The Harwood Museum of Art

The Harwood Museum of Art Since 1923 the Harwood has been a center for art and culture in the Taos community. Begin your art adventure at the Harwood.

Discover works from Spanish Colonial, Taos Society of Artists, and Taos Moderns, to cutting edge contemporary and Native American artists. Featuring an outstanding schedule of rotating exhibitions, a busy calendar of events, a museum store offering works by area artisans, and the only Agnes Martin Gallery of its kind in the world. The Harwood Museum of Art, located two blocks from Taos Plaza, has served Taos from the same historic Ledoux Street location for 100 years.

Join Artist Ronald Rael for a two-day adobe restoration workshop at the historic village of Los Ancones in Northern New ...
06/02/2026

Join Artist Ronald Rael for a two-day adobe restoration workshop at the historic village of Los Ancones in Northern New Mexico. The workshop will focus on enjarrando (mud plastering), preparing and applying earthen plaster, and making adobes. This is a free workshop with limited space. Those who identify with adobe as a heritage practice are encouraged to apply. Applications are due July 6 at midnight. More information and link to application available online at https://harwoodmuseum.org/events/adobe-as-heritage-practice-workshop-with-ronald-rael/.

Workshop will take place August 15 + 16 near Ojo Caliente. Travel and accommodations are not provided. Support for this program is provided in part by the VIA Art Fund.

Images courtesy of Ronald Rael.

Thank you, Taos. With the close of "Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos", we extend our deepest gratitude to everyone ...
06/01/2026

Thank you, Taos. With the close of "Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos", we extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who visited, engaged with the work, and helped bring this exhibition to life through your presence, reflection, and conversation.

This project would not have been possible without the generous support of our sponsors and partners: Mandelman-Ribak Legacy Endowment, 203 Fine Art, Leslie and William Ramsey, Traci Chavez-McAdams and Scott McAdams, Sheree Livney and Steve Hanks, Kaye and Tom Tynan, Dora and Carl Dillistone, Steven Rudnick and donors in honor of Lois Rudnick, Wendy Shannon and Rick Higgins in memory of Robert M. Ellis, Happy Price, and Romy and Carl Colonius.

Additional support provided by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Your support makes it possible for the Harwood to continue presenting exhibitions that connect art, history, and community.

“Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros” Artist Spotlight: Joanna Keane LopezJoanna Keane Lopez (b. 1991, Albuquerqu...
05/29/2026

“Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros” Artist Spotlight: Joanna Keane Lopez

Joanna Keane Lopez (b. 1991, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, photography, site specific installation, and vernacular craft traditions of the American Southwest. Her practice engages earthen architecture, craft methodologies, and archival research to examine relationships between land, architecture, and material histories through adobe, wood, paper, and textiles. Inheriting adobe building knowledge from her family and community in New Mexico, Keane Lopez continues the craft legacy of enjarradoras and adoberas—women who specialize in traditional earthen building practices. Through sculpture, installation, and educational workshops, she reimagines vernacular building traditions and craft histories to investigate memory, fragmentation, military histories and infrastructures, environmental contamination, and the layered relationships between land and material culture.

Keane Lopez has exhibited nationally at institutions including SITE Santa Fe, The Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, San José Museum of Art, Craft Contemporary, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, and Sarasota Art Museum. She has received support from New Mexico Documentary Incubator Grant, Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Images courtesy of Joanna Keane Lopez.

“Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros” Artist Spotlight: Carole CrewsCarole Crews is an artist, builder, and educa...
05/28/2026

“Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros” Artist Spotlight: Carole Crews

Carole Crews is an artist, builder, and educator whose work has been central to sustaining and transmitting earthen knowledge in northern New Mexico. Born and raised in Taos, she grew up within a landscape shaped by adobe architecture and mud plaster.

Crews’ practice bridges art and architecture, ranging from sculpted plaster reliefs and murals to built environments. For decades, she has been immersed in earthen building traditions, adobe construction, mud plaster, and alíz (a clay slip finish). Her development of contemporary alíz finishes reflects a deep understanding of both tradition and adaptation.

Crews holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and teaches via workshops, collaborations, and her publication Clay Culture: Plasters, Paints and Preservation. As an enjarradora, Crews’ legacy resides not only in finished surfaces, but in the knowledge she has carried forward and shared.

Images courtesy Carole Crews.

"Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos" at Harwood Museum of Art comes to a close on May 31, and this is your final oppo...
05/24/2026

"Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos" at Harwood Museum of Art comes to a close on May 31, and this is your final opportunity to experience the exhibition in its entirety.

