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Min Che & Yoon Jin

ABOUT HARWOOD ART CENTER’S RESIDENCY FOR ART & SOCIAL JUSTICE

Each fall for thirteen years, Harwood’s galleries are devoted to artists working at the intersections of creative expression and social justice. In 2021, for the occasion of Harwood’s 30th Anniversary, we expanded this offering and formally established our first official annual residency program.

We invite New Mexico-based artists whose practice is socially/politically engaged to submit project proposals for our annual Bridge: Residency for Art & Social Justice. Our 2022 Artists in Residence, Min Che & Yoon Jin, received a private artist studio at Harwood Art Center to work in for the duration of their 9 month residency, a six week exhibition in both of our gallery spaces, project, promotional and professional support from our staff, a $1000 artist honorarium to support their time and creative work and a $500 materials stipend to support their project costs.

We are grateful to New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, City of Albuquerque, Urban Enhancement Trust Fund and McCune Charitable Foundation for their resourcing of this program.

WEARE HERE// HERE,WEARE

WE ARE HERE // HERE, WE ARE is a co-led, visual art project by a mother and adult-child pair of artists. The project explores time and space through their relationship to one another, an intergenerational conversation, as one rises and the other wanes on a land far from their homeland. Simultaneously, it’s a critical engagement of the powers that have led to diaspora and questioning of the Asian diaspora’s participation in the American empire on stolen land.

8: Min Che, The Self in Time, Acrylic & Korean Ink, 2022; Page 9: Min Che, The Self in Tumult, Acrylic & Korean Ink, 2022; Min Che, The Self in Turbulence , Acrylic & Korean Ink, 2022

In the artists’ words:

“We record time through lines in the present moment. The main symbolism, a prehistoric pattern used by our ancestors, has stood for motherhood and earth. Each stroke and each line stands for the time lived here and now through the turbulences of life. The circular and round accumulations of the pattern stand for the lack of a beginning and the end. It symbolizes the endlessness of time, and the continuing humanity through generations. The prehistoric patterns bridge time and space, and open us to explore diasporic existence on the stolen homeland of Pueblo of Sandia people. We offer the beauty we hope to share as an expression of gratitude.

“Time holds life and the state of life. In time is the self, and the self lives out life. And life is connected to the body. Physical health, thus, directly impacts how time is spent and the quality of time one lives out. Health is also deeply connected to trauma and intergenerational trauma. We have been deeply affected by the workings of time, and the process of aging. Within our intergenerational dialogue, we reflect on time adjacent to aging which is inevitable to all of us.”

“We hope to explore this inevitably intergenerational conversation at the intersection of race, health/disability, and aging/elder rights. And we hope you take away the lessons that come after enduring.”

-Min Che & Yoon Jin

Moon, Sun // Two Epochs

The Inspiration of the Irworobongdo 일

The Irworobongdo 일 is a traditional Korean folding screen with the landscape paint ing of 일 , the sun, , the moon, and the five peaks alongside pine trees and waterfalls. It was used as the backdrop to the royal throne since the founding of the Joseon Dynasty (13921897).

The Korean royal lineage was ended by the Japanese empire before and during our coloniza tion. Much of the Korean diaspora in the United States exists because of the U.S. military imperialism on the Korean peninsula that started before the Korean War and continues on today. South Korea, which is the size of a quarter of California, has more than 100 U.S. military bases, the number one polluter of the peninsula.

As immigrants to the U.S., we acknowledge that we are uninvited settlers on the land of Tiwa Pueblo people. We honor the lands of our past and present that have been deeply affected by ongoing colonization and imperialism in their various forms.

The moon and the sun of the Irworobongdo traditionally signified the king and the queen. Our moon and sun created with the Korean traditional pattern, Bitsal , signify the time we have lived as two separate generations--a mother and an adult child. And it symbolizes the strength of the people who walk with us .

We hope you take with you the energy of our ten peaks to resist oppression and to rise above.

The exhibition includes a short film made by Yoon Jin documenting their mother Min Che’s journey as an artist at the intersection of her identity as an immigrant disabled woman of color.

WE ARE HERE // HERE, WE ARE is a co-led, visual art project by a mother and adult-child pair of artists. The project explores time through their relationship to one another. Their shared work is an intergenerational conversation, as one rises and the other wanes.

Min Che is an artist who turned to her art to process her experiences at the intersection of her identities. Her work has been exhibited nationwide.

Yoon Jin is a writer and creator, and also the adult child of Min Che. Their work explores gender and Asian America in the context of neo-liberal imperialism.

“Our practice has evolved into looking and reflecting on our intergenerational relationship. Our work inevitably is a reflection on intergenerational history, trauma, joy, and growth. And ultimately, it is a conversation between the time Min Che lives as an immigrant disabled woman of color and the time Yoon Jin occupies as the next generation.” - Min Che & Yoon Jin

HArWood

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JANUARY 18 - FEBRUARY 24

The Artists of ArtStreet, Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless

ArtStreet, an outreach program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, presents: ArtStreet Unmasked, a collection of work that asks the question “what does it mean to be unmasked?”.

MARCH 7 - APRIL 14

ENCOMPASS: A Multi-Generational Art Event

Featuring two indoor exhibitions, Splish Splash featuring Caitlin Carcerano & Charis Fleshner and re)conceive - works of reclamation an exhibition that deconstructs and reconstructs notions of social order featuring Lindsey Brenner, Jami Porter Lara, MK, Linda Montagnoli, Kei and Molly Textiles, Margarita Paz-Pedro & Robyn Tsinnanjinnie. Encompass is Harwood’s annual event that is both a reflection of and an offering to our community.

