Currency Calendar

What do you value?

EXHIBITION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS November 2018 – February 2019 • Albuquerque, New Mexico

What do you value?

What do you value?

November 17, 2018 – February 23, 2019

Currency: What do you value? is a group exhibition exploring money and value in a world upside-down. It asks questions about the complex relationships between currency and how society values or doesn’t value art, work and time. The artists employ wit and satire to reveal economic inequities and dysfunctions, and ask: how do materialism and corporate interests take precedence over human and environmental concerns?

How do debt and money impact art and creativity?

OPENING EVENTS: Saturday, November 17 Member Preview 5-6pm • Public Celebration 6-8pm The Member Preview includes an exhibition tour with co-curators Josie Lopez and Manuel Montoya and many of the artists.

Join the Friends of 516 ARTS at 516arts.org/join.

Reception catering generously provided by Slow Roasted Bocadillos.

COVER: Erika Harrsch, Foreign Development Assistance (detail: German Specimen Butterfly) RIGHT: Ramiro Gomez & David Feldman, Las Meninas, North Fairing Road, Bel Air, courtesy of Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles • Steve Lambert, Wealth or Happiness • © Lauren Greenfield, Generation Wealth • Evan Desmond Yee, iFossil

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Exhibition Speakers Public Forums Film Lunches Education

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ARTISTS

Occupy Museums

Sven Barth*

Yoshiko Shimano

Sterling Bartlett*

Jillian Stein*

Raven Chacon*

Jaime Tillotson*

Marissa Chavez*

Scott Daniel Williams*

Mel Chin

Chase Witter*

Christy Chow

Evan Desmond Yee

Gregory Shimada*

Jennifer Dalton Brendon Donnelly* Nina Elder

SPEAKERS

Max Farber*

Erin Elder

Stefan Fitzgerald*

FICTILIS

Leonard Fresquez*

Kathy Garrett

Ry Fyan*

Scott Greene

Ramiro Gomez & David Feldman

Josie Lopez

Hernan Gomez Chavez

Solve Maxwell

Scott Greene

Manuel Montoya

Thomas Christopher Haag*

Occupy Museums

Keith Hale Erika Harrsch Internet Discount Mall* Ken Kagami* Malcolm Kenter* Steve Lambert Lance Ryan McGoldrick Will Michelson*

Sarita Nair Lauren Olivia Ruffin Claire Stasiewicz Shelle Sanchez Julianna Silva Eugene Sepulveda Steven Tomlinson

Curated by Dr. Josie Lopez & Dr. Manuel Montoya

*The New Bootleggers: Fabricating (Im)Propriety Installation curated by Leonard Fresquez

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PRE-OPENING TALK

Artist & Curator Talk Friday, November 9, 5:30pm

Join artist Scott Greene and curator Josie Lopez for an informal talk about Greene’s work and Currency: What do you value? during the opening reception for his concurrent solo show. His work comments on the burden of material production and exposes how progress and materialism are valued over the survival of the planet.

At Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Rd., Santa Fe turnercarrollgallery.com • Free

Scott Greene, Mountsanto, courtesy of Turner Carroll Gallery

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PUBLIC FORUM

Financial Literacy for Artists Thursday, November 29, 5:30pm

Julianna Silva Lauren Olivia Ruffin Claire Stasiewicz Kathy Garrett

This forum creates a space for artists in all fields to learn from financial professionals and get questions answered. Speakers include Julianna Silva, Managing Director at WESST, Albuquerque’s best-practice, small business incubator. She provides mentoring and marketing services to non-profit organizations, women entrepreneurs and artists. Lauren Olivia Ruffin is Chief External Relations Officer for Fractured Atlas, a national organization that supports artists and arts organizations to foster a more agile and resilient cultural ecosystem. Claire Stasiewicz is an adjunct professor of International Management at UNM and worked at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe developing educational tools, programming and opportunities for entrepreneurs from emerging markets. Her research focuses on the creative economy, and her goal is to facilitate the growth and development of new artists. Kathy Garrett, President of Number Crunchers, is federally licensed to represent taxpayers to the IRS. She provides professional bookkeeping and tax services specializing in small businesses and nonprofits, and has been working with New Mexico artists for over 20 years.

At 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque 516arts.org • Free 6

POP-UP LUNCHES

Food as Currency Thursday & Friday, December 13 & 14, 11:30am-1:30pm

Stop into 516 ARTS for lunch in the museum with local farm-to-table catering company, Rosebar. Themes of currency are explored through food in playful and unexpected ways. Learn about the economics of eating local and the history of edible currencies while you eat and view the show. Boxed lunches include a sandwich, seasonal side and a sweet.

At 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque 516arts.org • hellorosebar.com • $12

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FILM SCREENING

Generation Wealth Saturday, January 5, 1pm

Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles, Thin, kids+money, #likeagirl) focuses on wealth culture in her new film, Generation Wealth. She puts the pieces of her life’s work together to create an incendiary investigation of the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen. Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff’s edge. Generation Wealth, simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism and greed.

At The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central NE, Albuquerque guildcinema.com • $8/$5 students, seniors

© Lauren Greenfield, Generation Wealth

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PUBLIC FORUM

The Future of Work Thursday, January 10, 5:30pm

Eugene Sepulveda Steven Tomlinson Sarita Nair Solve Maxwell Shelle Sanchez This forum brings together speakers from Austin, Texas and Albuquerque to explore business models for the arts, artistic approaches to starting and rebooting businesses, and what the fusion of art and entrepreneurship means for the future of work. Guest speakers include Eugene Sepulveda and Steven Tomlinson, who work in Austin focusing on the expanding space where art, technology and business intersect. Sepulveda is the founder of Culturati, the CEO of the Entrepreneurs Foundation and a Director & Partner in Capital Factory.

