Rachel Doyle, Self Portrait. La Cueva High School. Top right: A'Janae Reed, Popping Time, Manzano High School. Bottom right: Maya Daly, Iris, Sandia High School.
Focus on Youth A LONG-TIME PARTNERSHIP
change this year is that the APS
yet organizers hope that
2021’s Focus on Youth reflects
BETWEEN THE ALBUQUER-
art teachers will be jurying the
2022’s Focus on Youth will be
changes in how art is viewed
QUE MUSEUM AND
show, and some submissions
back in the gallery as well as
that will extend beyond the
ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC
may appear in both the Metro
online. Cinamon Gentry, art
pandemic.
SCHOOLS pivots this year to
District-wide Art Exhibition and
resource teacher, coordinates
the online format. Focus on
Focus on Youth. Entries include
the show with Perry Heimer,
Youth, a digital media exhi-
digital media from cell phones,
digital resource teacher. Gentry
bition of works by APS high
DSLR cameras, video, and even
participated in Focus on Youth
school students, launches on
drone photography. Another
when she was a student.
the APS and Museum websites
pandemic-related impact is
in May. It’s a community effort
that many students didn’t have
learning opportunity to work
and cornerstone of the Muse-
access to APS-supplied DSLR
alongside Fine Arts teachers
um’s support of young artists.
cameras, so many images have
to mat and frame images and
been shot using cell phones.
prepare them for installation at
This year’s online version shares the student-
Due to COVID-19
In the past, students had the
the Museum. While this chance
photographers’ work with a
restrictions, this year's
to learn hands-on is missing
broader audience. Another
reception will also be virtual,
this year, the virtual nature of
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SPRING 2021
Art. History. People.
ON VIEW FOCUS ON YOUTH Opening May 8, 2021 Visit online: cabq.gov/FOY