APRIL 25 - JUNE 2

Divination of self: Robyn A. Frank

A collection of work seeking to imagine, to divine without assuming an outcome, rather — to perform as a meditation on the interconnectedness of self and surrounding.

Bodies of Evidence: Toni Gentilli

In Bodies of Evidence, artist Toni Gentilli renders visible the entanglement of human and environmental health, specifically the disproportionate impacts of autoimmunity on women and other chronic conditions linked to ecosystem degradation, and invokes healing through a compendium of naturally dyed textiles, weavings, paintings, sculptures, chlorophyll prints and botanical hydrosols.

(Top to Bottom): Robyn A. Frank, Dreaming, lucid and otherwise acrylic paint on wood panel, May 2021; Toni Gentilli, Fruiting Bodies, pigments made from cottonwood catkins with mold, graphite, ochre, and charcoal on cotton rag paper, 2021; Caitlin Carcerano, Tender, oil on canvas, 2021; XuanNhan, Lions Portal, acrylic, 2021

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico

Harwood Art Center’s annual juried exhibition, professional development and endowed cash awards program honors emerging artists currently living and working in New Mexico.

Childlike Behavior: Thomas Bowers

Solo Exhibition Winner of our 2021 SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico.

AUGUST 15 - SEPTEMBER 15

UFO Daydream: Adrian Pijoan

A UFO crashes in the desert, is retrieved, and brought to Harwood.

Holy Land: Diego Medina Diego will explore mythologies surrounding the theme of the Holy Land and create maps that transform New Mexico history into cartographic always fantasies that highlight some of the major paralleled between other historical lands and the sacred land of his home state of New Mexico.

SEPTEMBER 26 - NOVEMBER 3

Residency for Art & Social Justice

Harwood’s Residency for Art & Social Justice is dedicated to feature and support artists working at the intersections of creative expression and social justice. For the occasion of Harwood’s 30th Anniversary, we are offering and formally establishing our first official seven month residency program.

DECEMBER 3

12x12 Fundraising Exhibitions

Harwood’s annual fundraising exhibitions featuring established, emerging and youth artists from New Mexico. This event includes 150 works that remain anonymous until sold – for the flat rates of $144 (12”x12”) or $36 (6”x6”) and an Artwork Preview before the original works go on sale. Prelude prices vary.

Harwood staff curate four exhibitions annually, ENCOMPASS: A Multi-Generational Art Event, SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico, and BRIDGE: Art & Social Justice. 12x12 is our annual fundraiser; all proceeds support our free community arts education, outreach and professional development.

(Top to Bottom): Diego Medina, all of this beauty was beloved

map,

; Thomas Bowers, Crazy House

ABOUT HARWOOD ART CENTER & ESCUELA DEL SOL MONTESSORI

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S GALLERIES PROGRAM is dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Our galleries program is curated and managed by our Chief Programs Officer and Associate Directors of Opportunity and Engagement. Artists are invited to exhibit during three of our annual capstone events, Encompass, Residency for Art & Social Justice & 12x12, and the rest of our exhibitions are awarded to individuals and groups through a competitive application process. Most of our applications are free to apply; any collected fees allocated to replenishing Harwood’s endowed cash awards for the program. Each featured exhibition is a supportive process and we work with the artists from concept development to installation in the galleries. For each exhibition we create comprehensive outreach and digital materials including exhibition catalogs, virtual galleries and artist talks to support the unique visions and voices of our gallery artists.

Seeded in 1991, Harwood Art Center blooms the philosophy of our parent organization Escuela del Sol Montessori, with recognition that learning and expression offer the most resilient pathways to global citizenship, justice and peace. Harwood engages the arts as a catalyst for lifelong learning, cultural enrichment and social change, with programming for every age, background and income level. We believe that equitable access to the arts and opportunities for creative expression are integral to healthy individuals and thriving communities. In all of our work, we cultivate inclusive, reflective environments where everyone feels cared for. We nurture long-term, multi-faceted relationships with participants, building programs with and for diverse communities of Albuquerque. We integrate the arts with social justice, professional and economic growth, and education to cultivate a higher collective quality of life in New Mexico.

For 50 years, Escuela del Sol, an independent Montessori school, has nurtured self-discovery, social responsibility and passion for learning in our students. Each day Escuela supports students from ages 18 months to 13 years on their real-world quests to excel academically and to develop the skills they need for meaningful, happy and successful futures.

SURFACE Emerging Artists of New Mexico, group exhibition 2022, Image by Aziza Murray & Harwood Art Center

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S PHOTOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE

We are so thrilled to have established an official Photographer in Residence opportunity- a new ongoing residency at Harwood Art Center. This residency includes an annual honorarium and rent credit for a studio at Harwood. Aziza Murray, who was our inaugural Galleries & Exhibition Photographer, is now our Photographer in Residence.

We are able to present this residency and honorarium thanks to the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the McCune Charitable Foundation.

AZIZA MURRAY

is a New Mexico based artist working primarily in photography. In 2015 she graduated with an MFA from the University of New Mexico where she also worked as a pictorial archiving fellow for the Center for Southwest Research. Since then, Aziza has worked in different capacities in the film industry in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, further piquing her interest in cinematography. Much of her work stems from a well of nostalgia for objects and moments, the materiality of photography, and her personal history—from experiencing tragic loss at an early age, to her multilayered experiences as a biracial person growing up in Washington, DC. She has shown her work in DC at Connersmith and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Albuquerque at the Harwood Art Center, the UNM Art Museum and the National Hispanic Cultural Center and, at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX.

azizamurray.com azizamurray@gmail.com