Axle Contemporary

02/10/2021

ICE SCREAMS by Andrea Vargas.

01/26/2021

SITE Santa Fe -- part time Visitor Services Associate

SITE is currently seeking a part time Visitor Services Associate to help us at the front desk on Sundays. Visitor Services Associates are responsible for creating a welcoming and accessible environment for visitors and for sharing information about the exhibitions and public programs. More info on this and other Arts opportunities in New Mexico on Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page: https://www.axleart.com/listings

01/25/2021

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

City of Albuquerque--MuraLOVE
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mural - Call for Artists

As a continuation of the City of Albuquerque’s MuraLOVE program, the Albuquerque Arts Board and the MLK Mural Art Selection Committee announces a Call for Artists to create a mural art work for one or more concrete walls near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial located at Tijeras and 1st Street in downtown Albuquerque. The selection committee for this competition/commission invites artists to propose a mural theme and mural style that furthers the awareness of Dr. King's legacy. The mural should activate the walls of the site and complement the existing MLK Memorial.

It is the intent of this Call for Artists to directly reach out to, and received proposals from, Black, Indigenous and Persons of Color (BIPOC) artists, as well as artists not already represented in the City of Albuquerque Public Art Collection and artists who have not ever applied for, or received, a public art commission.

More info on this and other Arts opportunities in New Mexico on
Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page: http://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

01/22/2021

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

NM ARTS
Santa Fe Southside Teen Center
PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY
New Mexico Arts and the Local Selection Committee for City of Santa Fe seek an artist or artist team to create an interior site-specific commission project in collaboration with the community, at the new Santa Fe Southside Teen Center, set for completion in 2022. The Local Selection Committee has a budget of $50,100 and seeks one or more site-specific artworks.
The committee is interested in artworks in the main lobby/lounge area which will feature an area for performances and/or a game room. Photographs and plans of the area are provided for reference. The committee is looking for an artwork or artworks that promote connectivity and create an authentic sense of place for all users of the space, particularly community youth.

More info on this and other New Mexico Arts opportunities on Axle Contemporary;'s LISTINGS page here: https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

01/21/2021

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

ARTsmart Fundraiser: Call for artist designs
ARTsmart has been supporting visiting artists in the public schools in Santa Fe for over 15 years. Design/draw/paint an 11” diameter, circular artwork, to be transferred to ceramic bisqueware for online fundraiser. All funds will go directly to supporting visiting artists in art classrooms in the Santa Fe Public Schools.

More info on this and other artist opportunities are on Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page.
​https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

01/19/2021

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

Gallup Mainstreet
Art on the Fence: 2021 Temporary Installations
Gallup MainStreet Arts & Cultural District is seeking artist proposals for temporary installations on the construction fencing of our downtown renovation project, Coal Avenue Commons.
Artists are asked to create designs for a stretch of chain link fence, utilizing weaving techniques and the materials of their choice. We encourage proposals for engagement of the community and youth in your project through creative uses of technology and/or COVID-safe practices.
More info on this and other arts opportunities in New Mexico are on Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page here: https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

01/14/2021

Axle getting fresh glass and new rubber!

01/09/2021

WHAT WE WROTE ON THE WATER-- an installation at Vital Spaces on St. Mikes by Axle Contemporary participating artists Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan.

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY and in accordance with COVID-safe guidelines. Call/email 505-231-1922 / [email protected] to schedule a viewing.

What We Wrote on The Water is a video installation constructed from the poetry of borders, drumming in a dream, the scarce commodity of water in the desert, and gestures in ink.

In a dark enclosed womb of space, the video projects on three walls. It features the Japanese art of suminagashi, spoken poetry, and percussive drums. A large vase, filled with water, sits in the center. The projection overlaps the glass, creating new shadows and reflections. This is an immersive experience, playing with materials such as ink and glass, and the metaphor of water as the unconscious mind.

Info: https://www.vitalspaces.org/exhibitions/2020/12/29/what-we-wrote-on-the-water
What We Wrote on the Water explores the dialectical flow between creator and viewer, form and meaning, being both on the surface of the water and under it. The viewer leaves refreshed, having temporarily been elsewhere.

