Indigenous Free Ways: From North 2 South IPCC museum

Proud to announce we made it to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Museum last year and it will be on showcase thru June 2026! #indigenousfreeways #SouthwestWildstyle #ArrowsoulArtCollective Albuquerque, New Mexico

Mural Exhibition by Arrowsoul Art Collective, Art Through Struggle Gallery

ON VIEW AUGUST 9, 2025-JUNE 28, 2026

The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC) is honored to collaborate with the Arrowsoul Art Collective, an Indigenous group of artists that ground mural, letter-structure, and graffiti-influenced art in community dialogue, healing, and reciprocity. Their artwork remains rooted in a foundation of mutual understanding and cultural exchange. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Arrowsoul Art Collective breaks down borders and beautifies public spaces through its Indigenous art shop, associated gatherings, and creative convenings. Up and down the Rio Grande, they host community art projects that invite endless innovation in a variety of expressions–visual, sound-based, lyrical, dance, and performance.

Arrowsoul Art Collective creates storied mural paintings on exterior building walls inspired by the evolving meanings of “Future Old School” and “Indigenous Freeways.” Future Old School turns to an understanding of the relevance and critical need for ancestral Indigenous knowledge in today’s world. Indigenous Freeways reflect the need for cultural reciprocity and openness to ongoing change. The artists create new visions of the Southwest landscape through blending letter structures, illustrative architecture, and textured palettes of places of home. Arrowsoul Art Collective’s projects reunite communities along the Rio Grande through creative participation.

Arrowsoul Art Collective’s mural installation fuses concepts of the beginning, present, and future of Indigenous pictographic arts. In the Southwest region, pictographs are painted visual forms on ancestral rocks, often as pigment on basalt. These images record particular moments of Indigenous presence, migration, and history in the area. To the Collective, “The Arrow is used by all Indigenous peoples around the world for hunting and protecting. The Soul is what we are feeding and defending.”

About the Artists:

Arrowsoul Art Collective, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, invites artistic expression and cultural exchange in community gatherings throughout the region. With “Arrowsoul,” or aerosol spray paint, as a primary medium, the Collective nurtures deep connections with the ancestral pictographic arts of Indigenous peoples in the Southwest and beyond. This group of artists grounds their creative practices in arts across all mediums. Their convenings include hiphop, breakdancing, public art, and everything in between. A basis of mentorship for the next generations fuels their work as role models for their communities. Time and time again, Arrowsoul Art Collective both enacts and demonstrates the healing power of artistic creation. They build new relationships across cultures to empower strength, kindness, and care within communities–all with an edge of funk, surprise, and trailblazing.

15th Annual Illegal? Art Show: Martial Wall

15 year we have donated and beautified Our Las Cruces Community with #ArrowsoulArt from all over #TheSouthwest. Many artists will be painting on the future site of LCBoys&Girls Club! Former Video 4 building in the center of town. Looking forward to seeing your #southwestwildstyle -SABA & NASHA @arrowsoultradingpost @barricadecultureshop #LasCruces #NewMexico

Siteseeing with Vyal and Recon in Las Cruces, NM 2021

I recently had the pleasure of painting this beautiful #southwestwildstyle collaborative piece with the homie Vyal One from #losAngeles along with Recon from LC by way of Oakland and now Puerto Rico! This build use to house the west end art depot, a artists coop but failed to meet a medium with the city… thank you Derrick and Sara from Hoodride for your continued support for the Las Cruces graffiti scene and getting great footage!

Music by Waterockers Pushingbuttons

“Site Seeing” with Vyal One

Happy 4th of Julie to our Deported and abandon US Soldiers

Recently heard about this growing issue… Had the pleasure of going to Juarez, Mexico and meeting a deported veteran that went to Iraq and made it back home, only to get deported. With not a lot of support for these soldiers, I find myself appalled at the fact that in the name of god they killed and fought for a seat at this forth of July cookout.

Music by @#nataaniiMeans

Bring Home Our Deported US Veterans Mural by Saba

#DiedInExile #DeportedUSveterans #july4th2021 #bringHomeDeportedVeterans

LOCATION: Enchanted Occasions Event Rentals 1333 E Amador Ave, Las Cruces, NM 88001

“Abya Yala: Indigenous Freeways”

Putting the Continent Back Together

Albuquerque’s newest mural envisions a brighter world

Karie Luidens or https://linktr.ee/southwest_ness

Walls often serve to divide people.

For the visionaries of NSRGNTS, however, walls can also bring people together.

The art collective recently unveiled their latest mural at HomegrowNM Trading Post, on the corner of Central Avenue and Morningside Drive SE. “Abya Yala: Indigenous Freeways” depicts a single continuous landscape from south to north, united by an overarching rainbow.

“A lot of people, nowadays, when they think of borders, they think that borders are protecting us,” says Votan Ik, who founded NSRGNTS just over 20 years ago.

As he sees it, however, border enforcement fundamentally harms the land, fosters exploitation, and sows conflict.

“That is not something that we as Indigenous people of this continent have executed, right?” he says.

“Borders are still a very new concept,” adds Leah Lewis, Ik’s partner and fellow NSRGNTS activist.

Seeking to share their vision of an undivided continent, Ik and Lewis teamed up with local artist Saba to design the “Abya Mala” mural, supported by a grant from the Native Health Initiative.

Read more of this story at https://medium.com/southwestness/putting-the-continent-back-together-63ffd8ec3994 by Karie Luidens of #TheSouthwestness

Artists Votan Ik, Leah Lewis, and Saba unveiled the mural “Abya Yala: Indigenous Freeways” on May 22. Photo courtesy of NSRGNTS
The mural’s southern end features a Maya temple, smiling saguaro, and boy wearing a jaguar headdress with Kawaii-style eyes. Photos by Karie Luidens
Pueblo girl
The mural’s north end features a Pueblo girl alongside an adobe Sabahut complex. Photos by Karie Luidens
The finished mural beams with smiles behind the artists who designed it: Saba with his wife Shawna and two children (left), and Votan Ik and Leah Lewis with their son (right). Photo courtesy of NSRGNTS

Truth & Consequences with a sling blade Mural by Sabawear (music by Binary Star)

https://www.lascrucesbulletin.com/stories/saba-gives-people-something-to-think-about,5400?fbclid=IwAR2Ywylyh7YDCo3xDnt58TNZTS8wY8jNhI4it0zbVdYCHTzUTR6niiVMBfI

TorC Brewing Co Mural Las Cruces, New Mexico covid2020