Desert Stories: The Art of Kelly Frye & Jazmin Novak is an artist-led exhibition collaboratively curated by Kelly Frye (Tesuque Pueblo/Mescalero Apache descent) and Jazmin Novak (Diné) of the Santa Fe, New Mexico area. Desert Stories interweaves visual narratives of the Southwest in paintings, glass, clay, and bronze artworks. In Frye’s paintings, she reorganizes geometric patterns into symphonies of color that melt into each other. In Novak’s sculpture, she uses asymmetry in her color palettes to give emphasis to certain parts of desert animals, like rabbits and coyotes. Bringing together two- and three-dimensional expressions creates an innovative take on the world of the Southwest desert as seen in the artists’ reimaginings of angular pottery designs and iconic, brush-dwelling animals. Using color as a method of disorientation, Frye and Novak make us see familiar Southwest elements in a completely different and unfamiliar light.

The IPCC is honored to open the Pueblo Baseball Community Gallery, on view from August 10 through October 27, 2024. This gallery is presented as a new addition to the Pueblo Baseball: Stitching Our Community Together exhibition. The Pueblo Baseball Community Gallery offers visitors an opportunity to learn more about Pueblo Baseball through a variety of perspectives in players’ and coaches’ stories, contributions, and memorabilia that portray the legacy of a sport that is deeply rooted in Pueblo communities.

Bingo, but make it fabulous! Join us for a Drag Bingo extravaganza at the historic Lobo Theater on September 21st! 

Doors open at 1:30 PM and the bingo fun starts at 2 PM.

Hosted by the dazzling duo of Vanessa Patricks and Avery Martini, this event is guaranteed to be a blast! Get ready for laughter, prizes, and unforgettable entertainment. Don't miss out!

Don't miss Tony O and the Greatest Band Ever as they bring the magic of Fleetwood Mac to the historic Lobo Theater!

 Get ready to sing and dance along to all your favorite hits. Doors open at 7PM on September 21st. This is a show you won't want to miss!

Get ready for the return of Morgue and Krypt Horror Fest. A full weekend of non stop horror. Packed with vendors, celebrity guests, guest panels, workshop panels, parties, contests, horror film fest screenings, the M&K zombie pinup pageant, and so much more, every day thrills you with something new.

Follow our social pages to see all the gory updates. Check back to the website frequently to plan your weekend schedules as we get closer to the event.

Coming back for our 6^th year, the New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is excited to return to the beautiful grounds of the Gutierrez Hubbell House for another year of food, music, arts and crafts and a lot more celebrating everything prickly pear. In addition to our full day of cooking demos, arts and crafts workshops, music, and vendor market selling all kinds of prickly pear and local goods on Saturday September 28^th, we’re also adding an evening event to our festival line up. On Friday September 27^th, our Prickly Nights programming will host music and performances alongside a selection of food and drinks with a prickly pear focus. Tickets can be found here.

On Friday, festival goers can watch a series of musical performances from jazz trio Basilaris, named for a species of prickly pear cactus, Lara Manzanares, and performance by the National Institute of Flamenco Company, all while taking in the evening air and food and drinks from a selection of vendors.

Then on Saturday for our main day festival goers can enjoy cooking demos from Lilia Avila from Three Sisters Kitchen, Amber Benson from NMSU, and Tina Archuleta owner and chef of Italityas well as a prickly pear cocktail and mocktail demo with Safe House Distilling Co. and Sugar Moon Syrups. Folks can also get creative and paint their own prickly pear decorated pot with four painting sessions throughout the day with Susan Gomez Arts (you can book your session here) and two natural dye workshops from Kalyn Finnell showing folks how to make the gorgeous carmine red dye with the prickly pear cochineal bug. Attendees can browse 60 plus vendors selling all kinds of prickly pear eats, drinks, arts, crafts, and other local products and while checking out the vendor goods folks can hear performances from Micah Thunder, Mauro Woody, and Dust City Opera.

And inside the Hubbell House we’ll have a series of talks and workshops for farmers, ranchers, and gardeners on how and why to incorporate prickly pear and other native plants into their systems.

The Water Strider Dance Group (Zuni) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

On Saturday, September 28, our book will be Forever Cousins by Laurel Goodluck, illustrated by Jonathan Nelson.

In this Native American story, Kara and Amanda are best friend-cousins. Then Kara leaves the city to move back to the Rez. Will their friendship stay the same?

This tender story about navigating change reminds readers that the power of friendship and family can bridge any distance. After reading, children will create their own friendship bracelets to make and share.

The IPCC is honored to have the author of this book, Laurel Goodluck as our guest reader. Learn more about Laurel Goodluck.

The Water Strider Dance Group (Zuni) will be dancing.

Celebrate the seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance with our Cultural Dance Program. Dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator.

They ensure that life continues and connections to the past and future are reinforced. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is the only place in North America to offer cultural Native American dances every week, year-round.

Coming back for our 6^th year, the New Mexico Prickly Pear Festival is excited to return to the beautiful grounds of the Gutierrez Hubbell House for another year of food, music, arts and crafts and a lot more celebrating everything prickly pear. In addition to our full day of cooking demos, arts and crafts workshops, music, and vendor market selling all kinds of prickly pear and local goods on Saturday September 28^th, we’re also adding an evening event to our festival line up. On Friday September 27^th, our Prickly Nights programming will host music and performances alongside a selection of food and drinks with a prickly pear focus. Tickets can be found here.

On Friday, festival goers can watch a series of musical performances from jazz trio Basilaris, named for a species of prickly pear cactus, Lara Manzanares, and performance by the National Institute of Flamenco Company, all while taking in the evening air and food and drinks from a selection of vendors.

