WHEN: January 19 - February 16, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, January 19, 6-8pm
WHERE: 516 Central Avenue SW, between 5th & 6th Streets, Downtown Albuquerque
HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-5pm
INFO: 516 ARTS: tel. 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org
516 ARTS celebrates twenty years of Working Classroom, a nonprofit organization
promoting a more inclusive, nuanced definition of our collective identity
through free, high quality training to aspiring artists from historically
ignored communities. The exhibition features the work of twenty artists from
around the globe who have invested their time and talents to build and sustain
this important work/organization. These artists are from Haiti, France, Mexico,
Poland and China as well as New Mexico and across the United States. The work
includes painting, sculpture, contemporary retablo, photography and video. The
exhibition will take place on both floors of 516 ARTS. “Working Classroom…teaches its students skills few adults can boast – how to
conduct oral history interviews and archival research on family and local
history – activities that bind people to place and commit them to responsibility
for what happens there. It sends them out into the world (and into some arts
worlds) where their examples will be doubly significant because of the art
world’s biases toward white male artists.”
-- Lucy Lippard, from catalog introduction Working Out
Featured Artists:
Isaac AlaridPease
Edouard Duval-Carrie
Charles Castillo
Marie-Noëlle de Vibraye
Michael Eder
Gloria Emerson
Tony Evanko
Miguel Gandert
Yolanda Gutiérrez
JoAnn Harper
Gary Eugene Jefferson
Franky Kong
Peter Kaskiewicz
Vivian Marthell
Arturo Olivas
Raymundo Sesma
Carlos Suarez de Jesus
Fred Wilson
Juanita Wolff
Wanxin Zhang