The exhibition brings together artwork, archival materials, and personal narratives that explore the impact of the GI Bill in Taos, examining how veterans shaped and were shaped by their return to community life in Northern New Mexico, and how education, art, and place intersect in lasting ways.

It is both historical and deeply personal, reflecting stories of service, return, and creative transformation. If you haven’t yet visited, now is the time.

On view through May 31.


"Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos", September 27, 2025—May 31, 2026. Photo by Brad Trone.

Meet Artist Ronald Rael and see his original work, Liminal, constructed in real-time on the Harwood Museum of Art front ...
05/22/2026

Meet Artist Ronald Rael and see his original work, Liminal, constructed in real-time on the Harwood Museum of Art front plaza. Blending tradition and technology, Rael will build Liminal layer by layer from 3D printed adobe using a portable 7-axis robot. This program will take place while the museum is closed for the installation of Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros. Bring your questions and curiosity.

Saturday, June 13 at 11:00 am

This program is supported in part by the VIA Art Fund.

Image: Ronald Rael, "SKLYOS," 2022, 3D printed adobe. San Luis Valley, CO. Photo by the artist.

“Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros” Artist SpotlightChristine Howard Sandoval (Chalon Nation) is a multidiscipl...
05/20/2026

“Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros” Artist Spotlight

Christine Howard Sandoval (Chalon Nation) is a multidisciplinary artist who examines how land is represented, controlled, and remembered across overlapping systems of knowledge. Her work moves between landscape and archive, tracing how what is held in the land and what is held within state-sponsored records negotiate shared—and often conflicting—spaces of meaning. Working across video, sculpture, drawing, and site-based installation, she draws on long-term research and direct engagement with landscapes shaped by ecological precarity and colonial history.
Her practice often incorporates adobe as a living material, one that refuses permanence. Brittle, shifting, and vulnerable to water, adobe challenges preservation and resists fixation within institutional systems. Alongside this material work, Howard Sandoval engages archival documents, surveillance technologies, and layered forms of narration to map the forces that shape land over time. Across her work, the landscape is not stable ground but an active site of negotiation—where memory, erasure, and future imaginaries remain in tension.
Christine Howard Sandoval has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at El Museo del Barrio, The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo. Solo exhibitions include ICA San Diego and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. She is an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation and Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis at Emily Carr University.

1: Installation view, "Ways of Knowing," March 8- September 7, 2025, Galleries 1, 2, 3 and perlman. Photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 2: SJMA: Installation photo of "Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot" on view April 10–October 18, 2026 at the San José Museum of Art. Photo by Glen Cheriton. 4 + 5: Installation View, "The green shoot that cracks the rock," parrasch heijnen gallery, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of parrasch heijnen gallery.

Slow down and spend time with a single work of art.Join a Harwood educator for a guided 30-minute gallery experience des...
05/15/2026

Slow down and spend time with a single work of art.

Join a Harwood educator for a guided 30-minute gallery experience designed to deepen observation through simple looking exercises and conversation. Each month, we focus on one artwork to explore how attention changes what we see.

May focus: 'Column Three" by Oli Shivonen, part of "Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos" and in preparation for our Mystery Cabaret event on May 22 + 23

This is an opportunity to look closely, reflect, and experience the work in a new way—no prior art background needed.

May 21, 2026, 12:00–12:40 pm
Free for members | Included with museum admission

Images: Community Day, "Pursuit of Happiness: GI Bill in Taos", September 27, 2025-May 31, 2026, Harwood Museum of Art Photo: Shayla Blatchford Photography. Oil Shivonen and Miriam (Mim) Shivonen, Paris, 1945, photograph. Courtsey of Jennifer Shivonen.

Baroque music at 7,000 feet. May 16–17.The Taos Chamber Music Group closes the season at Harwood Museum with Elevated Ba...
05/13/2026

Baroque music at 7,000 feet. May 16–17.

The Taos Chamber Music Group closes the season at Harwood Museum with Elevated Baroque, performed on period instruments as these works would have originally been heard—gut strings, low pitch, and historically informed style.

Featuring music by Handel, Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann, and Duphly.

Tickets available through TCMG

Harwood Museum of Art is honored to collaborate with Allysa Ortiz in "The Same Place at the Same Time: Pueblo Foodways."...
05/12/2026

Harwood Museum of Art is honored to collaborate with Allysa Ortiz in "The Same Place at the Same Time: Pueblo Foodways." Read the above words she generously shares about her practice and relationship to Taos Pueblo food traditions.

Last day to view the exhibition is Sunday, May 17, 2026.

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