Then on Saturday for our main day festival goers can enjoy cooking demos from Lilia Avila from Three Sisters Kitchen, Amber Benson from NMSU, and Tina Archuleta owner and chef of Italityas well as a prickly pear cocktail and mocktail demo with Safe House Distilling Co. and Sugar Moon Syrups. Folks can also get creative and paint their own prickly pear decorated pot with four painting sessions throughout the day with Susan Gomez Arts (you can book your session here) and two natural dye workshops from Kalyn Finnell showing folks how to make the gorgeous carmine red dye with the prickly pear cochineal bug. Attendees can browse 60 plus vendors selling all kinds of prickly pear eats, drinks, arts, crafts, and other local products and while checking out the vendor goods folks can hear performances from Micah Thunder, Mauro Woody, and Dust City Opera.

And inside the Hubbell House we’ll have a series of talks and workshops for farmers, ranchers, and gardeners on how and why to incorporate prickly pear and other native plants into their systems.

Floor Coverings International is excited to invite you to our 1-Year Anniversary Party! Join us Saturday, September 28th from 4-7 PM for a evening of unforgettable fun, food, drinks and community! 

This event will feature: 

Food, drinks, and ice cream!

Free initial Consultations

Kids flooring competition w/ prizes

Halloween costume consultations

College football on TV

In-Person Raffle

RSVP to get your raffle entry TODAY! 

The AAIAF is the only authentic, all-Native American art show in town during the Balloon Fiesta.

This premier event will showcase the work of over 50 artists vendors. Meet, talk with, and shop directly form Native artists. The two-day festival also includes cultural dances and art demonstrations.

Benefiting: Blessed and Beautiful - The Endorphin Power Company - Warehouse505 - Passion's Story  

Haunted Scarecrow has returned to the Duke City!

And this year we've brought a few new terrifying friends! Join us as we take you through the 13 Gates of Terror each room more terrifying than the last! 

Located On: 2122 Central Ave SE  

October 4th to October 31st

The AAIAF is the only authentic, all-Native American art show in town during the Balloon Fiesta.

This premier event will showcase the work of over 50 artists vendors. Meet, talk with, and shop directly form Native artists. The two-day festival also includes cultural dances and art demonstrations.

Na’Zir McFadden conductor
Sydney Tasker cello
Kate Shao piano

Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in a minor
Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

Just over 100 years ago, George Gershwin composed a concerto for jazz orchestra, and the result redefined American music. Take in his Rhapsody in Blue, performed by Kate Shao, first-place winner in the piano division of this year’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition. The youthful vigor continues with cellist Sydney Tasker, the first-place string division winner, performing Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1. Also on the program are Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s energetic Ballade and Tchaikovsky’s Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet.

Roberto Minczuk Music Director
Olga Kern piano

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor, Op. 30
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, WAB 104

Olga Kern is back, this time performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most technically challenging concerto, one made famous by Vladimir Horowitz. This will be but the latest of Olga’s visits to New Mexico, each one building upon the last. The symphonies of Anton Bruckner, including the fourth, performed here, were also built one upon the other. His Symphony No. 4 is known for both the extensive revisions it received by the composer as well as its powerful finale.

Roberto Minczuk Music Director

The New Mexico Philharmonic’s Power Concerts series is back for another season of illuminating, affordable, family-friendly concerts! This series is geared toward introducing young audience members and their families to classical music, the orchestra, and the instruments that make it all possible. Our first Power Concert of the season starts off with a bang! Our brass and percussion sections steal the show in the Power Concerts’ signature tune, the opening to Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Then, the magic of Bruckner meets the magic of the movies when we pair movements of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 with two of John Williams’s classics, the “Flying Theme” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and “Darth Vader’s Theme” from Star Wars. Music Director Roberto Minczuk conducts.

Join us for a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day as we honor the culture and resilience of the Pueblo people, as well as all Indigenous people across the country. We will be celebrating with a full day of cultural dances, as well as speakers celebrating the culture and achievements of the Pueblo community.

Dance groups and times subject to change.

9:00am: Tlacayolt Dance Group
Tribe: Chichimeca Mexica Azteca

10:00am: The Pueblo Dance Group
Tribes: Laguna, Acoma, Zuni, Hopi

11:00am: Sky City Buffalo Ram Dancers
Tribe: Acoma Pueblo

12:00pm: Howeya Family Traditional Dance Group
Tribe: Acoma Pueblo

1:00pm: Start of speakers

2:00pm: Cellicion Traditional Dance Group
Tribe: Zuni Pueblo

3:00pm: Anshe:Kwe Dance Group
Tribe: Zuni Pueblo

Live Music, Art Vendors, Food, and More!

Big 98.5 on site!

Live Music Schedule:

• Adrian Wall 5pm
• Jacob Shije 6pm
• Levi Platero 7:30pm

• 2 boxes or bags of shred material per vehicle 

• Please remove lithium batteries.
• This is a great opportunity to get rid of old electronics and prevent them from ending up in landfills.

• Taking place behind Print Express, follow signs and volunteer instructions 
• Please allow 5 to 10 minutes per vehicle

In “Sculptural Stories,” an IPCC Youth Arts Workshop, youth ages 9 to 13 years old will be introduced to making visual art in sculptural forms and learn that they can make their own vision come to life. Participants will transform an idea into a colorful, three-dimensional clay object, bring this object home with them, and consider what sculptural forms that they can make in the future. The workshop will focus on building and painting sculptural stories in clay and connecting this arts education activity with the current IPCC Artists Circle Gallery exhibition, Desert Stories: The Art of Kelly Frye & Jazmin Novak. The workshop will be instructed by artists Kelly Frye (Tesuque Pueblo/Mescalero Apache descent) and Jazmin Novak (Diné). To complement the workshop, the instructors will give a gallery talk for youth participants.