Encompass: Urban Nature - Program Catalog

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Escuela del Sol Montessori and Harwood Art Center are pleased to present Encompass, a unique multi-generational art event that takes place annually in March. Featuring two gallery exhibitions, open studios, collaborative art making projects and activities for all ages, Encompass is both a reflection of and an offering to our community.

In 2014, Encompass: Urban Nature explores the diverse ways that we relate to the universe around us and the role that art plays in our discoveries of self, space and society.

Encompass Event Friday, March 7 from 6:00 - 8:00p Uncharted Territory & Shift Exhibitions March 7 - 27

A BIT ABOUT Escuela del Sol Montessori and Harwood Art Center For over 40 years, Escuela del Sol, an independent Montessori school, has nurtured creativity, independence and academic excellence in pre-K through elementary aged children. Escuela’s Harwood Art Center expands the school’s philosophy to serve a broad audience of youth and adults with a variety of programs, including art classes, studio rentals, gallery exhibitions and community outreach projects, as well as apprenticeship, teaching and professional development opportunities.

Escuela and Harwood are dedicated to building a lifelong love of learning, creative expression and positive impact on our community and our world.

EscuelaDelSol.org 505.242.3033 HarwoodArtCenter.org 505.242.6367

All FLoors Since 1991, Harwood Art Center has provided creative workspaces, exhibition opportunities and professional development programs to local artists. Our 45 Harwood Studio Artists invite you to visit them (and in some studios, guest artists) and view their beautiful wares.

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March 7 only Upstairs Gallery Exhibitions Curated by Jennifer DePaolo, Community Outreach Coordinator Basement Studios B-2 Nancy Klion B-6 Basement Films B-6 Karen Mazur B-6 Kris Mills B-6 Tom Loeb B-9 Carol Sanchez B-11 Michael Hudock Main Floor Studios C Lisa Alessio C Emily Schuyler 110 Susan Wyngaard

Upstairs Studios, North N-1 Charl Agiza N-2 Michael Brown N-3 Deborah Henson N-4 Ricardo Guillermo N-5 Cynthia Elliott N-6 Debbie Kmak N-6 Rachel Olinger N-7 Lydia Neuman N-7 Deb Wozniak N-8 Turtle O’Toole N-8 Peri Pakroo N-10 John Crawford

Upstairs Studios, Main U-1 Andre Ford U-2 Ken Gingerich U-3 Jill Christian U-4 Larry Smith U-5 Randon Little U-6 Allyson Packer U-6 Frances Chaves U-7 Maude Andrade U-9 Rafael Gallegos U-9 Szu-Han Ho U-11 Shana Levenson U-12 Jean Kondek U-13 Deborah Brink

Upstairs Studios, South S-1 Lincoln Draper S-2 Donna Romano S-3 Ophelia Adelai S-4 Tracy Cronin S-5 Carol Adamec S-6 Jeness May S-7 Bryce Hample S-8 Laura Green S-9 Robert Stembridge S-10 Shawn Turung

Courtesy of Michael Hudock

In & arouND HArwood MAKE ART

Pass It On: An interactive exhibition created by you, live the night of Encompass.

Led by guest artist Spring Griffin.

take ART A portion of all income generated will benefit the Harwood Summer Art Camp Scholarship Fund

Encompass: Find Your Way 2013, courtesy of Little Shot Photo

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Pick your props and take a photograph in the Amsterdam Ham Photo Booth! $7 each

Bring or buy a t-shirt to be silk screened by James Black of 111 Media Collective will silk screen t-shirts with the original artwork of Escuela del Sol elementary students. $10 BYOT / $15 new T

March 7 only

Enjoy the sweet musical stylings of duo Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band.

Basement Films stages a filmic coup d’etat, nodding to the psychedelic light shows of the 1960s.

The Supper Truck, Conchita’s Creations and Maine Street Lobster will be taking orders for delicious dinner options.

