ARTSLab at the University of New Mexico serves as an umbrella of artistic creativity developed through technology. The beginning of its name stands for Art, Research, Technology and Science. It is open to UNM students and researchers in any f…
Michelle Terrill Heath’s book “Your Wildest Dreams: A Parkinson’s Love Story” is told from the perspectives of the author as wife, mother, friend, perceptive memoirist and long-term caregiver. For 21 years Michelle has been the primary caregi…
A news story about a colorblind student inspired a New Mexico arts collective to create a show viewers can touch, hear and even smell. The New Mexico Arts Imaginative Collective is exhibiting "Doorways to Imaginations: A Multisensory Approach…
Q: I have a euonymus hedge and it needs trimming. Can I trim it now or should I wait until winter/spring? — D.F., Albuquerque
Bookworks hosts two evenings of author events this week. Ramona Emerson will read from and sign copies of her new book “Exposure: A Rita Todacheene Novel” at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30.
It's been 36 years since the Corrales Society of Artists combined with the Corrales Historical Society to form the annual Old Church Fine Arts Show. This year's event is slated for Saturday, Oct. 5, through Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Historic Ol…
The Sámi people of Scandinavia were robbed of their land, forced into boarding schools and forbidden to speak their Indigenous language. Like Native Americans, many turned to art to heal these ancestral wounds.
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Photographer Dennis Chamberlain has organized a book that has a minimum amount of words and a maximum amount of images. The book is titled “Eighteen Years in the Village: A Photographic Tour of Corrales, New Mexico.” Chamberlain has been livi…
The conductor and saxophonist Brett Penshorn came to Albuquerque in 2022 to teach at the University of New Mexico. Today he's found a second job as the conductor of the Albuquerque Concert Band. With nearly 60 years of longevity behind them, …
In these fractious times, Santa Fe Pro Musica has gathered poets, musicians and actors to build community around the works of Walt Whitman. The chamber music group, the Academy for the Love of Learning and Chatter have collaborated to explore…
Opening at Santa Fe's Teatro Paraguas on Thursday, Oct. 3, "In My Father's House" explores the romantic, multicultural love affair between a Jewish graduate student and a Hispanic former gang member.
Photographer Dennis Chamberlain has organized a book that has a minimum amount of words and a maximum amount of images. The book is titled “Eighteen Years in the Village: A Photographic Tour of Corrales, New Mexico.” Chamberlain has been livi…
The conductor and saxophonist Brett Penshorn came to Albuquerque in 2022 to teach at the University of New Mexico. Today he's found a second job as the conductor of the Albuquerque Concert Band. With nearly 60 years of longevity behind them, …
In these fractious times, Santa Fe Pro Musica has gathered poets, musicians and actors to build community around the works of Walt Whitman. The chamber music group, the Academy for the Love of Learning and Chatter have collaborated to explore…
Opening at Santa Fe's Teatro Paraguas on Thursday, Oct. 3, "In My Father's House" explores the romantic, multicultural love affair between a Jewish graduate student and a Hispanic former gang member.
While it might lack the fanfare of its more famous counterpart, the Four Corners Balloon Rally delivers some of the same attractions — only on a smaller scale. The event, which takes place at various locations in Farmington from Friday, Sept.…
In 2019, Albuquerque photographer Allen Morrison was desperately searching for a golden New Mexico field of sunflowers. He found it near Loveland, Colorado, during a family trip. His road trip produced "Before the Storm," one of 360 works of …
It’s a full circle moment for Albuquerque-based santero Vicente Telles. The South Valley native’s work has been shown at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Visual Art Museum in 2011 as part of an emerging artists exhibit.
Toilet paper, tissue and cigarette wrappers. Prison inmates use the items most of us toss to create art. Open at the Museum of International Folk Art, "Between the Lines" aims to humanize the incarcerated through a blend 200 pieces of artwork…
At 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, Ava Dellaira will read from and sign copies of “Exposure: A Novel.” It is billed as a multi-perspective story filled with humanity and empathy.
Q: Earlier this year, we planted two shrubs that we now think are going to outgrow the allotted spaces quickly! One, a Jolly Roger lilac, and then a peace rose. Both have done well this year, but again, they look like they are going to get too big.
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When gallery owner Victoria Addison Rowe traveled to Agnes Pelton's Florida home recently, she imagined an exhibition of visionary women. Famous as a symbolist in the largely male New Mexico-based Transcendental Painting Group, Pelton was kno…
Mark Goodman’s interest in astronomy dates back to a Christmas morning many years ago, when he found a telescope under the tree.
Blackout Theatre, Albuquerque's edgy troupe known for its satiric videos and haunted houses, has elected Caroline Graham as its new artistic director. A theater generalist who has been with Blackout since 2018, Graham came to Albuquerque to a…
Fencing, fighting, torture, giants, monsters and true love will launch the New Mexico Philharmonic's 2024-2025 Rock & Pops season with "The Princess Bride." The musicians will show the 1987 classic in Popejoy Hall, 203 Cornell Drive NE, U…
The North Valley Studio Tour will take place from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, and Sunday, Sept. 22, at various locations around the North Valley.
There's apple picking at Los Luceros Historic Site in their largest event of the year, Harvest Festival. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22, the orchard will be open for visitors to pick apples to take home. This family-friendly event…
LAMY — On a recent Saturday afternoon, Journal photographer Eddie Moore and I were standing behind Nuckolls Brewing at the Lamy Railyard, gazing over the train tracks into the green and brown high desert landscape and eternal blue sky.
When Lucy Finch moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 2021, the Missouri-born artist had never lived around rattlesnakes. She decided to research them in the hopes that it would quell her fears. Instead, she found parallels to her own life that …
Christie Green of Santa Fe is an iconoclast: She does what comparatively few women in our society do. She hunts elk, deer, pronghorn antelope, turkey, grouse, and she prefers hunting solo. Green advises that her book, “Moonlight Elk: One Woma…
Lauren Sánchez said she didn’t think she wrote her debut picture book. She imagined it. The book was just released in separate English and Spanish editions. The English edition is titled “The Fly Who Flew to Space.” The Spanish edition is “La…
Q: There are several cats in my neighborhood that like to use my garden as their litter box. Any suggestions on how to deter them? I don't want to hurt them, just make them go away. — H.A., Albuquerque
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Teenager Gil Wheeler is the likable main protagonist in “The Horse on the Sidewalk,” Baker H. Morrow’s engaging collection of 11 coming-of-age stories. They’re mostly set on the eastern edge of Albuquerque in the late 1950s, meaning Hoffmanto…
For the second consecutive year, Big Jim Farms will be at a new location — or more accurately, two locations — for its fall offerings. After moving to Los Poblanos Open Space fields in 2023, the farm opened on Labor Day weekend at 3521 Rio Gr…
Austin, the son of a desert rat alcoholic, is working on a screenplay to pitch to a producer. Just when the deal looks good, his petty thief brother Lee stumbles back into is life. Opening at Fusion on Thursday, Sept. 12, Sam Shepard's Pulitz…
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