Coil, a group exhibition of sgraffito vases and ceramic tile vignettes that tell stories of transformation and creation while touching on traditions like pottery in ancient Greece and quilting in the American South. Em Kettner's series of ceramic tiles inlaid in wood ground the exhibition with the story of a potter at work. Taos-based ceramic duo Ekin Balcıoğlu & Max Massey present a collection of vessels that reframe male-dominated mythologies. Together, these works demonstrate contemporary craft's role in recording history and interpreting mythologies.
Black and White is an exhibition of monochromatic works by Matt Magee pulled from Tamarind Institute, Woolworth Publications, Manneken Press, Obee Editions, and the artist’s studio. Together, these works show the development of Magee’s mark making since 2019. The works in this exhibit lay bare the semantics of Magee’s visual language, which is influenced by location, collaborators, and artistic inspirations. With their grid-like arrays of non-representational forms and pared back palettes, these works trace the development of asemic writing in the artist's practice and ask how visual language might function in a post-literate world.
Accoutrements, Amulets, Adornments is an exhibition and workshop by multi-disciplinary artist R. Melinda Hoffman. Community, collaboration, and storytelling undergird this exhibition inspired by a rediscovery of Hoffman's idea journals and sketchbooks from her stint at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Envisioned as a participatory art residency, this exhibition enjoins visitors to view, experience, and craft sculptural adornments, symbolic amulets, and imaginative accoutrements alongside the artist.
100 Years of Collecting|100 Years of Connecting is on view through December 13, 2025 at the Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum, located at 750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. Admission is free. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. For more information, visit nmheritagearts.org.
The exhibition marks the Spanish Colonial Arts Society's centennial by telling its century-long story of creating and caring for an extraordinary trove of nearly 4,000 objects representing the distinctive Hispano heritage of New Mexico. This provides a unique lens on the Society’s legacy of connecting to a community of artists and supporters of Hispano arts in New Mexico and beyond.
May 01 Thursday
May 02 Friday