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What we are/what we could/BE MORE

Jerry Wellman

at UNM for Arts Unexpected

Friday April 19 10am-3pm

 

Visitors are invited to step inside the Axle space to receive their "word of becoming." The artist sits inside at a desk and engages in conversation. Using interview and story-gathering techniques, the artist guides the conversation.  As the dialog unfolds, the special and individual word emerges from the visitor, carrying a meaning, both pertinent and powerful.


The process acknowledges an individual's uniqueness and the potential the individuals contribution has to enhance and support their community.


The artist then writes the word twice using a handmade 30 year old calligraphy stick dipped into india ink. One copy is given to the participant as a gift, the other placed on display.


If participants are interested, the word drawing is then augmented by the artist, decoratively enhancing several words, and combining them into an imagistic diagram.  

 

The final image is a portrait which enhances the participant's positive characteristics, organized into an image that represents a facet of physical and spiritual reality.

What we are/what we could/BE MORE

Jerry Welman

at The Paseo in Taos

September 13 and 14

 

Visitors are invited to step inside the Axle space to receive their "word of becoming." The artist sits inside at a desk and engages in conversation. Using interview and story-gathering techniques, the artist guides the conversation.  As the dialog unfolds, the special and individual word emerges from the visitor, carrying a meaning, both pertinent and powerful.


The process acknowledges an individual's uniqueness and the potential the individuals contribution has to enhance and support their community.


The artist then writes the word twice using a handmade 30 year old calligraphy stick dipped into india ink. One copy is given to the participant as a gift, the other placed on display.


If participants are interested, the word drawing is then augmented by the artist, decoratively enhancing several words, and combining them into an imagistic diagram.  

 

The final image is a portrait which enhances the participant's positive characteristics, organized into an image that represents a facet of physical and spiritual reality.

Wilderness Acts 2018

Art-in-Nature

 

Cannupa Hanska Luger & Ian Kuali’i 

Frederick Spaulding

Dana Chodzko

Munson Hunt

Rick Yoshimoto & Chrissie Orr

Susan Bruneni

Susannah Abbey

Paula Castillo

Brian Fleetwood

Gina Telcocci

Kathleen McCloud

 

with The Santa Fe Botanical Garden's

Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve

 

September 1 – 23 in Axle

 

All of September and October at the wetlands preserve

 

Opening for both shows: at the wetlands preserve, Saturday,  Sept.1 , 1- 4 pm

This pair of exhibitions explores the relationship between art and nature, creates awareness of our local natural resources, and promotes wetland and ecological conservation. The artists will create ephemeral sculptural artworks using natural materials in sites in the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega. Works will be on view at the preserve throughout the months of September and October. A companion exhibition of related works by the same artists will open in the Axle Contemporary mobile gallery on September 1 and continue through September 23. This is the third iteration of the Wilderness Acts Biennial, which began in 2014. Works in this exhibition include a small shelter constructed from "invasive" saplings, a day-long performance ritual of seed distribution, and beavers sculpted from mud.

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden's Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve is a 35-acre nature preserve and home to a rare natural cienega (marsh) and hosts a bountiful diversity of plants and wildlife.

 

 

presented by Axle Contemporary and the Santa Fe Botanical Garden

 

 

  • DIRECTIONS: The preserve is located on the I-25 West Frontage Road south of Santa Fe. From I-25 take Exit 271 for “La Cienega” and turn right onto West Frontage Road heading north. The parking lot entrance is 1½ miles north after turning onto West Frontage Road. From New Mexico State Road 599 (NM-599), turn south onto West Frontage Road heading toward the Downs at Santa Fe Race Track. The parking lot entrance is two miles south of the Downs at Santa Fe Race Track.

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