The Paseo Project, 630 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, #100, Taos, NM (2026)

05/19/2026

Join us for a public artist talk with Tawni Shuler on Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM at The Gallery @ Hotel Willa, 233 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, NM. Free and open to the public.

The Paseo Project and Hotel Willa welcome Wyoming-based artist and former Taos resident Tawni Shuler as the May 2026 Artist-in-Residence. Working primarily in large-scale black-and-white drawings, Shuler creates fable-inspired narratives that explore the emotional connections between animals, landscapes, and the human experience. Drawing from mythology, storytelling, and close observation of the natural world, her work blends photographic realism with symbolic and imagined elements.

05/19/2026

Community Mural Celebration in Questa
Sunday, May 31, from 12–2 PM at Questa Visitor Center (1 NM-38, Questa, NM),

Community invited to celebrate new public mural by Taos artist Jisk27 with free lunch, live music, and local organizations

The 100% Taos County Initiative, in partnership with The Paseo Project and Questa Creative Council, invites the community to a public celebration for the completion of a new mural in Questa by Northern New Mexico artist Sean Carpentier, also known as Jisk27.

The Questa Mural Celebration will take place on Sunday, May 31, from 12–2 PM at Questa Visitor Center (1 NM-38, Questa, NM), bringing together residents, families, artists, musicians, and community organizations for an afternoon of art, food, and connection centered around the power of creativity and opportunity in rural communities.

The event will feature a live performance by the Communities of Questa Mariachi, free lunch for the first 100 attendees provided through Wendy’s Food Cart, guest speakers, and informational tables from local organizations including Localogy, Vida del Norte, and additional community partners.

The mural is part of an ongoing effort by the 100% Taos County Initiative with support from The Paseo Project, continuing a growing series of public artworks across Taos County that connect creativity, community identity, and civic engagement. This year’s project was developed in partnership with Questa Creative Council and reflects themes emerging from the 100% Taos County Job Skills Action Team, which has been working to strengthen workforce development, mentorship, accessibility, and pathways for youth and emerging workers throughout the region.

05/14/2026

The Paseo Project, Del Fuego, and the Forest Stewards Guild are proud to announce the 2026 cohort for DISTURBANCE: The Art & Ecology of Change — a new interdisciplinary initiative bringing artists, scientists, and community members together to explore wildfire, ecology, resilience, and transformation across Northern New Mexico.

Selected from more than 150 national applicants, this year’s cohort includes artists working across painting, clay, fiber, installation, photography, research-based practices, and community storytelling, alongside leading fire ecologists, foresters, and climate researchers invited by Del Fuego.

In April, the cohort gathered in Taos for an immersive four-day Fire Ecology Boot Camp, visiting burn scars and post-fire landscapes across Northern New Mexico while engaging in conversations around fire history, climate change, land stewardship, adaptation, and ecological transformation.

Over the coming months, participating artists will develop new works responding to these experiences, culminating in the opening of DISTURBANCE on August 28–30, 2026 at The Gallery @ Hotel Willa and additional locations across Taos County.

2026 Artist Cohort:
Rachel Briggs
Cori Champagne
Avi Farber
Yhoshua Gutierrez
Alexis Hagestad
Juanita Lavadie
Mandy Lee
Pola Lopez
Erika Osborne
Cedar Rose Silverado
Jonathan Warm Day Coming

Participating Scientists:
Ellis Q. Margolis
Jose M. Iniguez
Matthew Hurteau
Camille Stevens-Rumann
Andrea E. Thode
Serra Hoagland

DISTURBANCE continues through January 2027 with exhibitions, public programs, workshops, youth engagement, artist + scientist talks, guided field experiences, and community activations throughout Taos County.

Opening Weekend:
August 28–30, 2026

The Disturbance Program is generously supported by The Paseo Project & Del Fuego, The Town of Taos, Taos County, Southwest Fire Science Consortium, Forest Stewards Guild, The LOR Foundation, Taos Soil & Water Conservation District, Twirl, and LEAP.

04/18/2026

MovementLab Activates The Gallery @ Hotel Willa with Undercurrent
An evening of movement, sound, and conversation responding to The Drawing Show

On March 26 the The Paseo Project presented, Undercurrent, a site-responsive movement performance by MovementLab, activating The Gallery @ Hotel Willa for one night. The performance was followed by an artist talk moderated by Amber Vasquez.

Performed by dancers Nadine Lollino and Elizabeth Gomez, with original music by Trey Donovan, Undercurrent responded to The Drawing Show currently on view at the Gallery. Inspired by the exhibition’s color, form, and visual energy, the performance explores how connections between people and place persist beneath the surface—much like the intertwined roots of trees and fungi.

