20 Years 20 Artists

20 Years 20 Artists Celebrating twenty years of Working Classroom

exhibition catalog

20 Years 20 Artists Celebrating twenty years of Working Classroom

January 19 - February 16, 2008

516 Central Avenue SW Downtown Albuquerque www.516arts.org

CONTENTS Working Out 4

by Lucy Lippard

Featured Artists 6 About Working Classroom 46 About 516 ARTS 47 Support 48

WORKING OUT

by Lucy Lippard

Twenty years ago Nan Elsasser founded Working Classroom, now moving into its own building in Albuquerque. During those two decades it has become a force for the arts and progressive action in New Mexico. The name Working Classroom is a good description of its unique function. Sure, all classrooms are supposed to be places where students (and teachers) work. But a classroom that works, in both senses, is sadly rare.

Working Classroom also works out––gaining muscle as it moves beyond its center. It teaches its students skills few adults can boast ––how to conduct oral history interviews and archival research on family and local history – activities that bind people to place and commit them to responsibility for what happens there. It sends them out into the world (and into some arts worlds) where their examples will be doubly significant because of the art world’s biases toward white male artists.

The artists in this exhibition prove that need not be so. They include several famous names and even a MacArthur awardee. They come from Haiti, China, Mexico, France and the Navajo Nation, as well as from our own African American and Hispano communities. Their visions are crucial to our futures. Artists are consciousness-raisers. They frame what people see. If they all came from the same places––geographically, and in life––the arts would be dull and monochrome.

These artists have given support and strategic tools to young people who might never have considered a vocation for the arts, as well as to those who have been discouraged from even thinking about such a life (or even thinking). Best of all is the advice, contact and role models provided by these working artists (as well as actors, community activists and others) who (to

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“These artists do not only make good art.

They look at context, meaning, and effect.”

quote the website) “promote peace, tolerance and respect for human rights at home and abroad.”

So Working Classroom is not only a place where public art, performances, and educational projects are produced, but a place where idealism is taken for granted. Its bilingual phone-answering-machine message offers a clue to the organization’s emphasis on diversity. (They can be forgiven for not also translating into the area’s seven Native languages, though they serve these often “historically ignored” communities as well.)

These ideals are central to the arts of the twenty-first century. They are the results of struggles that took at least half of the 20th century, struggles that are not yet won.

These artists do not only make good art. They look at context, meaning, and effect. When the Working Classroom students go out into the world, they act in films, go to art school or law school, win awards and scholarships, attend national youth conferences. Hopefully, they will never forget where they came from and will in their own turn become community arts activists changing other lives as their own were changed by Working Classroom.

Lucy Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist, and curator from the United States. Since 1966, Lippard has published 20 books on feminism, art, politics, and place, and has received numerous awards and accolades from literary critics and art associations, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism. She has written art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, In These Times, and Z Magazine.

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Isaac ALARIDPEASE Albuquerque, New Mexico

Working Classroom’s visual arts program and Isaac AlaridPease grew up together. The visual arts program benefited from Isaac’s talent, dedication, intellectual curiosity and gentle humor. Concomitantly, as director of the program, Isaac found an artistic home where he could experiment and explore his talents. Isaac directed the program for almost four years. During that time, Isaac and his students created murals, exhibits, a graphic novel for the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority and a fotonovela on domestic violence. Working Classroom hosted Isaac’s first solo exhibit, mourned when he resigned to be a full-time father and welcomed him back this year as a guest instructor.

Raising Lazarus 2007 acrylic on wood 48 x 33 inches 6

Charles CASTILLO Albuquerque, New Mexico

Charles Castillo’s association with Working Classroom spans a decade.

As a guest instructor, he’s taught multiple painting and mixed media collage workshops, many of which culminate in sold-out exhibits in Working Classroom’s Visiones Gallery. Reason enough for the popularity of his classes. The extensive use of blow torches and glue guns seals the deal – when Charles Castillo is the guest instructor, classes are full. His own work has appeared in exhibits locally, including the Albuquerque Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center; nationally in Miami and New York City and internationally in Juarez, Mexico and Zurich, Switzerland.

