Author Archives: Carlos Contreras

How goes it, art fans? We hope you are doing well. We hope that you finished 2022 in a way that allowed you to reflect on another year complete, and gave you time and ability to look at the future and smile about 2023. Here at Art on the Rio, we are excited about GROWING […]

Art On The Rio experienced quite the year in 2021 – and we are launching into 2022 with NEW experiences and shows to offer. That’s right, rather than the same old song and dance. We are shuffling into 2022 with some different cards to play. We aren’t along the artwalk but we will be dancing […]

NFT is a word you are hearing used more and more, but what is it? Can I get one at Target? Short answer: nope, you can’t. But You CAN get it on your phone – and support artists on a local or GLOBAL scale while doing so. NFTs are a way to prove ownership of […]

Art On The Rio experienced  a great first year of operations. We are heading into year two with an extreme amount of gratitude and hope. We think that there’s got to be a number of folks in New Mexico’s creative economy ecosystem that have at least heard about AOR. Maybe they’re not familiar with the […]

It’s been a year. You can interpret that statement in a number of ways, to mean a number of things – and any way you slice it would not be wrong. 2021 has come, and is about to be GONE. If you’re ready or not, we will be into 2022 before you can blink and […]

Art On The Rio has been in existence for 11 months. That’s not a lot of time. Businesses come and go every day. It’s not rare for someone’s bright idea to be a slowly dimming light, until a fade to black happens. Ironically, businesses want to remain “in the black.” Confused yet? We aren’t trying […]

Hey there – we figured we would try something. We know often folks have questions about how something works but don’t know who to ask. Sometimes folks have the same questions and get different answers, based on who they ask. Probably less often than one would imagine, folks search for an answer from a trusted […]

Art on the Rio popped up in 2021, in response to 2020 a year we all might want to forget for more reasons than just a pandemic. At the time, Art on the Rio was a concept that was supposed to “live” in a building – and good ol’ COVID decided that would not be […]

It’s a Friday morning – the interwebs are pinging with the interaction of digital likenesses, liking and loving, and commenting about anything and everything. This is the world we live in – one activated by our avatars – one driven by digital realities. It’s hard in a world such as this to make an impact… […]

Have you heard of Art on the Rio? Chances are you haven’t, until you just read the previous line that is… And if you have – that’s awesome! We are aiming for folks to have it be a household name as we approach 2022, in ABQ.  Albuquerque is a place driven and fueled by art […]