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shIft front gallery Escuela del Sol Elementary Students have created a transformative body of work that includes fantastic, imagined, and sometimes familiar images and text that may be shifted around to alter meanings. Visitors are invited to participate in this interactive exhibition, to explore and alter their immediate environment. March 7 - 27 Elementary Student Artists of Escuela del Sol Montessori Avery A. Beatrice A. Isabel A. Lauren A. Scarlet A. Teis A. Hannah B. Henry B. Miles B. Oscar B. Audra C. Isabela C. Riley C. Sterling C. Bridgid C.R. ** Simon D. Thomas D. Talulah F. Abigail F. Gudrun F. Ian G. Stephanie G. Zoë G. Colin H. Elise H.

Harlow H.J.H. Johnathan H. ** Kendra H. Mateo H. Myles H. Ryan H. Jackson J. Allison L. ** Brighton L. Chloe L. Grant L. Kayla L. Leam L. Elijah M. Ian M. Lila M. Sam M. Sarah M. Ovie N. Hayden P. Ada P. Solana P. Graciela R. ** Magdalena R. y M. Maximillian R. y M. Max R.

Mirella R. ** Quinn R. Skyler R. Clara S. Cydney S. Ethan S. Grace S. Sofia S. ** Sofia S. Soléne S. Catalina T. Isabelle T. Logan T. Jolie T. Nathan T. Zander T. Isabel V. ** Liam V. Alejandra W. Julia W. Miel W. Mix W. Sasha W. Scott W. Shadé Phea Y. ** work pictured

Elementary Studio Art Guide and Curator Vashti B Moss, Director of Youth Arts & Education Elementary Studio Art Assistants Adrienne Derstine and Sarah Dewey Technology Artist Dan McCulley

Co-Curator Spring Griffin

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Featuring guest artist Swoon and New Mexico artists Erin Currier, Ann Dunbar, Leigh Ann Langwell, Heidi Pollard, Holly Roberts, Brittany Sundheim and Myriam Tapp, Uncharted Territory highlights women artists investigating how they fit in, respond to and affect change in the world around them -- and demonstrating a certain, refined optimism in the process.

Presented as part of Women & Creativity 2014 | March 7 - 27 Curators GuruAmrit Khalsa, Director of Administrative Services Julia Mandeville, Director of Programs and Community Relations

Swoon Brooklyn, NY “Working under the artist name Swoon I have spent the last 13 years in an ongoing exploration of the relationship of people to their built environment.

“I began my work as a classically trained visual artist and printmaker, and have an ongoing project of wheat pasting portraits to the walls of cities around the world. This initial impetus to create interventions in the urban landscape has continued to unfold in a variety of ways.

“From 2006-2009 I constructed and navigated flotillas of rafts made from recycled materials down the Mississippi and Hudson rivers, and across the Adriatic Sea to Venice.

“Since 2008 I have been working independently and in collaboration with the collective Transformazium on community based projects in the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania.

“In 2010 and 2011 with the group Konbit Shelter, I constructed first a community center and then a home in earthquake devastated Haiti, bringing the creative process into the reconstruction effort.

“I am currently working toward the construction of a musical house, entitled Dithyrambalina in New Orleans with New Orleans Airlift.

“Alongside my community based practices, I have a studio and installation based practice of drawing, printmaking, and the construction of architectural installations and sculptures.” #152 Ben [detail] Blockprint on paper with coffee stain and hand painting 126 x 114”

erIn currIer Santa Fe, NM

In the Artist’s Words

Part portraiture, part collage constructed of disinherited consumer “waste” collected in forty countries, part sociopolitical archive, but wholly humanist, Erin Currier’s work has been featured in numerous solo shows, including a major exhibition at the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy in Washington, DC. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“My art-making concerns and process are three fold: first, as a traveling ontographer documenting through drawing the environments that I encounter abroad; secondly, I collect discarded ephemera from the streets of the world; finally, I incorporate the above findings into portraits that celebrate figures who resist or defy authority; as well as people who exist outside of their societies’ conventions.

Volver [detail] Mixed media collage and acrylic paint 60 x 48” Collection of Leroy Garcia

“My work is comprised of discarded trash I find on my travels as well as acrylic paint and glaze. The discarded waste is retransfigured into, hopefully, something of beauty; in the same way that discarded human beings, who are the subject of many of my portraits are, themselves, re-contextualized through the privileged position of portraiture, historically relegated to oil barons and kings. My use of trash is thus a poetic incantation -a call for a counter power rooted in the imagination.”