Untitled 2007 mixed media 6.25 x 5 inches 8

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Marie-Noëlle DE VIBRAYE Corte Madera, California

The co-founder of Working Classroom’s visual arts program, Marie-Noëlle de Vibraye is an artist, set designer and educator who works in oils and alkyds, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and most recently a combination, working directly on found and painted papers, some of them handmade.

Her work has been exhibited nationally in Washington, D.C., New York City, San Rafael and Mill Valley, California, Albuquerque and Connecticut and internationally at the Société Européenne d’Art in France. She has designed sets for Nouveau Design Inc. in New York and taught art at the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center and ICC in New York. For Marie-Noëlle, it’s “always been important to share with the students or the viewer my love for the creative process which helps the viewer understand the piece.” This love laid the foundation for Working Classroom’s amazing visual arts program.

Everyone at Working Classroom thanks Marie-Noëlle and hopes the still evolving product makes her proud.

Modernices Vos Postes de Radio (How To Update the Look of Your Radio) 2003 papers, appropriated images, painted papers on glass 18 x 18 inches 10

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Edouard DUVAL–CARRIE Miami, Florida

Father. Human rights activist. Studio artist. Public sculptor. Set designer.

Edouard Duval-Carrie squeezes 30 hours into every day. Colors and images from Haitian vodou permeate his mixed media paintings, resin sculptures and theatrical sets. But Edouard, who acknowledges “most artists are in one way or another reflections of their immediate surroundings,” is also a traveler who “takes ideas from a global well.” His work has been exhibited nationally – in Miami, Houston, Phoenix, San Diego, New York, Los Angeles and most points in between – and internationally – in Paris, Bogota, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince, Havana, London, Sao Paulo, Madrid and Monterrey, Mexico. Edouard’s art has found permanent homes in the Detroit Institute of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens in Paris and the Miami Art Museum. He is currently designing sets and costumes for the 2008 world premiere of the opera Makandal at the Carnival Center for Performing Arts in Miami, preparing for an exhibit at the African Museum in Amsterdam and for his 4th artistic residency at Working Classroom. Edouard collaborated with student apprentices on La Trumbuleña: Our Lady of Trumbull, the inaugural sculpture in the Trumbull International Sculpture Park, Working Classroom’s most ambitious public art project. Divine Revolution: The Art Of Edouard Duval-Carrie was recently published by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Pining Dog 2007 mixed media on aluminum 24 x 24 inches 12

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Michael EDER Milton, Massachusetts

Michael

Eder, the co-founder of Working Classroom’s visual arts

program, is an artist and educator who chairs the art department at Boston Collegiate Charter School. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with an M.A. in art education from Massachusetts College of Art, Michael has exhibited his work nationally in New York, Boston, Shreveport, New Orleans and Maine and internationally in the MusÊe Adzak in Paris and in Charleroi and Forges, Belgium. Despite the skills and fame he’s gained since leaving Albuquerque, for us, his most original work remains the old truck, held together, literally, with wire hangers that transported students and staff and defined Working Classroom in its infant years.

Pink Brother 2003 oil on Canvas 36 x 36 inches 14

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Gloria EMERSON Waterflow, New Mexico

Poet, educator, cultural conservator, artist and Shiprock, New Mexico native Gloria J. Emerson was an artist-in-residence, Dobin Fellow, at the School of American Research in Santa Fe. SAR also published At the Hems of the Lowest Clouds: meditations on Navajo Landscapes, a collection of Gloria’s art and poetry. Gloria served as Dean of Cultural Research at the Institute of American Indian Arts and currently owns ‘Ahwééh Gohwééh (coffee) (coffee), a Shiprock landmark where she serves up lattes, poetry, art and conversation equal parts humor and history. Gloria has exhibited her work at the Westphalian State Museum of Natural History in Münster, Germany, Dine College, San Juan College and at Working Classroom’s WC Visiones Gallery in several exhibits. Gloria’s long association with Working Classroom includes teaching painting, curating student exhibits and donating work to Working Classroom’s permanent collection.

