Art on the Rio brings local creatives back to the breweries

The pandemic shutdown and subsequent restrictions not only limited our craft breweries around the Albuquerque metro area, it also took a bite out of the many other creatives who utilized the taprooms for events and other showcases.

Well, Carlos Contreras is not the type to sit back and just wait for everything to blow over eventually, so he set out to create a new way to help local artists return to the breweries even without the benefit of a full-on art show.

Art on the Rio is the new project from Contreras and his fellow artists, a type of wandering show that can be anything from a single easel display to a full exhibit, all tied to a website where interested patrons can purchase the art on display or even seek out other works by the featured artists.

“Art on the Rio, pre-pandemic, it was planned to have

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