Galleries & Museums
105 Art Gallery
Home to innovative, intriguing work by dozens of local artists, not the least of whom being Emily Trovillion, Stacy Hawkinson, and Val Hollingsworth. They also hosted our Christmas Fundraising Spectacular in December 2010.
516 Arts
Suzanne, Rhiannon, Fran and their crew run one hell of a show. A freedom pervades everything in this museum-style gallery fiercely committed to underrepresented voices and difficult questions.
Cellar Door Gifts & Gallery
This aptly named gallery really is an access point down to somewhere else – a realm of low-brow pop surrealism; a stranger, more wonderful place than could be seen from above. Cellar Door feels like the part of Willy Wonka’s factory in which the kids were never allowed. Think House of Leaves, the gallery.
Corrales Bosque Gallery
Nevermind the woodsy strip mall, CBG has been artist owned and operated since 1994. Wind through the gallery for unique jewelry, oil paintings, acrylics, mixed media, watercolors, prints, pastels, singular works in wood. juicy ceramics, sculpture, and evocative photographs.
Factory on 5th
A warehouse converted and cut into studio spaces, and run by one of the sweetest proprietors in the biz. If not the most affordable artists’ studios in the city, then damn close.
Gallery Alchemy
Sarah writes: Gallery Alchemy offers new concepts in art and design, as well as tons of fresh air and sunlight, to fill the small space. If you can afford affordable jewelry, there’s really no excuse.
Harwood Art Center
Literally dozens of ways to activate your creative energy. Take a class; teach a class. See a show: exhibit your work. Play music, or dance. Rent a studio. Join the community garden. Eat lunch at Robin’s Kitchen. Yeah really, there’s food, too.
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Your one-stop portal to the 20 pueblos of New Mexico. Gas station (with tobacco and papers), history, traveling exhibits, work by local artists, a high-end gift shop and wine-your-future-boss-here restaurant all in a huge, recently remodeled (and gorgeous) site.
Mariposa Gallery
Easy to miss in the hubub, Jen Rohrig and Liz Dineen run this flexible, unpretentious sometimes challenging, sometimes adorable Nob Hill sweetheart. Jewelry, sculpture, photography, paintings, widely mixed media, books, and many genres between all make appearances. Delicious opening eats and uncommonly friendly faces behind the counter make it an easy return destination on First Fridays (or any night, really).
Matrix Fine Art/New Grounds Print Workshop
To the left, Matrix is a no-frills gallery with interesting, often edgy work in multiple media.
National Hispanic Cultural Center
A Mecca for high SW/El norte art. The renowned performing arts facilities attract some big acts, from international flamenco megastars to off-Broadway players.
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
Where else in the world can you see bomb shell casings and radioactive materials with Cold War-era kitsch? Albuquerque, of course!