Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros

Exterior of Fort Garland with snow-capped mountains behind an adobe building.

Upcoming Exhibition

Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros

Jun 28, 2026 to Feb 28, 2027

Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros explores adobe as a living practice that connects art, architecture, and ancestral knowledge across the Americas. From the high deserts of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico to the valleys of northern Argentina, earth, water, and fiber have long been shaped by hand and sustained through communal care. Adobe endures not through permanence but through renewal — its survival bound to the annual acts of maintenance, ceremony, and reciprocity that give it life.

Presented through a collaboration between the Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center and Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, Unearthing Futures extends beyond the gallery to encompass a network of historic and contemporary adobe structures across the Southwest. These include homes, churches, and community spaces that serve as living archives of memory, labor, and cultural continuity.

As we reflect on 150 years of statehood and 250 years of nationhood, Unearthing Futures offers visitors a timely opportunity to examine histories and cultural practices that predate state and national borders, while fostering meaningful dialogue about our shared future.