From the LAND/ART website: "This summer and fall, a group of New Mexico arts organizations have joined together to present LAND/ART, which will explore relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and a culminating book. Focusing on "environmental" or "land" art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live.

Historically, New Mexico has been a place where the intersection of nature and culture is at issue. In the 1960s and '70s, the American Southwest was the location of the first generation of Land Art or Earthworks, including such major projects as Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field and Charles Ross' Star Axis in New Mexico, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in Utah, and James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona. Since then, the Land Art genre has been subsumed under the more general term "environmental art" which is a highly diverse and vital feature of contemporary art around the world. This new genre recognizes that what we now think of as the "environment" has broadened to include the global community, the microscopic world, and cyber space as well as wilderness, the urban environment and suburban sprawl. It includes ecological activism, reclamation and remediation projects, and ephemeral site-specific performances, among many other approaches, all of which have in common art and artists that respond to features of our natural environment."
More info: landartnm.org

Albuquerque, NM – Tamarind invites UNM alumni and the community to a special exhibit, "NM Keepsakes". This exhibit showcases works with a focus on New Mexico themes, and artists who have a connection to New Mexico. "NM Keepsakes" will be on view from October 22 through November 13 at the Tamarind Institute Gallery, 110 Cornell Drive SE (south of the Frontier). Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9-5pm. This exhibit is free and open to the public.

For many alumni returning to UNM for homecoming this year, this will be the last opportunity to visit Tamarind in its original Albuquerque location, where lithographs have been created by many outstanding New Mexico artists, including Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, Clinton Adams, Emmi Whitehorse, Robert Kelly, and Tom Joyce. In the spring of 2010, Tamarind will move into its new home at 2500 Central, which is currently under construction.

From New Mexico landscapes to charming images by New Mexico santero artists, "NM Keepsakes" is bound to have something for everyone with a love for New Mexico. The signature image of the Frontier Restaurant, Open All Night, an original, hand printed lithograph by Karen Beckwith, is one that all UNM alums and students will appreciate. Other artists included in this exhibit include Leroy Neiman, famous sports artist who created Lobo Layup during his visit in 2008; Frederick Hammersley, who lived and worked in Albuquerque for many years and received the NM Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts in 2005; Nick Abdalla, professor of art at UNM from 1968 to 1997; and Ramón José López and daughter, Miller López, santeros from Santa Fe. A complete list of works included in this exhibit is available. All work is available for sale.

Tamarind Institute, a division of the College of Fine Arts at UNM, is a nonprofit center for fine art lithography that offers the only master printer training program in the world, and houses a professional collaborative studio for artists. Established in 1960, Tamarind continues to play a significant role in ensuring the future of this unique artistic medium. Tamarind is a "jewel in the crown" of excellence at UNM, publishing important resource materials in the field of printmaking, providing residencies for some of the nation’s most important contemporary artists, and sponsoring community projects with Albuquerque. Public Schools, senior centers, Working Classroom, Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless, the Albuquerque Public Arts and many others. Located at 110 Cornell Avenue SE. For more information, visit http://tamarind.unm.edu or call 277-3901.

Tamarind Institute
110 Cornell Drive SE, Albuquerque

Cymbeline

By William Shakespeare
Staring Tricklock Company and special guests
Directed by: Kate Weiss of the University of Alberta

Experimental Theatre, Center for the Arts
November 5-7, 12-14, 19-21, 27-28 and December 3-5 at 8:00 PM
November 8, 15, 22, 29 and December 6 at 2:00 PM

Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com

$7/5/3. UNM Opera Theatre has doubled its size and is bursting at the seams with future stars. Join our young artists as they launch their Fall Opera Season with a double bill. Introducing Leslie Umphrey as director, the new face of Opera Studio will paint vibrant scenes and over-the-top fun. While Opera Theatre will continue its tradition of excellence in grand opera at the highest professional level. Gian Carlo Menotti’s irresistible opera The Old Maid and the Thief will be the featured work. For at least a generation in the years following World War II, Menotti was the most prolific and acclaimed American composer of opera. His sense of theatre stemmed from his Italian background. Menotti has always evidenced an exceptional musical flexibility and understanding of character and situation. Join opera devotees for an evening of sparkling lyricism. Suitable for children. Marilyn Tyler, director.

Free. String Students, ages 5 and older, under the direction of UNM Pedagogy Intern Teachers.

$7/5/3. UNM Opera Theatre has doubled its size and is bursting at the seams with future stars. Join our young artists as they launch their Fall Opera Season with a double bill. Introducing Leslie Umphrey as director, the new face of Opera Studio will paint vibrant scenes and over-the-top fun. While Opera Theatre will continue its tradition of excellence in grand opera at the highest professional level. Gian Carlo Menotti’s irresistible opera The Old Maid and the Thief will be the featured work. For at least a generation in the years following World War II, Menotti was the most prolific and acclaimed American composer of opera. His sense of theatre stemmed from his Italian background. Menotti has always evidenced an exceptional musical flexibility and understanding of character and situation. Join opera devotees for an evening of sparkling lyricism. Suitable for children. Marilyn Tyler, director.

