Tag: #Art
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Learn to Photograph Wildlife at South Broadway Library
Join Open Space staff to learn about wildlife photography, from the ethical guidelines of taking pictures of wildlife to how to best tweak your camera’s settings to take advantage of the best lighting.
Free, but registration required HERE. (Place free tickets in cart by clicking “Get Tickets,” then “Add to Selection List,” and signing into/up for web account.)
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True NM 2024 Exhibition Artist Showcase
Did you miss the True NM Sawubona exhibit in May, or wish you’d had more time to explore it? Now’s your chance! The 2024 cohort of Black and AAPINH youth artists is gathering again to show their art at Explora, with a showcase from 4:00 to 5:00 pm and works on display from October 12 through 20.
Attendees coming to view the exhibit on the 19th need not pay admission – just need to tell the front desk you are there for the True NM exhibit.
A collaboration between NMAFC and NMBLC, working to combat New Mexico’s tricultural myth. More information HERE.
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OffCenter Arts Harvest Brunch
Support OffCenter’s community art program and enjoy delicious food catered by Knead, as well as games, puppets, art-making, a DJ, an art-supply raffle – and a chance to connect with your community – at OffCenter’s Harvest Brunch!
Get your ticket – or fund a ticket for an OffCenter artist – at https://www.offcenterarts.org/celebrate-oc-brunch.
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ABQ Artwalk
September’s Artwalk will be held on Friday the 6th! This month will feature a series of art exhibits, art markets, and outdoor live painting.
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Virtual Art Workshop: NMAAHC Design Trinket Dish
Create your own trinket dish inspired by the iron lattice work on the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Your $20 ticket includes a packet of materials mailed to you – you just provide a home oven, baking sheet, and parchment paper!
Sign up for the workshop (and pay) HERE BY SEPTEMBER 18. Learn more about the NMAAHC building HERE.
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OffCenter Arts Community Dinner
Join the fun and connect with your community at this FREE potluck! Bring a dish to share or just bring yourself.
Join in an optional mini journal activity and enjoy a performance led by theater artist extraordinaire Marie. Check out updates to the studio and shop the gallery. It’s going to be an awesome evening!
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Albuquerque Artwalk
Enjoy only-in-New-Mexico creativity at this month’s Artwalk! Art, vendors, and lots more down Central Ave (and Copper too) from 1st to 9th streets. Shop, eat, or just get an eyeful of wonderful work from local artists!
More info at the Artwalk website.
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Pride Paint and Puff
Get your tickets HERE for this 21+, cannabis-friendly event!
The Mothership Alumni will host a painting session with all supplies included: Choose from a blank canvas a pre-stenciled one. Painting guides will be there to help! Cannabis provided by PurLife; you may bring your own as well. $40 entry.
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True NM Exhibition Combats State’s Tricultural Myth
by Kristin Satterlee
You’ve probably heard New Mexico’s tricultural myth: the common misconception that the state’s culture is a harmonious blend of Indigenous, Latinx, and Anglo heritages. Setting aside this myth’s other inaccuracies, where does that fable leave the stories of African American and AAPINH (Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian) New Mexicans who are just as much a part of the tale?
Twelve young New Mexicans move the needle on that myth in the fourth annual True NM 2024 Sawubona Exhibition, taking place during this May’s Albuquerque Artwalk on May 3. The True New Mexico program, cosponsored by New Mexico Black Leadership Council and New Mexico Asian Family Center, is designed to combat racism by bringing young people together to share their stories with the community through art. The artists receive a stipend for supplies and to pay for their time, allowing them to focus on creating. But before the art gets made, the artists do a deep dive into their own stories and those of their wider communities.
“We asked the youth from the start. … What matters to you?” says Sarah “Zee” Azibo, program coordinator. “When you’re talking about anti-racism, what do you want to talk about? It’s been really powerful. [The youth artists] are the ones who made this what it is.”
Those discussions ranged wide and deep from February through April, through topics like affirmative action, equity vs. equality, intersectionality, othering, identity, and self-perception. As well as having those weighty conversations—facilitated by youth coordinators Kai Warrior and Ayami Nakanishi—True NM artists met with BIPOC guest artists and participated in activities: A shoe swap helped them learn deeply about the other youth in their cohort, a Downtown art walk led to reflection about representation in public art, and more.
The 2024 True NM cohort selected “Sawubona”—a Zulu term that means “I see you seeing me”—as this year’s exhibition theme. The True NM program does more than combat racism and the tricultural myth: It develops leaders by increasing participants’ self-esteem and awareness of themselves, their communities, and the wider world. You can be part of that development—by attending and supporting the True NM Exhibition, and by getting the kids in your life involved in other arts-based leadership development opportunities like NMBLC’s Roots Summer Leadership Academy (RSLA). RSLA helps youth develop self-esteem and leadership through interpersonal connection, STEM, arts, and social-emotional learning. Registration opened in April, so learn more and sign up at bit.ly/rsla2024.
Don’t take our word for the value of these programs in the development of the youth who will lead us into the future. In the words of 2024 True NM artist Isabella Park, “This is the first time I’ve ever had people that look like me and share the same cultural identities as me speak about the passions I share. … I was able to connect and process traumas and my own experiences that I didn’t realize were there.”
True NM Sawubona Exhibition Opening Reception
May 3, 2024
5:30-8:30pm
Orpheum Community Hub
500 Second Street NW