ANN DUNBAR Albuquerque, NM

In the Artist’s Words

Ann Dunbar graduated from UNM with a degree in art and has shown her work throughout the US and Turkey. Ann travels extensively and is enthralled with the beauty of different cultures and their artistic expressions. She is an avid collector of folk art and outsider art and has been deeply involved in art education throughout her life. She has taught at Bosque School in Albuquerque for 18 years as well as in an international school in Istanbul, Turkey, for two years. She ran her own art school for years and has done volunteer work with women prisoners, developmentally disabled, mentally ill, homeless and orphans. She firmly believes in the healing quality of art and readily shares her love of art with others.

“My artwork has evolved around common items relating to women’s lives and the memories these objects elicit. Over the years I have created artwork which speaks through the voice of clothing. Clothing can represent who you are and what image you want to present. It can also identify culture, age, era, gender, profession, status. I use clothing to speak of important current issues, life’s passages and growth, the beauty and sacredness of life and its elements, and also its atrocities. I am intrigued with the amazing possibilities of paper sculpture: taking a flat piece of paper and seeing just where it can go. I am especially interested in the ephemeral qualities of paper and the way light and air currents interact with this media. My joy is making art that speaks through my heart. I have a passion to create and explore the possibilities art allows one to experience.”

Life’s Growth Paper sculpture 60 x 28”

Love, Strength, Growth, Nature: Survive Paper sculpture 56 x 33”

leIgh Anne Langwell Albuquerque, NM Leigh Anne Langwell was born in Victorville, California in 1964. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of New Mexico in 1998. She has received awards including the John D. Phelan Award for California-born artists and the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. Leigh Anne has also worked as a medical photographer, technical editor, graphic artist, and medical imaging technologist. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New Mexico and an administrator for a fine arts non-profit organization.

In the Artist’s Words “You won’t find these galaxies on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website or in any of the vast array of astronomical galleries and catalogs. There are no mathematic correlations, no cosmological underpinnings and no scientific validations for the existence of these pieces. They are constructed from the vestiges of my own history – my mother’s sewing pins, my father’s map tacks, and entomology pins left over from my abandoned study of biology. These galaxies are simply small meditations on charting a course “home” - wherever that may be.”

Private Universe: Milky Way 2 [detail] Velvet, map tacks, entomology pins, sewing pins, Cellotex® 20 x 20 x 4”

HEIDI POLLARD Albuquerque, NM

In the Artist’s Words

Heidi Pollard lives and works in New Mexico. She has received grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; she has attended artist residencies including Headlands Center for the Arts, California; CUE Art Foundation in New York; and from 2010 to 2011 the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Roswell, NM.

“Making images is my way of negotiating irreconcilables. I draw, paint and sculpt in a contemplative process, which involves much improvisation. Some of the resulting emblems and forms are like familiar symbols. At the same time they have the specificity of the new & nameless. A powerful ghost-thing, a metaphor, can arise when sounds, smells, colors & definitions are rubbed together in surprising ways. This apparition hovers over its embracing parents, present as an overtone: jarring or delicate, funny or something else entirely, depending on the ingredients. ”

Heidi has exhibited widely in the US, at venues including Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, Transvagrant@Warschaw Gallery, Los Angeles; the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; PS 122, New York; Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe; CUE Art Foundation at NEXT art fair, Chicago; Horse Trader Curatorial Projects at Aqua Art Fair, Miami.

Her work has been reviewed in Art New England and by Peter Plagens in Newsweek on line.

Heaven No. 43 Ink on Stonehenge paper 30 x 30”

Holly roberts Albuquerque, NM Holly Roberts, born Boulder, Colorado, earned an M.F.A. from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1981. Her pieces are nationally and internationally exhibited and have been published in three monographs. She has twice received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She currently lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico with her husband, Robert Wilson.

Holly works intuitively, painting an abstract landscape on a panel before applying her signature photo fragments. She uses muted colors of paint and black-and-white photographs to create images that are filled with humor, irony and mythology. Her metamorphic beings illustrate archetypal emotional or dream states, although her subject matter has expanded from the internal to a wider worldview, touching on religion, technology and the environment. Robert’s art is bold, a bit brash and almost always irreverent.