Following the performance, attendees were invited to join a post-performance conversation with the artists, moderated by Amber Vasquez. Amber serves as the Education Manager for The Paseo Project and works with Twirl, where she leads early-childhood play, literacy, and arts integration programs. A seasoned dancer and arts educator, Amber brings over two decades of experience in movement and community arts engagement, from professional performance to arts-based learning in schools and community spaces.

MovementLab is a contemporary dance collective dedicated to experimentation, collaboration, and site-responsive performance, creating works that engage architecture, landscape, and community. More information can be found at movementlab.dance.

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04/18/2026

Disturbance is a new interdisciplinary initiative by The Paseo Project and Del Fuego that brings artists, scientists, and community members together to examine wildfire as both a destabilizing force and a generative ecological process.

Disturbance unfolds as a season-long arc of research, creation, and public engagement, culminating in a community exhibition opening August 28, 2026, and continuing through the fall.

Wildfire is rapidly reshaping ecosystems and communities across Northern New Mexico, the Southwest, and beyond. Once an integral cycle of renewal, fire has become increasingly destructive due to climate change, forest mismanagement, and expanding human settlement in fire-prone landscapes. Disturbance resists simplified narratives of catastrophe, instead inviting artists and audiences to grapple with fire as a complex system—one that holds grief, adaptation, resilience, and transformation in tension.

The project began with an open call that brought together a cohort of artists working across disciplines. Selected artists will participate in a Northern New Mexico–based Fire Ecology Boot Camp, a formative, research-driven convening that paired artists with fire practitioners, ecologists, land stewards, and community knowledge holders. Through shared learning, field visits to burn scars and post-fire landscapes, and sustained dialogue, the boot camp established a common foundation from which new creative work could emerge.

Following this immersive experience, artists returned to their home studios to develop new works responding to the ecological, cultural, and emotional dimensions of wildfire. These projects—ranging from installation and sculpture to media-based and participatory works—will be brought together for the public opening of Disturbance on August 28, 2026, launching a multi-month exhibition and program series in Taos.

With support from:

Taos Soil and Water

04/18/2026

Welcomes Dust Wave
Opening Reception | April 23, 4 - 6pm | TCA’s Encore Gallery.
Artist Talk | April 26, 2:30 pm | The Gallery @ Hotel Willa

The Paseo Project is proud to host Dust Wave, an Albuquerque-based film and arts collective, in conjunction with the 2026 Taos Film Festival. Dust Wave will present “Life After Dead Air,” the featured exhibition in Encore Gallery at the Taos Center for the Arts during the Taos Film Festival. The Paseo Project is also hosting an Artist Talk on Sunday, April 26th at 2:30 pm at the Gallery at Hotel Willa, offering insight into their collaborative practice and current exhibition.

Dust Wave is an Albuquerque-based film and arts collective practicing positive, empathetic, and supportive collaboration. Since 2020 they have produced an array of creative projects including award winning films, festivals, and arts exhibitions and experiences.

In celebration and partnership with the inaugural Taos Film Festival, The Paseo Project brings Dust Wave back for a curated installation in the Encore Gallery. “Life After Dead Air” will be on during the Taos Film Festival from April 23–26, 2026, with an opening reception planned for Thursday evening, April 23rd, 4 - 6pm in the Encore Gallery. This exhibition brings together artists working with moving images to explore corporeal reality in a digital age. Though their practices differ, each artist centers the tensions of living in an age of uncertainty. With common themes of nostalgia and novelty, the works in the show approach these tensions with curiosity and joy. Together, they show how culture continues in the ruins of media infrastructure.

The Artist Talk, scheduled for Sunday, April 26th, 2:30 pm at Hotel Willa’s Gallery, offers audiences an opportunity to engage directly with the collective, learn more about their process, and gain deeper insight into the ideas shaping the exhibition.

This project is in collaboration with the Taos Center for the Arts, in support of the inaugural Taos Film Festival

04/18/2026

DC Allen: Faces of Our Land
May 1 – August 16, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 4 - 7 PM
Gallery at Hotel Willa, 233 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos, NM

The Paseo Project presents Faces of Our Land, a solo exhibition by artist DC Allen (Baaa t’ – chlish, Del Curfman, Crow Tribe of Montana), opening May 1 at The Gallery at Hotel Willa in Taos, New Mexico. The exhibition runs through August 16, 2026, with a public opening reception on Friday, May 1 from 4–7 PM.

Working across painting, photography, digital sketching, and film, Allen collaborates with Indigenous cultural leaders, artists, educators, activists, and community members. The resulting works move beyond traditional portraiture. Gesture, posture, regalia, contemporary clothing, commercial logos, archival imagery, and elements of popular culture appear within the compositions as narrative, revealing layered stories of identity and presence.