Tomlinson coaches Wall Street, Fortune 500 and high-tech start-up executives and managers, and is an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Administration at Seminary of the Southwest as well as an accomplished playwright and performer. Sarita Nair is CAO for the City of Albuquerque, where she oversees all 19 departments of municipal government and nearly a billion dollar budget.

Solve Maxwell is an Albuquerque-based investor, advisor/consultant and trader who has been engaged in crypto-related business. Moderated by Shelle Sanchez, Director of Cultural Services, The City of Albuquerque.

At 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Albuquerque 516arts.org • Free 9

PUBLIC FORUM

Museum Interventions Wednesday, January 16, 5:30pm

FICTILIS Occupy Museums Erin Elder

Join the art collective FICTILIS (Andrea Steves and Timothy Furstnau) and members of the collective Occupy Museums (including Noah Fischer and Arthur Polendo), the creators of the Debtfair installation in Currency: What do you value?. The discussion addresses their interventions dealing with economic inequality and challenging the idea of what a museum is. FICTILIS’ work strives to bridge the gap between social and environmental activism, questioning the value and function of institutions like museums. The Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, CA is an example of one of their interventions. Occupy Museums is a collaborative that came out of the Occupy Wall Street movement to address issues around the 1% in the art world and beyond. Moderated by Erin Elder, independent curator and owner of Gibbous, supporting committed artists through professional services.

At 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Downtown Albuquerque 516arts.org • Free 10

SPECIAL PROJECT

Debtfair Occupy Museums

Occupy Museums comes to New Mexico! Their project Debtfair is an ongoing intervention that began at Art League Houston and appeared at the Whitney Biennial in 2017. The national collective asks artists, “How does your economic reality affect your art?” They teamed up with 516 ARTS to put out a call to New Mexico artists, and use the data they collected to explore the real impacts of debt on the cultural economy at large. The collective aims to expose the relationships between economic inequality and artists’ debt burdens. The installation incorporates the work and data of 95 New Mexico artists and reveals a unique portrait of the state’s economic realities.

At 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Downtown Albuquerque November 17 2018 – January 26, 2019 516arts.org • debtfair.org Debtfair at Art League Houston, photo by Alex Barber

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SPECIAL PROJECT

The New Bootleggers: Fabricating (Im)Propriety Leonard Fresquez

Conceived and organized by Leonard Fresquez, the 20 artists in The New Bootleggers: Fabricating (Im)Propriety installation simultaneously rebel and engage with consumerism by creating facsimiles of products that can masquerade as the real thing. The artists address, and in some cases subvert, the medium of exchange by creating a storefront and stocking it with illicit goods that mock, celebrate and mime luxury and cult commodities. Participating artists are from New Mexico, across the United States and Japan.

At 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, Downtown Albuquerque November 17 2018 – January 26, 2019

Leonard Fresquez, The New Bootleggers: Fabricating (Im)Propriety

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YOUTH PROGRAMS: Call for Schools to Participate

Fundred Project Mel Chin

Fundred Project, created by artist Mel Chin, is a nationwide art project that invites students (and adults) to create Fundred Dollar Bills, a creative currency and unique works of art that demonstrate how much we value the voices of children and a future free of lead poisoning. So far, nearly half a million people across all fifty states have created their own Fundreds that are filling up the Fundred Reserve in Washington DC. The Fundreds will be presented to our nation’s leaders, with the value embodied in them given as a down payment for action to deal with this destructive element, once and for all. Fundreds from New Mexico are on view at 516 ARTS as part of the exhibition. Join us as we activate Fundred-making across our state! Participants can make Fundreds at 516 ARTS or in the classroom. For information, contact info@516arts.org.

School Tours 516 ARTS offers free exhibition tours and educational activities for schools and community groups, with supplemental curriculum materials for educators to use in the museum and in the classroom.

Schedule tours at 516arts.org/education.

Mel Chin, Fundred Bricks (detail), New Orleans Museum of Art, photo courtesy of Fundred

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THANK YOU!

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Tim Keller Mayor

This project is made possible in part by a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts and by a grant from New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

516 ARTS GOVERNING BOARD Danny López, Chair Suzanne Sbarge, President Mark Rohde, Vice President Rebecca Black, Treasurer/Secretary Pamela Cheek, PhD Larry Gernon, MD Kathleen Metzger Tim Price Tonya Turner Carroll ADVISORY BOARD Michael Berman David Campbell Mark Chavez Andrew Connors Devendra Contractor Ray Dewey Debi Dodge Idris Goodwin Tom Guralnick Deborah Jojola Jane Kennedy 14

Arif Khan Diana K. McDonald, PhD Brian McMath Jenny McMath Elsa Menéndez Marla Painter Andrea Polli, PhD Henry Rael Mary Anne Redding Rick Rennie Augustine Romero Arturo Sandoval Sommer Smith Claire Stasiewicz Rob Strell

SPECIAL THANKS Bardacke Allison LLP Bella Roma B&B County Commissioner Maggie Hart-Stebbins Hotel Andaluz Don Mickey Designs KUNM Radio 89.9 FM Slow Roasted Bocadillos Starline Priniting Stubblefield Print & Signs

STAFF & CONSULTANTS Suzanne Sbarge, Executive Director Claude Smith, Exhibitions & Fulcrum Fund Manager Josie Lopez, PhD, Curator Mackensie Lewis, Development Coordinator Katie Doyle, Education Coordinator Joni Thompson, Bookkeeper Jane Kennedy, Development Associate Caroline Blaker, Petroglyph Creative Ian Jones, Preparator

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