12/31/2020

12/18/2020

Axle Contemporary 10th Anniversary Survey

https://forms.gle/Gt1Ghdbvr3g1FPVM7

We hope you can answer a few questions for us as we finish this unusual year, move into another unusual year, and celebrate being here for ten years.

It should take less than 10 minutes.

All answers will be anonymized. We'll publish our findings next year.

Thanks!

-Mattthew and Jerry

https://forms.gle/Gt1Ghdbvr3g1FPVM7

It has been ten years that Axle has been on the road, serving up delicious art. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and help us evaluate some things to help guide our next ten years. All responses are anonymous. Thank you!

12/15/2020

Get your Last Gun.

with Terran LastGun and Santa Fe Community Screenprinting.

https://www.axleart.com/sfcs2020?pgid=ki7rftbo-29e74bd0-ca79-400f-9526-81798023ee1b. .

12/13/2020

Get your Israel Haros Lopez shirt now at the Santa Fe Community Screenprinting Holiday Show & Sale 2020 at Axle here: https://www.axleart.com/sfcs2020

12/10/2020

David Sloan | SFCS2020

Just in: Get this 5-color serigraph by David Sloan for only $45 at the Santa Fe Community Screenprinting Holiday Show & Sale 2020.
here:https://www.axleart.com/sfcs2020?pgid=ki7rftbo-68fc246e-e6a6-4259-b6fe-7305d13858ec

Dibé (sheep) $45

12/08/2020

Santa Fe Community Screenprinting
Holiday Show & Sale -- 2020
https://www.axleart.com/sfcs2020

12/07/2020

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

First Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award

Foto Forum Santa Fe is proud to announce an open call for our First Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award, an international competition open to emerging and established artists. The selected photographer receives a two month solo exhibition at our downtown Santa Fe gallery, located a short walk from the art hub surrounding SITE Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Railyard.
Foto Forum Santa Fe is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that creates an artistic space to explore the current relationship between photography, storytelling, science, and technology through artist exhibitions, workshops, visiting artist lectures, research, and community outreach. The Photography Award expands upon Foto Forum’s commitment to showcasing both contemporary work from established artists and giving opportunities for emerging photographers to find an audience.
The First Annual Foto Forum Santa Fe Photography Award is accepting entries November 25th, 2020 through May 3rd at 12pm MT, 2021, with results announced in the beginning of June and the show to open August 2nd, 2021. Photographers are invited to submit up to twelve images from a related body of work that is ready for exhibition. This year's Juror, Harry Gamboa, Jr...
Learn more at Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page here:
https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

12/05/2020

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

Call for Entries
The City of Albuquerque: Compass Roses: Maps by Artists

The City of Albuquerque seeks entries for Compass Roses: Maps by Artists from visual, literary and performing artists who live or work in the greater Albuquerque region. This national public art project organized by Renee Piechocki and Nadine Waserman is a growing archive of maps by artists that explore a particular place from different points of view. The maps will be presented at an exhibition in spring 2021 at the South Broadway Cultural Center Gallery, distributed to the public, and be presented on the Compass Roses website. Selected artists will be paid $300 to contribute a map to the project and their map, or a suitable archival copy, will become a part of the City of Albuquerque's Art Collection.
Learn more about this more arts opportunities in New Mexico on Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page here: https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

12/04/2020

Axle Contemporary's cover photo

12/01/2020

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11/18/2020

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

OPEN CALL: Social Structures
Vital Spaces and Santa Fe Art Institute

Vital Spaces, in partnership with the Santa Fe Art Institute, invites submissions from Santa Fe County artists for Social Structures, an installation of freestanding outdoor constructions and digital art pieces that address the themes of interconnectivity, empathy, and care. Each accepted proposal will receive a $750 grant upon successful completion, through the City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department CARES Act funding.
MIDNIGHT Sat, Nov 21: Artist submission deadline.
More info on this and other arts opportunities in New Mexico are on Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page here: https://www.axleart.com/listings
https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

11/13/2020

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

Public
Public
SITE Santa Fe -- YOUNG CURATORS
PRIVATE EYE
Join us on a digital expedition in showcasing a new frontier of artwork. We are in need of contemporary artwork, which covers the modern duel of public and private information. We are looking for artists to submit pieces about their own experiences concerning public information versus private information. Artists may submit between 1 and 5 works of art. Submissions are open to all media, including (but not limited to), written art, performance art, video, sculpture, and mixed media. Each individual file must be smaller than 100 MB. Images must be at least 72 dpi. Selected artwork will be featured online in an entirely virtual exhibition.