In the Artist’s Words “The large concerns in my life are at the core of my work: the degradation of the environment, spiritual meaning in a world of polarized and extremist religions, the stress and fear of aging, the daily fears and anxieties of being alive in the world today.

These collages allow me to continue to do what I have always done with my art; by processing the world through my eyes and my hands, I am able to make some greater sense of the confusion and complexity of the world around me.”

Adam & Eve [detail] Mixed media 24 x 48”

brIttany SundheIm Albuquerque, NM In the Artist’s Words: “The connection between all living things is the web that holds our world together, and without even the smallest cell, life would not exist. When I began studying microscopic organisms whose forms I recreated in clay, I slowly understood the importance of those remarkable connections. My work has evolved from theory and observation into concrete form. Starting with simple structures, much like the single-celled organisms found in plankton.

My forms have grown progressively more complex, developing life-like features. They generate a subtle unease in observers who are drawn to the forms, yet are strangely cautious when approaching them. Each piece takes on traits from the last, as well as new traits that are either a combination of previous ones or a new mutation altogether.”

“The earth is where all of these connections begin and is what has given life to our world, this is the reason my creatures are created in clay. Each piece is molded then elaborately carved and every mark carefully considered, then each receives a glaze and is often fired multiple times.

Recently I have been considering an environmental element to the display of my work. This will allow the observer to experience my work differently than before, and give a better idea of how these creatures lived and interacted with one another. My work is meant to generate a difference in the way that people see our world, to help people understand the importance of every connection big and small. ” 8 Porcelain glazed 7.5 x 8.5 x 7”

MyrIam Tapp Albuquerque, NM

In the Artist’s Words

Myriam Tapp holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal (2006) and a MFA from the University of New Mexico (2012). Her specialization in ceramic work and new media has enriched her artistic reflection. In March 2013, Myriam participated in an artist residency in Medellin (Colombia) at the Fundación Campos de Gutiérrez where she studied the archives and the colonial past of the city.

“In this sculpture series, [I] study sculptural portraits (busts), and the interpersonal links that bind people. In an effort to explore the complex dynamics that unite a specific group of people, [I] depict the way coded communications or stories can tie us together. The small scale of [my] piece entices us to immerse ourselves in the wonder and curiosity that often characterize the sometimes peculiar ways we interact.”

In recent years, her work was shown among other places at Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries in Indiana, Galerie Les Territoires in Montréal, University of New Mexico Museum, The Museum of Las Cruces, ISEA2012 and 2013 Currents Santa Fe New Media Festival.

What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas [1 of 5] Terracotta, wood 4 x 7”

SITe SpecIfIc InstallatIon stephanIe Lerma Albuquerque, NM Land Doily Plastic bags 370 x 370” As part of both Encompass and Women & Creativity, New Mexico artist Stephanie Lerma has crocheted a land art doily out of recycled plastic bags – which, when laid out end-to-end, would be 8 miles long – for Harwood’s front yard. Escuela del Sol students will “seed bomb” the doily, allowing plants to grow up and creating a living relief of the pattern.

Begins March 7

In the Artist’s Words “Historically, doilies have been used as a decorative means of protection for the surfaces of furniture and often vases of flowers were placed at the doily’s center.

This doily will have flower seeds sown in the negative spaces, which will grow around the crocheted pieces, becomming part of the doily.

“I created the Land Doily as a reminder to honor the earth, to be mindful of what we put in and on the land and to celebrate the joys of tending.

“Thank you, thank you to all at the Harwood who have helped with this project. I can hardly wait to see the seeds begin to grow and bloom.”

2014 Galleries & january 3 - 30 reception friday, january 10 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Overlap Michael Hudock, Orlando Leyba and Kevin Tolman FRONT GALLERY (Re)Structure Rachel Zollinger

february 7 - 27 reception friday, february 7 | 6 - 8p MAIN & FRONT GALLERIES Recycled Heart The Artists of ArtStreet - Healthcare for the Homeless, an annual partnership with Harwood Art Center

Harwood Art Center’s galleries are dedicated to providing exhibition, audience expansion and professional development opportunities to artists working in all media.

Harwood Staff curate four exhibitions annually; the remaining months are awarded to individuals and groups through a competitive application process.