Untitled 2007 acrylic and oil sticks on canvas 48 x 36 inches 16

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Tony EVANKO Medellín, Colombia

Tony Evanko earned a B.A. in architecture in 1983 from the University of New Mexico and studied painting and drawing at Academia Peña in Madrid, Spain. He has been a critic, lecturer and professor at the University of New Mexico, the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Mexico and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín, Colombia. Since 1979 Tony has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Arkansas, California, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Texas, as well as Europe and South America. In addition, Tony’s work is represented in several public collections, including the Museum of Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Museo Universitario de la Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia; Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently lives in Medellín where he is executive director of Casa Tres Patios, a gallery and cultural center. Before leaving Albuquerque, Tony dedicated time to mentoring a young aspiring architect and donated materials and a series of paintings to Working Classroom’s permanent collection.

Boyhood Fears year? oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches 18

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Miguel GANDERT Albuquerque, New Mexico

For the last twenty years, Miguel Gandert has photographed the social rituals, people and landscape of his native New Mexico. His photographs have been shown in galleries and museums throughout the world and are represented in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at Yale, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. His work is published in Nuevo Mexico Profundo, Pilgrimage to Chimayo and Tesoros del Espiritu. Miguel has curated Working Classroom’s pinhole camera photo exhibits and generously donated work to Working Classroom’s permanent collection. An assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, Miguel sees documentary work as both a form of art with considerable aesthetic merit and as means of telling stories. The stories he has chosen to tell are primarily in the Spanish-speaking world of the southwest United States, Latin America as well as Spain.

Romano: Zacatecas, Mexico 2006 digital print 17 x 22 inches 20

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Yolanda GUTIERREZ La Delegación Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico

One of the world’s preeminent environmental artists, Yolanda Gutiérrez first visited New Mexico for the opening of SITE Santa Fe’s Third International Biennial Exhibition, which featured her work. She returned this year as an artist-in-residence at Working Classroom where she spent two months working with middle schools students on an artistic exploration of the ecology of the Rio Grande and surrounding bosque. Their collaboration culminated in Currents of Change, an exhibit at the Albuquerque BioPark and New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Yolanda then joined forces with Working Classroom for Letras Limpias, Muertes Sucias, a Dia de Muertos workshop and exhibit inaugurating Working Classroom’s new program in Puebla, Mexico. Yolanda’s art has been represented in the V Biennial of Havana, the World-wide Exhibition of Lisbon 1998 and Hanover 2000 and exhibited in Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Turkey, her native Mexico and the United States and in collections at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá, the Botanical Garden of Clemson University in North Carolina, Museo Universitario Contemporáneo de Arte UNAM, México, Musée de Picardie in Amiens and the collection of the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México.

La Rama 2002 Wings of plasticized butterlies, branch 29.5 x 4 x 6 inches 22

JoAnn HARPER Albuquerque, New Mexico

JoAnn Harper is a self-taught mixed media artist whose work seamlessly combines timeless, tribal themes, and natural materials and channels them through a contemporary prism. Her two and three dimensional pieces – created from fabric, wood, gourds, pastels and acrylic paint – have been exhibited in Albuquerque, Tucson, Phoenix and in the Museum of AfricanAmerican Life and Culture in Dallas and the Harrison Museum of AfricanAmerican Culture in Roanoke, Virginia. A long-time supporter of Working Classroom, JoAnn has been an instructor, served on the Board of Directors and donated work to the organization.

Untitled 1995 mixed media 52 x 11 x 4 inches 24

Gary Eugene JEFFERSON Albuquerque, New Mexico

In a review of Descontrolado, an abstract expressionist exhibit in Working Classroom’s Visiones Gallery, albuquerqueARTS publisher Julian Spalding described the work as “mesmerizing.” The exhibit quality was a testament to artist Gary Eugene Jefferson, who spent six weeks teaching abstract expressionist techniques to a talented group of student artists. Gary’s own paintings express his conflicting passions for Renaissance art and abstract expressionism as well as his interest in human rights and African-American history. Before making Albuquerque his home, Jefferson lived, worked and studied in Florence, New York, Los Angeles and Copenhagen. He’s had solo exhibits in Copenhagen, Berlin, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, New York and Albuquerque, and his work has been represented in group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Galleria Centrale in Florence, Italy and the LA County Gallery in Pasadena. Jefferson’s work is featured in Masterpieces of African-American Art: An African-American Perspective, published by Hanks Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

