Encompass: Remembrance & Renewal - Exhibition Catalog

ENCoMPaSS remembrance

& renewal a multi-generational art event

The spring of 2023 marks a moment of reverence and rejuvenation for Harwood Art Center. In March of 2020, just weeks before the pandemic up-rooted global routines, systems, and lives, we welcomed thousands of visitors to our campus in celebration of our creative community at Encompass. Since then, we have hosted adapted versions of this event, both at a distance and with scaled down in person programming. In 2023, we are honored to present Encompass in its fullest form since the onset of the pandemic; Encompass: Remembrance & Renewal is a time to honor and feel what has been lost, as well as look ahead to what is blossoming.

In our hall gallery, a collective of artists, performers and healers create Grief Movement, a sacred place of collective contemplation and restoration. Led by breana connor, the project dismantles our western tendency to grieve in solitude. An altar at the helm of the gallery invites visitors to offer relics of love and loss, both big and small. Grief Movement reminds the individual that heartbreak and healing can be communal and connective experiences.

Our front gallery features Archive of Memory: A Visual Journal Retrospective by Juliana Coles. Her library of journals combine text, collage, painting, and drawing, reflecting three decades of artistic practice.The journals are alive with color, texture and raw experience. Juliana is a cherished member of Harwood’s creative community, collaborating with us through many milestones of her career. Archive of Memory represents a full circle, not only in Juliana’s robust and revolutionary practice, but also in Harwood’s history of working alongside artists as they evolve.

Encompass: Remembrance & Renewal breathed restorative life into our campus with the return of open studios with our 39 resident artists, art making activities by our collaborating teachers, music by DJ Anjo, and three additional exhibitions: Art To Save the World by the students of Escuela del Sol Montessori; Cross Pollination by Harwood outreach, apprenticeship and collaborative program artists; and All Together by Harwood + Escuela staff artists, teaching artists and studio artists.

In all, we see the tremendous resilience of creativity, and the power of arts and artists to endure and evolve through immense societal change. We gathered with new friends and old, basking in the memory of what was and reveling in the possibilities of what may be.

Helen Atkins, Jordyn Bernicke & Julia Mandeville Co-Curators & Cooperative Leadership Team, Harwood Art Center

Juliana Coles, pages from visual journal; Grief Movement, installation; Page 3: Lynnette Haozous, Renewal, Digital Illustration, 2023

GRIEF MOVEMENT

Pages 6 - 15: Grief Movement, installation 2023

Aziza Murray & Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

breana connor, Matthan Cowart, Jordan Alvarenga, Sarah Hogland-Gurulé and Caroline Netschert offer movement, meditation, ritual, and physical objects as a template for being with and attending to grief. This work exists in four parts: movement practice conveyed through collaborative video, sculpture installation, guided meditation and altar.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, all were invited to leave letters, images, or other temporary offerings to their grief. Grief Movement is a meditation on creating interdependence through healing ritual, shared grief, carework and artmaking.

After death, loss and ongoing change, how do we reconnect?

How do we process what we have lost?

breana connor

breana connor is a bilingual interdisciplinary artist, facilitator and healer driven by collectivist care. They dream of a society that shares resources and functions based on ability and need. breana’s artmaking is expansive, marrying movement, poetry, community practice and resource redistribution. In 2022, breana offered two experiments in community practice Dancing with Trees and MURMURATION: Dancing with Trees, a monthly movement meditation for folks to gather – explored movement in natural space and collaborative artmaking; and MURMURATION I and II, in partnership with rebeca alderete baca and mallika singh – explored grief, movement, poetry, procession and foodsharing. breana facilitates spaces that encourage solidarity, pleasure and returning to the body after grief, change and transition.

matthan cowart

Matthan Cowart is an interdisciplinary artist, theorist and object maker living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their work consists of painting, drawing, tattooing, looking and building. Matthan’s art making is rooted in the relationship between natural, structural, and metaphysical environments and the sensory and psychological experience generated therein. With their work, Matthan imagines a world that persists postcrisis where the materials and myths of history are reconfigured. Their art objects re-enchant decomposing images and artifacts in the spirit of a roadside shrine.

jordan alvarenga

Jordan Alvarenga was born in Germany in 1993 and raised in New Mexico. Jordan uses their Curiosity about variety as a catalyst for their art. Jordan’s paintings, drawings, and jewelry are an extension of how they communicate with people. Non objective abstract design in their work allows people to insert themselves into the pieces. Each person brings a unique perspective to the chaotic and undefined. One technique that satisfies their creative nerve is using Acrylic paint on top of temporary mediums as a physical and metaphorical mask. Jordan is constantly exploring various mediums such as video editing, graphic design, music making and ceramics.

caroline netschert

Caroline Netschert is a Buddhist minister, and a professionally trained, intercultural care provider. She works as a hospital chaplain and is a graduate student studying to be a mental health counselor. She aims to center community care, equity, and advocacy, and feels passionate about de-stigmatizing grief.

