an artist-run community art space
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It’s all pipes
Rachel Bordeleau & Taylor Engel at Alpaca Public Installation Viewing: Friday May 1, 5-10pm Opening Reception: Friday May 8, 6-9pm Presentation Series: Saturday May 16, 7-10pm It’s the end. I didn’t want to know. The pipes are calling. I’m not looking. Besides calling, they’re getting dressed, they're making choices, they’re making decisions and it’s based on something. They’re being watched and they don’t know. They’re looking at something and does this fit? The manual is here and they’re behaving. There’s a story inside a story. The illusion of control. The slice of pie I selected, the crumbs on the floor. Believe me as pipes. They only exist if you see them. |
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Presentation Series Presents
Rabbit Holes Hosted by Rachel Bordeleau & Taylor Engel at Alpaca Saturday May 16, 7-10pm BYO mug for tea 
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Forgotten Barelas:
Recovered History of a Lost Business District Monica Bencomo at Fourteenfifteen Opening Reception: Friday May 1, 6-9pm Forgotten Barelas: Recovered History of a Lost Business District is an exhibition inspired by Monica Bencomo’s capstone project completed in Spring 2024 for the Historic Preservation Program at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning, in which she documented the business district that once existed in the Barelas neighborhood adjacent to the former Santa Fe Railway Shops. Long overshadowed by the prominence of the Santa Fe Railway Shops—the largest employer in New Mexico at its peak—this corridor was a vibrant, multicultural network of small businesses, workforce housing, and railroad-related industry that sustained the daily lives of railroad workers and neighborhood families. |
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The exhibition brings into focus individual businesses in this area and the story of these businesses will be told using a combination of archival photographs, historic architectural drawings, newspaper articles, Sanborn maps, and city directories paired with contemporary images. Forgotten Barelas invites viewers to reflect on the lasting impacts of industry decline and disinvestment, presenting the corridor as a learning landscape shaped by change over time. The exhibition presents a visual and historical juxtaposition of this corridor adjacent to what is now known as the Rail Yards, revealing what the area was then and what it has become today.
UPCOMING:
CALL FOR ART: DECLARATIONS OF INCONGRUENCE
Group Exhibition “Declarations of Incongruence,” July 3-31, 2026, guest curated by Aaron Wilder
Submission deadline: May 24, 2026
No submission fee.
OPEN CALL
Fourteenfifteen invites art submissions for our July 2026 exhibition “Declarations of Incongruence” by guest curator Aaron Wilder. At a time of commemorations of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this exhibition draws attention to the document’s covert normalization of exclusion and exploitation. Despite 250 years of claimed progress, expanded inclusion, and justice for all, the Declaration’s true legacy continues in the erosion and erasure of cultures, identities, rights, and statuses not only at the federal level, but also perpetuated by state, county, and municipal governments. This exhibition seeks artistic declarations of challenging, highlighting, refusing, resilience despite, and thriving and joy despite the perpetuation of incongruence between America’s founding mythology and contemporary, future, and historic realities.
Group Exhibition “Declarations of Incongruence,” July 3-31, 2026, guest curated by Aaron Wilder
Submission deadline: May 24, 2026
No submission fee.
OPEN CALL
Fourteenfifteen invites art submissions for our July 2026 exhibition “Declarations of Incongruence” by guest curator Aaron Wilder. At a time of commemorations of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this exhibition draws attention to the document’s covert normalization of exclusion and exploitation. Despite 250 years of claimed progress, expanded inclusion, and justice for all, the Declaration’s true legacy continues in the erosion and erasure of cultures, identities, rights, and statuses not only at the federal level, but also perpetuated by state, county, and municipal governments. This exhibition seeks artistic declarations of challenging, highlighting, refusing, resilience despite, and thriving and joy despite the perpetuation of incongruence between America’s founding mythology and contemporary, future, and historic realities.
HORIZON
Curator-in-Residence Mallika Singh
June - August 2026 at Alpaca
HORIZON (i am within a vast structure in my dreams) is a three-part performance, workshop series, temporary reading room, and micro-radio. The series is divided into three themes:
Inspired by mobile and fugitive libraries, HORIZON will also be a reading room and space of study that will be open to the public on Saturdays and Mondays in July and August.
Our first performance will be on Friday, June 5 at 6:30pm featuring: Mia Kang, mónica teresa ortiz, imogen smith, alma valdez garcia, and daniela del mar. alma valdez garcia will teach a weaving workshop on Saturday, June 6 from 1-3pm.
July and August programming to be announced.
Curator-in-Residence Mallika Singh
June - August 2026 at Alpaca
HORIZON (i am within a vast structure in my dreams) is a three-part performance, workshop series, temporary reading room, and micro-radio. The series is divided into three themes:
- thread (what is coming is more than what is gone)
- body (thousands of militants in the streets)
- home (there are trees in the future)
Inspired by mobile and fugitive libraries, HORIZON will also be a reading room and space of study that will be open to the public on Saturdays and Mondays in July and August.
Our first performance will be on Friday, June 5 at 6:30pm featuring: Mia Kang, mónica teresa ortiz, imogen smith, alma valdez garcia, and daniela del mar. alma valdez garcia will teach a weaving workshop on Saturday, June 6 from 1-3pm.
July and August programming to be announced.
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