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OPEN CALL FOR
experimental shorts!

TAAC is proud to partner with the Taos Center for the Arts in producing an experimental shorts program for the much-anticipated 2026 Taos Film Festival which will run from April 23rd-26th, 2026. We invite you to submit your art-based film or digital projects. The call is open to local, national and international submissions. Full submission info available HERE.

4th annual fall exhibition

11.1-11.9

stables gallery. taos center for the arts.
133 paseo del pueblo norte, taos, nm.

opening reception saturday, 11.1 4-8pm
closing reception 11.9 3-5pm

featuring the diverse work of 74 abstract artists from across northern new mexico.

Artists: Dan Badgley, Morgan Barnard, Brad Bealmear, Cassandra Bloedel, Biff Bolen, Asa Bolin-Ryan, Mary Jane Butler, Janelle Worthington Cardenas, Norlynne Coar, Roxanne Darling, Michael Darmody, Sam Elkind, Susan Faust, Mark M. Feldman, Wanelle Fitch, Clever Garcia, Max Gonzalez-Menchaca, Nancy Grabowski, Monika Guerra, Marianne Hall, Terrie Hall, Sandra Harrington, Jonathan Hertzel, Aleya Hoerlein, Layne Jackson, Julia Jameson, Melissa Kennelly, Nancy Kirk, Shakti Kroopkin, Jess Lanham, Dave Larson, Catherine Leicht, Lisa Lennox, Ron Lopez, Jacqueline Mallegni, Beryl Markowitz, Roxanne Márquez, Carol Mell, Violet Moon Tower, Helen Gene Nichols, Leigh Oviatt, Stephen Parise, Ricky Pass, Pat Pitcher, Virginia Primozic, Debora Ratliff, Sunny Redmond, Mark Reynolds, Abby Richardson, Dakota Roberts, Rocío Rodríguez, Rosalind Rosen, Rachelle Rowlett, Debra Self, Jonathan Sobol, Andrea Sparks, Laura Speer, Margo Spellman, Joan Stango, James Stoner, Julia Takahashi, Kevin Tsosie, Christa Valdez, Jennifer Velasquez, Margret von Keiser, Wynston Vose, Amanda Wageman Lawson, Melanie Wallace, Z.H. Wallace, John S Whitman, Sandra Duran Wilson, Julia Wozniak, Caroline Yezer, SD Youngwolf.

This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sunday, November 2nd, 2025, 1:30-3pm
Encore Gallery, Taos Center for the Arts
133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571

Free to attend - Please RSVP Here

TAAC is delighted to co-produce a special panel discussion with the Southwest Black Arts Collective (SBAC). Moderated by art historian Bradley Petty. This event is free, accessible and open to the public.

This panel is offered in conjunction with two exhibitions, (BE)LOVED currently at the Fechin Studio at the Taos Art Museum through 11/2, and FEX25, TAAC's Fall Community Exhibition at the Stables Gallery of Taos Center for the Arts from 11/1-11/9.

Organized as part of the exhibitions (be)loved by the Southwest Black Arts Collective (SBAC) currently on view at the Fechin Studio at Taos Art Museum and Taos Abstract Artist Collective’s Fall Community Exhibition, FEX25, at the Taos Center for the Arts, this panel offers a unique opportunity to examine the modes of relationality, kinship, and collective care that shape contemporary artistic production in the Southwest.

Moderator Bradley Petty will guide a conversation that foregrounds how artistic collaborations function as intentional kinships—formed not by bloodline, but by shared practice, ideology, and geography. The panel will feature SBAC’s Elizabeth Burden and TAAC’s Lauren Dana Smith, whose work reimagines relationality through art, collaboration, and geographic rootedness in the Southwest.

The discussion will further respond to Claire Bishop’s and Grant Kester’s ongoing debate about participatory and collaborative art.Rather than framing collectivity as inherently ethical, the panel will probe its complexities: How are roles distributed? What compromises are required? Who holds power?

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TAAC promotes abstract artists working in or near Taos, New Mexico, toward the exchange of ideas, new aesthetics and creative concepts. Taos is synonymous with abstract thinking, with origins in indigenous geometries, transcendental and modernist movements, and conceptual and land art installation. Once the nexus for westward bound artists, Taos unleashes expansive, abstract thinkers.