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May 10th, 2013

New Call!
Route 66 Wayfinding Designs, Development, and Installation
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The City of Albuquerque is seeking an artist-lead design team (Design Team) to conceptualize, design, engineer, fabricate and install Wayfinding sign/art elements (Wayfinding Elements) along Historic Route 66 in Albuquerque from Tramway Blvd. to 98th Street, in an effort to foster economic development and preservation efforts along the Route 66 National Scenic Byway in Albuquerque. This project is open to artists and designers residing in the United States.

The project budget is $150,000, and the deadline to submit qualifications is Thursday, June 6th, 2013 at 5:00 pm, local time.

Read the full prospectus and support materials for all the information you need to know about this exciting project! 

 

The Saige (American Girl doll) Contest Has a Winner!!!



American Girl's newest doll, Saige, hails from Albuquerque! She loves horses and painting. She is an arts advocate and organized a march through Old Town to get more funding for art in the schools.
Here's how the contest worked: we posted six photos of Saige at various public artworks around Albuquerque on our Facebook page. Contestants had to respond with the artist's name and the title of the piece, for every post, in order to be eligible for the drawing.
The winner of the drawing was Albuquerque resident Davine Sanchez, who will get to take Saige home and will receive two free tickets to meet the author of the Saige books, Jessie Haas, at the Balloon Museum today, May 10th.
 
Check Out the Albuquerque Public Art Collection on the Public Art Archive!



  The Public Art Archive™ is a free, online resource for comprehensive information and rich media, employing a standardized framework to catalog public art. The Archive allows public art programs to share their artworks with new, broader audiences; helps explorers find information about public art in their world; and aids in the sharing of best practices in public art for researchers and stakeholders. The database was launched in 2009 and continues to grow both in content and features. Explore now!    
516 ARTS Now Accepting Submissions for Digital Latin America Exhibit!



516 ARTS announces a call for proposals from visual and performing artists for Digital Latin America, an international exhibition with a weekend symposium and Downtown Block Party, all taking place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The project is an outgrowth of the Latin American Forum for the award-winning International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2012) produced by 516 ARTS last fall (www.isea2012.org). Digital Latin America explores the North/South axis of cultural development and exchange between South America, Central America and the Southwestern United States, with a focus on New Mexico as the Northern tip of Latin America. It looks at the ways in which artists negotiate the complex terrain between global and local, virtual and real, and political and private, in the creation of work that proposes alternative understandings of technology, art and cultural exchange.
Deadline for submissions is September 27, 2013.

Get all the information on the 516 ARTS website.
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Sincerely,

 

Sherri, Dan, Matt, and Brendan
Public Art Urban Enhancement Program Staff

Cultural Services Department 

City of Albuquerque



 

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