Flying Machines (2001)
Steel, speakers, motors, custom electronics (dimensions variable)
© Ed Osborn

ED OSBORN
http://www.roving.net/

Ed Osborn works with many forms of electronic media including installation, video, sound, and, performance. His pieces show a tactile sense of space, movement, image and aurality combined with a precise economy of materials. Osborn has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, and Arts International and been awarded residencies from the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), STEIM (Amsterdam), the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (Woodside, CA), and the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at UC San Diego.

He has presented his work worldwide with exhibitions at the singuhr-hörgalerie (Berlin, Germany), the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Artspace (Sydney, Australia), the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia), Sonambiente Festival (Berlin, Germany), the Kiasma Museum, (Helsinki, Finland), MassMOCA (North Adams, MA), the Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, NZ), and the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, Northern Ireland) among many others. He has lectured and taught in numerous institutions and is currently Assistant Professor in the Visual Art Department at Brown University.


WHEN: Tuesday, November 10th at 4pm
WHERE: ARTS Lab Garage, 131 Pine St. NE
Directions at: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html

Image: Bill Gilbert, "For John Wesley Powell, Attempts to Walk the Grid, September 7, 2006", digital print, 2009

PUBLIC TALK - Tuesday, November 10, 5:30 PM
UNM Art Museum Lower Level

BILL GILBERT, LANNAN CHAIR AND DIRECTOR, LAND ARTS PROGRAM
UNM DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY

Bill Gilbert will present his lecture "Land Arts of the American West: Investigations in Place"

Bill Gilbert began teaching sculpture at UNM in the Dept. of Art and Art History in 1987. The Land Arts of the American West Program, an interdisciplinary, field based studio curriculum was conceived by Gilbert in his interest to redefine the very nature of how students are educated in the visual arts. In 2000 along with Professor Emeritus John Wenger and a dozen eager students, Gilbert initiated the first Land Arts trip which covered five states and some 8,000 miles. He later collaborated with Chris Taylor from The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Gilbert will discuss this "experiment" in pedagogy, as he calls it, and how this has both affected and intersected with his work as an artist and a teacher. Following the lecture, Gilbert will sign copies of his new book Land Arts of the American West, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009) which he co-authored with Chris Taylor.

Land Arts of the American West website: landarts.unm.edu

For more information:
Angela Berkson // 505.277.6773 // waxrtist@unm.edu

November 02, 2009: The SPECTRE SERIES presents MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN

Malcolm Goldstein (b. March 27, 1936, Brooklyn, New York). American composer, now resident in both Canada and the USA, of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as an improviser and violinist. Mr. Goldstein attended Columbia University from 1952-59, where he studied composition with Otto Luening for one year and where he earned his BA and MA. He later studied violin privately with Antonio Miranda in New York City from the mid- to late 1960s. As a performer of new music, he has been active as an improviser, violinist and vocalist and has also played various found and natural objects, as well as other instruments. As a violinist, he performed with the Judson Dance Theatre in New York from 1962-64, the New York Festival of the Avant Garde in the 1960s and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York in the 1960s. Since then, he has performed primarily as a soloist, both in improvised and notated music. With Philip Corner and James Tenney he co-founded the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in 1963, a new music group that performed until 1970. He later served as director of the New Music Ensemble of Dartmouth College in the 1970s and of the Hessischer Rundfunk Ensemble für Neue Musik in Frankfurt/Main in the 1990s. As a writer, he has contributed articles about improvisation to various journals, notably Perspectives of New Music, many of which appear in From Wheelock Mountain: Music and Writings by Malcolm Goldstein (1977, in Pieces: A Profile, edited by Michael Byron). In addition, he wrote the book Sounding the Full Circle: Concerning Music Improvisation and Other Related Matters (1988, self-published, now available through the McGill University Project On Improvisation). Mr. Goldstein was commissioned by the Charles Ives Society to prepare critical editions of Symphony No. 2 in 1976 and String Quartet No. 2 in 2002, both by Charles Ives. Frog Peak publishes some of his music.

Monday, November 16, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
ARTS Lab Garage
131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque
Map: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html
http://artslabmusic.blogspot.com/

RENT

By Jonathan Larson
Directed by Kathleen Clawson
Musical direction by Paul Roth

Rodey Theatre, Center of Fine Arts
November 20, 21, 27, 28, December 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 PM
November 22, 29 and December 6 at 2:00 PM
Special performance on December 1, World AIDS Day at 7:30 PM

Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online at www.unmtickets.com