In this episode, we will begin this 3-episode conversation about Appreciation and Appropriation in Public Art, by focusing on the terms Awareness + Vulnerability + Resilience and the work that the City of Albuquerque and the Public Art Urban Enhancement Division is doing to support and empower all artists in our community. Joining host joni palmer are guests: Elsa Menendez, Deputy Director of Arts & Culture; Noel Begay, Associate Public Art Project Coordinator; and Dillon Shije, Deputy Director of Office of Equity and Inclusion.

Join us for the last episode in this set of 3 episodes about the City’s Urban Enhancement Trust Fund (UETF).  The episode focuses on the what, why, and how of being on one of the Public Art Urban Enhancement Division’s advisory boards.  Joining host joni m. palmer, are two board members: Dr. Bernadine M. Hernández, a member of the Arts Board, and Julia Youngs, a member of the UETF board.

Join us for the second of 3 episodes about the City’s Urban Enhancement Trust Fund (UETF) and the unique residency it offers. Artist and community organizer, Gael Luna, and Deputy Executive Director for National Institute of Flamenco, Dr. Annie D’Orazio, join joni palmer to discuss their artist journeys and the UETF Artist Resiliency Residency.

Join us for the first of 3 episodes about the City’s Urban Enhancement Trust Fund (UETF) and the unique residency it offers. joni palmer talks with Public Art Urban Enhancement Division staff Eric Werner, Management Analyst II and UETF Manager, and Madrone Matishak, Special Project Coordinator, about UETF, the UETF Board, policies, and the Artists Resiliency Residency.

Join us for a conversation with teaching artist and downtown business owner James Black and project coordinator and artist Christine Jelson West, as they talk about activating downtown Albuquerque with temporary, light-based art installations for City Brights II.

Join us for a conversation with Albuquerque spoken word artist and 2016-2018 Albuquerque Poet Laureate Manuel González, and artist Esteban Ismael Durán (a.k.a. Steven Ismael Harris) as they talk about their public art journeys and their collaboration on the Punched Tin/Poet Laureate project.

Join us as Noel Begay (she/her/we), Public Art Project Coordinator, and local artist J P 제피 [s(he), (he)r / he, him / they, them] talk about their journeys into public art and professional collaboration to do the necessary work to reach out to Tribal governments for permission to build and root upon Tribal lands.

Noel shares her internal work through generational trauma, trusting in her Diné culture to guide her work within the City as well as what it means to reverse dominant/colonial culture by centering Indigenous perspectives and beliefs. J P discusses their projects that seek to layer the voices and stories of Albuquerque’s Asian community and explore respectful cross-cultural depictions of and belonging to land.

Join us for a conversation with Augustine Romero, Gallery Curator for Gallery One and South Broadway Cultural Center, and artist Vanessa Alvarado to discuss the new exhibition at Gallery One, “Interpretive Reflections.” “Interpretive Reflections” features artworks by 14 artists who use introspection and self-portraits to express rendering of oneself, with hints of identity.

In this third episode about art and technology, we will be flipping the script: using tech to analyze art. Danicia Monét Malone, Founder and Principal Planner from Rokh, returns to the podcast to tell us about the Public Art Census and what canvassers learned from their work in the field. And, Mandolen Sanchez, Public Art Outreach Program Coordinator, who has been behind the scenes until now, shares how the Public Art Program is using technology to engage people.

This is the second of 3 episodes all about art and technology. joni will be in Gallery One talking with artist Celestino Crowhill, CNM Course Instructor Dr. Brian Rashap, and DTI Director Mark Leech about the CNM Internet of Things and Rapid Prototyping bootcamp and the current Gallery One exhibition.