Augusta Savage Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday & Tuesday 1-7pm, and Wednesday through Friday 1-5pm while the University is in session.

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Inside the Outside/Paintings by Three Outsider Artists: Jay Dickens, Arnold Nelson, & Floyd Nelson Opening Reception: November 2, 5-7pm Monday, November 2 - Friday, November 20   These three outsider artists from New Mexico live with developmental disabilities, have experienced confinement in an institution, and have come into their own individual artistic paths later in life. Like many Outsider Artists, Jay Dickens, Arnold Nelson, and Floyd Nelson have developed artistically without any preconceived notions or limitations regarding art. Collectively, their work illustrates the triumph and strength of the human spirit.

It's a Flea Market World: New Works by Kelly Moore Opening Reception: February 11, 5-7pm Thursday, February 11 - Tuesday, March 9   Fully-engaged and totally original, Santa Fe artist Kelly Moore paints on canvas and paper, as well as on other more unlikely surfaces such as used tubes of paint, discarded paint brushes, wooden boxes, and electrical wiring. His dolls, hung along the sides of his flea market vendor’s booth, pop up between paintings of faces, crows, hillsides, and a range of references, marks and gestures that emerge from deep places inside him. His works have a poetic quality, giving back to us what we bring to them.

An Untouchable Reaches Out: The Dalit Art of Savi Savarkar Opening Reception: March 22, 5-7pm Monday, March 22 - Thursday, April 8   In this exhibition, curator and art historian Gary Tartakov introduces Indian artist Savi Savarkar to our community in a thoughtfully organized exhibition. Savi Savarkar’s art is most remarkable for the expression of his social situation in South Asian culture as a Dalit, and for the immediacy, depth and power with which he expresses the meaning of that situation to us.

Clean Slate: New Paintings by Anne LaPrade Seuthe Opening Reception: April 12, 5-7pm Monday, April 12 - Friday, April 30   Beginning with discarded maps, LaPrade Seuthe carefully color matches the hues in the existing maps and applies these opaque paint mixtures to eradicate names, symbols and other location identifiers. Once the clean slate has been established, she adds drawings of images culled from encyclopedias, dictionaries, travel guides and assorted manuals. For her, this process is parallel to an internal process of creating a clean slate or starting over. Her painting is complete when connections between seemingly random images are revealed.

Plein Air: New Mexico Opening reception May 3, 5-7pm Monday, May 3 - Friday, May 14   Three east coast artists explore the enchanting New Mexican desert.