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Exhibits

Desert ArtLAB

Desert ArtLAB is an interdisciplinary art collaborative, established by museum curator/educator April Bojorquez (Chicana/Rarámuri) and artist/educator Matthew Garcia (Chicano). The collaborative reconceptualizes desert/dryland ecologies not as post-apocalyptic growth of wasteland, […]

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Virgil Ortiz

For nearly two decades, Virgil Ortiz has told the story of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt through his artwork, and simultaneously makes it more relevant and engaging to the next generation […]

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Balance in Action: Audubon from an Artist’s Perspective

While working at the Fine Arts Center this summer as a 2018 Mellon Foundation Artist in Residence, Melanie Yazzie made a selection of prints by John James Audubon that reflect […]

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P.S. I Love You: A Portrait of Miss Elsie Palmer

From 1887-1890, railroad tycoon and founder of Colorado Springs, General William Jackson Palmer’s wife and daughters, Mary Lincoln Mellen ‘Queen’ Palmer and Marjory, Elsie, and Dorothy, were residents of Ightham […]

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Tom Marioni

In 1970, California-based conceptual artist Tom Marioni invited 16 friends to have a drink with him at the Oakland Museum of California, the museum’s curator provided the beer, and a […]

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