A Garden: The Birds Arrive is an earthwork and experimental garden at the Albuquerque Museum located in the sculpture garden right off Mountain Rd NW. This project was conceived, designed, and created by Land Arts of the American West and 7th regen, in conjunction with SeedBroadcast’s exhibition “Seed: Climate Change Resilience” coming in 2019.

Land Arts of the American West designed concentric planting beds radiating from a central existing pine tree and seeded these with Middle Eastern and Asian heritage grains emmer, spelt, Sonoran Wheat, and Cache Valley Rye as a winter cover crop. In the summer, local indigenous amaranth will succeed the grains. As an experiment, the garden employs two varying methods for production: dryland farming waffle gardens and drip irrigation beds. It also accommodates the shadow line of the building. A light installation will cast shadows of the growing plants on the building wall at night.

The garden aims to be an area for artistic installation and future community engagement. 7th regen has created a steel portal of three half arches reminiscent of sheafs of grain and a mud stenciled phrase, “I wait for the birds to tell me when grain is ready,” spoken by Tiana Baca of the Desert Oasis Teaching Garden. The name of the garden/installation – “The Birds Arrive” – was adapted from Baca’s quote and the acronym TBA (to be announced). This project is about possibility, variability, and engagement. 
 
September 1, 2018 – September 29, 2019
 
Albuquerque Museum
2000 Mountain Rd NW
Albuquerque, NM
 
Partners and collaborators for this project include:
Land Arts of the American West
Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance
Sarah Montgomery of Garden’s Edge
Christine Mackey
Tiana Baca of Desert Oasis Teaching Garden
Albuquerque Museum
7th regen
Art & Ecology Area at UNM
SeedBroadcast
Sun, Wind, Rain
Soil Microbes, Seeds, and Birds
 
This project and the accompanying symposium are made possible through a partnership between Albuquerque Museum, SeedBroadcast, UNM Land Arts of the American West, and UNM Art & Ecology.

Jonathan Abrams, MD Fifth Floor Art Gallery

Reception for the Artists

Friday, November 9, 2018 5:00 to 7:00 PM
November 5, 2018 – January

The Jonathan Abrams, MD Art Gallery was founded in 1991, to offer New Mexico artists a place to display their artwork, and to provide a venue for our patients, visitors, and staff to view contemporary art. This exhibition celebrates the reopening of the gallery under a new collaborative partnership between the University of New Mexico Museum of Art and the generous support of Fay Pfaelzer Abrams.
The gallery is located on the fifth floor of the Ambulatory Care Center (5ACC).

For more information about the gallery, or to purchase a work in the exhibition, please call Chris Fenton at 272-9700

Exhibition Dates: Monday, January 28, 2019 – March 30, 2019
Artist Reception: Friday, March 15, 2019 / 5 – 7pm

The Inpost Artspace is pleased to announce Adjacent Possible, a selection of monotypes created while in residence at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont by Isadora Stowe. Additionally, each monotype is layered with spray-paint, stencils, collage and abstracted topographical map drawings. Stowe is a multi-media artist and arts lecturer whose work focuses on the narrative of environment translated and coded into complex psychological landscapes. Stowe grew up in the southwest border region, living and working in New Mexico, Texas and Mexico.