Center for Contemporary Arts and Theater Grottesco team up to produce Eventua: a series of cutting-edge performances. Launching in March 2013, Eventua is an 8-week program featuring local and national artists at the vanguard of event-based contemporary art. As an annual collaboration, Eventua promises to become one of the most diverse and interesting performance programs in the Southwest. Invited groups include: Lisa Fay/Jeff Glassman Duo, Sandglass Puppet Theater, Faustwork Mask Theater, Laura Goldhamer, Cole Bee Wilson, Cheryl, and others.

Muñoz Waxman Front Gallery
March 9 – April 14, 2013

Collaborating with an array of musicians, Albuquerque-based artist Billy Joe Miller presents the second installment of a larger project that investigates the four seasons through sound and art. For Miller, spring is a time of urgent newness, raw beginnings, cycles, movement and wind. Through mixed media, a live concert and a special edition CD, Revival explores the many layers of vernal temperament. Musical collaborations with: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Twig Palace, Jordan O'Jordan, Danny Paul Grody, Pillars and Tongues, Hedia and others.

CCA spector ripps project space
March 15 - April 21, 2013

Miguel Arzabe's work is an intimate exploration of deep influences arising from his Bolivian heritage, his ancestors, and their legends. El otoño mío es tu primavera (my autumn is your spring) combines new video and painting in an installation that references the spatial distance, the subjective understanding, and the unrelenting passage of time that exists between two homes in different hemispheres.

CCA Muñoz Waxman Main Gallery
Performances: Fridays & Saturdays, February 8, 9, 15, 16 at 7:30pm
Sundays, February 10, 17 at 2pm

The Warriors: A Love Story is an evening-length multimedia performance by ARCOS Dance exploring humanity's potential for acts of profound destruction and creation. The show is inspired by the lives of J. Glenn Gray, a Colorado philosophy professor and WWII veteran whose book on modern battle remains highly relevant to this day, and his wife Ursula, a German survivor of the Allied bombing of Dresden, whose passion throughout her life was dance. The visceral, athletic choreography of Curtis Uhlemann and Erica Gionfriddo, and an original script, music, and video by Eliot Gray Fisher, grandson of J. Glenn and Ursula, chronicle the search for understanding the complexity of a history that we must not forget.

CCA Muñoz Waxman Main Gallery
January 18 - February 17, 2013

San Francisco-based artist Michelle Blade has made one painting a day for the entirety of 2012. As a daily meditation on her relationship with painting and with the apocalyptic Mayan prophecies surrounding 2012, Blade's work investigates themes of ritual and prophecy, the real and unreal, as well as a universal yearning to connect with the unfamiliar. Blade's solo exhibition Making Light of It features the debut of all 366 apocalypse paintings, alongside new sculptural works, as a triumphant New Year proclamation.

CCA spector ripps project space
February 1 - March 10, 2013

Featuring new work by Albuquerque-based artist Natalie Smith, Alone Together is an exploration of the relationships between people and objects and between objects themselves. Non-traditional textile-like paintings are collaged, arranged, and grouped on the wall. Their sculptural presentation calls into question the intuitive process of collecting, combining, displaying, and organizing, the activities and patterns that make up the fabric of our lives.

CCA Muñoz Waxman Main Gallery
December 9 - December 30, 2012

Land Arts of the American West, at the University of New Mexico, is an ongoing experiment in radical interdisciplinary arts pedagogy, with field based research and practice taking place throughout the American Southwest. This program emphasizes direct physical engagement within a full range of human interventions in the landscape, from pre-contact Native American architecture, rock paintings and petroglyphs to contemporary art, federal infrastructure, US military installations, ecological niches, and land use structures across the West. CCA will present a culmination of works from the 2012 Land Arts program, ranging from two-dimensional, sculptural, installation, multi-media, and performance based projects, inducing an interdisciplinary play of research and practice across place.

CCA spector ripps project space
October 26 - December 9, 2012

At once familiar, deceiving, exaggerated, and bizarre, Stitch Thought is a domestic environment made of felt. This soft installation, sewn by Albuquerque-based Tamara Wilson, features 100 light bulbs, a couch, and other living room furnishings. These everyday objects suggest comfort and warmth but, as soft sculpture they are rendered extraordinarily useless.

