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2024
Know Your Rights: 2SLGBTQ+ Activism in New Mexico
516 WORDS: A Mutiny of Morning – Nikesha Breeze Live Reading
Done & Undone: Larry Bob Phillips in conversation with Hills Snyder
Geohaptics – Artist Talk: Jonathan Marquis
Geohaptics – Artist Talk: Athena LaTocha
Taking Action with CVNM: Featuring Poetry from Ryan Dennison and mai c. doan
516 WORDS: Live Poetry Reading with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Sawnie Morris
2023
Fluid Gaze – Artist Talk: Lehuauakea
Fluid Gaze – Artist Talk: Adri De La Cruz
Fluid Gaze – Artist Talk: José Villalobos
516 WORDS: Queer in Color
Shapeshift: Assimilating as Self Preservation
José Villalobos: Deeply Rooted, Cultured and Silenced
Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023 Artist Talk – Hernan Gomez Chavez
ARTISTS’ TALKS: Lightning Rounds ~ Meet the 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now
Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023 Artist Talk – Kirsten Angerbauer
Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023 Artist Talk – Lynnette Haozous
In Context – New Mexico in the Art World
Lynnette Haozous on KUNM’s Womens Focus – Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Lauren Tresp on KUNM’s Womens Focus – Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Brian Fleetwood – Writing For Artists Workshop
From Decimas to Spoken Word
Desierto Mountain Time: Radical Expansion
PUBLIC FORUM: Teaching Between Generations and Cultures
Artists as Knowledge Carriers – Artist Talk Carissa Samaniego
Leslie Moody Castro & Rachelle B. Pablo: On curation collaboration
2022
When the Dogs Stop Barking Curator Talk – Rachelle B. Pablo
When the Dogs Stop Barking – Artist Talk Makaye Lewis
MIGRATORY – Artist Talk Minerva Cuevas
Conversation: Minerva Cuevas & Kerry Doyle
Downtown: Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli Solo Exhibition Artist Talk
Technologies of the Spirit – Artist Talk Josh T Franco
Technologies of the Spirit – Marcus Zúñiga Artist Talk
Technologies of the Spirit – Artist Talk Eric-Paul Riege
Conversation: Leaving O’Keeffe Country
Technologies of the Spirit – Curator Talk Alicia Inez Guzmán
Josh T Franco – Interview with The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Margaret Randall: Artists in My Life Book Launch Conversation
Many Worlds Are Born – Ciboleros & Comancheros: Commerce, Identity and History
Many Worlds Are Born – How Do We Do History?
Desierto Mountain Time – Border Communities: Art Organizing in the Zone
Many Worlds Are Born Artist Talk – Marlena Robbins
Many Worlds Are Born Artist Talk – Joanna Keane Lopez
Curator Talk – Ric Kasini Kadour & Alicia Inez Guzmán
Exploring Black and Indigenous Geographies in New Mexico
Many Worlds Are Born Artist Talk – Jeanna Penn
Many Worlds Are Born Artist Talk – Diego Medina
Many Worlds Are Born Artist Talk – Margarita Paz-Pedro
Counter Mapping Artist Talk – Ana Serrano
Guest Curator Talk – Bryan Konefsky of Basement Films
Val Britton – Counter Mapping Artist Talk
Counter Mapping Artist Talk – Drew Trujillo
Counter Mapping Artist Talk – Friends of The Orphan Signs
Counter Mapping Artist Talk – Mallery Quetawki
Fulcrum Fund – Art Remains Essential
2021
Indigenous Mapping: Jim Enote, Joe Bryan & Laura Harjo
River Lines on the Map: Laura Paskus & Felipe Castelblanco
Desierto Mountain Time: Connecting the Dots: Eduardo Diaz, León De la Rosa Carrillo, Kerry Doyle, Idris Goodwin, & Suzanne Sbarge
Spacetelling: Across Bodies & History: Jamie Robertson, Minoosh Zomorodinia & Cog•nate Collective
Jacob Lawrence & the Haitian Revolution, Josie Lopez PhD
Curator Talk with Arden Sherman on Dust Specks on the Sea
516 WORDS: Mary Oishi, Joan Logghe, Levi Romero, Carmen Tafolla
Jeremie Paul
Sylvia Berté – “Untitled”
Vladimir Cybil Charlier – “Untitled (Guédé Mani)”
Jean-Ulrick Désert ““Still Life with Flowers”
Raphael Barontini – “Eurydice”
Artist Talk: B.Bird
Michelle Lisa Polissaint and Najja Moon on “How to Patch a Leaky Roof”
Where do we stand? Dr. Alicia Inez Guzmán on the history of New Mexico
Neal Ambrose-Smith: The (Tense) Present and Afton Love: Perfect Union Virtual Opening Reception
2020
516 ARTS Profile Video
ARTIST TALKS: Female Mystics, Mythology, and Protofeminism
516 WORDS: Layli Long Soldier, Luci Tapahonso, Edie Tsong, & Elizabeth Jacobson
KUNM Radio – Women’s Focus
KTRC Radio – Brave Space
PANEL DISCUSSION: Women Curate Women
Haley Greenfeather English on ¡Colores! by NMPBS
Feminisms Virtual Opening
Radical Reimaginings Virtual Opening
Synesthesia: Embodied Translations with Tania Candiani and Kerry Doyle
ROUND TABLE: Women in Collage
ARTIST TALK: Latin American Collage with Enrique “Kike” Congrains
Online Talk – Collage Animation: Then and Now
2019
Global Perspectives: Bathsheba Demuth, Joe Cook, Cristina Mormorunni & Subhankar Banerjee with Jimmy Santiago Baca
Poetry and Public Forum: Species in Peril on the Borderlands
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY: Honoring the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Rio Grande
Opening Address and Forum: Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande
Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande: Contemporary Artists Respond
CONVERSATION: Paula Wilson & Mira Burack with Alicia Inez Guzmán
Collectors Collect New Mexico
2018
The Future of Work
Antonio Martorell & David Ungerleider, S.J. in Conversation
Guest Speakers: Curators Lowery Stokes Sims & Ana Elena Mallet
2017
DECADE: 10 Years of 516 ARTS
Botanical Mural Project
Members of 516 ARTS make art happen!
¡COLORES!: Susanna Carlisle & Bruce Hamilton
Pollinator Patterns of Life
¡COLORES!: Porter Swentzell & Daryl Lucero
2016
NMPBS ¡Colores!: Golden Migration at Valle de Oro with Chip Thomas
2015
Behind Brainbow Alley
2014
NMPBS ¡COLORES!: Muralist Aaron Noble & “The Quantum Bridge”