The Urban Enhancement Trust Fund is now accepting applications for the 2022 Resiliency Residency. The intent of the program is to provide individual, independent, Albuquerque-based artists of any medium or discipline $2,500 each, to fund opportunities to advance their artistic or cultural work through a meaningful, perhaps collaborative, commitment to their creative expression.

The City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund has partnered with five local non-profit organizations; The Dellsly Group, Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts, FUSION, National Institute of Flamenco, and Puha Hubiya to act as fiscal sponsors for individual artists, and individuals will have the option of which organization they would like to be sponsored by.

Artists must be 18 years of age and live and do their primary creative work in the greater Albuquerque metropolitan area.

To find out more about this innovative, non-site-based residency and to apply, click HERE

A new mural is up at the Sandia Science and Technology Park on Innovation Parkway as part of a national series that celebrates women in science.

Multidisciplinary artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, with some help from students of Technology Leadership High School, painted a new mural on the CES Building.

The colorful and lively design illustrates the great synergy and power women have when they reach out and work with each other, and how women create change when they come together to discuss, innovate, and create.

This mural is inspired by the work of Dr. Nadya Mason from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who researches the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems.

You can find out more about the FINDINGS Project HERE

The national public art project, Compass Roses: Maps by Artists began in Pittsburgh in 2020 and the second iteration was right here in Albuquerque, and was exhibited at the South Broadway Cultural Center this past April and May. Each artist was asked to consider and interpret their city in any way they wished and the prompt produced varied work from literal to abstract ideas, and included both physical and virtual components.

Compass Roses: Maps by Artists will be exhibited at the University Libraries Centennial Science and Engineering Library (CSEL) from Oct. 15 to Dec. 22

Click HERE or more info or to schedule an appointment to see the exhibit.

The annual Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead exhibition will open the first week of November, with an artist reception on November 3rd.

This year's ofrendas made by local artists will be on display in the galley November 2-19, 2021