It Must Mean a Thing 2007 acrylic paint and Prismacolor pencils on canvas 70 x 66 inches

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Peter KASKIEWICZ Middle Village, New York

Peter Kaskiewicz, a mosaic artist from Poland, received his BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. As an artist-in-residence at Working Classroom, he worked with a team of student artists to create Peace by Piece, a landmark public mural on the front of Working Classroom’s Visiones Gallery and taught the mixed media workshop culminating in Fallen Stars, a Dia de Muertos exhibit honoring entertainers who brightened our lives. While living Albuquerque, Peter also created a mosaic mural at Vally High School and curated Dirt, an exhibit of ceramics by University of New Mexico faculty and students, in Working Classroom’s Visiones Gallery.

Roadkill #17 1998 clay 12 x 15.5 inches 28

Franky KONG Los Angeles, California

Franky Kong is an artist, curator, educator and community activist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been exhibited in New York City, at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Art in General, Bronx River Art Center, AT Center, Parsons School of Design, Borough of Manhattan Community College and City College of New York; and in Santa Fe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Center for Contemporary Arts and the College of Santa Fe. Franky has held artist residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Vermont Studio Center and Pelham Art Center and worked as an art educator with P.S.1, Bronx Museum, Arts Connection, New York Chinese Cultural Center, Center for Contemporary Art and the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. Franky was an artist-in-residence at Working Classroom and currently works with “Art Programs with the Community,” a pilot program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has served on the boards of the Santa Fe Art Institute and Fine Arts for Children and Teens and on the Visual Arts Curatorial Committee of the Center for Contemporary Arts.

Commemorative Plaque 2007 bronze plaque with enamel 5 x 7 inches 30

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Vivian MARTHELL Miami, Florida

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a performance artist-in-residence at Working Classroom, Vivian

Marthell turned a posse of “urban aborigines” loose on the streets of Albuquerque. As full-time educational coordinator, she established an enduring reputation for making science fun. A visual artist, currently living in Miami, Vivian works with installation art and photography to explore gender, identity and race using as media an amalgamation of material loaded with symbolic meaning. In Albuquerque, she collaborated with Carlos Suarez de Jesus in creating Mundele’s Leap of Faith – an installation probing the connections of science and Santeria – in Working Classroom’s Visiones Gallery. She currently serves as co-director of Inkub8, an artistic collective where ownership is communal and all resources are shared. With Inkub8, Vivian has exhibited/performed at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado and traditional as well as non-traditional art spaces.

A Flor de Piel from Skin Job: Saga of Domestic Tension 2002 mixed media size?

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Arturo OLIVAS Albuquerque, New Mexico

Yalie, Franciscan brother (third order), school teacher and artist, Arturo Olivas’ retablos reflect his sacred and secular selves. As a member of the Spanish Colonial Art Society- Spanish Market, Olivas exhibits traditional images of orthodox Catholic saints in the “folk” style of eighteenth and nineteenth century New Mexico. His contemporary retablos, playfully depicting Frida Kahlo and Maria, juxtapose the notions of canonical sanctity with those of pop celebrity to present a new martyrology of tragic muses.

As an artist-in-residence at Working Classroom, Arturo challenged students to create retablos representing the icons of a consumerist society. The results culminated in Iconoclash, a thought-provoking, sold-out exhibit in Working Classroom’s Visiones Gallery.

Homenaje a Maria Felix 2002 egg tempera on birch ply 31 x 46 inches 34

Raymundo SESMA Mexico City, Mexico

Thanks to Raymundo Sesma, Working Classroom and INFILL SOLUTIONS: Innovative Urban Designs and Development, Albuquerque will soon have a new art gallery where downtown denizens can view videos and installations at any time of the day or night. (WHERE? WHEN?) Campo Expandido VIII was designed by Sesma and painted with help from Working Classroom student artists. (EXPLAIN: is this piece the new gallery behind Flying Star?) Sesma is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, installations and videos have been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the USA. A native of San Cristobal de las Cases, Sesma has twice represented Mexico at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Venice. His work is found in major museum collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musée d’Art, Paris; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; The British Library, London; Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris; and The Library of Congress, Washington.