Spector Ripps Project Space
September 7 – October 21, 2012

Andrew Rogers (Australia) has created Rhythms of Life, the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of 48 massive stone sculptures, or Geoglyphs, around the globe. The project has involved over 6,700 people in 13 countries across seven continents. CCA presents documentation of this massive project.

CCA spector ripps project space
December 14, 2012 - January 27, 2013

Santa Fe-based artists Sydney Cooper and Edie Tsong present a new collaboration in the form of an installation and performance series called Forget Your Perfect Offering. This creative space illuminates the struggle to find meaning through object arrangement, ancestor worship, and celebration of everyday life in a ritual setting. This show celebrates the many ways we make meaning out of what we do. Blending religions, traditions, icons, mundane objects and repetitive activities, the artists create moments of introspection and community togetherness while highlighting the hybrid nature of contemporary ritual. Cooper and Tsong invite a spectrum of other local artists to produce performances throughout the run of this unique show.

CCA Muñoz Waxman Main Gallery
September 21 - November 25, 2012

The twentieth century spawned the industrialization of the American West. With its suburban developments, water diversion projects, oil and natural gas rigs, power plants, atomic laboratories, military testing grounds, and sophisticated roadways, the western states have become a landscape of mechanization.

July 27 – September 9, 2012
Muñoz Waxman Gallery
a site specific installation by Matt Barton

Bathe in this light.  Move through it.  Wander in it, become it.  Light is the basis of sight and of nature; it is the very essence of life. As humans we respond to light in conscious and subliminal ways, with a wide range of emotions yet much of light's spectrum is not perceivable to the human eye.

Muñoz Waxman Foyer
July 20 - September 9, 2012

An exhibition and symposium that stimulate dialog around art, inequality, and changing public policy How do we understand happiness and fulfillment? Can flourishing be quantified? What sort of metrics can take into account a multi-dimensional experience of well being?

July 13 - August 26, 2012 in the Spector Ripps Project Space  

In its second iteration, Kaleidospoke continues a celebration of bicycles and art. Through bicycle-related films and artwork, one-of-a-kind and limited edition bicycle paraphernalia, and even a bicycle beauty pageant, Kaleidospoke is a multi-media, multi-venue community event for the love of bicycles.

June 22 - July 15, 2012

in the spector ripps project space, Muñoz Waxman Foyer and Gallery, and The Studio

CCA is proud to partner with Parallel Studios in presenting currents 2012: the third annual Santa Fe New Media Festival, a citywide event which...

CCA Muñoz Waxman Main Gallery
December 9 - December 30, 2012

During a joint residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, Patrick Kikut, David Jones and Shelby Shadwell produced an exhibition of new art that investigates the spirit of place. Colleagues in the art department at University of Wyoming, these three Laramie-based artists worked in collaboration and individually to create a cohesive body of work

March 16 - June 9, 2012

in the Muñoz Waxman Gallery & Foyer

A two person exhibition of sculptures and drawings by artists Jamie Hamilton and Alison Keogh...

April 6 - June 10, 2012

in the spector ripps project space

CCA's annual Collect 10 celebrates the diversity of the New Mexico arts community by inviting any and all image makers to create wall works that fit within a 10" cube. Collect encourages audiences to ease the border between established and...

September 23, 2011 - January 15th, 2012

a Munson Hunt Art Exhibition in the Muñoz Waxman Gallery 

By sculpting centuries old cottonwoods harvested from a single source in the forests of Northern New Mexico, Munson Hunt..

November 11 - December 11, 2011

a UNM Graduate Student Exhibition in the spector ripps project space

Truth Defined, an exhibition comprised of photo based works, runs simultaneously with the Society for Photographic Education...

December 16, 2011 - January 15

, 2012

a Meow Wolf Exhibition in the spector ripps project space
This holiday season come see "Collective Collected", a group show of traditional works from artists associated with the prominent art collective Meow Wolf. Works of art in a wide range of media from over 30 artists...

September 17 - November 6, 2011

a José Gabriel Hernandez Art Exhibition in the spector ripps project space.
Jose Gabriel Hernandez's work focuses on his spiritual quest to understand the complexities of the individual mind in relation..

July - September 4, 2011

in the Spector Ripps Project Space.

Kaleidospoke seeks to instill the love of cycling through art and film by showcasing bicycle-inspired murals, film and spoke cards from national artists and filmmakers and the Annual Mellow Velo Bike Pageant..