Third Thursday

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Albuquerque Museum stays open late for a free evening of performance, art, and history. This month features live music with New Mexico Jazz, artist talks with AfroMundo Festival, and a hands-on art activity for all ages. Visit the galleries throughout the Museum, open until 8:30pm.

5:30 – 8:00pm
ART ACTIVITY: Color Collage
Inspired by Light, Space, and the Shape of Time, make a translucent and colorful collage with vibrant tissue paper, theater gels, and paint. Explore with layering color to make unique designs, then take your completed artwork to Gallery 2 to illuminate it.

6pm
PRESENTATION: AfroMundo – The Art of Expression
As part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival, join interdisciplinary artists Ash Arder and Nikesha Breeze for a visual arts presentation and conversation about their work. Ash Arsher says, "My work generates systems, exercises, meditations, demonstrations, and interventions that manifest as installation, sculpture, sound, drawing, electronics, video and performance. Each work ponders the role of agency, both active and passive."

Nikesha Breeze is an international artist working across oil painting, clay and bronze sculpture, installation, performance art, and film. Grounded in a global African diasporic and Afro-Futurist perspective, their layered, immersive works draw on African diasporic research, reclamation, and memorial, forging otherworldly spaces rich with storytelling and historical education.

AfroMundo is dedicated to fostering civic engagement, building radical solidarity, and promoting wellbeing amongst Afro-Latinx, Afro-Indigenous, Afro-Asian, BIPOC, and 2SLGBTQIA+ peoples via interactive, community-building arts and humanities programs.

6–8pm MUSIC: New Mexico Jazz

6:30pm–7:30pm: Frank Leto / Roots of Jazz
New Mexico Jazz presents Frank Leto and his Roots of Jazz performance. For over 30 years, award-winning educator Frank Leto has been delighting audiences with his particular brand of music and humor–all the while teaching about the origins of the uniquely American Art form known as Jazz.

Enjoy the musical stylings of the New Mexico Jazz before and after the performances.


This event is made possible in part by The City of Albuquerque's Urban Enhancement Trust Fund and New Mexico Arts.