Saturday, May 11, 3pmJoin guest artist Nicole Dextras from Vancouver for a presentation about her Urban Foragers and Weedrobes series; plus, the Nomadik Harvest Dress featured at 516 ARTS will be animated to demonstrate its transformation from garment to shelter. The dress will display a variety of New Mexico’s indigenous edible plants and a communal dish will be served. See More

 516 ARTS premieres the first in the new series “516 ARTISTS-IN-PERSON” featuring an hour of artist talks, demos and conversations. Join current Flatlanders & Surface Dwellers local artists Jessica Kennedy and Ivan Boyd along with visiting artist Melissa Gwyn for an evening of fruitful exchange about artistic processes and concepts.In conjunction with Flatlanders & Surface Dwellers (on view at 516 ARTS through June 1), each of these artists display a contemporary take on “surface.”…See More

Join 516 ARTS and guest curator Lea Anderson in welcoming visiting San Francisco-based artist Melissa Gwyn to Albuquerque for a unique presentation and talk at CNM's Smith-Brasher Hall. Gwyn will give a presentation on her decades long painterly preoccupation with surface, illusion, rupture and revelation. In paintings that are non-representational and realistic, kitschy and substantial, Gwyn's work rests between the idiosyncratic and the political.This presentation is in conjunction with the…See More

 516 ARTS premieres the first in the new series “516 ARTISTS-IN-PERSON” featuring an hour of artist talks, demos and conversations. Join current Flatlanders & Surface Dwellers local artists Jessica Kennedy and Ivan Boyd along with visiting artist Melissa Gwyn for an evening of fruitful exchange about artistic processes and concepts.In conjunction with Flatlanders & Surface Dwellers (on view at 516 ARTS through June 1), each of these artists display a contemporary take on “surface.”…See More

 In conjunction with its current exhibition Flatlanders & Surface Dwellers, which examines the exotic realm of surface texture in art, 516 ARTS announces Experiments in Cinema v8.53 Pre-Festival Teaser. Please join 516 ARTS and Basement Films for a short program in the gallery, featuring an international selection of 14 films that study surface, “flatness” and the materiality of the cinematic medium. FEATURED FILMMAKERS:Michael Betancourt (USA)Jonathon Franco (Portugal) Marcin Giżycki…See More