ARCHIVE OF MEMORY: A VISUAL JOURNEY RETROSPECTIVE

By Juliana Coles

The antiquated library is a collection of sketchbooks and journals created over a lifetime and provides tangible documentation of an artistic process that is always under the threat of erasure due to epilepsy. The process of living with ongoing brain trauma means linear time is interrupted by the demise of both long and short-term memory. These books, part of an existential retrieval practice that uncovers clues to the artist’s whereabouts in the form of a fragmented paper trail, are containers that reveal stories which should never be forgotten, but that they no longer recollect. With their disability and deterioration, their books are a form of resilience and a legacy they hope to share with others to inspire healing. This hall of records is more than a retrospective, it is an Archive of Memory.

RETROSPECTIVE

“As a student at the Academy of Art in the late 80’s/early 90’s, my education was influenced by the Bay Area Figurative artists. My work itself was inspired by German Expressionism as well as post war Pop Artists who were revolting against pretentious or “High Brow” Art. In the time of Desert Storm and the Rodney King trial we took to the streets and were arrested under martial law. While San Francisco was a mecca of social activism, I was intensely engaged with the second wave feminist ideal that the personal is the political. Beginning with the figure and adding narrative, my art is a raw investigative expression of personal reality where, as an epileptic, seizures interrupt recall and alienate concrete memory. My mixed media paintings, drawings and artist books are never preconceived but spontaneously emerge from the unknown through a radical layering process of breaking down and rebuilding.”

- Juliana Coles

juliana coles

Award winning artist Juliana Coles received her MFA from the Academy of Art, San Francisco. Coles developed “Visual Journaling” in 1992 for the Epilepsy Society as an active meditation technique that is now used by therapists, teachers, and professionals around the world. Her Visual Journals have been featured in over 30 publications and as part of the “1000 Journals Project” her work was exhibited at the SFMOMA. Coles, a teaching artist since 1997, presents workshops nationally as well as in Mexico, Greece, Egypt, and Portugal. Coles’ work has been licensed by Warner Brothers for their “Roswell” and “Longmire” series. Juliana is a Clark Hulings Foundation Fellow and residencies include Green Olive Arts in Morocco, and Otis’ inaugural Residency program in LA. Most recently Coles received the NM Purchase award, a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Resiliency Residency from the City of Albuquerque’s Urban Enhancement Trust Fund.

ART TO SAVE THE WORLD

By Escuela Del

Sol Montessori Students

The Escuela del Sol Junior High, in collaboration with their fellow students and school community, is putting on an art exhibit to save the world. Three fabled artifacts of legendary power were assembled in different timelines, but everything converged on April 1st where all will rise… or fall.

Every year, Escuela Junior High students present a exhibition proposal to Harwood Staff inpired the Encompass theme. The exhibitions are designed, created and installed with the mentorship of their Art Studio Guide, Chirsty Cook.

CROSS-POLLINATION

harwood outreach, apprenticeship and collaborative program artists

Featuring artworks created in community through the Youth Mural Project, Social Practice, and our paid summer Apprenticeship in Art & Social Justice. This exhibition highlights Harwood’s outreach, apprenticeship and collabortive program artists.

Pages 30-35, Cross-Pollination, installation, 2023 Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

This exhibition highlights Harwood’s outreach programs and features artworks created in community through the Youth Mural Project, Social Practice Project, and our paid summer Apprenticeship in Art & Social Justice. Students at Hayes and Garfield Middle Schools create murals for their campuses and collaborate to create a mural for the public. In 2020 - 2021, students worked remotely on Safety Net with Teaching Artists Helen Atkins and Jen DePaolo on the creation of individual hexagons that were later sewed together. In 2023, students will collaborate on a new mural that celebrates safety, growth and healing.

Harwood launched its Social Practice project Safety Net in 2020 - 2021 for remote participation through the pandemics. We asked people to consider what provided a sense of hope and safety for them as they embellished hexagons for this community portrait that includes contributions from students, staff, gallery visitors, teaching and resident artists and friends from across the city.

Harwood’s Paid Summer Apprenticeship in Art & Social Justice mentors youth aged 17-24 through the co-creation of community-driven public artworks that pursue equity. Our artworks promote intersectional justice through: studying and practicing the tenets of transformational justice within our collaboration, nurturing the park’s ecosystem, celebrating local residents through collaboration and oral history, and drawing resources and attention to the park neighborhood.

ALL TOGETHER

harwood + escuela staff artists, teaching artists and studio artists

All Togeher is an exhibition of work made by Harwood Art Center’s extended community reflecting our organization’s mission to nurture a passion for lifelong learning, creative expression and engaged citizenship.

