May 17, 2024

Prototype exhibition at Gallery One

The City of Albuquerque's Public Art Program is pleased to feature an exhibition of 10 local artists' experimental, temporary proposals and prototypes for public artworks that could someday be enlarged and installed along the proposed Rail Trail.

Working in partnership with the City's Department of Technology & Innovation and the CNM Ingenuity's Internet of Things (IoT) and Rapid Prototyping Bootcamp coding program, two groups of artists learned how to blend public art concepts with basic internet driven technology to create interactive and science based public art prototypes through two semesters of a special, artist focused technology bootcamp course.

Participating artists include James Black; Adrian Pijoan; Owen Schwab; KD Neeley; Viola Arduini; Zuyva Sevilla; Emily Silva; Evelyn Rosenberg; CK Cooper; and Celestino Crowhill.

All 10 IoT prototypes and Charles Mattox's laser light sculpture will be on display through June 7. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Gallery One is located on the first floor of City Hall at 1 Civic Plaza NW and is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Learn more at cabq.gov/galleryone and check out this article about the exhibition!

20 Year Dialogue circles around friendship, conversation and art. Artists Stephanie Lerma, Linda Tratechaud, and Katrina Lasko are anchored in their friendship and art. They have been supportive of each other through critiques, exhibits, and conversations of art and life. The exhibit highlights the different approaches of art making but share a conversation about art and friendship.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. 20 Year Dialogue is on view through May 31. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

Learn more about the South Broadway Cultural Center Gallery Exhibitions.

Katrina Lasko, My Brother's Boat, tree branches, various found metals, paint

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Apply to join the Albuquerque Arts Board or Urban Enhancement Trust Fund Board to help make those decisions.

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The Black Chamber of Commerce of New Mexico is conducting a nation-wide public art commission project to design, fabricate, and install a life-size sculpture of Albuquerque athlete and activist Don Perkins. The life-sized tribute will be erected outdoors on Don Perkins Plaza located near the University of New Mexico in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Albuquerque, NM.

The selected artist must have a strong artistic vision and the creative ability to conceptualize and design figurative sculpture with a good eye for form, proportion, and detail to create an aesthetically pleasing work of art as a tribute to Don Perkins. The artist must also be proficient in a variety of sculpting techniques with a deep understanding of the properties of bronze, or other suitable life-like media to capture the intricacies of the proposed designs elements and produce high-quality finished piece(s) to bring their artistic vision to life.

$175,000 is available to commission artwork for this site. Legal residents of the United States are eligible to apply.

Deadline: May 22, 2024 at 4:59 p.m.

Music to Life, invites musicians to apply to its online incubator program–the Musician Changemaker Accelerator (MCA) Academy – starting August 12, 2024. The MCA is a fully underwritten 6.5-month social change business accelerator for 10 competitively selected socially conscious musicians from around the country.

Candidates will be selected based on their musical talent and their enterprising idea for a music-driven social change program in their community. 

Deadline: May 24, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET

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