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The Harwood Art Center

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The Harwood Art Center

Harwood, the public outreach program of Escuela del Sol Montessori, is a creative center for community.

Participating at a grassroots level, Harwood deploys the arts as a catalyst for personal empowerment, cultural enrichment and social change.

09/01/2026

Did you know Harwood has a Shop?? 🛍️

The Shop at Harwood is a gallery boutique that features notable artists and designers in our community. The Shop highlights art for everyday living and represents participating artists for a full year.

the Shop artist highlight: David Disko ✨ David Disko
As a kid David was a rolling sone; his family was always on the move. He could choose to stay or go; first making the western US, then specifically Albuquerque his home. David’s work reflects this choice, and the things he sees and knows well that are all around him.

Purchase his incredible paintings at Harwood or online! www.harwoodartcenter.org/shop

08/27/2026

“I was born within view of the Pacific Ocean and have felt connected to it all my life. I feel equally connected to the desert Southwest, with its wide-open vistas and resilient plants, and to the deciduous forests and rolling hills of the Northeast. These landscapes shaped my childhood, and my heart has always leaned tenderly toward the more-than-human world. I’m an artist with an education in science. I think about the ways humans have interacted with the more-than-human world throughout our evolutionary history. I’m interested in how those relationships shaped our cultural values, and how they continue to influence our behavior today. My work is autobiographical. I explore my own reactions and experiences and use them to connect with viewers.

My research lately has focused on microplastics, which has led me to think about the ways plastics permeate ecosystems. While teaching a human genetics course earlier this year, I found myself thinking about the advent of agriculture, when we began selecting plants and animals with traits that benefited us. Several years ago, I viewed a collection of birdskins for the first time and still think about my emotional response to seeing fellow living beings transformed into objects of study.

While these experiences may seem unrelated, they all reveal the same cultural tendency to see the more-than-human world as separate from ourselves and existing for our use. Ironically, it’s my scientific training that brings me back to the worldview I developed as a child: that all living beings share a common ancestor. We are all kin. My work creates opportunities for viewers to reconsider our relationships with other living beings and to imagine what it might feel like to recognize them not as distant others, but as the kin they have always been.”

About Jessica
“I am a conceptual artist and a scientist. Each of my practices offers a lens for understanding human behavior and the ways we construct ideas of place, identity, and belonging in relation to one another and to the living world. I hold a BFA in Studio Art and a PhD in Anthropology, and my work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States.”

08/26/2026

Who’s ready for their midweek movement??
Today! At Harwood, 1114 7th St NW 87102
$10 , cash or card!

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08/20/2026

We invite you to join us for an exhibition reception and artist talks by artists Mark Weaver, Jessica Marie Gross and Li Ming Chu at Harwood Art Center on Saturday, August 22, 2026 from 4:30p - 6:30p with the artist talks starting at 5:00pm.

This event is a great way to connect with the artists and hear more about their practice, it is free and open to all ages!

08/19/2026

YOGA IS TODAY! 🩷💙💛

Every Wednesday at Harwood Art Center, 4p - 5p
1114 7th St NW

This drop-in class welcomes beginners and all levels and explores the fundamentals of yoga, correct body alignment & breathing techniques. Get your midweek movement in!!

08/13/2026

You are invited to celebrate the completion of
“Monument to Care” created by Harwood’s Public Art & Community Practice Programs 💚

The ribbon cutting is part of the “Hearts in the Park” event that connects our community through fun free activities including a 🎒Back to School supply drive, haircuts, food, games, dancing and more! 🎶

📍Phil Chacon Park : 7600 Southern Ave SE 87108
⏰4:00 - 7:00pm
🗓️Saturday, August 15th
💲FREE

08/12/2026

Monument to Care installation day at Phil Chacon Park with Harwood’s Public Art and Community Practice programs! ❤️💚💜

Co-created by local middle school students, paid high school apprentices, and community members - Monument to Care celebrates the vital ways communities care for each other and our shared ecosystems. Much thanks to the team at Pace Ironworks for fabrication and installation support!

07/25/2026

SURFACE artist highlight:
✨ Jazmin Novak ✨

Jazmin Novak earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts with a minor in Performing Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Sculptural Dimensional Studies at Alfred University in New York. Her work has been exhibited at SITE Santa Fe, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, and 516 Arts, as well as internationally at the Marist LdM Biennale during the Venice Biennale. She presented her first solo exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in 2025. A Diné artist born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Novak taught as adjunct faculty in the Sculpture Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts from 2022–2025, and her work has been featured in Santa Fe New Mexican LEGACY, Native American Art Magazine, Santa Fe Magazine, Navajo Times, and TREND Magazine.

“As a Diné sculptor, I explore themes of connection, identity, and shared humanity from an Indigenous perspective. My work is centered on relationships: with the land, the ecosystems which sustain us, and the people who care for us. I believe that connection to one another and to the ecosystem is critical for our well-being, and my work explores what it means to carry that responsibility. I typically work with metal, stone, and glass, often using animal figures as storytelling tools. While they may appear gentle or familiar at first view, they carry layered meanings and address complicated experiences such as grief, care, loss, and resilience in the face of emotional, social, and cultural historical traumas.”

Jazmin also received the The Meghan Ferguson Mráz Award ✨ This award celebrates an emerging artist based in New Mexico who explores themes of personal and social significance, exhibits noteworthy care for and skill in their craft, and invites reflection on connection, compassion, and gratitude.

Photos by Aziza Murray

07/24/2026

SURFACE artist highlight:
✨ Eleanor Foy ✨

Eleanor Foy is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the landscape and mythology of California and the American West continue to inform her work. After studying painting for three years at Pratt Institute in New York, Foy transferred to Kansas City Art Institute to complete her BFA (Ceramics, 2021). This change in focus was compelled by a desire to work in a medium that spans fine art, craft, and mass- production. Foy has exhibited nationally and has received numerous awards, including the Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship through the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and the Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award through the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Foy holds an MFA (Ceramics, 2025) from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens.

“I build ceramic objects that reference geologic formations and images of Americana, constructing tableaux that depict an amalgamated fantasy of pop culture and dreams. Inspired by the simultaneous camp and desolation of Westerns, this imaginary landscape explores the instability of perception and meaning. Like a mirage, their resolution continually recedes. These objects function both on their own as discrete entities and collectively as a diorama of a fictionalized landscape. I am compelled by the associative power of form and language, and the potential for objects to allude to something beyond what is present. My process is led by the opportunities of ceramic: matte surfaces absorb light like velvet, and fingerprints read like tree bark or mountain ridges. In my practice I contend with forces beyond my control, like gravity and time. Through this process, my work explores the limits of meaning by constructing a world at once familiar and strange.”

Address

1114 7th Street NW
Albuquerque, NM
87102

Opening Hours

Thursday	10am - 3pm
Friday	10am - 3pm
Saturday	10am - 3pm

Telephone

+15052426367

Website

http://harwoodartcenter.org/

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