Participating Artists:

Helen Atkins, Sara Baecher, Jordyn Bernicke, Lindsay Brenner, Caitlin Carcerano

Christiana Cook, Elora & Willow Daniels, Jen DePaolo, Ken Gingerich, Celine

Gordon, Sofie Hecht, Harley Kirschner, Chris Martinez, Sandra Muñoz Puga, Alina Pozas, MB Ramos, Angelika Rinnhofer, Sallie Scheufler, Benjamin Tobias

Chandler Wigton, Shereen Zangeneh and Molly Zimmer

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Harwood Art Center is dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Featuring established, emerging, and youth artists, our Galleries Program engages a supportive process from concept development through installation and public opening. For more information, or to learn how to apply, please visit harwoodartcenter.org

JANUARY 18 - FEBRUARY 23

Blossoming: The Artists of ArtStreet, Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless ArtStreet, an outreach program of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, presents: Blossoming, a visual representation of the renaissance taking place within the ArtStreet community and featuring a collection of works by individuals, as well as a collaborative installation made by the artists and representatives of ArtStreet.

Reception: Saturday, February 4 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm

MARCH 8 - APRIL 13

ENCOMPASS: A Multi-Generational Art Event

An annual celebration that is both a reflection of and an offering to our community, Encompass features Open Studios, art making activites, installations by student artists, and four invitational exhibitions including:

Grief Movement: Goathead Studios

Archive of Memory: Juliana Coles

Reception: Saturday, April 1 | 4:00pm - 8:00pm

APRIL 26 - JUNE 1

Aging... A Female’s Perspective: Susan Roden

A multi-platform installation comprised of fine art dresses, mixed media tondos and printed words culled from anonymous surveys, centralizing upon the female perspective on aging’s physical and emotional impacts.

We Are the Gods: Jamie Rose

This exhibition, which consists of large-scale figurative drawings and glass, celebrates the beauty and power of those who have in any way lived the female experience.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, May 13 | 4:30pm

SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico

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

Tears of My Ancestors: Cortney Metzger

Solo Exhibition Award Winner of our 2022 SURFACE: Emerging Artists of New Mexico program.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, June 24 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm

AUGUST 9 - SEPTEMBER 14

Ithacan Mythologies: Harley Kirschner

Ithacan Mythologies merges Art Nouveau renditions of Greek Mythologies and baroque Vanitas with trans and queer ecologies and the embrace of the continuous apocalypse. Using discarded mirrors and glass, laser etching, furniture design, oil paint and metalsmithing, Harley Kirschner creates works that feel, at once, unmakeable and deeply personal.

miss me when i’m gone: mk

By printing larger-than-life reproductions of archival photographs from the artist’s family photo albums, and incorporating different media such as found/stolen objects, printmaking techniques, and sculpture, they confront their identity as well as their upbringing as it transitions to their present-day life as an adult, and within the function of photographic memory.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, August 26 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm

SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 26

Residency for Art & Social Justice

Harwood’s Residency for Art & Social Justice features and supports artists working at the intersections of creative expression and social justice. The nine month program includes a private studio at Harwood, artist and material honoraria, project support and a public exhibition.

Reception + Artist Talks: Saturday, October 14 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm

DECEMBER 1 & 2

12x12 Fundraising Exhibitions

Harwood’s annual fundraising exhibitions: 12x12, 6x6 and Prelude featuring work by established, emerging and youth artists from New Mexico. This event includes ~200 works that remain anonymous until sold – for the flat rates of $144 (12”x12”) or $36 (6”x6”). Prelude highlights the intersections of art, design and daily living with works by notable New Mexico artists.

Exhibition Reception: Friday, December 1 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm

12x12 Online Store Opens: Saturday, December 2 | 6:00pm

Image Credits (Left; Top-Bottom): Juliana Coles, Studio WIP; Alina Pozas, Box for Bones; Grief Movement; mk, Our last Family Portrait; (Right; Top-Bottom): Susan Roden, BROKEN EGGS / Barren & Infertility Dress; Cortney Metzger, first touch; Harley Kirschner, Persephone’s Apothecary; Jamie Rose, The Scorpio.

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

ABOUT HARWOOD ART CENTER & ESCUELA DEL SOL MONTESSORI

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S GALLERIES is dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in any media and from diverse creative fields. Our gallery 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, 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, we work with the artists from concept development to installation in the galleries. For our 2021 exhibiting artists, we have developed a hybrid offering of both in person and virtual programming. 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 selfdiscovery, 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.

HARWOOD ART CENTER’S OFFICIAL GALLERY & EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHER

We are so thrilled to have an official Harwood Photographer for our galleries program this year! We are able to present the SURFACE Emerging Artists of NM Award and Microgrant of $250 to each of this year’s artists thanks to the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the McCune 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

Many thanks to our generous Encompass sponsoring partners: Albuquerque Art Business Association / ARTScrawl, The Albuquerque Community Foundation, McCune Charitable Foundation, New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts, City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, US Bank, and A Good Sign. Special thanks to Nusenda Foundation and Sandia Foundation for support of our Creative Roots program and to Fay Abrams and to Debi & Clint Dodge for support of our exhibiting and commission artists.