Everyone is invited to Opening Weekend events with artists, curators, and performers! | | |
Please join us for the exciting line-up of events for the Opening Weekend of Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue at Albuquerque Museum (September 7, 2024 – March 2, 2025). Curated by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez, the exhibition features large-scale installation, sculpture, video, and a robust programming line-up celebrating the work and ideas of 23 artists who have contributed to Dunnill's Broken Boxes podcast.
The Broken Boxes exhibition amplifies the collective strength of contemporary artists. Each of the featured artists engages their own cultural experience and elevates activism within diverse communities.
ARTISTS:
Tanya Aguiñiga • Natalie Ball • CASSILS • Autumn Chacon • Raven Chacon • India Sky Davis • Jeremy Dennis • Kate DeCiccio • Amaryllis R. Flowers • Sterlin Harjo • Elisa Harkins • Christine Howard Sandoval • Cannupa Hanska Luger • Tsedaye Makonnen • Guadalupe Maravilla • Laura Ortman • Katherine Paul aka Black Belt Eagle Scout • Joseph M. Pierce • SWOON • Chip Thomas • Marie Watt • Saya Woolfalk • Mario Ybarra Jr.
| |
Saturday, September 7, 1:00pm
PERFORMANCE: India Sky
Delve into artist India Sky’s live music score and movement performance based on her film The Life Cycle of Rainbows, a body of work inspired by the BaKongo Cosmogram’s influence and permutations within Afro-diasporic music and dance traditions, including underground disco, house, and ballroom culture.
| |
Saturday, September 7, 1:00pm
CONVERSATION: Artists' Roundtable
Join exhibiting artists Tanya Aguiñiga, Jeremy Dennis, Amaryllis R. Flowers and Guadalupe Maravilla in conversation with Broken Boxes podcast hosts Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger as they share about community building, solidarity and survival in the arts. Co-curator Josie Lopez will provide opening remarks and introductions.
| |
Saturday, September 7, 7:00pm
CONCERT: Mato Wayuhi / The Tewa
| | Composer for the award-winning FX/Hulu series Reservation Dogs, Oglala Lakota musician, artist, and actor Mato Wayuhi will perform songs from his acclaimed 2O24 album, STANKFACE STANDING SOLDIER, a self-produced record which Forbes calls “a masterpiece that revolutionizes Indigenous music into a new era.” Albuquerque's own 3-piece Indigenous Midwest Emo band The Tewa will play an opening set. | |
Sunday, September 8, 2:00pm
WORKSHOP: LGBTQIA+ Inversions of Power
| | |
Members of the LGBTQIA+ community are invited to a workshop of spiritualized martial arts focusing on inversions of power through artful martial theater and somatic intelligence. This is a participatory-movement-oriented workshop welcoming all bodies and all abilities, hosted by Zhenevere Sophia Dao, accompanied by vocalist Willa Roberts.This program is presented in partnership with SITE Santa Fe. Capacity is limited and registration is required.
FEE: $10 / Free for members of Albuquerque Museum & SITE Santa Fe.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Albuquerque Museum members: Please email Kate Lee at klee@sitesantafe.org to reserve your ticket
| | Events are free unless otherwise noted and take place at Albuquerque Museum. Read more | | | | The Broken Boxes exhibition is accompanied by a robust series of programs over six months, featuring world-renowned artists in free performances, talks, workshops, and more. | Download the Broken Boxes Program Guide: | | |
IMAGES:
Top: Cannupa Hanska Luger, Blood Lust, 2022, acrylic on canvas & mixed media. Photo by Tia Foundation, Santa Fe.
Performance: Video still from The Life Cycle of Rainbows, directed by India Sky Davis, 2021. Image features Bambi Phillips, Amani, and India Sky Davis. Image courtesy of India Sky Davis (kneeling).
Artists' Roundtable, left to right: Tanya Aguiñiga, photo by Katie Levine • Jeremy Dennis, photo by Simon Howell • Amaryllis R. Flowers, photo by India Sky Davis • Guadalupe Maravilla, photo by Rowan Renee • Ginger Dunnill, photo by Kate Russell Photography • Cannupa Hanska Luger, photo by Gabe Fermin • Josie Lopez, photo by Sydney Lopez Marks
Concert: Mato Wayuhi, photo by Alfred Bordallo • The Tewa, featuring Jorge Cortez, D.A. (The Tewa), and Joey Croutons
Workshop: CASSILS, photo by Manuel Vason, design by Cathy Davies
| Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue is made possible in part by project grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and WESTAF, with support from The City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum Foundation, and Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at Albuquerque Community Foundation. | | | | |
