Compass Roses: Maps by Artists, a national public art project engaging local visual, literary, and performing artists to create maps of their communities, will be on view at the South Broadway Cultural Center from April 22 through May 20. Co-curated by Nadine Wasserman and Renee Piechocki and commissioned by the Albuquerque Public Art Program, the project features a variety of interpretations of maps and places.
Twenty-nine artists created unique maps of readily recognizable places, imaginary places, or those that have been forgotten or are unfamiliar. Local places depicted in the maps range from skateboard ditches to sacred spaces, while mediums range from tapestries to sound meditations to digital drawings. The project invites participants on a journey of discovery in which people can traverse, wander, wonder, reflect, and share, using an artist’s map as a guide. Full size artworks will be on display and smaller maps will be available for free at the exhibition and at SBCC:Gallery.
All of the maps are available as free downloads on the project website: CompassRoses.art
An online artist talk featuring five-minute presentations by several participating artists about the maps they created will take place on Sat., April 24 from 4 to 6 p.m. Registration free and open to the public at https://bit.ly/3uZLyL8.
The Gallery at South Broadway Cultural Center is open to the public on Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Compass Roses: Maps by Artists was launched in Pittsburgh, Pa., at the 2020 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival.
