Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros

Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros opens June 27, 2026, at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, and runs through February 28, 2027. Presented with the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, the major exhibition explores adobe as a living practice that links art, architecture, and ancestral knowledge across the Americas. At an unprecedented scale for the Harwood, monumental site-responsive installations reconfigure the galleries with large-scale adobe structures and immersive environments, while partner projects extend across historic sites in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. The exhibition brings together leading artists working with earthen architecture and land-based practice: Gabriel Chaile, whose monumental adobe figures draw on horno traditions of northern Argentina and have shown at the Venice Biennale; rafa esparza, who builds a collective adobe tunnel and has featured in the Whitney Biennial; Santino Gonzales, who embeds radio and sound technologies in earthen forms; Joanna Keane Lopez, whose Energetic Materials examines land use in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin; Ronald Rael, a UC Berkeley professor debuting a robotically 3D-printed adobe threshold; and Christine Howard Sandoval, who lets hand-worked adobe crack and shift as an assertion of living land. Two community-rooted guest curators, Guadalupe Tafoya and Deborah Lujan, shape major sections of the show, centered respectively on devotional adobe architecture and on Taos Pueblo as one of the oldest continuously inhabited earthen sites in the Americas. Opening weekend runs June 26 to 28, with a press and VIP preview, an artist panel, an opening celebration at the Harwood with live music, and a community celebration at Fort Garland.