For more information and to submit your application(s), please visit harwoodartcenter.org or email gallery@harwoodartcenter.org Curators GuruAmrit Khalsa, Director of Administrative Services Julia Mandeville, Director of Programs & Community Relations Vashti Moss, Director of Youth Arts & Education (Youth Shows) Program Partners Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA) ArtStreet - Healthcare for the Homeless Untitled Fine Arts Services Program Supporters The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund McCune Charitable Foundation New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts

march 7 - 27 encompass: urban nature reception friday, march 7 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Uncharted Territory Swoon, Erin Currier, Ann Dunbar, Leigh Anne Langwell, Heidi Pollard, Holly Roberts, Brittany Sundheim and Myriam Tapp FRONT GALLERY Shift The students of Escuela del Sol Montessori SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Land Doily Stephanie Lerma

april 4 - 24 reception friday, april 4 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Finding Reason Maude Andrade & Shawn Turung FRONT GALLERY Topical Tapestries Margi Weir

Exhibitions Program may 2 - 29 reception friday, may 2 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Magnum Opus Ken Frink** FRONT GALLERY Still You Wonder Karl Hofmann SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Ground KB Jones

june 6 - july 24 surface: emerging artists of new mexico reception friday, june 6 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Surface: Emerging Artists of New Mexico Harwood’s 2nd annual juried exhibition, endowed cash awards and professional development program presented in partnership with Albuquerque Art Business Association (AABA). Application closes March 31, 2014.

FRONT GALLERY & SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION Parched Jane Gordon, 2013 Surface Solo Exhibition Award 2013 Surface Marion & Kathryn Crissey Award

august 1 - 28 reception friday, august 1 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Contemporary Contrast Elaine Roy and Christopher Thomson FRONT GALLERY Continuum Joyce Shupe

IMAGE: Ken Frink ** Magnum Opus 423 Multiple Place Etching

september 5 - 25 remote response: social justice through the artist’s eyes reception friday, september 5 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Remote Response: Social Justice through the Artist’s Eyes Harwood’s 5th annual international juried exhibition dedicated to the artistic exploration of contemporary social justice issues. Application closes May 1, 2014.

FRONT GALLERY Dust & Glitter Evan Dent, 2013 Social Justice Best in Show Award

october 3 - 30 reception friday, october 3 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY Ghost of Sea: Small Works Alan Paine Radebaugh FRONT GALLERY On the Wings of a Dove Janet Yagoda Shagam

november 14 - december 12 12x12 & prelude reception saturday, december 6 | 6 - 8p MAIN GALLERY 12x12 Harwood’s 8th annual invitational exhibition and fundraiser featuring 12x12” works by 125+ New Mexican artists FRONT GALLERY Prelude Our invitational exhibition and silent auction featuring larger works by New Mexican artists MAIN HALLWAY 6x6 Our exhibition and fundraiser featuring 6x6” works by the young artists and budding philanthropists of Escuela del Sol Montessori

Escuela del Sol Montessori and Harwood Art Center’s programming is inspired by our commitment to community. We are constantly impressed by the level of participation, investment and support our community gives back. The Board and Staff wish to thank the following, in particular, for their generosity and partnership on Encompass: Urban Nature, A Unique Multigenerational Art Event: City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation McCune Charitable Foundation New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts

Harwood Art Center - Escuela del Sol Board of Trustees Maria Garcia Geer, President Deborah Chavez, Treasurer Elizabeth Marcilla, Secretary Inga Tomlinson, Board - Staff Liaison Fay Abrams John Barney Samantha Clark Ann Edenfield-Sweet Friedje vanGils (ex-officio)

Harwood Art Center - Escuela del Sol Staff Friedje vanGils, Head of School and Executive Director Victoria Baca, Event Services Coordinator and Administrative Assistant Jennifer DePaolo, Community Outreach Coordinator Sarah Dewey, Programs Assistant Don Hebb, Facilities Manager GuruAmrit Khalsa, Director of Administrative Services Chris Loss, Business Manager Julia Mandeville, Director of Programs and Community Relations Elizabeth Marcilla, Assistant Head of School Vashti Moss, Director of Youth Arts and Education Lita Sandoval, Special Projects Manager and Administrator Benjamin Tobias, Programs Coordinator ‌ plus over 30 amazing teachers and support staff and 75 teaching artists and apprentices!

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