LAND/ART announces a public art installation on ABQ Ride's D-Ride buses

In Albuquerque during July - September, 516 ARTS presents a public art installation of El Otro Lado: The Other Side - Albuquerque on the free D-Ride buses which loop around Downtown.

During the spring, 516 ARTS, in partnership with the Academy for the Love of Learning, offered intergenerational workshops in Bernalillo County Community Centers with writer Michelle Otero and artist Chrissie Orr in collaboration with the organization Connecting Community Voices. The participants and guest artists developed symbolic maps/cartograms, visual representations and audio recordings of their stories, journeys, landmarks, boundaries and their sense of place and home in the land.

These images are now being displayed on the interior of ABQ Ride’s D-Ride buses along with an audio component so bus riders can listen to participants telling their own stories (via cell phone, call 505-515-0032).

The D-Ride travels a loop around Downtown and can be picked up at many locations including the Alvarado Transportation Center at 1st & Gold and at 5th & Central near 516 ARTS. It runs 6:30am to 7pm, and arrives every 7 minutes. For information, call 243-RIDE.

In Santa Fe, the public art installation is on view in various locations June 28 through October. Brochures, map of locations and info are available for download at www.aloveoflearning.org, or call 505-995-1860. El Otro Lado: The Other Side is a project of the Academy for the Love of Learning and is supported by the Santa Fe Art Institute and the City of Santa Fe Public Art Loan Program. In Albuquerque, it is supported by 516 ARTS, the Bernalillo County Art Program, ABQ Ride and Connecting Community Voices.

WHEN: July 13 - September 19, 2009
WHERE: on ABQ Ride’s free D-Ride buses
looping every 7 minutes around Downtown Albuquerque
EVENT: 516 WORDS: Saturday, August 29, 8pm at 516 ARTS
Storytelling event hosted by poet Michelle Otero, featuring the work of project participants presented by by local poets

HOW MUCH: Free

MORE INFO: Suzanne Sbarge • t. 505-242-1445 • e. suzanne@516arts.org
www.516arts.org • www.landartnm.org

LA Urban Rangers activate the "public" in "public beaches"

The Los Angeles Urban Rangers describes itself as a "mobile and site-specific interpretive force." Made up of geographers, environmental and art historians, artists, curators, and architects, the group "appropriates the figure of the stereotypic park service ranger" to offer educational campfire programs and guided hikes throughout Los Angeles.

This summer, the LA Urban Rangers will offer several "Malibu Public Beach Safaris." The safaris are designed to find and activate public beaches along 20 miles of Malibu beach that are otherwise "lined with private development." Each safari will visit two beaches and promises to enhance skills needed to use public beaches in Malibu, including how to find, park, walk, picnic, and sunbathe on a Malibu beach legally and safely. According to the Rangers: "skills-enhancing activities include sign watching, trailblazing the public-private boundary, a no-kill hunt for accessways, and a public easement potluck."

The three safaris scheduled in east Malibu will take place on:
SUN Aug 2, 11:00am-2:30pm
SUN Aug 16, 9:00am-12:30pm
SAT Aug 22, 3:00pm-6:30pm

Safaris are free. Spaces are limited.

To sign up, e-mail info@laurbanrangers.org w/name, # of people, and preferred date. A downloadable "Malibu Public Beaches" guide is available here.

LAND/ART openings: Equation: a balanced state?; Second Site; CLUI Display Facility

516 ARTS announces three concurrent exhibitions for LAND/ART, all opening on Saturday, August 1, 6-8pm at 516 ARTS in Downtown Albuquerque. The three exhibitions are:
Equation: a balanced state?


Curated by Thomas Cates of THE LAND/an art site, Equation: a balanced state? is a series of gallery installations exploring the virtual, built and natural environment, featuring artists Katherine E. Bash, Paula Castillo, Ted Laredo, David Niec and Mayumi Nishida. Each artist’s installation is a small environ-ment in itself, constructed to emphasize that in the present age of information and technology, our larger “natural“ environment is inter-related with other types of environments we inhabit. The exhibition includes digitally simulated waterfalls, built environments that glow in the dark and explorations of the division between day and night in the natural environment as observed in the night sky of New Mexico. Science, technology and the study of climate and land usage play an important role in the research and development of these art projects. The artists are working with two additional locations in the process of creating these works at 516 ARTS:
• Rural worksite and exhibition space at THE LAND/an art site near Mountainair, New Mexico
Site projects on view Sunday, August 2 starting at 2pm
For directions, call 505-242-1501
• THE LAND/gallery, 419 Granite NW, Downtown Albuquerque
Documentation and ephemera relating to site projects at 516 ARTS
August 1 - September 19
Reception: August 1, 4-6pm (preceding the opening at 516 ARTS)
For more information about THE LAND/an art site and THE LAND/gallery, visit www.landartsite.org
or call 505-242-1501.

Second Site


Second Site is an exhibition and reference site for LAND/ART, featuring related gallery installations, art works and information for many of the outdoor site projects including those presented by 516 ARTS and a selection of those presented by the City of Albuquerque Open Space, Bosque School, the Harwood Art Center, Richard Levy Gallery and UNM Art Museum. Artists include Anne Cooper, Bill Gilbert, Steve Peters, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith & Neal Ambrose Smith, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Patrick Dougherty, Nina Dubois and Jeanette Hart-Mann, Nan Masland Erickson, Benjamin Forgey, Basia Irland, Marc Schmitz, Robert Wilson, and Chrissie Orr & Michelle Otero’s public art installation on the D-Ride buses. Second Site is curated by 516 ARTS.

CLUI Display Facility


On August 1, 2009, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) will open a site-specific landscape display facility on the fringes of Albuquerque. This facility will be located at a site that draws people into a part of the city that is not often visited. Inside will be information about the region, including an exhibit about the New Mexico landscape. The facility will be open to the public during regularly scheduled hours, over the course of the Second Site exhibition at 516 ARTS, which is sponsoring this project. Information on visiting the facility, including directions and hours, will be available at the Second Site exhibition at 516 ARTS.

EVENTS:
Saturday, Aug. 1, 6-8pm: Opening reception at 516 ARTS preceded by reception at THE LAND/gallery, 4-6pm

Sunday, Aug. 2, 9am - noon: Trip to the CLUI Display Facility with CLUI director Matt Coolidge, departs from the Albuquerque Museum, $10, pre-register with 516 ARTS, space is limited

Sunday, Aug. 2, 2pm on: Equation site projects at THE LAND/an art site in Mountainair, call 505-242-1501 for directions

Saturday, Sept. 12, 2pm: Gallery Talk at 516 ARTS

WHERE: 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Downtown Albuquerque, open Tue - Sat, 12-5pm

CLUI Display Facility, an off-site art project
Location and public hours to be announced at the opening of Second Site

THE LAND/gallery, 419 Granite NW, Albuquerque, 505-242-1501, www.landartsite.org

MORE INFO: Suzanne Sbarge • t. 505-242-1445 • e. suzanne@516arts.org
www.516arts.org • www.landartnm.org

William L. Fox Launches Center for Art + Environment LAB with Discussion of Trans-Alaska Pipeline

The Nevada Museum of Art founded the Center for Art + Environment (CA+E) in January 2009 following the success of its Art + Environment Conference in October 2008. A programmatic focal point of the Museum, the CA+E supports the practice, study and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natur…