Art Meets History: Many Worlds Are Born
On view through May 14, 2022
516 ARTS
Albuquerque, New Mexico
516arts.org
In “Art Meets History” at 516 ARTS, two exhibitions—”Many Worlds Are Born” and “Technologies of the Spirit”—look at how the divergent histories of race, conflict, and colonialism in New Mexico inform how we imagine our futures. Both are curated by Ric Kasini Kadour and Alicia Inez Guzmán, PhD, and are accompanied by a series of public conversations and activities that bring together historic content and contemporary art.
“Many Worlds Are Born” takes a cue from the late Chicano writer Rudolfo Anaya, who is best known for his fictional, but still true, portrait of New Mexico, Bless Me, Última, in which he writes, “Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always.”
[Image: Winona Day Nursery, from the series Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West watercolor, acrylic, marker, oil paint marker, inkjet prints on mounted watercolor paper, 24 x 48 inches]
