June 27, 2024

Albuquerque's Department of Arts & Culture and the Public Art Program invites Albuquerque artists to submit proposals for site-specific temporary public art installations that will activate Albuquerque's downtown during Fall 2024 into early 2025.

Up to 10 sites will be lit up with installations, architectural light interventions, light sculptures, performance, projections, and more for City Brights II. Artists are encouraged to challenge traditional artistic mediums and explore unconventional digital or light affects; all projects must include light as a primary element.

Eligible artists must reside in Albuquerque and be 18 years of age and older. Awards are divided into small, medium, and large based on the site and scale of the proposed project. Awards are in the amount of $2,500, $5,000, or $10,000.

New Deadline: July 8, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

Do you love art? Draw It! Join us at Gallery One for a free one-hour sketch class with artist, Derrick Montez, from the Interpretive Reflections exhibition.

Friday, June 28 from 12 to 1 p.m.

Gallery One, 1 Civic Plaza NW, Suite 1400 on the first floor of City Hall

The event is free and open to the public. Just bring paper, pencils, erasers - and your creativity!

Derrick Montez, Self Portrait, oil on canvas

Derrick Montez began his art career exhibiting with the mural team of Wayne Heally and David Bottello in their studio gallery known as the Palmetto Art Gallery. Mr. Montez relocated to Albuquerque, NM where he has continued making art. Exhibiting in Santa Fe and Albuquerque he has received regional media attention on television, radio, and print.

Learn more about Interpretive Reflections at cabq.gov/galleryone.

Saturday, June 29 from 4 - 6 p.m. at Chispas Farm, Albuquerque

mai writes:

"In grief, we are alone, and not alone. We alone are the stewards of our own grief, and also,each of us is an important part of many histories and ecosystems, messy and paradoxical, but full of life. At this Noria Cafe, we will wonder, wander, and explore how grief can deepen our sense of (inter)connection - with ourselves and the living, breathing earth that we are a part of. We'll experience the vast and vibrant wisdom that is alive within these connections, and how these connections can grow our capacity to be - whether with grief, or the earth - with reverence, reciprocity, and care."

Noria cafés are a hybrid of guided and exploratory sharing of what hurts, in a curious and reverent community. Each month is led by different facilitators coming from varying experiences of loss, cultural background and practice.

mai c. doan is a poet, writer, and grief worker rooted in ancestral and earth-based spiritual

practice. She writes and teaches writing as a creative and contemplative practice to deepen self-connection and affirm our inherent belonging to ourselves, our stories, and the earth.

mai is the author of water/tongue, a 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry. She lives in Albuquerque, NM with her dog, Story. Find her in the sandias, or at maicdoan.com.

Please RSVP at inquiries@unashayhome.com to give us a sense of how many to expect.

Welcomed donations ($10 - 40) to support the facilitator, with no one turned away.

City of Albuquerque Public Art Urban Enhancement Division | cabq.gov/publicart