Welcome to 516 ARTS
516 ARTS is an independent, nonprofit arts venue located at 516 Central Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets in the center of Downtown Albuquerque. The 5500 square foot, two-story gallery is a unique, hybrid venue somewhere between a gallery and museum. 516 ARTS offers adventurous programs that address current issues in world culture, presenting innovative and interdisciplinary exhibitions, events and educational activities in a variety of art forms, including visual and literary arts, film/video and music.
516 ARTS announces Here & There: Seeing New Ground, our first exhibition for LAND/ART, a large-scale collaboration organized by 516 ARTS, exploring land-based and environmental art, involving over 25 organizations during 6 months in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Mountainair. Here & There: Seeing New Ground features 16 artists examining the landscape from perspectives that are both visual and cultural, including explorations of Native American film, as well as Native and non-Native artists who subvert landscape perspective to examine issues of the environment and human beings’ relationship with nature. Featured artists include Norman Akers, Laurie Anderson, Leticia Bajuyo, Katie Holten, Timothy Horn, Shelley Niro among others.
LAND/ART explores relationships of land, art and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, performances, tours, excursions, films, poetry and a weekend symposium. Focusing on “environmental” or “land” art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live. The culminating book, published by Radius Books, will be available in December 2009. LAND/ART features over 60 diverse local, national and international artists. Special guests include David Abram, Erika Blumenfeld, Charles Bowden, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Patrick Dougherty, William Fox, Nancy Holt, Lynne Hull, Lize Mogel, Rebecca Solnit, DJ Spooky, Tricia Watts and many more. For a complete listing of LAND/ART activities, please visit landartnm.org or pick up a free printed guide. LAND/ART article from Art in America. LAND/ART article from the San Francisco Examiner. LAND/ART article from the Washington Examiner.
Throughout the summer and fall of 2009, 516 ARTS is focusing on environmental art with a series of exhibitions and outdoor artworks. Concurrent with Here & There: Seeing New Ground are off-site installations by Karl Hofmann and Timothy Horn. At various dates through the summer and fall 516 ARTS presents SiteWorks, a series of site-specific projects featuring Anne Cooper, Bill Gilbert, Steve Peters, and Jaune Quick-To-See Smith in collaboration with Neal Ambrose Smith, organized by Kathleen Shields Contemporary Art Projects.
516 ARTS presents The Center for Land Use Interpretation, special guests for LAND/ART. Their bus tour takes place June 27 for the LAND/ART Symposium Weekend (June 27 – 28), and their Mobile Exhibition Unit will be installed around Albuquerque at a location to be announced.
Please participate in the LAND/ART Blog at smudgestudio.org
For more information about LAND/ART New Mexico,
download and print the LAND/ART guide
For more information on the Downtown area arts scene along Albuquerque's Cultural Corridor from Old Town to Nob Hill, download and print the Downtown Arts Guide.
