1 Visit one exhibition at two museums.

Two spaces in Taos—the Harwood Museum of Art and the Couse-Sharp Historic Site—host a double reception on Friday for the new exhibition, Legacy in Line: The Art of Gene Kloss. The exhibition displays the late artist’s works in both places. Kloss was a prolific printmaker who first came to New Mexico in 1925 on her honeymoon, when she fell in love with the landscape. Many of the works she made in her lifetime reflected New Mexico’s skies, mountains, light, and Indigenous ways. From 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, folks can visit the Harwood Museum of Art and try their hand at printmaking with Harwood Teaching Artists. At the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, they can enjoy refreshments in the artful setting of the two historic artists’ homes and research center. 

San Juan College hosts a free Gourd Dance & Intertribal Powwow, featuring traditional dances, drumming, food trucks, a Native arts and crafts market. Photograph courtesy of Visit Farmington.

2 Get thee to a powwow.

In Farmington, San Juan College hosts the Gourd Dance & Intertribal Powwow in the Health & Human Performance Center Gymnasium on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. It brings dancers and drummers from the Four Corners area to celebrate and practice traditional dances. The Gourd Dance starts at noon, followed by the powwow at 6 p.m. Enjoy food trucks, a Native arts and crafts market, and family friendly activities at this free community event.

Join the Southwest Women’s Fiber Arts Collective at the Silco Theater in Silver City for a fashionable runway show featuring over 100 pieces by more than 20 fiber artists.

3 Have fun with fiber arts. 

Attend a fashionable affair at the Silco Theater in Silver City on Saturday, when the Southwest Women’s Fiber Arts Collective hosts the Tapestry of Talent Fiber Show. More than 20 fiber artists created 100-plus pieces for the models, who hit the catwalk at 1 p.m. “It’s a fun runway show,” says Charmeine Wait, board president at the fiber arts collective. “We’re thrilled with the diversity of the models this year.” 

After the show, attendees can purchase items they saw on the runway. Expect knittings, crochet, hand-painted silks, felted pieces, and pine-needle basketry, with every dollar made going directly to the artists. Last year, the items sold out in 10 minutes. The ticket proceeds support the collective, and there are not many tickets left, so head to the website and grab yours ASAP.

The Albuquerque Museum’s newest exhibition, "Light, Space, and the Shape of Time," opens with a free reception on Saturday, showcasing 24 works by 15 artists. Photographs courtesy of the Albuquerque Museum.

4 Welcome the light.

The world’s natural phenomena can catalyze great art. Light, Space, and the Shape of Time, the newest exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, focuses on such inspired works. It opens Saturday with a 2 p.m. reception and conversation between curator William Gassaway and featured artist Soo Sunny Park.

The Light and Space movement arose in the 1960s, characterized by light-filled installations that often interact with their surroundings and boosting art stars like James Turrell, Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, and Helen Pashgian. “There’s nothing to be learned, necessarily,” says Gassaway of Light and Space art. “But rather than something being learned, there’s something to be felt.” 

The exhibit includes 24 works by 15 artists, many of them from the museum’s permanent collection. “We haven’t been able to show many of them because they’re either too large, or too delicate, or both,” says Gassaway. Works in the show include Larry Bell’s The Cat, a massive cube with wings made from giant pieces of glass that are coated in a reflective material. It’s in a gallery on its own, augmented by the 23-foot platform it sits upon. One of Park’s pieces on display is made from chain link fencing hung from the ceiling, its open spaces filled with colorful glass that casts streams of light onto the ground. “It’s ethereal and mesmerizing,” Gassaway says. 

Light, Space, and the Shape of Time “offers a really beautiful opportunity to slow down, take your time, and contemplate works that have no overt meaning,” Gassaway says. “I think we really need that right now. Seeing a work about light is not self-indulgent or frivolous, it’s what we need to remain resilient and energized.” The opening is free to attend. See the show through July 20. 

On Sunday, visitors to Los Luceros Historic Site in Alcalde can watch Kerry Mower shear churro sheep with double bow shears. Photograph courtesy of New Mexico Historic Sites.

5 See a sheep get a haircut.

The churro sheep at Los Luceros Historic Site, in Alcalde, are due for a springtime shear. On Sunday, visitors can watch as shearer Kerry Mower gives the fluffy friends a trim with double bow shears from 8 to 11 a.m. Other wild and woolly activities include sheep drawing and wool skirting. On-site food trucks and an early morning bird walk make it a great day to visit the beautiful property along the Río Grande.

For more things to do, check out our online calendar of events.