He is the founder and president of Advento, a non-profit organization that creates and promotes contemporary art and industrial and graphic design under the concept and philosophy of social architecture.

Campo Expandido XII 2007 paint on wall, site specific installation ADD approxiate dimensions (gallery measurements) 36

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Carlos SUAREZ DE JESUS Miami, Florida

Carlos Suarez De Jesus was born in Havana and raised in Missouri. He worked for the Miami-Dade County Mayor’s Office as a speechwriter for fifteen years and in the late 1990’s co-founded and ran lab6, an incubator for arts experimentation. Located in Little Havana, lab6 was twice voted Best Alternative Gallery Space by New Times weekly newspaper. Carlos explores Afro-Cuban themes in his work, influenced by his father who is a Palo Monte priest and operates a Botanica in Houston, Texas. He paints on treated industrial paper, creating angular, totemic figures, often rendered in minimal hues of gray and ochre, suggesting the dawn of form. The contours of his figures appear as slits into the paper’s skin, his crusted, indented surfaces hermetic in force. Suarez De Jesus lives in South Florida where he has been the art critic for the Miami New Times since 2005. While serving as Working Classroom’s visual arts program director, Carlos collaborated with Vivian Marthell on Mundele’s Leap of Faith, a highly praised installation in Visiones Gallery.

Oshun 2000 mixed media 10 x 8 inches 38

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Fred WILSON Albuquerque, New Mexico

Fred Wilson is more than an artist – he’s a cultural icon – and this year his myriad contributions to New Mexico were honored at the 34th Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts when Fred received the Individual Award for Major Contributor to the Arts. An internationally collected ceramicist whose career spans sixty years, Fred’s committed to “teaching the art of loving art.” To that end, he has shared his skills with more than eight thousand students, including aspiring artists at Working Classroom. His art comes from his view of “human interaction as pieces of abstracted reality, which communicate cultural, symbolic and mythical stories.” For twenty years, Fred and his wife Kristen have operated Muddy Wheel Gallery, an Albuquerque institution.

Morning Magic 1994 wood, clay, beads, metal 50 x 13 x 13 inches 40

Juanita WOLFF Corrales, New Mexico

Juanita Wolff’s masks have appeared in over 200 juried exhibits, including shows at the Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum, Santa Cruz Art Museum, Oregon School of Arts & Crafts in Portland, the Brueckner Museum and Battle Creek Art Center in Michigan and the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque. Wolff, who received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the University of California in Santa Cruz, has created masks and puppets for the San Francisco Opera, El Teatro Campesino, the Disney Channel, Cal Rep and the National Women’s Theater Festival. She received a Peabody Award for her work on Surviving Columbus, a television documentary produced by KNME-TV and was featured in a Colores documentary also produced by KNME. As an artist-in-residence at Working Classroom, she taught maskmaking workshops that culminated in a 1992 Dia de Muertos exhibit at the gallery of New Mexico People Living with AIDS, and Ofrendas a la Vida, the 1993 Dia de Muertos installation in Working Classroom’s Visiones Gallery commemorating the deaths of Brazilian street children.

Jazzman 1984 papier-mâché 24 x 21 inches 42

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Wanxin ZHANG San Francisco, California

Wanxin Zhang relocated to San Francisco with a B.A. in sculpture from the LuXun Institute of Fine Art in ShengYang City, LiaoNing, China. He received his M.F.A. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where he currently teaches sculpture. Among his honors, Zhang has received awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the San Diego Museum of Art. His sculptures have been shown in San Francisco, New York, Kansas City, and Miami, as well as abroad in Japan, China, and Canada. Zhang’s contemporary interpretations of the Qin terracotta warriors have been represented in solo and group exhibits at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art in Kentucky, the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, the Arizona State University Museum of Art, and the San Diego Museum of Art. His works have been selected to be included in Confrontational Ceramics by Judith Schwartz, and can be found in major art magazines such as Art in America, Sculpture, American Ceramics, and American Craft. Wanxin collaborated with student artists on Travelin’ Man, the second piece in the Trumbull International Sculpture Garden, Working Classroom’s most ambitious public art project, and donated the maquette to Working Classroom.