More info and link to application on Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page here: https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

11/12/2020

Axle Contemporary's cover photo

11/12/2020

AxleListings: Artist Opportunities

City of Santa Fe Arts & Culture Dep't

FREE ARTIST WORKFORCE TRAINING- INCREASING PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Creating Video Content for Self Promotion with Bel Sigado.
Digital Marketing Strategy Workshop Series with Rubina Cohen.
Graphic Recording Training for Artists with Taslim van Hattum.

More info at Axle Contemporary's LISTINGS page here: https://www.axleart.com/listings

Current opportunities of relevance to New Mexico Artists and curators: Calls for Entries, residencies, surveys, and jobs.

11/05/2020

Friend of Axle, artist Paula Wilson, will speak on ZOOM at Tamarind.

Tamarind Talks:
Paula Wilson
Thursday, November 12
5 pm MST

Interdisciplinary artist Paula Wilson challenges the fabled narrative of the western landscape from multiple perspectives and weaves together ideas from the viewpoint of a naturalist, educator, ecosexual, and contemporary artist of color. Wilson received her MFA from Columbia University and has held residencies at Yale University, New Haven; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Wilson lives and works in Carrizozo, New Mexico where she is co-founder of the artist organizations MoMAZoZo and the Carrizozo Artist in Residency (AIR). Wilson will be in residence at Tamarind as an invited artist in January 2021.

RSVP appreciated via Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tamarind-talks-paula-wilson-tickets-116811308769

or join directly at https://unm.zoom.us/j/91424329753

11/03/2020

We just heard that Axle Contemporary participating artist/photographer and enthusiast Baron Wolman has died. We loved his forthright, unabashed, enthusiastic embrace of life and are glad we had the opportunity to work with him. This photo is his self-portrait from our show Autophotography in 2013. We had to add the red stripe to censor the nudity so Facebook wouldn't shut us down. Apologies to you and to Baron for that. You can see the photo, uncensored here: https://www.axleart.com/autophoto?lightbox=image_u73

11/02/2020

IG Stories takeover Monday at SITE.
https://www.instagram.com/sitesantafe

10/31/2020

Terran Last Gun wants you to Vote. #axlesbecounted
https://www.axleart.com/be-counted

10/31/2020

Today, Saturday, is the last day of Early Voting in New Mexico.
If you have not voted yet, vote today, or on Tuesday. please.
#axlesbecounted
Please check locations and hours of operation by visiting NMVote.org or by contacting your County Clerk’s Office.
https://www.axleart.com/be-counted-voterinfo

10/30/2020

Vote. #axlesbecounted. Video production studio aka kitchen.

10/29/2020

#axlesbecounted. See more: https://www.axleart.com/be-counted

10/29/2020

Design by Michael Motley for #axlesbecounted. See more: https://www.axleart.com/be-counted

10/29/2020

Vote on Fire

#axlesbecounted

10/28/2020

Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department

VOTE!
Axle's Be Counted spreads artist-made pro-voting images across Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the nation through yard signs, free downloads and the internet. Art here is a photo chemistry enso by City of Santa Fe Arts Commissioner David Scheinbaum .
#axlesbecounted
https://www.axleart.com/be-counted

10/28/2020

AXLE takes over the SFAI instagram Wednesday, Oct. 28. @antafeartinstitute

AXLE takes over the SFAI instagram Wednesday, Oct. 28. @antafeartinstitute

10/27/2020

Partners in Art | Axle Contemporary

https://zanebennettgallery.com/blog/56/?fbclid=IwAR2yQY_tXPzvQQmyZZsflzibcnC6aV3FjSk7_NKeGKaidYkKOdq0l6A6sJU

As the rest of the world shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Jerry Wellman and Matthew Chase-Daniel of Axle...

10/27/2020

Voting art and voting info at: https://www.axleart.com/be-counted

#axlesbecounted