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2025 Art Exhibits

Creative Canvas of Courage

This exhibition highlights personal expression, bold storytelling, and the beauty of individuality through a variety of artistic styles and mediums. Experience a collection of artwork that reflects the passion, dedication, and unique perspectives of each artist, offering a powerful glimpse into their world.

 The James Santillanes, Patrick Gaiser, and Tenet Tefera met and came together working with their art teacher Tom Brejcha at the North 4th Art Center. In 2013, Tom Brejcha was hired at the North 4th Art Center where he worked with artists with different abilities. He taught painting, drawing, and music. In March of 2020 the North 4th Art Center school closed due to COVID-19 and lack of funding. Despite the closing of the school, Brejcha’s students continue to develop their artwork and maintain their friendships and are coming together for their first collective art exhibit Creative Canvas of Courage

Critters & Cryptids

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2023 Art Exhibits

2022 Art Exhibits

 

Matriarch: A Gallery Show

With this show we looked at how we define the term matriarch and how we see matriarchs in our own personal lives and in our community. We challenged the gender binary, exploring new ideas of what a matriarch is. We were interested in the conversations that were brought up in the pieces by their creators. The term matriarch can refer to anyone and the definition is open, up to interpretation. Matriarchs have been defined as warm, caring, sacred, resilient, and a fighter spanning generations and being present in our everyday lives. The term matriarch is traditionally viewed as a gendered term, conjuring up images of mothers. This show challenged the traditional definition of matriarch.

 

Protect My Sacred Heart: Jacob Gutierrez

Growing up and experiencing life can be quite difficult in many ways, but I knew that a trip to grandma’s would fix anything I was going through. I never felt more at home that when I was sitting at my grandma’s while she made tortillas and beans. I felt safe and protected when I would stare up at the walls seeing all of my family members honored with their own special place on grandma’s wall. I like to think that family and saints were right next to each other because every family member was sacred and held a special place in grandma’s heart.

I love printmaking and making art, but more importantly, I love my family. I believe there is nothing more sacred than family. I used to pray in church and ask God to protect me, but now I turn to my family for protection. The religious iconography allows me to portray my loved ones as they deserve to be seen. The iconography also allows me to explore different perspectives and challenge ones we’ve always known.

CTRL: Fuck That

The intention of this locally produced Art Show explores the idea of “Control” and how we are taking control back. CTRL: Fuck That! When the government has control over us as individuals we experience control as harmful, restricting, and oppositional. When we, as individuals, have control over ourselves, we experience control as beneficial, empowering and liberating.

As BIPOC we have had to struggle for control to simply exist, to keep our way of life, our culture, our language, our identities, our bodies…our freedom. We are here today because Resistance to this control is the legacy passed on to us from our Ancestors. 

Artists will explore these ideas through visual art, live teatro, music, and performance art.
El Chante Casa de Cultura is a communal space dedicated to the arts (visual, literary and performance), culture, familia, and community. 

Son de Allá, Son de Acá

The project aims to bridge art communities, create awareness of new voices, foster communication, increase opportunities, and expand our understanding socially, culturally, and historically between artists across state borders. "This gathering of artists aims to bring awareness to the brown and POC creatives living and working in New Mexico that are often underrepresented and marginalized," said Telles. "There's a void of brown and POC contemporary art, a chasm in New Mexico. This exhibit highlights New Mexico artists in solidarity with makers from across the Southwest in communities that have experienced similar issues. The voices of these creative thinkers need to be shared, amplified, witnessed, and valued, and I feel very fortunate to be in a position to welcome these artists to my hometown."

2021 Art Exhibits

 

Mooxie & BHET

Inscripciones: A celebration of life and survival, Inscripciones, a collaboration of art, music, dancing, and our artistic trade routes from Echo Park to Burque!

Mooxie: Inscripciones Art Opening, a celebration of survival and life featuring artwork by MOOXIE. Over the years, we have met many artists and we have been truly inspired by this comadre from her use of vibrant colors in her paintings, her artistic experimentation, sharing her story as a survivor of breast cancer, to her commitment to creating positive and healthy spaces for women in art, her direct involvement in the breakdancing community via the Zia Queens Crew and their work to create positive spaces for girls, women, and families in the hip hop community in Burque. Come out and celebrate la vida buena and sana!

BHET: Exchanging and sharing stories of displacement and gentrification while building community through art, familia, and cultura from Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Burque featuring artwork by BHET at the Inscripciones art opening tonight from 6pm to 9pm. BHET has become a master with the spray can, his line work is perfection. Over the years teaching and sharing his silk screening skills with youth in the L.A. area. BHET travels from L.A. to New Mexico sharing his love for art and familia, painting murals and sharing his silk screening skills by teaching the Home Girls Unidas and El Chante crew. Building on our traditional trade routes in the Southwest. Familia.

 

Artists in Residence

 
 

Diego Trujillo

Diego Trujillo, a native NuevoMexicano, grew up on the Westside of Albuquerque during the 1980’s. Many of the ideas I use in my art come from memories and time spent on the Westside. The views from Pat Hurley Park, downtown Albuquerque, San Felipe church passing Rio Grande Blvd., our wildlife, religious beliefs, the Virgin de Guadalupe, our state flag and its symbolic meanings. I try to take bits and pieces of everything that makes up Albuquerque and create something you can enjoyable and recognizable. Trujillo is a tattoo artist at Beautiful Damage Tattoo Shop and has been for the past five years. Inquiries about Diego Trujillo’s artwork he can be reached through his instagram account @d15ko3.

 
 
 

Kirbie Platero

Kirbie Platero is a resilient 30 year-old Dine mother, graffiti/visual artist, social justice activist, and poet from northern New Mexico. Kirbie’s impressive reputation within art activism communities has has been established. Kirbie has promoted vital awareness and education around issues regarding reproductive/family justice, substance abuse, sex education, domestic/sexual violence, incarceration, motherhood, and community resiliency. Her dynamic talent encompasses an impressive broad range of artistic mediums, extending from graffiti and street art to painted canvases, mixed media art, Photoshop, watercolor, colored pencil, and ink. Kirbie was one of the first featured artists at the grand opening on El Chante: Casa de Cultura in 2010, and continues to create art as El Chante’s in house artist.

“Story Teller” can be purchased as an 11x17 art print and proceeds will go to El Chante’s outreach programs and the artist

“El Grito de Burque” are for sale as 11x17 art prints, all sales will go to the Historic Neighborhoods Alliance and their work against gentrification, displacement, and community empowerment. 

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