Travelin’ Man 2007 fired clay with glaze 27 x 8 x 7 inches 44

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Working Classroom

212 Gold Avenue SW Albuquerque, NM 87102 Add phone New home as of April 1, 2008: 423 Atlantic SW Albuquerque, NM 87102 www.workingclassroom.org Working Classroom is a multi-ethnic and diverse community of student and professional artists, actors and writers. Their programs offer a unique combination of academic and artistic education and social action. They provide professional development opportunities for talented young artists and actors from historically ignored communities and collaborate to create art for and about our diverse communities. As citizens of a larger global community, Working Classroom promotes peace, tolerance and respect for human rights at home and abroad.

Board of Directors

Honorary Board

Richard McClarkin, President Kathleen McMahon, Treasurer Anzia Bennett, Secretary Ryan Carbon Aaron Foster Eric Griego Steve Moffat

Senator Jeff Bingaman Ann Cusack Miguel Gandert Gronk Tony Kushner Lucy Lippard Antoine Predock Ardath Rodale

Advisory Board Mike Burgess Mara Holguin Ike Kalangis Moises Kaufman Ron Romero Bernice Steinbaum

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Staff Nan Elsasser, Executive Director Anzia Bennett, Assistant Director Francisco Guevara, Visual Arts Program Developer Bethany Collins, Visual Arts Education Coordinator George de la Torre, Visual Arts Program Assistant Laurel Butler, Theater Education Coordinator Amelia Ampuero, Theater Program Assistant Guillda Archibeque, Office Manager

516 ARTS

516 Central Avenue SW Albuquerque, NM 87102 505-242-1445 www.516arts.org 516 ARTS is an independent, non-profit art space – a unique hybrid venue somewhere between a gallery and a museum. Programs feature high caliber, content-driven work through a series of collaborative exhibitions.

The mission of 516 ARTS is to present high quality arts exhibitions and programs, provide educational outreach, and develop community and audiences for the arts in Downtown Albuquerque.

Board of Directors

Staff

John Lewinger, Chair Suzanne Sbarge, President Arturo Sandoval, Vice President Joni Thompson, Treasurer/Secretary

Suzanne Sbarge, Executive Director Rhiannon Mercer, Program Coordinator John Photos, Exhibitions Manager Bryan Kaiser, Education Coordinator

Advisory Board

Consultants

Miguel Gandert Arif Khan Norty Kalishman Diane Karp Wendy Lewis Danny Lopez Susan McAllister Christopher Mead Elsa Menendez Melody Mock

Sharon Berman, Education Consultant Janice Fowler, Bookkeeper Jane Kennedy, Development Associate Word of Eye, Web Site Design

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516 ARTS Founding Business Sponsors Bank of Albuquerque BGK Group Charter Bank Coldwell Banker First Community Bank First National Bank of Santa Fe Goodman Realty Group Grubb & Ellis Heritage Hotels & Resorts John & Jamie Lewinger J.T. Michaelson Mosher Enterprises New Mexico Bank & Trust New Mexico Business Weekly Paradigm & Company SG Properties Stewart Title of Albuquerque Sunrise Bank Technology Ventures Corporation

516 ARTS Grant Funders McCune Charitable Foundation The City of Albuquerque’s Urban Enhancement Trust Fund Bernalillo County The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation New Mexico Department of Tourism New Mexico Humanities Council Special Thanks The Bell Group Mayor Martin J. Chavez Denish & Kline Desert Dog Technology, Inc. Historic District Improvement Company Don Mickey Designs Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino Professional Catering Stubblefield Screenprint Company Volunteers for 516 ARTS & Working Classroom 48

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