Betty Busby is based in Albuquerque but her work wins awards and acclaim around the world. What she creates are called quilts, but they're more accurately paintings with fabric -- and sometimes made with paint on fabric. It's artwork not for the bed but for the wall. She'll be the featured artist in the 12th Biennial Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta , May 30-June 1 at Expo New Mexico. The branching imagery that dominates her work is derived from fractals. "I went to the fractal show at the [New

In addition to Netflix recently naming Albuquerque its U.S. production hub, the city was also cited by the trade magazine MovieMaker as its No. 1 big city to live and work in as a filmmaker. And, the state film office reported last year that New Mexico is now the largest base for movie crew technicians between the coasts. In response to this expanding local industry, the University of New Mexico has announced big changes to its Department of Film and Digital Arts .

Since 2017, German artist Robert Stokowy has been researching, and reflecting upon, the sonic environments of cities -- among them, Berlin, Miami and Minneapolis. Stokowy then sets up, in each city, locations where visitors can follow his suggestions to create their own sonic sculpture, an artwork of the mind. At the invitation of Albuquerque Parks & Recreation , Stokowy has this spring set up similar locations in the City's Open Spaces. The project, structures [albuquerque] , runs through

Art in America called her work "pure optical pleasure" -- "shimmering" and "optimistic." Grids of tiny hand-painted numbers laid out in bands of color across the canvas. Artist Xylor Jane is sharing the process and the philosophy behind her work with art students this spring as the University of New Mexico's 2019 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist . She will give a public lecture on April 24 at 7pm at the Albuquerque Museum and host an open studio on May 2 between 6pm and 8pm in the UNM Art

Steel sheets of various sizes are welded together at the seams, heated, and then inflated with compressed air, like large vividly-colored metal balloons. These playful objects are the work of Española -based sculptor Jeremy Thomas , and they're on display this spring at two Santa Fe galleries, The Center for Contemporary Arts and Charlotte Jackson Fine Art .

Activist Harvey Milk was one of the first openly-gay elected officials in the United States. In 1978, eleven months after his election, Milk was assassinated in San Francisco's City Hall. That year, future Broadway composer Andrew Lippa was only 14 years old, but as time went by he grew more aware of Harvey Milk. In 2013, Lippa premiered an hour-long choral work, I Am Harvey Milk , which has since been performed around the country. The New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus brings it to Santa Fe and Rio

By the late 1700s, flamenco music and dance had taken Europe by storm. On March 15 and 16 at Albuquerque's National Hispanic Cultural Center, the question of how this unique art form developed will be taken up by a team of collaborators: from Spain, the innovative dancers and choreographers, Daniel Doña and Cristian Martín; from Texas, the period-instrument Orchestra of New Spain , specializing in music of the Spanish Baroque; and from New Mexico, Yjastros , UNM's dance company in residence.

At 31, flush with royalties from her book, Cowboys Are My Weakness , Pam Houston made a down payment on her first home, a ranch on the Upper Rio Grande in Southern Colorado. For the next 25 years, the demands of maintaining those 120 acres at 9,000 feet required a lot of her, physically and financially. But, as she says in new memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, "All the time I thought I was taking care of the ranch, the ranch was busy taking care of me."

In early March, ten young people representing high schools across New Mexico will stand on the stage of the St. Francis Auditorium in Santa Fe, before a panel of judges, to recite poetry. The competition is part of a national program called Poetry Out Loud , created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. All fifty states and the U.S. territories participate, and each year the New Mexico program involves almost 2,000 high school students.

In the 1950s, poet Weldon Kees documented a transformative car trip in his poem, "Travels in North America." Sixty years later, another poet, Ray Gonzalez, summoned the aching ghost of Kees to join him in his own exploratory car trip, "Crossing New Mexico With Weldon Kees." Now, the inspiration passes to local composer, and UNM graduate student, Luke Gullickson , who created a musical variation on that car trip in "Crossing New Mexico With Weldon Kees and Ray Gonzalez." The trio for flute,