A number of the works on display begin with a recorded conversation between Allen and the individual depicted—an exchange rooted in story and lived experience. These interviews become part of the exhibition itself, presented as video recordings that allow viewers to encounter not only the painted image, but the voice and narrative behind it.

“The work is about informing,” Allen explains. “I’m not making paintings to make a statement—I’m using them to help people understand.”

Through these works, Faces of Our Land explores themes of tribal sovereignty, cultural resilience, commodification, appropriation, food justice, land, and identity. Allen’s work reflects the lived tension between ancestral traditions and contemporary realities, between Indigenous identity and the ongoing legacy of colonial narratives.

A number of works in Faces of Our Land highlight artists and cultural figures connected to Taos and the surrounding Pueblo communities, grounding the exhibition within the living Native cultures of Northern New Mexico. Among these is a large-scale portrait of Santiago Romero.

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04/18/2026

Join us! We're partnering with Taos Center for the Arts for the first annual Taos Film Festival! We're bringing in Dust Wave, to activate the Encore Gallery at the TCA. - Get your film festival passes now: www.tff.org

"Life After Dead Air"
An exhibition activated by Dust Wave
Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts
Presented as part of the Taos Film Festival, April 23–26, 2026

Exhibition: April 23 - 26, 2026
“Life After Dead Air” Encore Gallery, Taos Center for the Arts, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos.

Opening Reception: April 23, 4 - 6pm
“Life After Dead Air” by Dust Wave, Encore Gallery, Taos Center for the Arts, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos.

Artist Talk: April 26, 2:30 pm
Dust Wave, Paseo Project’s Artist in Residence, The Gallery @ Hotel Willa, 233 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos.

Dust Wave is an Albuquerque-based film and arts collective practicing positive, empathetic, and supportive collaboration. Since 2020 they have produced an array of creative projects including award winning films, festivals, and arts exhibitions and experiences.

03/16/2026

Artist Discussion & Book Signing with Sandra Jackson-Opoku
With local guests: Dorothy Vaughn and Béalleka Makau, Ph.D.
March 19 | 5 PM
The Gallery @ Hotel Willa | Taos

FREE

The Paseo Project and Hotel Willa are excited to welcome Sandra Jackson-Opoku, our March Writer-in-Residence, for a public artist talk and book signing.

Jackson-Opoku is an award-winning novelist, poet, and journalist whose work explores history, travel, culture, and the lived experiences of the African diaspora. During her residency in Taos this March, she is spending time writing, researching, and connecting with the community.

Join us on March 19th at 5 PM for a conversation with the author and a signing of her newest book, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes — a lively mystery praised for its unforgettable characters, humor, and rich cultural storytelling.

Sandra will be joined in conversation by Taos locals Dorothy Vaughn and Béalleka Makau, Ph.D.

Dorothy Vaughn is a Taos-based cook, business owner, and writer whose work includes memoir, poetry, and sharp one-liners that explore culture, diaspora, and identity. With a background in English literature and deep interests in Harlem Renaissance and diasporic writing, her work reflects Black cultural perspectives and lived experience. She is also co-owner of Bodega by Church, a Taos business she runs with Lee Clayton that brings together food, creativity, and community.

Béalleka Makau, Ph.D., is an author, coach, and former professor of African and African American Literature, American Studies, and Gender & Women’s Studies. Based in Taos since 2018, Béalleka writes creative non-fiction and coaches people to get free using REDE (Radical Empathy Disrupts Entitlement), a curriculum she originated in 2017. She is currently completing a memoir about her indigenous Kenyan/German-American ancestry; self-emancipation from academia; and embodied, liberatory practice.

The Gallery @ Hotel Willa
233 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos
Free and open to the public

03/10/2026

Artist Talk & Book Signing with Sandra Jackson-Opoku
March 19 | 5 PM
The Gallery @ Hotel Willa | Taos

The Paseo Project and Hotel Willa are excited to welcome Sandra Jackson-Opoku, our March Writer-in-Residence, for a public artist talk and book signing.

Jackson-Opoku is an award-winning novelist, poet, and journalist whose work explores history, travel, culture, and the lived experiences of the African diaspora. During her residency in Taos this March, she is spending time writing, researching, and connecting with the community.

Join us on March 19th at 5 PM for a conversation with the author and a signing of her newest book, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes — a lively mystery praised for its unforgettable characters, humor, and rich cultural storytelling.

The Gallery @ Hotel Willa
233 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos
Free and open to the public
Books available for purchase and signing

Come meet the author, hear about her work, and celebrate storytelling in Taos.

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