1 Seek truth in wine. 

Warm up with a glass of vino from one of the best wineries in the country during the annual Taos Winter Wine Festival, with events in town and at the Taos Ski Valley. On Thursday evening, enjoy champagne and caviar après-ski–style, along with seafood nibbles, at El Monte Sagrado with chef Louis Moskow from 315 Restaurant & Wine Bar in Santa Fe. Another après-ski event takes over the ski mountain on Friday with California wineries, while the grand tasting on Saturday evening gives attendees access to all 30 participating vintners. Get tickets here.

Photographer Dillon Sachs presents film images of the American Southwest in a solo show at H+H Arts.

2 Explore the Southwest through a photographer’s lens.

Selected Southwest Works, a new solo show by Dillon Sachs at H+H Arts in Santa Fe, features 18 images shot on film. His one-of-a-kind photographs capture swaths of color, striking individuals, outdoor scenes, and other essential kernels of the human experience that, he says, “encapsulate an underlying visual and conceptual portrayal of the American Southwest.” Taken between Texas and California, with the majority shot in New Mexico, Sachs strives to create something that lasts. “I’ve always loved digging through archival images of New Mexico, and I hope that these can serve future generations in a similar way,” he adds. Celebrate the show, which runs through March 13, at an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday. 

The Albuquerque Museum opens a major retrospective of Delilah Montoya's influential career. Courtesy of the Albuquerque Museum.

3 Celebrate an indelible Chicana artist.

Photography, printmaking, installations, and artist books are all part of Delilah Montoya’s repertoire, and all of these mediums are on view in a new retrospective at the Albuquerque Museum, Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance, opening Friday. More than 150 works on display show Montoya’s lifelong creative expressions about community, identity, history, land, and borders, and the show also features bodies of work around women boxers and Virgen de Guadalupe tattoos. Curator Josie Lopez, who wrote the accompanying catalog, calls the artist “an investigator of histories and lived experiences.” On Saturday at 2 p.m., a discussion between Montoya and Lopez takes place at the museum. See the exhibition through May 3.

IAIA's Museum of Contemporary Native Art opens two new exhibitions exploring Indigenous stories and identity, including works by Stella Nall. Courtesy of the artist.

4 Catch two new museum shows of Native art.

Head to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe on Friday for the debut of two new exhibitions: Paper Trails: Unfolding Indigenous Narratives, and Stella Nall: Offerings from My Heart. 

Paper Trails is a group show featuring North American Indigenous artists who explore paper as a mode of expression that reaches beyond its two-dimensional appearance. Delving into themes like surviving colonialism and boarding-school trauma, traditional Native foods, land and water, and hidden histories, the show centers on Indigenous futures, identity, and decolonization. Co-curated by Melissa Melero-Moose (Northern Paiute), and Erica Knecht, and MoCNA chief curator Manuela Well-Off-Man, Paper Trails is on view through July 12. 

Multimedia artist and poet Stella Nall’s (Rode Buffalo, First Descendant of the Crow Tribe) distinct style makes her colorful works part of a recognizable artistic vernacular. In Offerings from My Heart, she speaks in a variety of mediums—including beadwork, printmaking, and painting—creating pieces that reference her culture and ancestry. Her works serve as declarations of generational trauma, but also of joy, resilience, and the power of community.

Smoke the Moon reopens with "Pulp: A Drawing Show," featuring works by 16 contemporary artists, including Heather Benjamin. Courtesy of Smoke the Moon.

5 Dig into some drawings.

Smoke the Moon, a gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, reopens after a winter break with Pulp: A Drawing Show, opening Friday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Featuring pieces by 16 artists whose mediums range from tattoo to architecture to comics and fine art, the exhibition demonstrates the breadth and possibilities of drawing. United by a sense of surrealism, each work is as unique as its creator: some in vibrant color, others in black and white, some bold, others light and ghostly. See drawings by Heather Benjamin, Carla Lopez, Mike Nudelman, Merrideth McDowell, Zac Scheinbaum, and others through March 15. 

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